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Hate incidents are notoriously underreported. Now, there’s an app for that.

Assistant professor Richard Medina and doctoral student Emily Nicolosi are studying the patterns of hate groups. @theU sat down with Medina and Nicolosi to talk about their research and the current climate of hate.

University of Utah geographer maps hotspots for car accidents occurring during a severe snowstorm.

Branches of the Defense and Interior departments have designated the U’s Department of Geography as a Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences, which involves mapping, measuring and simulating geographic locations.