Environmentally Friendly Hemp Streetwear

Cotton is everywhere. Odds are, something you’re wearing right now is made with cotton. After researching alternatives to cotton, however, University of Utah student entrepreneur Eliasib Paredes wanted to use a recently legalized and more environmentally friendly material to produce fashionable streetwear: hemp. Hemp? People often ask Paredes, is that the same as marijuana? Not […]

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Improving Methods to Recycle Rare Metals

University of Utah metallurgical engineering Ph.D. candidate Munro Alley is passionate about sustainable engineering. His experimental research focuses on developing more energy-efficient and cost-efficient approaches to producing critical materials like titanium and rare earth elements. Critical materials like rare earth elements and titanium are limited in their application by their cost, which stems from the […]

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