The Power to Tell Your Story

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Men who watch their favorite sports team compete and win experience the same type of testosterone surges as the players.

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Children of divorced parents are more liekly to become smokers as adults than children who parents stayed together. Boys are more likely to become problem drinkers as adults than boys from intact families

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Single females looking for love through Internet personal ads are more successful if they avoid mentioning good looks and instead mention their successful careers

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Older adults who have a positive attitude about their physical health may be at a lower risk for becoming depressed.

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If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for.

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It's not a good idea to be extremely friendly with your ex-spouse, but it's not healthy to be overly hostile, either

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People who live in poverty areas are 80 percent more likely to die than comparable people who live in better areas

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Bands of "crinkly-looking" rock in and around Arches National Park in Southeastern Utah may be the result of a meteor impact during the Jurassic Period, according to University of Utah and University of California-Berkeley researchers.

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Distance learning has taken center stage at the University of Utah where the theatre department, in collaboration with Sundance Institute, has begun a new graduate program offering the nation's only on-line MFA degree in theater education and directing.

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Convited sexual offenders who are in their 40s, married and who earn at least $11 per hour are most likely to make it through half-way house treatment programs.

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A University of Utah Hebrew scholar has spent 12 years researching 2,000 years of Jewish messiahs using many original sources and finds similarity among the messianic movements in a new book from Oxford University Press.

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University of Utah researchers have announced a breakthrough in the development of a new type of nonvolatile computer memory.

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If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for. In a consumer behavior study on chocolate, University of Utah marketing professors found that the ostensibly innocuous candy is emotionally charged and capable of eliciting feelings of guilt and uncontrolled desire, causing some women to hoard, hide or even steal chocolate from others and some men to actively police the consumption of their feminine companions.

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Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.

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A University of Utah professor and two colleagues are challenging the traditional notion that predecessors of the modern horse fed almost exclusively on grasses. Their findings may hold clues to eventually discovering what caused a major extinction in North America.

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Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.

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Researchers at the University of Utah have shown polymers to be a powerful weapon in combating cancer's resistance to chemotherapy treatments

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Adult day care centers that treat clients like children -- and provide little autonomy or privacy -- are more likely to have clients who are withdrawn from their peers than those centers that have a more age-appropriate setting and activities, according to researchers at the University of Utah.

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Yoga and meditation techniques could be valuable tools in helping teenage sex offenders reduce or control their deviant impulses, according to new research at the University of Utah.

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University of Utah chemists have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer using a "Trojan Horse" to deliver drugs.

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Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games 2002, will give the commencement address at the University of Utah's 130th annual commencement May 7.

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Forty years worth of proprietary paleontological research will be released to the public this week when BP Amoco hands its Paleontological Data System software and database to the Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah. Recently appraised at $11.3 million, the database contains information on the evolutionary origination and extinction of all fossil groups necessary for making geological interpretations relevant to the exploration and development of oil and gas. It contains almost worldwide coverage of evolutionary sequences for these fossils across 500 million years.

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The odds that children whose parents suffered divorce will end their own marriages declined by almost 50 percent between the years 1973 and 1996, according to research from the University of Utah published in the August issue of Demography.

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As business schools rush to institute e-business courses, programs, and majors, the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah is working hard to buck this trend by incorporating electronic business into every aspect of business education.

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University of Utah physicists have shown that "plastic" light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made of electrically conducting polymers can produce more light and less heat than thought. (Nature 1-25-01)

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The first known gene to put men at high risk for developing prostate cancer has been identified in a newly published study by researchers at Myriad Genetics Inc., the University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, and at two universities in Canada. (Nature Genetics, 2-01)

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University of Utah biologists found nearly 30 percent of deer mice were infected with hantavirus around central Utah sand dunes popular with people who ride off-road vehicles (ORVs). The hypothesize ORV damage to landscape may be responsible, but do not know if there is an increased risk to humans. (Emerging Infectious Diseases, forthcoming)

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Measuring temperatures inside holes in the ground is an accurate way of showing that Earth's Northern Hemisphere has warmed about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the Industrial Revolution began, University of Utah scientists found.

