“Student Innovation @ the U” is an annual publication celebrating student innovators and entrepreneurs from across campus. Read to see what students are inventing, and get inspired!
The 2026 edition of “Student Innovation at the U” is now available. The annual publication celebrates student innovation and impact at the University of Utah. Inside you will find stories about students from all parts of campus doing amazing things. Hopefully, you will also find inspiration to get involved. This publication is produced by the […]
Do you ever spend your day sitting at a desk and fidgeting with every possible thing? Daniel Hallman, a mathematics Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, has a solution. Utilizing his background in electrical engineering, he created Strobilos, a line of mesmerizing, kinetic desktop sculptures that give your brain something better to focus on. […]
Hassam Ghazali’s passion for quantum computer emulators began at a young age, when he would get a new toy, not play with it, but “take it apart and try to put it back together.” He learned to use pliers and screwdrivers at a young age and was constantly surrounded by them. By sixth grade, he […]
Many would guess that the Great Salt Lake is too salty to support life, but Thomas Murray, a senior biology major at the University of Utah, is studying microscopic worms known as nematodes, one of only three known lineages of animals that inhabit the Great Salt Lake. Nematodes are a phylum of animals that are […]
Mimi Aziz is a fifth-year graduate student doing research in a genetics lab. Originally from northwest Chicago, she chose to come to the University of Utah because of the incredible genetics department. Her current research involves using fruit flies to understand rare diseases and find treatment options. Flies share 75% of the same disease-causing genes […]
When a star drifts too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart in a giant flare called a tidal disruption event, also known as a TDE. University of Utah physics students Coleman Rohde and Gavin Farley have spent the past year teaming up to figure out how powerful these events actually are. […]
ArtsBridge: An interdisciplinary arts education outreach program. finearts.utah.edu/arts-ed-interdisciplinary/arts-bridge ArtsForce: A two-day conference for art students to learn about how to share their creative work. artsforceutah.com Associated Student of the University of Utah (ASUU): A student-led organization that provides resources and services to students, hosts events and programs, and advocates for students with university administrators. asuu.utah.edu […]
Inside a giant rolling ball, a hamster is making a break for freedom. That’s the premise behind Udon Uncaged, a larger-than-life alternative control game created by a team of students from the Division of Games at the University of Utah. Instead of using a joystick, players power the action themselves by climbing inside a human-sized […]
Chengru He is developing a poetry project that reframes translation not as a secondary or derivative act, but as a central creative and feminist practice. She describes the work as “a book-length creative translation project that rethinks literary canons in a multilingual context from a feministic perspective,” grounded in lived, transcultural experience rather than allegiance […]
When Lórien Briscoe started writing stories at just four years old, she never imagined that her childhood hobby would turn into a business. Now a film and media arts student at the University of Utah (plus five minors and a certificate in criminology and sociology) Briscoe has built a creative enterprise around her love of […]
