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U and Université Côte d’Azur students again team up to tackle energy and climate solutions at the 2026 Wilkes Center “Hackathon.”
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Industry veteran expands Wilkes Center’s impact
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Fielding Norton brings expertise in climate- and insurance-technology to broaden the Wilkes Center’s role in society, including by supporting the innovation ecosystem and bolstering communities’ resiliency to climate change.
Read MoreInitiative fuels state leadership in responsible AI
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At its second annual symposium, the U One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative showcased how it’s raising the state’s profile in ethical innovation.
Read MoreHigh Mountain Asia’s shrinking glaciers linked to monsoon changes
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Shifting precipitation patterns, driven by climate change, could reshape water security and environmental hazards for one of the world’s most populated regions, research shows.
Read MoreIndustry-managed forests more likely to fuel megafires
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Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.
Read MoreU scientists develop AI-powered tool to forecast wildfire smoke
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Trace AQ, a university startup company commercializing the technology, makes the pioneering tool available to the public through Wilkes Center.
Read MoreUrgency and hope at 2025 Wilkes Climate Summit
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Climate change innovation, science and solutions manifest at the third annual Wilkes Climate Summit, hosted by the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
Read MoreUtah is making progress on Great Salt Lake
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Conserving, dedicating, and delivering water to the lake must be a multi-year focus.
Read MoreAI: Friend and foe to the environment
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AI’s impacts on the environment, dangers of AI-generated and -amplified misinformation and using AI for wildfire forecasting were discussed at the One-U Responsible AI Initiative symposium.
Read MoreFuture of urban forests
As our cities become hotter with climate change, how can the urban Wasatch Front ensure that trees today will remain healthy and viable in the coming decades?
Read More‘Roving sentinels’ discover new air pollution sources
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Google Street View cars sampled air quality at a scale fine enough to capture variations within neighborhoods. A new atmospheric modeling method can identify pollution emission sources in many cities.
Read MoreLumen Bioscience wins historic $1.5M Wilkes Center Climate Prize
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The Seattle-based biotech company beat 77 international teams with their proposal to drastically reduce methane emissions from dairy and beef cattle using a patented mixture of enzyme proteins.
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