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• Q Therapeutics Announces Series B Investment

  - 2008-02-15

  SALT LAKE CITY -- Q Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pursuing cell-based therapies for the central nervous system CNS, announced today that it has closed on a first tranche of its $15 million Series B financing. The round was led by vSpring Capital; other investors include Invitrogen Corporation, Epic Ventures...

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• Many balk at dropping Dixie name

  - 2007-11-18

  ST. GEORGE -- What started as the Dixie State College task force, assigned to research an affiliation proposal that would meld DSC with the University of Utah, is now being called the transition team. The group's new name emerged during a short presentation on its progress with its...

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• What's cooking

  - 2007-10-10

  Ace Hardware, 1075 N. 500 East, North Salt Lake, offers "A Tour of Italy," Thursday, 6:30 p.m., $10; "Asian Impression," Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m., $18 (383-3838). Gygi Culinary Institute, 3500 S. 300 West, offers "Playing With Sugar Part II" Oct. 17, 6 p.m., $49; "Culinary Kids: Spectacularly Spooky...

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• Granite Energy Acquires Worldwide License

  - 2007-05-31

  University of Utah Technology Complements 'Green' Initiative SALT LAKE CITY -- Granite Energy (OTC:GNGI) the Company today announced the acquisition of a worldwide Licensing Agreement with the University of Utah. The agreement will complement the new "Green" division for Granite Energy offering its clients an alternative energy perspective. This...

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• Audition

  - 2005-12-09

  -- "JULIUS CAESAR," today from 2-4 p.m. for non-Equity players and 4-5 p.m. for Equity actors in Room 245 of Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, University of Utah. Sign up on the callboard posted outside Room 237. Come prepared with a brief scene or monologue, no longer than three minutes, from...

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• Student-Run University Venture Fund's $5 Million Closing is Richest-Ever

  - 2005-01-12

  SALT LAKE CITY -- --Largest Student-Run Private Equity Fund Raises Capital from Big-Name Limited Partners, Including UBS Bank USA and Morgan Stanley Bank. Business Students Get a Real-World Education on Roller Coaster of Venture Capital Industry. University Venture Fund UVF, the largest student-run private equity fund in the United...

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• Obituary: John N. Padjen

  - 2004-12-15

  "Padj" John N. Padjen passed away December 14, 2004 in Sandy, UT. Padj was born on January 4, 1923 in Murray, UT to John and Mary Tobaric Padjen. He married his sweetheart, Afton Levorsen, on December 14, 1946. Padj's education was within the Murray...

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• Obituary: Richard Earl Balli

  - 2004-10-27

  1918 - 2004 Richard Earl Balli, completed his life's work on October 25, 2004. He was born Sept. 14, 1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Frederick Jakob Balli and Clara Elizabeth Schwaar. He married Ruth Marshall Balli on Sept. 14, 1961 in the Salt Lake...

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• Literary footnotes

  - 2004-04-04

  BRIAN ADAM, a member of Scottish Parliament, will speak on "The Welfare State in Scotland," Monday, 1 p.m., Hinckley Caucus Room, 255 Orson Spencer Hall, University of Utah. Sponsored by the Hinckley Institute of Politics. KIM BARNES, author of "Finding Caruso," will speak at three free Utah State...

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• Obituary: Richard John Ridge

  - 2004-02-05

  1954~2004 Our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, friend, Richard John Ridge, 49, passed away after many years of complications due to diabetes, on February 3, 2004, at University of Utah Hospital, surrounded by his family. He was born on December 1, 1954 in Augsburg,...

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