The Tanner Center


In a world wracked by hostility and violence, the Tanner Center is dedicated to providing University of Utah students and faculty with the inspiration and education needed to become advocates for peace, nonviolence, and human rights. The center seeks to provide avenues for the open discussion of important issues dividing the community, the nation, and the world.



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Center News & Upcoming Events


PERSONNEL UPDATE:

The Barbara and Norman Tanner Center will be experiencing several changes in the coming months. Thank you to George Cheney for all his hard work and dedication to the Center the last several years. He has been offered and has accepted a position as an endowed chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and will be leaving by the fall of 2010. Fortunately, George will continue his work with the Tanner Center until sometime during the summer of 2010.

Kim Korinek was welcomed in as the new associate director. Kim is a professor of sociology working closely with George and the staff. Welcome Kim!

Victoria Medina's husband Rich has taken a research position at Oak Ridge Laboratories in Tennessee, where they have recently moved. We are happy that Victoria will continue working with the Center remotely (by telecommuting).



Tanner Center Director Receives 2008 Gandhi Peace Award

George Cheney was honored at the annual Gandhi Birthday Celebration on September 28, 2008. The Gandhi Peace Award is presented annually by the Gandhi Alliance for Peace, a local activist group preserving the memory and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Read the Press Release





LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR