Many would guess that the Great Salt Lake is too salty to support life, but Thomas Murray, a senior biology major at the University of Utah, is studying microscopic worms known as nematodes, one of only three known lineages of animals that inhabit the Great Salt Lake. Nematodes are a phylum of animals that are […]
Mimi Aziz is a fifth-year graduate student doing research in a genetics lab. Originally from northwest Chicago, she chose to come to the University of Utah because of the incredible genetics department. Her current research involves using fruit flies to understand rare diseases and find treatment options. Flies share 75% of the same disease-causing genes […]
When a star drifts too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart in a giant flare called a tidal disruption event, also known as a TDE. University of Utah physics students Coleman Rohde and Gavin Farley have spent the past year teaming up to figure out how powerful these events actually are. […]
ArtsBridge: An interdisciplinary arts education outreach program. finearts.utah.edu/arts-ed-interdisciplinary/arts-bridge ArtsForce: A two-day conference for art students to learn about how to share their creative work. artsforceutah.com Associated Student of the University of Utah (ASUU): A student-led organization that provides resources and services to students, hosts events and programs, and advocates for students with university administrators. asuu.utah.edu […]
Inside a giant rolling ball, a hamster is making a break for freedom. That’s the premise behind Udon Uncaged, a larger-than-life alternative control game created by a team of students from the Division of Games at the University of Utah. Instead of using a joystick, players power the action themselves by climbing inside a human-sized […]
Chengru He is developing a poetry project that reframes translation not as a secondary or derivative act, but as a central creative and feminist practice. She describes the work as “a book-length creative translation project that rethinks literary canons in a multilingual context from a feministic perspective,” grounded in lived, transcultural experience rather than allegiance […]
When Lórien Briscoe started writing stories at just four years old, she never imagined that her childhood hobby would turn into a business. Now a film and media arts student at the University of Utah (plus five minors and a certificate in criminology and sociology) Briscoe has built a creative enterprise around her love of […]
While finishing a degree in chemical engineering with a minor in math at the University of Utah, John Peterson pursued a fascination with photolithography and launched the Quasi Stepper, a project that aims to make possible the creation of micro- and nanometer-scale patterns essential for fabricating components used in chips and other advanced devices. With […]
University of Utah computer science students Rishen Cao, Quinn Pritchett, Mel Umble, and Eric Zhuo are streamlining renter communications with their app, Roof. The app connects landlords and renters to streamline payments, maintenance requests, and other communications. The idea came from Umble’s frustrations with her own landlord. “I would have super long text message threads, […]
What started with a simple game of pool has now become a company focused on connecting local businesses with the University of Utah community. Students Kaleb Begg and Aiden Alringer met during the first week of school while playing pool at Lassonde Studios, a student innovation space and residence. With both students having a yearning […]
