A RESONATING IMPACT THE U IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS UTAH AND BEYOND

Stay in the know and share the latest updates about the U with these monthly news highlights.

New engineering certificate prepares U students for the evolving energy industry

Computing & Engineering

The resilient energy engineering certificate will teach students how alternative energy is generated and integrated with the grid, along with the business, societal, and policy issues that those technologies raise.

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Supporting student wellbeing in Summit and Wasatch counties

Community

The Utah School Mental Health Collaborative, an effort driven by the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the College of Education, works with schools across Utah to provide mental health services for K-12 students.

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New gene therapy reduces heart failure in large animal model

Health

The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves survival, in what a paper describing the results calls “an unprecedented recovery of cardiac function.”

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Blood clot study could help astronauts—and Earthlings

Health

Astronauts have a higher risk of blood clots. To learn why, scientists are sending blood cells to the International Space Station.

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A life-changing mission to Honduras: Expanding access to cardiac surgery

Health

U health care providers visited the country to demonstrate the feasibility of an independent cardiothoracic surgery program within Honduras’s public healthcare system.

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U ranked No. 3 for entrepreneurship in the West by Princeton Review

Education

The rankings are the latest of many top rankings for entrepreneurship programs at the Eccles School.

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The true value of academic research

Education

Research fills critical knowledge gaps in medical science, leads to new treatments and technologies that improve public health, creates jobs and and trains tomorrow’s scientists.



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Students jump start behavioral health careers with apprenticeships

Student Experience

To bridge the gap from classroom to practice, the U’s College of Social Work offers paid apprenticeships for graduates of its substance use disorder treatment training certificate program.

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Is college still worth it?

Education

Despite waning trust in higher education, the tangible and intangible returns of a degree—from career earnings to life satisfaction—hold strong.

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Innovation university

Innovation

Daring visionaries from the U have opened new frontiers in health, tech, and humanity’s future. See 10 of the most jaw-dropping inventions and discoveries.

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New courses in Creative Arts Therapies

Arts & Humanities

The U College of Fine Arts is answering the demand for evidence-based art therapy with a new foundational series of courses.

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Visionary outreach

Service

Since 2013, Moran Eye Center providers and staff have made near-monthly trips from Salt Lake City to the Navajo Nation to bring sight-restoring care to residents.

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Purity at a premium in critical metals

Research

University of Utah researchers secure major funding to advance domestic critical metals production.

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U partners with Sandia National Laboratories

Research

The U and Sandia will look to develop collaborations in various technical areas which could lead to the development of funded programs.

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U School of Dentistry receives $8M to study oral health inequities

Health

The eight-year study will look at the complex causes of oral health inequities by integrating data at the population, provider, and patient levels.

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U of U Health research launches into orbit

Health

A team including ground-based scientists and NASA crew is studying how spaceflight affects blood. Their results may help prevent dangerous blood clots for astronauts on missions.

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