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☆ How the Olympics helped transform Salt Lake City into a tech hub
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Chris Dilella | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Spectators file into the Olympic Medal Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, during the 2002 Olympics. Salt Lake City has grown from a winter sports venue to a vibrant technology hub in just two decades, leveraging the legacy of the 2002 Winter Olympics to transform into one of America's fastest-growing business destinations. A catalyst for economic growthIn 2002, the world watched as Salt Lake City welcomed athletes and spectators to the Winter Olympics. Salt Lake City's 2002 Olympics cost about $2 billion and turned a profit. During preparations for the Olympics, Leavitt met with Adobe co-founder and Salt Lake City native John Warnock in Silicon Valley to discuss building a tech community in Utah.

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Rice–Eccles Stadium, an outdoor college football venue at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, stands against a stunning mountain backdrop. The video game industry in Utah has become a powerhouse, growing more than 230% in the last decade and bringing in more than $2.3 billion in revenue last year. One of the key drivers behind the growth is the University of Utah's cutting-edge video game program. Inside a classroom in Salt Lake City, students here are immersed in studying video games — not just playing them, but also creating them, fueling an industry that has deep roots at the campus. In the Princeton Review's 2024 rankings for top game design schools, the University of Utah rose to No.

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☆ Harvard-trained expert shares her No. 1 strategy for getting people to trust you: 'That's what I would do'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you want to be successful, fostering trust with others is a great way to start. But leading by example isn't the best way to do so, says a Harvard-trained leadership advisor. Building that type of deeply ingrained connection comes from a single strategy, Mumby says: active listening. Chances are, you're a mono-tasker — if you think you're doing two things at once, you're probably task-switching or completing tasks in rapid succession, neuropsychologist Cynthia Kubu told the Cleveland Clinic's health blog in 2021. For it to really be effective, you need to make it a regular practice, she says: One uninterrupted conversation won't garner someone's trust overnight.

☆ FDA advisors recommend full approval of Pfizer Covid treatment Paxlovid for adults 50 and over and other high-risk people
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The Food and Drug Administration's independent panel of advisors recommended full approval of Pfizer's Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid for high-risk adults 16-1 on Thursday, but flagged potentially harmful drug interactions. The FDA first made Paxlovid available in December 2021 for emergency use in high-risk individuals ages 12 and up. More than half of Paxlovid-eligible Medicare and Veterans Affairs patients are on medications that have drug interactions with Paxlovid, according to an FDA review of safety surveillance data. Roughly 74% of Paxlovid prescriptions were from adult primary care practitioners who may not be experienced with managing the possible adverse drug interactions, the FDA review added. To complete a full course of the drug, patients must take three Paxlovid pills twice a day for five days.

☆ How Salt Lake City is closing the digital divide, supporting entrepreneurship, and tackling climate change as it experiences fast growth
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Erica Sweeney | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kazi Awal/InsiderSalt Lake City is growing rapidly. New initiatives include creating a digital-inclusion plan and combating climate change in the state. Since taking office in 2020, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has debuted several initiatives, including streamlining the city's business operations, creating a digital-inclusion blueprint, and starting to tackle the effects of climate change. Salt Lake City and the state of Utah have been growing rapidly. Here's a look at the ways Salt Lake City is investing in innovation and digital transformation to meet the challenges of the future.

☆ The University of Utah says it will pay alumni $5,000 per semester to rent any extra rooms to students as the waiting list for campus housing tops 3,500
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-21 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The University of Utah says it will ask alumni to rent rooms in their homes to current students for $5,000 per semester. The university hopes the "Home Away from Home" program will help with its "unprecedented" housing shortage. This is one of many fixes schools across the US are trying out to help solve student housing crises. The University of Utah is one of many colleges and universities in the US that faces a student housing crisis, with different schools coming up with solutions of varying success. For the University of Utah, the student housing problem may become even more grim: the university's president, Taylor Randall, has said he plans to grow the student body to more than 40,000 in the near future.

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