When University of Utah ceramics student Griffin Hale sought to make an installation at Huntsman Cancer Institute, he embarked on a journey with unforeseen impact. After carefully planning “The Caregivers Window,” Hale recycled organic material into 250 clay bricks. Carrying these bricks up the hill to the Institute grounds, Hale created a temporary structure overlooking […]
Reilly Jensen is an archaeologist, researcher, and illustrator, who is currently studying in the Community-Based Arts Education Graduate Program at the University of Utah. Having grown up in southern Utah, she has a passion for preserving heritage and cultural landscapes, as well as the exploration of stories that haven’t been historically preserved or recorded. Jensen’s […]
While pursuing a degree in theater, Francesca Hsieh left a continuing impact at the University of Utah by creating BIPOC Artists for Awareness, a program that continues to grow and improve the community even after her graduation. BIPOC Artists for Awareness is a community within the Department of Theatre designed to bring awareness to social […]
For founder Alyssa Bertelsen, Rise Up School of Dance is so much more than a business. “Rise Up started just out of my own story growing up; I wasn’t able to afford ballet classes and was given a scholarship,” Bertelsen said. “That totally changed my life because I could pursue ballet, and it really grew […]
If you’re not a person with asthma, you probably don’t think very often about inhalers. If you use one, however, you understand the unseen annoyances. Most importantly, you’ve probably dealt with a crucial choice: do I bring my inhaler and risk losing it because of how hard it is to store, or leave it behind […]
Being a nurse is hard. Being a nurse of color can be even harder, according to Minerva Martinez-Lopez, a nursing Ph.D. student and a nurse at the University of Utah. To help, she developed an Anti-Racist Training module for nursing faculty to educate them on how to appropriately support nursing students of color when they […]
Sarah Hood, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at the U, has found passion in engineering at the intersection of humans and technology. Through her research, she has helped develop a novel robotic-leg prosthesis that will enable users to perform tasks such as walking and climbing stairs on a much more dynamic and personalized level. One […]
There has long been interest in using magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, to guide less-invasive medical procedures. M.D.-Ph.D. candidate Lorne Hofstetter has developed an electric-motor design that can operate near patients while an MRI scanner is acquiring images. The absence of magnetic parts is necessary to prevent the motor from becoming a dangerous projectile near the […]
Laura Tiburcio-Santos is tackling an under-valued problem in underrepresented communities: mental-health. After immigrating to the United States in 2013, Tiburcio-Santos faced her own mental-health crisis as a result of culture shock and assimilation pressures. After learning how to navigate American culture and multiple attempts to find adequate self-help groups, Tiburcio-Santos realized the importance of providing […]
Master of social work students at the University of Utah, Alannah Clay, Jessie Welch-Stockton, and Mimi Landeros are the voices of those who don’t have one. After finding out about the Navajo Tribe Reservation water crisis, they decided to help. In their Change Project, they partnered with the DigDeep organization to help the Navajo nation […]
