EHSL Vitals News and Events

Planting Hope

During Earth Month this year, the University of Utah is focusing on Climate Hope – the intersection of climate change and mental health. Climate Hope promotes togetherness and focusing on […]

Thank You, Donors

Women’s History Series: Women Making History, Jeri Bullock, DDS, School of Dentistry

On May 20, 2017, the inaugural class of the School of Dentistry at the University of Utah graduated with Doctor of Dental Surgery degrees. All twenty students passed the dental […]

Women’s History Series: Dr. Marian Bishop, School of Medicine

Dr. Marian Bishop, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., was born in 1927 in Springfield, Missouri to Francis Marion and Hattie May Bishop. Dr. Bishop was studious; after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Drury […]

Women’s History Series: Early Female Student Organizations, College of Pharmacy

Early pharmacy education at the University of Utah experienced considerable growing pains. Although 1917 saw the advent of the Department of Pharmacy, situated within the College of Medicine, the department […]

Women’s History Series: Priscilla Mayden, Eccles Health Sciences Library

Priscilla was born Priscilla Maltby in 1918 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Her parents ran the Maltby business school, where she spent one year after graduating from high school and before she […]

Women’s History Series: Dr. Sumiko Fujiki, College of Nursing

In the early 1900’s, Jusaburo and Shigeyo Nishimura Fujiki immigrated from Japan to Devil’s Slide, Utah, and in 1926, they gave birth to a girl, Sumiko, who would later make […]

Catherine’s Corner – A Note from Our Director, February 2024

Just under a year ago, we announced an earthquake retrofit at the library. That work has begun and will continue into the fall semester. Once the retrofit is complete, the building […]

Reading Recommendations for Black History Month

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson – Historical Nonfiction In this historical nonfiction book, Isabel Wilkerson weaves narrative and stories about real people in America, including Martin […]

Sustainability Accomplishments: 2023 Recap

In early 2023, EHSL hosted a student-led, SCIF-funded air quality project. Students set up air purifiers in the library. They collected and tracked data to support a publication about clean […]