ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN BUSINESS
The University of Utah Student Center for Public Trust events students and faculty to several events scheduled on ethical dilemmas in coming weeks.. All of the club events are free. Students interested in joining the club can join by paying a $10 membership fee. All events are held in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building on the seventh floor in the ballroom.
—Oct. 21 – Thomas Donaldson, 3-4:30 p.m. Thomas Donaldson is the Mark O. Winkelman Professor and Director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His book, Ties that Bind, was the winner of the 2005 Sim Academy of Management Best Book Award.
—Nov. 4 – Peter Weaver, 12-1:30 p.m. Peter Weaver is a business leader with 42 years of experience in technology, consumer products and medical services. A majority of that time has been spent in the sporting goods business where he has led companies such as Easton, Marker and currently the Tecnica Group.
—Nov. 18 – End-of-semester club bash, 3-4:30 p.m.
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PRIZES ROLL IN FOR ‘FLASH-AND FREEZE’ POSTDOC
Shigeki Watanabe, a postdoctoral fellow in biology, developed a “flash-and-freeze” method of watching nerve cells in action. As a result, he did something unprecedented, becoming the first person to win the two major prizes for neuroscience and cell biology postdocs, according to his professor, Erik Jorgensen.
Last week, Watanabe was named 2015 Grand Prize Winner of the $25,000 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. Earlier this year, the American Society for Cell Biology named Watanabe recipient of its Bernfield Award. He also garnered a third honor this year – the German Physiological Society’s Emil du Bois-Reymond Prize – and in 2013 won the Society for Neuroscience’s Nemko Prize.
“This is the first time the same person has won the Eppendorf Prize and the Bernfield Award – the two most prestigious awards for postdoctoral researchers in biosciences,” Jorgensen says. “This is a big deal.”
“I feel very honored to win this award,” Watanabe says of his latest prize. “I just never thought I would.”
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DALAI LAMA CANCELS VISIT TO U
The University of Utah was notified by the Office of Tibet in Washington D.C. in a statement that “the Dalai Lama arrived in the United States earlier this week for a medical evaluation. Upon completion of the evaluation, the doctors have advised that His Holiness take complete rest. As a result, His Holiness will be returning to India next week and will not be able to visit the United States next month. We deeply regret cancellation of the visit.”
Anyone who purchased tickets online will be refunded automatically within seven-10 days. For those who purchased tickets in-person with check or cash, please contact ticket office to verify your contact information to ensure you receive your refund. 801- 581-UTIX.
The university community and the Utah Tibet Foundation wish the Dalai Lama a speedy recovery.
5TH ANNUAL STUDENT VETERAN OF THE YEAR: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Deadline: Midnight, Oct. 15
U student veterans will recognize one of their own for outstanding military service, academic performance and community involvement this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2015. Student veterans can be nominated by faculty, staff or fellow students, and there is no maximum number of nominations; the more the merrier. Nomination forms and eligibility requirements can be found online at veteranscenter.utah.edu. For more information, contact the Veterans Support Center at 801-587-7722 or vetcenter@sa.utah.edu.
CLINIC SERVICES AT THE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
The Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Sciences Building is home to a full-service community dental clinic featuring 62 dental operatories; an oral diagnosis suite with eight operatories and a Cone Beam CT machine for 3-D imaging; a pediatric dentistry suite with eight operatories including a private waiting room for children and an oral maxillofacial surgery suite with four private operatories.
The clinic offers a full range of services including:
- Oral health screening
- Periodontal treatment
- Comprehensive restorative care:
- Fillings
- Crowns
- Bridges – fixed and removable appliances
- Root canals
- Implants
- Cosmetic dentistry and teeth whitening
- Pediatric dentistry
- Geriatric dentistry
- Orthodontics (at our residency clinics)
- Oral surgery
- Special needs patients
All patient care is supervised by faculty who are licensed dentists in Utah. Service fees are as follows:
- Student dentists – 50 percent discounted
- Resident dentists – 30 percent discounted
- Faculty dentists – Full cost
Most insurance plans are accepted.
To schedule an initial screening/consultation call -801- 58-SMILE (7-6453) and visit dentistry.utah.edu for more information.
VETERANS SUPPORT CENTER HAS MOVED
Please be aware that the Veterans Support Center has now moved from Union 162 to Union 418, and Veterans Services has moved from Window 10 of the Student Services Building to Union 418 within the Veterans Support Center for the convenience of our student veterans. Please update any directories, and distribute this change to your faculty and staff so they can point student veterans to the right location in order to access their veteran-related benefits, or handle any veteran-related issues they may have.
We appreciate your support as these veterans transition back in to both civilian, and student life.
U-MATCH
U-Match is connecting the university community to seek, provide and trade one-on-one child care needs. New for this fall is a simplified electronic application that can be accessed via the home page at childcare.utah.edu. Those interested can register using their uNID as “looking for a babysitter or nanny” and/or “willing to babysit or nanny.” Once logged in, users can search the growing registry of babysitters and nannies.
“We’re starting to see traffic increase as more students, faculty and staff understand the benefit of this service — especially for parents needing irregular care hours or in-home care,” says Virginia DeSpain, project coordinator for the U’s Child Care and Family Resources office.