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Research News
2023 College of Science Awards
The College of Science is committed to recognizing excellence in education, research, and service and congratulates all 2023 college award recipients.
Read MoreWeekend Effect
Large-scale citizen science camera trapping helps assess animal behavioral responses.
Read MoreSpace Sunscreen
Could dust launched from the moon’s surface mitigate the impacts of climate change?
Read More$1M Grant to Chemists
Grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation may help chemists learn how molecules crystallize.
Read MoreCollaboration of the Cited
Biology’s ‘highly cited’ researchers collaborate in forest science.
Read MorePauling Medal
Distinguished Professor Dr. Cynthia Burrows is the 2022 Pauling Medal awardee.
Read MoreGSL Meteorite
In order to have a meteorite named, you have to have an institution classify it.
Read MoreKing of the Playa
On a crisp October morning, Kevin Perry pedaled his bike across the Great Salt Lake playa.
Read MoreRelativistic Jet
Researchers document a black hole giving off more light than 1,000 trillion suns.
Read MoreHedgehog Signaling
U of U undergrads work to break open the biological mystery of Hedgehog Signaling.
Read MoreVisualizing the Infinitesimal
Janet Iwasa and Ofer Rog re-imagine the cellular space occupied by condensates.
Read MoreArmentrout Interview
Peter Armentrout sits down with the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Read MoreNuFact 2022
The Department of Physics & Astronomy hosts NuFact 2022 neutrino workshop at Snowbird.
Read MoreAt-Risk Forests
Bill Anderegg quantifies the risk to forests from climate change along three dimensions.
Read MoreThe Wilkes Center
University of Utah Launches The Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy.
Read MoreSRI Research: Smoke Plumes
SRI Stream Leader Kai Wilmot, studies increasing wildfire plume height
Read MoreAir Tracker
John Lin adapted his research group’s atmospheric model to run as part of Air Tracker.
Read MoreCellular Crosslinking
Caralyn Flack studies cellular crosslinking in chemoreceptor molecules.
Read MoreHow Trees Grow
William Anderegg explores the relationship between photosynthesis and cell growth.
Read MoreCarbon Nanotubes
Vikram Deshpande had a hunch that carbon nanotubes held promise as a building block.
Read MoreGalápagos Letters
South American correspondent Nora Clayton reporting from the Galapagos Islands.
Read MoreBiological Data
All thinking is done using modeling, whether it’s through language or mathematics.
Read MoreArctic Adventures
BBC StoryWorks feature with Jody Reimer, Rebecca Hardenbrook, and Ken Golden.
Read MoreMysteries of the Universe
A five-year quest to map the universe began officially on May 17, 2021.
Read MoreSloan Research Fellow
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks awarded prestigious 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Read MoreSea Ice Science
Ken Golden brings the principles of mathematics to the Earth’s most remote environments.
Read More11 Billion Years
Kyle Dawson and a global consortium of astrophysicists create a 3-D map of the universe.
Read MoreHIV Microscopy
Ipsita Saha is using electron microscopy to reveal the dynamic structure in HIV.
Read MoreDiscover 2019
Science Research Initiative, College Rankings, Commutative Algebra, and more.
Read MoreTreeTop Barbie
Nalini Nadkarni has created a "Canopy Researcher" version of the popular Barbie doll.
Read MoreGoing with the Flow
John Sperry studies how plant hydraulics and xylem tissue influence regional weather.
Read MoreDistinguished Research
Professor Molinero’s work is a hallmark of what research and scholarship should be about.
Read More2019 Research Scholar
The College of Science Research Scholar Award is given annually to one […]
Read MoreAssociate V.P. for Research
Diane Pataki is now Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah.
Read MoreInsects, Bacteria & Ice
Water doesn’t always freeze at 32 degrees and other chilling facts from Valeria Molinero.
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