Acceleration in collaboration between researchers, more funding from outside of Utah, more high end jobs in Utah, increased prominence for Utah's research universities, and progress toward solving big issues: these are some of the hoped-for benefits of recruiting leading scientists to Utah under the USTAR initiative and they are materializing, as the experience of the University of Utah's Imaging Technology team shows.

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I've been emailed pitches for my blogs before, but I recently got one which seemed so suspect that I didn't even feel comfortable clicking on any of the links they provided.

Was it from a legitimate company or was it spam? The fact that I even had to ask that question means that this is a great opportunity to figure out what they did wrong, and what can be learned from it.

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No shortage of really bad ideas find(s) their way around the nation's capital on a regular basis. One of the worst is now rearing its ugly head again...

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