The theater department’s recent play, “She Kills Monsters,” featured an assortment of puppets based on monsters found in the game “Dungeons and Dragons.” Bugbears, gelatinous cubes, Beholders, and even a dragon named Tiamat were constructed for the show by an 11 student team under the tutelage of Matt Sorensen. The puppets were mostly constructed using […]

Did you know you can visit honeybees at three locations on the University of Utah’s campus? Bridget Dorsey and Paul Baskin, both seniors in biology and leaders of the Honors Beekeeping Initiative, have worked hard to bring two auto-flow beehives to the honors college, the first of their kind at the U.  The Beekeeping Initiative started […]

There are thousands of scales and tunings that are hardly explored in Western music composition, largely due to the steep learning curve for playing the microtones on instruments as they are. Ashkan Tabatabaie was born in Iran and has been writing music since his teenage years. As a Ph.D. candidate in music composition at the […]

University of Utah bioengineering Ph.D. student Kyle Isaacson is making big strides growing his startup company Ike Scientific, which provides technical consulting services and a bridge between industrial and academic research. In only a few months since founding the company, Ike Scientific achieved both profitability and positive cash flow, and in recognition of his success, […]

Thanks to research by students like Savhannah Carpenter, supported by professor Mark Loewen, a paleontology scholar, a “new” dinosaur will soon be recognized as a species. Carpenter, a third-year geology major, didn’t expect to be part of such a big discovery. When she started at the U, she decided to volunteer with the Natural History […]

Have you listened to an episode from OUR Pod? The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the U has its very own podcast called OUR Pod. OUR Pod produces monthly podcast episodes hosted by undergraduate research leaders highlighting the research or creative work of undergrad students and faculty mentors engaged in OUR programs. Bennett Johnson, […]

For Samery Moras, the founder of Live Martial Arts, martial arts aren’t just a hobby — they’re a part of who she is. “I was literally born into the world of martial arts,” she said. Her family owned a martial arts studio, and from a young age, Moras was inundated with martial arts. “I learned […]

Chris Bright and Kyle Poulin founded their company True Adherence to make exercise safer and more effective. When he worked as a personal trainer, Poulin saw too many people risk injury or stunt their progress because they were exercising incorrectly. True Adherence’s technology provides real-time feedback and data to help people exercise smarter. Now, Bright […]

Say goodbye to the cash box and the physical waivers for your upcoming prom! My School Dance is bringing an era of new technology and ease to over 350 high schools with their online event management platform.  Taylor Buckley is the brains behind My School Dance. She is also the co-founder and in the Master […]

Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based approach used by counselors, educators, medical professionals, correctional officers, and others to change patient or client behavior. It can help people smoke less, exercise more, follow through with recommendations, keep commitments, and more. A team of faculty, professionals, and students at the University of Utah hope to make motivational interviewing […]