Exploring Toxic Stress

How do childhood adversities impact health in adulthood? This is a question that Mackaully Parada, a second-year doctoral student at the University of Utah College of Social Work, is determined to answer. Formerly working as a licensed clinical social worker in a medical setting, Parada’s patients ranged from youth facing chronic illnesses to geriatric patients. […]

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Transcending Culture Through Art

Depicting the immigrant experience through his enchanting magical realism paintings and multimedia portraiture, Pablo Ayala expresses his intersectional identities through his artwork. His Mexican/American heritage, status as an undocumented immigrant, and double majors in art and biomedical engineering all contribute to his unique perspective. Ayala’s latest series personifies the Latin American cultural identity while allowing […]

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Increasing Seismic Resilience

Emily Williamson, a recent civil and environmental Ph.D. graduate from the University of Utah, is working to increase sustainability and seismic resilience in the construction of new structures. Williamson’s research focused on developing a mass timber buckling restrained braced frame, which can be used in buildings located in seismic regions. “I am really interested in […]

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Nondestructive Rail Monitoring

Yuning Wu is a structural engineering graduate from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah. Now working at Stantec as a civil engineer, his graduate research focused on improving railroad infrastructure in Utah. He contributed greatly toward the first realtime rail track monitoring system on the Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner […]

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