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Financed by the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF), members of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) and the U of U Beekeepers Association revamped the U’s water and pollinator conservation garden at the College of Architecture + Planning. Volunteers from the ASUU Enviro Club updated the official Pollinator-Conservation Garden on campus in collaboration […]
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An interdisciplinary team of students from the University of Utah is being recognized by the United States Department of Energy and its Building Technologies Office. During the annual JUMP into STEM final competition hosted virtually by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in January, four winning teams were announced from the largest competition to date, with 84 ideas submitted […]
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“I grew up in Provo, Utah. After graduation from Provo High School, I attended Brigham Young University for two years while living at home. When I changed my major to architecture, I transferred to the University of Utah, graduating in 1966. At that time, the School of Architecture was housed in some of the old-World […]
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Since 2019, Assistant Professor Milad Mozari from the division Multi-Disciplinary Design (MDD) at the U’s College of Architecture and Planning, has worked with the Bennion Center and the International Rescue Committee (IRC in Salt Lake City) using technology to help the refugee community in their resettlement process in Utah. More than 70 students from the MDD program have participated […]
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The DesignBuildUTAH program at the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning engages students in design and construction projects, applying foundational knowledge obtained in the classroom to real-world projects through two experiences: DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff in the Navajo Nation and DesignBuildUTAH@SLC in urban settings. Since 2004, the DesignBuildUTAH@Bluff program has allowed students to immerse themselves in hands-on opportunities to design […]
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On January 9, University of Utah alum George (Jud) Daniels, FAIA and co-founder of Salt Lake City-based architectural design firm EDA, passed away at age 94. Daniels helped introduce architectural modernism to Utah. “Jud’s influence still resonates today,” said EDA Managing Principal Thomas Brennan. “As heirs to the firm that he and Ralph Edwards founded, […]
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“I was a research scientist at NASA for 33 years. My responsibility was mainly to improve the heat shield that protects the space shuttle when it re-enters the atmosphere. When I retired, my wife and I moved back to Salt Lake City. My wife has family here, and I had graduated from BYU. To be […]
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Every year the glow from our porches, buildings and streetlights gets brighter while our view of the moon, stars and Milky Way get dimmer. As light pollution reduces the darkness of the night sky, it disrupts animal movements, human biological clocks and other essential processes. It makes our lives and the planet less healthy. Dark […]
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Two University of Utah seniors have transformed their Multi-Disciplinary Design Program experience in the College of Architecture + Planning into a “Student Runner Up” win from the 2020 Core77 Design Awards. The team rose to prominence from a field of more than 200 global submissions across 18 different categories. Designed by Lucy Allen and Jackson Kerbs, the “Inframent: […]
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The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded $250,000 to the University of Utah to establish a new undergraduate minor in dark sky studies, the first of its kind in the United States. Dark sky studies is an emerging field that explores the impacts of artificial light at night and the loss of our night skies […]
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