Exploring engineering with high school students
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Students from all over the country came to the U to learn about engineering.
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Grit, endurance and smarts
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How one student is balancing a full-time job and a double major.
Read MoreIs climate change good for plants?
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Could the rising levels of carbon dioxide actually be good for plants?
Read MoreWhat are the limits of ice?
The smallest nanodroplet of water in which ice can form is only as big as 90 water molecules—a tenth the size of the smallest virus.
Read MoreSqueezing an electron crystal
Researchers have determined the energy required to add an electron to a Wigner crystal—an ordered crystalline state made of electrons rather than atoms.
Read MoreU economists tally societal cost of preterm birth
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In the United States, 1 in 10 babies is born preterm, or at a gestational age of less than 37 weeks. The causes of preterm birth are complicated but the effects are clear: Preterm birth has lasting consequences for the child and their family.
Read More$150 million commitment from Huntsman family will establish mental health institute
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Historic gift will establish the Huntsman Mental Health Institute with an initial focus on advancing knowledge and relieving suffering through research-informed treatment of mental illness.
Read MoreScientists must get into ‘the fray’
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Air pollution expert George Thurston urges University of Utah researchers to share their findings with policymakers, advocacy groups and the public.
Read More‘I am multiracial’
According to new research from University of Utah psychologists Jasmine Norman and Jacqueline Chen, questions such as “What are you?” and other experiences of discrimination are related to mixed-race people’s identification as multiracial, particularly if that discrimination comes from monoracial people with whom they share heritage, or includes comments that a person’s appearance doesn’t match their background.
Read MoreBionic breakthrough
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U mechanical engineering assistant professor Tommaso Lenzi received two grants to further advance the “Utah Bionic Leg” technology, a self-powered prosthetic limb with a computer processor and motorized joints in the ankle and knee that enable an amputee to walk with more power and vigor, as well as better balance.
Read MoreCapturing the colors of the cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is a new robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which makes up about 68% of the universe and is speeding up its expansion.
Read MoreInvesting in early childhood teacher education
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Research shows that the foundation for a skilled workforce is created in childhood. And that starts with having access to great early childhood educators.
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