CAMARILLO, California, Oct. 7 (TNSfund) -- California State University Channel Islands campus issued the following news release: CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) students will learn molecular genetic techniques on campus, use sophisticated research equipment at Utah State University, and later travel to Peru on a quest to find out why frogs living at high elevations lose their ears and their "croak." "Probably because there are fewer species in the highlands, so there is not a lot of competition in  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 6 (TNSpro) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: University of Utah Health now offers a Spanish-language version of the MyChart patient portal. U of U Health is the first major health care system in the state to offer a patient portal in Spanish. Spanish-speaking patients can now connect with their health care providers to ask questions, manage appointments, and receive notifications regarding their health care. "MyChart is a fabulous t  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 8 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Whatever you do, don't call them "mini-brains," say University of Utah Health scientists. Regardless, the seed-sized organoids--which are grown in the lab from human cells--provide insights into the brain and uncover differences that may contribute to autism in some people. "We used to think it would be too difficult to model the organization of cells in the brain," says Alex Shcheglovitov  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: A single dose of healthy immune cells sped the recovery of muscle function in older mice following two weeks of physical inactivity, according to University of Utah Health scientists. They say the finding could eventually lead to the development of treatments that accelerate muscle repair and help older people recover from falls and other injuries as quickly as younger individuals. "Many p  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news on Oct. 6, 2022: Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Haoran Wang has been granted nearly $250,000 by the National Science Foundation for his research on new mechanics for lithium battery design. Wang intends to use new mechanics to stabilize the electrochemical process in the batteries and achieve a long cycling life. The collaborative project is set to unite Utah State University and the Univ  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 4 (TNSpar) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University Extension recently received a $500,000 grant to fund a two-year program that trains rural Utah residents as technology sales professionals who can work remotely for MarketStar, a Utah-based leader in the outsourced business-to-business inside sales industry. The Utah Works Grant is awarded through Talent Ready Utah, housed within the office of the Commissioner of Higher Education. Talent Read  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 4 (TNSconf) -- Utah State University issued the following news: This year's Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture will explore "Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past" at 7 p.m. Oct. 13. It will be in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall and is free and open to the public. Benjamin Pykles, historic sites manager for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and author of Excavating Nauvoo: The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 6 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Starved for freshwater, the Great Salt Lake is getting saltier. The lake is losing sources of freshwater input to agriculture, urban growth and drought, and the drawdown is causing salt concentrations to spike beyond even the tolerance of brine shrimp and brine flies, according to Wayne Wurtsbaugh from Watershed Sciences in the Quinney College of Natural Resources. Deciphering the ecological and economic consequen  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 6 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: In 1997, the Women's Business Center of Utah partnered with multiple organizations to conduct a survey of Utah women business owners to understand the roles their businesses played in Utah's economy. In 2022, the Utah State University Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) partnered with the Women's Business Center of Utah to conduct another survey of women business owners to discover where progress has been made   more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: When Courtney Flint launched the Utah Wellbeing Project, her timing couldn't have been more serendipitous. A global pandemic would soon disrupt many aspects of daily life in Utah -- from school schedules to global supply chains to access to toilet paper. But in early 2020, Utahns were still going about maskless, working in offices, shaking hands, and going about their day-to-day routines with air-sharing ignorance   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 6 (TNSpar) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release: Western Governors University (WGU) and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced a collaboration featuring a community outreach scholarship that will help increase access to education for Hispanics by providing an affordable, competency-based, online education that fits the needs of working adults and business owners. The WGU Community Outreach Partnership scholarship wi  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release: WGU Labs, the research and development arm of Western Governors University (WGU), has successfully continued its efforts in competency-based education (CBE) implementation at Florida A&M University and Florida Atlantic University. WGU Labs' CBE Transformation Services began in 2021 to assist colleges and universities in aligning its curriculum to the new CBE-based, American Association   more