The fate of novel ideas
David Eccles School of Business postdoc Wayne Johnson investigates factors that thwart potential innovations from gaining acceptance.
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Psychoactive psilocybin’s evolution in ‘magic mushrooms’
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Health & Medicine, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, News Releases, Research, Science & Technology
Largest diversity study of the genus Psilocybe investigates the evolution of psilocybin production. They found that Psilocybe arose around when the dinosaur-killing asteroid caused a mass extinction event.
Read MoreEDI launches new podcast aimed at inspiring The Joy of Belonging
Categories: Belonging, Community, Faculty/Staff, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, Student Belonging, Student Belonging
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Vice President Mary Ann Villarreal hosts new podcast that brings together national figures to explore why belonging matters.
Read More2023: A year in perspective
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Humanities, Athletics, Awards & Recognition, Belonging, Campus Life, Faculty/Staff, Health & Medicine, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, Law & Politics, President, Research, Science & Technology, Student Affairs, Student Belonging, Students, Sustainability, University Statements
The U continues to rise toward excellence, with an even stronger reputation as one of the nation’s leading research universities.
Read MoreNematode proteins shed light on infertility
Categories: Faculty/Staff, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, News Releases, Research, Science & Technology
U biologists identified how the synaptonemal complex regulates gene exchanges between chromosomes in nematodes, a process remarkably similar across sexually reproducing organisms and a leading cause of infertility in humans.
Read MoreUtah engineers’ self-assembly techniques enable a new type of wafer-scale chiral matter
At the nanoscale, the smallest structural differences can have a big impact.
Read MoreChristmas trees and climate change
Categories: Community, Faculty/Staff, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, Research, Science & Technology
Small choices can make a big impact this holiday season. Learn from a forest ecologist what Christmas tree is best for you and the environment.
Read MoreOrigin and disappearance of Coast Salish Woolly Dog
Researchers and Coast Salish people analyze 160-year Indigenous dog pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection to understand the culturally significant Coast Salish Woolly Dog and counter the colonial narrative.
Read MoreLightning, camera, gamma ray!
Researchers captured the first-ever video of a lightning-triggered terrestrial gamma ray flash.
Read MoreAddressing America’s invisible, billion-dollar problem
Categories: Community, Faculty/Staff, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Law & Politics, Research
The U’s Family Caregiving Collaborative is leading the way at the historic Caregiver Nation Summit in Washington D.C.
Read MoreTelescope Array detects second highest-energy cosmic ray ever
Second only to the Oh-My-God particle, the newly dubbed Amaterasu particle deepens the mystery of the origin, propagation and particle physics of rare, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Read MoreCaving for bones
Categories: Community, Faculty/Staff, Impact Initiatives, Innovate Initiatives, Inspire Initiatives, News Releases, Research, Science & Technology
How a tip from a citizen scientist led to deep discoveries in Utah’s caves.
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