It's not called Utah HERO for nothing! While working on the Utah Health & Economic Recovery Outreach (HERO) project on June 1, 2020 in Syracuse, Utah, University of Utah student Ethan Edwards encountered an unconscious adult male who was not breathing. Ethan sprung into action, immediately performing CPR on the man until an ambulance crew arrived at the scene. Because of Ethan’s heroic actions, [...]
The Navigating COVID-19: How to Rebuild Your Business and Reactivate Our Community web forum series has been featured again in the media. The Deseret News covered the Friday, May 29 webinar "State Government’s Leadership Role in Utah’s Economic Recovery and Business Success" featured Rep. Brad Wilson, Utah Speaker of the House; Rep. Angela Romero, House Minority Assistant Whip; and Jonathan Ball, Utah State Fiscal [...]
The Navigating COVID-19: How to Save Your Business series continues to draw worldwide media attention. The free, online forum series, which is generously underwritten by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, provides clear and actionable direction to help local businesses navigate the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. Recent installments of the series have been mentioned in the New York Times here and here; Reuters [...]
Randal K. Quarles, Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board joined Mike Leavitt, the former Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services and former Governor of Utah, for a conversation about the state of the banking sector, and the Federal Reserve’s recent efforts to support the economy, households, and businesses on Friday, April 10. [...]
The Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis is hosting a free series of online forums called Navigating COVID-19: How to Save Your Business for owners of businesses of all sizes. On Friday, April 3, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt was joined by Sen. Mitt Romney, Gov. Gary Herbert, and several experts from the [...]
Eccles School student Matthew Froberg has been chosen to present at the upcoming National Conference on Undergraduate Research at Montana State University. Froberg's paper, "Security Design in Markets with Risk: Price and Allocation Efficiencies," was chosen from more than 4,000 submissions. Froberg is a fourth-year student majoring in Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations and has been studying under Eccles School professor Elena Asparouhova [...]
Set your DVR to catch the new documentary "Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve," premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on KUED. The film, produced by KUED senior producer John Howe, follows Eccles from his childhood working in the family's lumber, construction, and banking institutions through his rise to chair of the First Security Corporation. Eccles was then tapped by President Franklin D. [...]