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Climate change is among the greatest threats to our existence. Science and experience show us that drought, wildfires, tornados and hurricanes are more frequent and more intense.

Light pollution may not be the most pressing environmental issue at the moment, but it is one that comes with serious health, ecological and economic consequences. That’s according to Daniel Mendoza, a researcher and professor who runs the University of Utah’s Dark Skies minor.

A faculty member in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation (Transform) is receiving national recognition for her social justice and community-engagement work. Ana Antunes, an assistant professor in the division of Gender Studies, was recently honored in a letter by her fellow members of the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) leadership team.

2021 celebrates a decade since the U.N. passed a resolution advocating for greater participation of women in the political sphere. Devex took the time to speak to three formidable women leaders transforming politics today.

The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library is helping to digitize the oral histories of Native Americans collected during the 1960s and 1970s.

STEM Community Alliance Program—STEMCAP—was developed by U biology professor Nalini Nadkarni, a renowned forest canopy researcher who, for more than a decade, has been bringing science and conservation education to non-traditional audiences in prisons, jails and, since 2017, Youth-In-Custody facilities.

“We’ve known for a long time that the majority of health outcomes are determined in the context of patients’ daily lives, not by what we do during clinic or hospital visits,” says Andrea Wallace.

From concept to creation, Ivory Innovations seeks solutions to housing affordability.