Panelists are Ordain Women officer Debra Jenson, Brigham Young University doctoral candidate Mica McGriggs, BYU-Idaho professor Andrea Radke-Moss, historian Barbara Jones Brown and award-winning Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack. Use the hashtag #mormonwomenwant on Twitter to join the robust discussion on social media, which has also given rise to women of color using the…
The 2015 Utah Legislature made history with the success of an LGBT anti-discrimination law, approved a gas tax hike after years of wrangling and passed criminal justice reforms — but failed to agree on a path to expand health care coverage for the state’s poorest residents. To explore the highs and lows of the session…
Recent officer–involved shootings have spawned public outcry and scrutiny about how police officers are trained, when lethal force is justified and how such shootings are investigated. Join The Salt Lake Tribune for a town hall meeting, “Deadly Force: A Community Response to Police Shootings,” on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Salt Lake…
UPHE Seminar on Air Pollution and Pregnancy which will be simulcast by KCPW. Six physicians with expertise on how air pollution exposure can adversely affect pregnancies and fetal development, and the implications for life long health.
Six physicians with expertise on air pollution and neurologic diseases gave a 75 minute presentation to a live audience on the medical research that connects air pollution to a multitude of brain diseases and disorders like Alzheimers, Parkinsons, strokes, ADHD, autism, impaired cognition and dementia.
The Salt Lake Tribune will host a town-hall forum Wednesday about the scandal embroiling former Utah Attorneys General John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff. The free event, “Swallow and Shurtleff — Anatomy of a Scandal,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Nancy Tessman Auditorium at Salt Lake City’s Main Library, 210 E. 400 South. The…
If you missed Wednesday night’s live, Oxford-style debate at the Main Library, you can listen to it here in its entirety (files follow below): Local and state officials have clashed recently with the feds on everything from wild horses to ATVs to national monuments. While factors such as energy development, access and recreation have become flash…
Lecture by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. In 2010, Dr. Venter and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) successfully constructed the first “synthetic bacterial cell” putting humankind at the threshold of a new phase of biological research, one that is enabling us to go from reading the genetic code (sequencing genomes) to now…
The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to present the 2014 McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture Kathleen Flake Richard L. Bushman Chair in Mormon Studies at University of Virginia “The LDS Intellectual Tradition: A Study on Three Lives” This lecture begins with the definition of an intellectual as one who loves and is committed to…
NHMU Lecture featuring Dr. Jeffrey Botkin Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities Do you have gene variants associated with heart disease, cancer, or Alzheimer’s? Advances in genetic technologies will allow us to explore our personal genetic make-up in great detail, understand risks to our health, and provide new opportunities to…
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