News Clips | January 22-25, 2022

University of Utah Health researchers want to relieve some of the burden that women face with birth control.

The School for Cultural and Social Transformation, or Transform, at the University of Utah is one of only five across the nation to receive a $517,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an intersectional studies collective.

In 1957, people around the globe looked skyward to see the world’s first man-made satellite, Sputnik (or what they thought was Sputnik—for most viewers, it was part of Sputnik’s rocket booster).

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has increased support for the University of Utah Reading Clinic (UURC) as more schools return to remote learning in the face of the latest rise in COVID cases.

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute anticipates Utah’s population will also skew older in 40 years.

The discovery, one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, lives in an equally rare object known as a low-mass, stripped nucleus.

Exposure to higher education also opens incarcerated students’ minds to new interests and passions in ways that statistics cannot convey, helping them become better neighbors, family members, and citizens.

The omicron COVID-19 variant is less severe but its effects can’t be underestimated especially when it comes to children.

SITLA provides an example of how investments in sustainable energy can pay off.

Cardiovascular diseases are diagnosed using an array of laboratory tests and imaging studies.

Even as Utah hit more than 11,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and Friday, the Utah State Legislature decided to terminate the mask mandate in both Salt Lake and Summit counties.