LA Stories: Kennedie Wilding’25 June 18, 2025. Above: Kennedie Wilding at graduation in May 2025 “Beware of becoming a learning assistant; it may transform your life” Talk at any length with Kennedie Wilding BS’25, and the takeaway might be this: beware of becoming a learning assistant; it may transform your life. For Wilding that […]
Read MoreSRI Stories: Dance of Discovery March 18, 2025 Above: Shrinivasan “Cheenu” Raghuraman. Photo by Ravi Dharbhamulla for Nitya Nritya Foundation “If you close your eyes and put your fingers together above your head, you know exactly where the tips of your fingers are, right? That property is called ‘proprioception’, your body knows where your limbs […]
Read MoreThriving in the Cadences of College June 12, 2025. Above: Jake White outside the Skyline Mine near Price, Utah. Photos courtesy of White. Jacob ‘Jake’ White, who just completed his first year in the mining engineering program at the University of Utah, began his path in the field early. In his hometown of Syracuse, Utah […]
Read MoreHumans of the U: Gail Zasowski June 10, 2025 Above: Gail Zasowski I was raised in a fairly rural area where being a scientist wasn’t really seen as a career option, but when I started college, I took Astronomy 101 for fun. I really fell in love with it, and I realized that becoming […]
Read MoreTrailblazing with Earth & Environmental Science June 4, 2025 Above: Ryker Ray (left) and Hunter Hastings One of the newest majors available for undergraduate students at the University of Utah is Earth & Environmental Science (EES). The program fuses principles from atmospheric science, geology, and ecology to address key questions about the environment — including […]
Read Moreearthquake hazard models June 4, 2025 Above: The 1896 Sears mansion in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Wells neighborhood sustained major damage in the Magna Earthquake and was later demolished. Photo credit: Brian Maffly. The sediments underlying the Salt Lake Valley are thicker in places than previously thought, indicating that current seismic hazard models likely […]
Read MoreHumans of the U: Sydney Brooksby May 27, 2025 Above: Sydney Brooksby in competition on archery range. Credit: USA Archery People only get brave when they have nothing to lose. Be brave anyway. As I entered college, I was in renal failure and had two choices: Return home and enjoy the rest of my declining […]
Read Moremigratory songbirds’ fall feather molt May 27, 2025 Above: The wing of a violet-green swallow displaying it second prebasic plumage that was actively molting its flight feathers, on Aug. 25, 2024 at the U’s Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa. Credit: Kyle Kittelberger. As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day […]
Read Morenot just A Major. It’s A Mission. May 21, 2025 “When people ask us what it’s like to be a mining engineering student at the University of Utah, we tell them that it’s like being part of a family,” wrote four U undergraduate mining engineering majors in the Salt Lake Tribune in May. “We may […]
Read MoreComputational Math Meets National Momentum May 22, 2025 As the National Science Foundation marked its 75th anniversary, a national meeting on computational mathematics held at the University of Utah offered a glimpse into the next 75 years of discovery. Hosted on campus the same week NSF celebrated its legacy of research leadership, the CompMath meeting […]
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