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    24 Reasons to Be Hopeful

    Optimism is cratering, but human capacity for resilience isn’t. These stories will restore your faith in what’s possible.

  • Collage featuring a missing person notice, vintage photos, campus scenes, and a map layered in a scrapbook style.

    Bringing Douglas Home

    After nearly 50 years, an unlikely chain of events and reinvigorated new U police work resolve the university’s only missing-person cold case.

  • Assorted Caputo’s chocolate bars and boxed truffles arranged with cacao pods and dried cacao leaves.

    Keepers of Ancient Cacao

    From their Salt Lake deli, two U alums have built an unlikely base camp for saving the world’s rarest cacao in the rainforests where chocolate began.


Departments


  • cruisin for a cause - Outside

  • moving toward hope - President’s Perspective

  • rare but not ignored - Imagine

  • cancer care closer to home - Community

  • soapbox showdown - Campus

  • smashing expectations - Stats

  • where the ideas of utahs future scientists take flight - Gallery

  • between spirit and matter - Expert

  • from the readers

  • News From the U

    • new utah promise scholarship

    • winter 2026 news roundup

    • taking flight

    • korean festival at the u attracts thousands

    • one app to rule them all

    • enrollment by the numbers

    • a bold new play

    • winter 2026 sports briefs

    • ring leader

    • golden broccoli lights up cells

    • unlocking hibernations hidden code

    • the u to offer two new minors in ai

    • computing power play

    • the u closes a year of celebrations with 175th anniversary bash

  • Forever U

    • operation student success

    • winter 2026 alumni news roundup

    • ten women to watch

    • what is the key to making it in hollywood

    • bringing the u to you

    • class notes winter 2026

  • kuer celebrates 65 years on air

  • Utah Mag Archives

News Highlights


Winter 2021

Let the Sun Shine

With a new solar power contract, the U is one step closer to the remarkable goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.

A Genius in our Midst

Evolutionary geneticist Nels Elde was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as a “genius grant.”

What Hair Says

Millimeter by millimeter, your strands are building a record of your diet. Analyzing hair can assess a community’s health.

Help at the Border

Scenes from immigrant detention centers at the border of the U.S. and Mexico hit home for U law student Amitay Flores.

Center for Violence Prevention Named to Honor Lauren McCluskey

The recently launched center has been named in memory of the U student-athlete.

What is the Honors College?

Even after 50 years, there are still misconceptions about the Honors program. Learn how it can set students up for success.

Student Start-up

Telehealth start-up doxy.me saw demand grow a thousandfold and served 274,000 providers and 6 million patients last March alone.

Blowin’ in the Wind

A high-powered computer helped chemical engineers redesign the Utah Symphony seating chart to keep musicians and audience members safe.

News Roundup

Giving Day, Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital opening, College of Engineering Dean Rich Brown is new endowed chair

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