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. […]