SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28 (TNSper) -- Gov. Spencer J. Cox, R-Utah, issued the following news: Gov. Spencer J. Cox named Utah Court of Appeals Judge Jill M. Pohlman as his choice to serve as a Utah Supreme Court Justice. The governor's nominations are subject to confirmation by the Utah Senate. If Pohlman is confirmed, the five-member Utah Supreme Court will be majority women for the first time in state history. "After meeting with Judge Pohlman, reading her opinions and learning about he  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 1 (TNSper) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: R. Scott Ward, Ph.D., former long-time chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, is named the interim dean for University of Utah (U of U) College of Health (COH). Effective July 1, 2022, Ward will lead one of the largest colleges on U of U campus, which includes six departments and more than 2,300 students. He succeeds David H. Perrin, Ph.D., who will retire on Jun  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Whether a woman is giving birth or a man is having a cancer biopsy, medical care is rarely straightforward. At any point, an unexpected complication can arise, partlcularly during treatments that require several steps. Yet physicans tend to have unrealistic expectations of multiple step medical procedures, according to University of Utah Health researchers and their collaborators. They sa  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development issued the following news: The Utah Innovation Center congratulates five Utah companies that received awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to pursue advanced scientific instrumentation and technologies to address climate change. Six projects were funded through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program among the five companies. SBIR and the corresponding program, Small Business Technology  more

LOGAN, Utah, July 1 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University officials are reviewing the new proposed Title IX rules released by the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday, June 23. USU is evaluating how the draft rules, if adopted as is, would affect USU's policies, procedures and processes. "After a summary review of the 700-page document, there are differences in the new proposed rules that would likely require changes to USU policy and practices,  more

LOGAN, Utah, June 30 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: By JoLynne Lyon A study published in the Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education offers a list of skills that parents of college students with intellectual disabilities said would help students as they prepare to go to an inclusive college program. The parents surveyed all had children who had attended a program designed to support students with intellectual disabilities at college. They agreed on a list of  more

LOGAN, Utah, July 2 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * Looking to the past's data to better predict the future * * * As drought conditions persist in the Colorado River Basin, managers, researchers and the public are all left wondering: Just how bad can the drought get? At the Utah Water Research Laboratory, graduate student Homa Salehabadi and Director David Tarboton sought to answer this question by using historical drought data to project flowrates of the   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28 (TNSres) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release: * * * Open Skills Library Furthers Transparency and Partnering Around Skills-Based Learning and Hiring * * * Western Governors University (WGU) has released seven new collections within its Skills Library, which enhances WGU's competency-based curriculum and serves as a modifiable template for other academic institutions and employers developing similar skills databases. This is th  more