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Ryan Cooper, of EHSL Public Services, has been promoted from part-time to full-time. Ryan has been working at the front desk of the library for 1 year. Before coming to us, he worked at the Marriott library for 3 years, some of that time spent working in Rare Books. Ryan holds a BA in Classics […]
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Bryan Hull, Assistant Librarian and Head of Digital Publishing recommends: Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin I’ve been enjoying getting to know “The Boss” better through Peter Carlin’s Bruce. As a longtime Springsteen fan, I tended to think that I had a general idea of who Bruce as a person is. I really only had parts […]
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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 what is in our control and what is going well versus the helplessness often felt due to the dangers of climate change. Planting Hope will […]
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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 board exams, their scores ranking in the top 15 percent nationally. These students had attended classes in a new dental school generously funded by Tye […]
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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 College, she earned multiple master’s degrees in sociology, higher education administration, and public health. Her Ph.D. was in medical sociology and anthropology, which she received […]
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Did you hear? Researchers at the University of Utah can now publish open access at no cost to them. The J. Willard Marriott Library has partnered with the Office of the Vice President for Research to facilitate open access publishing through licensing agreements with scholarly publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP). Read the full […]
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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 was forced to close in 1927 due to lack of funding.Fortunately it was determined that a baccalaureate program in pharmacy should be resurrected. In 1946 […]
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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 went on to college. She enrolled at Simmon’s college. She, at the time, had aspirations of becoming a writer or journalist. In her sophomore year […]
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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 significant strides in the health sciences at the University of Utah. Sumiko Fujiki studied nursing at the University of Utah and graduated in 1949. Soon […]
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