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Scientists working in Kenya have found the skull and partial jaw of a new genus and species of early human relative. The fossils raise the question of whether modern humans descended from the new species or from the species typified by the fossil known as Lucy. (Nature, 3-22-01)

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Biologists placed male moths in small wind tunnels and let them smell the odor of female moths' sexual attractant in a study that revealed clues about how odors are converted into nerve impulses in the brain. (Nature, 3-22-01)

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University of Utah researchers have identified two genes necessary for eyes to take shape and get wired to the brain in developing embryos.

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The University of Utah, the U.S. Geological Survey and Yellowstone National Park have agreed to establish the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory to strengthen long-term monitoring of earthquakes and the gigantic, slumbering volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park.

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A research team discovered that p53, a prominent tumor suppressor in many cancers and cell types, turns on a pathway that involves APC, the protein implicated in most instances of colon cancer.

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A team of Australian scientists, including a University of Utah geochemist, has made the best estimate yet for the date of a mass extinction that wiped out most of Australia's large reptiles, birds and mammals, including some early kangaroos. It was 46,400 years ago.

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A University of Utah neuroscientist dramatically improved the regeneration of adult nerve cells in culture. The findings may lead to new approaches for treating damage from stroke, spinal cord injury, and other neurological conditions.

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University of Utah biologists showed how a single protein plays an essential role in preparing nerve cells to release neurotransmitters -- the chemical signals necessary for humans and other animals to think, move, remember or do most other things.

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University of Utah chemists have developed a catalytic reaction that uses oxygen to help eliminate undesirable forms of alcohol - a new technique they hope will become a clean and inexpensive way to manufacture medicines.

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University of Utah biologists devised a new technique to rapidly determine the job performed by particular genes in laboratory animals, according to a report. The method can do in days what once took a year.

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Researchers at the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics, Inc., found how the AIDS virus usurps a cell's normal machinery to leave one cell and infect others - a discovery that eventually could lead to new drugs to control the disease in infected people.

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Brain areas that control walking and other movements work normally in quadriplegics, Utah researchers found. The discovery is an early step toward implanting electrodes to bypass damaged nerves and make it possible for paralyzed people to move and perhaps walk again.

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When thousands of people visit the greater Salt Lake City area for the February 2002 Olympic Winter Games, University of Utah researchers will be monitoring traffic jams and other highway problems from the university's Utah Traffic Lab.

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University of Utah biologists trained alligators to walk on a treadmill during studies that revealed new clues about how dinosaurs breathed.

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A University of Utah study apparently overturns the belief that fragile X syndrome is too complex to be treated effectively. The findings raise hope that existing drugs might be used within a few years to treat the most common inherited form of mental retardation.

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Most cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who receive lung transplants either gain no benefit from the surgery or would live longer if they kept their own diseased lungs, according to a new study by University of Utah researchers.

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A study by the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center shows vision can be successfully preserved in rats that go blind in the first months of life. The study sets the stage for vision restoration in humans with macular degeneration and other retinal diseases.

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University of Utah bioengineers made tiny, living Olympic Rings from nerve cells to demonstrate technology that someday might help repair spinal cord injuries from accidents and brain damage from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or other diseases.

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A gene that makes human blood clot also is found in bloodless fruit flies and helps cone snails produce an epilepsy drug. Biologists learned the gene existed 540 million years ago, raising a mystery over its ancient role and suggesting an early origin for "junk DNA."

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By combining a chemotherapy drug with a sugar that normally helps cancer move through the human body, University of Utah researchers developed a new medication to track down, invade and destroy tumor cells as they spread or metastasize.

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The University of Utah trustees approved honorary degrees for four outstanding individuals and gave their nod of approval to Chief Justice Christine Durham as this year's commencement speaker. Honorary degree recipients include James E. Faust, Louis H. and Ellen Callister and Jon Jory, who will be recognized during graduation ceremonies on May 10.

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Twice during the 2002 Olympics-Paralympics period, University of Utah physician Per Gesteland received an alarm. He rushed to his home computer, worried about the possibility that a disease outbreak was under way or that terrorists had unleashed biological weapons.