BRAIN POWER
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The U’s Neuroscience Initiative awarded seed grants to six collaborative projects aimed at deepening our understanding of the brain and finding innovative solutions for patient care.
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MINING MARS
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A rookie team from the U wins third place in NASA’s Sixth Annual NASA Robotic Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center.
Read MoreAN UNCONVENTIONAL PATH TO MEDICINE
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Kajsa Vlasic, who graduated this spring with an honors degree in English and a minor in chemistry, chose an unconventional route to medical school that allowed her to pursue humanities research that explored breast cancer survivors’ stories.
Read MoreMORE HOT ROCK UNDER YELLOWSTONE
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U seismologists discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano, and it is four times larger than the shallower, long-known magma chamber.
Read MoreIMAGING THE UNSEEN
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This picture could pass for abstract art but uses its vivid colors to map the unseen metabolism of cells. The scientific visualization by researchers at the Moran Eye Center is a finalist in this year’s Wellcome Image Awards.
Read MoreENVISIONING AIR QUALITY
Graphic designer and U assistant professor Yvette Shen dove into the data surrounding Salt Lake’s air pollution problem and created an interactive visualization of changing air quality over 35 years. You’ll be surprised by what she found.
Read MoreEXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED IN CLIMATE CHANGE
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Studying polar ice and tropical glacier ice samples, Lonnie Thompson and his team reconstruct climate and environmental histories going back 25,000 years – findings they say may help explain devastating population disruptions throughout history.
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