Commercialization and Regional Development

Electricity is the future of transportation according to engineers at the Electric Roads and Vehicles Conference in Park City, Utah, today. Presenter John Boys, Professor of Electronics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, pioneered the technology called "inductive power transfer" that allows vehicles to receive electric power from roads, doing away with the need to fuel up or plug in. With escalating gas prices Boys says we need an alternative to keep our cities moving.

USTAR Researcher Randy Lewis discusses the possibility of airbags made of spider webs on Fox 13.

Salt Lake Chamber President and CEO Lane Beattie reaffirmed the Chamber’s support for the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative (USTAR) at a news conference at the State Capitol. “Money allocated for USTAR is an investment and it is a great investment," Beattie said.

“Dr. Seefeldt was chosen from an exceptional pool of candidates, which distinguishes him that much more for this honor,” said Mark McLellan, vice president for research and dean of the School of Graduate Studies.

Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid. She has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with Pudding, Sweetie and her five other siblings, exactly as you might imagine young goats do. Until I fend her off, she's very keen on chewing my trousers. To the casual observer, and to goatherds, she shows no signs that she is not a perfectly normal farmyard goat.