We’re still in the sweltering summer days here in Salt Lake, so it’s understandable that coats and hats are far from most people’s minds. However, Fall semester is just around the bend and winter is soon to follow. And with each new school year comes an influx of international students who have never experienced the chill […]
Read MoreMore than 340 people, including 188 prospective students, attended the 12th—and largest–University of Utah Asia Campus UAC Experience Day. The event is designed for middle and high school students to get a preview of life at the University of Utah experience at its campus in Incheon, South Korea. Visitors participated in two 30-minute English-language lectures […]
Read MoreStephanie Krusell, Emi Ata’ata, Rae Luebbert, and Kathy Rank are all academic advisors at the University of Utah Salt Lake City campus. They work for various departments, but they all had one goal when they visited the University of Utah Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea this Spring: to work with their counterparts to create […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Director of Global Health, Juan Carlos Negrette, recently served as the moderator to a panel discussion held at the Geneva Press Club during the World Health Organization’s seventy-sixth World Health Assembly. The event took place on May 24, 2023, and panelists included Dr. Lia Tadesse, the Minister of Health of Ethiopia; […]
Read MoreOchre is a mineral pigment primarily containing iron oxide, which is abundant all over the earth and occurs in a rainbow of hues. “Most scholars agree that we have evolved as humans because of our use of Ochre throughout time, but I believe we have evolved in parallel–with Ochre–from our common ancestor with nonhumans: extra-terrestrial […]
Read MoreMore than 200 students, parents, faculty, and staff attended the fifth annual commencement ceremony of the University of Utah Asia Campus in Songdo, South Korea, on May 25. Additional events honoring the graduating class of 2023 included a professional baseball game and an alumni event. The commencement ceremony began with a virtual address from President […]
Read MoreFour University of Utah students have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2023-24 academic year. Two additional students are listed as Alternates and will receive the award if an opening is created. Grant recipients are selected based […]
Read MoreMany people can relate to travel plans deferred by the pandemic. For Cheri Daily that meant postponing, not once but twice, the opportunity to follow her Fulbright dream all the way to Taiwan. Daily is the Executive Director of Global Programs and Marketing & Communication for the U Office for Global Engagement and, in 2019, […]
Read MoreIyiola Olatunji Mukaila might be hard-pressed to decide what’s more awe-inspiring—the freshly fallen snow he recently saw for the first time, or the Electronic Research Integrity & Compliance Administration system (ERICA) at the U. During early Spring 2023, Iyiola was a visiting scholar to the University of Utah from Nigeria. In his professional posts, Iyiola […]
Read MoreAs part of USAID’s Higher Education System Strengthening Activity (HESSA), the University of Utah Asia Campus hosted eleven Pakistani university presidents on a study tour of South Korea from March 13-17. The week-long visit was designed to help the Vice Chancellors learn more about the academic practices of Korean universities and public institutions and explore […]
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