“We cannot have the best school system in the country and be the lowest in the country in funding.” State Superintendent Larry Shumway had that blunt message for the Utah Legislature as he delivered his final State of Utah Education Address last night at The Open Classroom, a public charter school in Salt Lake City.
On Friday, August 24, the Tanner Humanities Center held the 2012 Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture featuring Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Drs. Jim Withers and Pat Perri, leaders of the Street Medicine Institute, say the service of resource-poor individuals is an opportunity to expose the very health care delivery weaknesses that put us all at risk for poor care and high costs, and street medicine strategies could serve as a model to promote healing for patients, providers, and the health care system as a whole.
What will Salt Lake County look like in 5 years? The county’s leaders pondered the question with its employees today during a panel discussion hosted by KCPW’s Jennifer Napier-Pearce.
During the finale of the 2012 Nature of Things Lecture Series, RadioLab hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich took listeners behind the scenes, sharing some of their secrets for taking the complex and confusing and turning it into the profound and memorable.
Sharon Begley is Senior Science and Health Correspondent for Reuters. Listen as she shares an astonishing story with implications for health, disease, and emotional balance.
Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson delivered the opening lecture of the 2012 Nature of Things Lecture Series at the City Library on Thursday, February 9. Listen to a podcast of the lecture.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert delivered the 2012 State of the State Address tonight on Capitol Hill. In his speech, the Governor focused on the state’s business success, job growth, fund management, and public education.
National civil rights leaders gathered at The Leonardo, Utah’s science, technology and art museum, on Friday evening for a roundtable discussion in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit This Light of Ours, Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.
Listen to our podcast of a panel discussion from the 14th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival, “Joe Hill and the History of Utah Radicalism.”
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