2023

Associate Professor of Psychology Dr. Jacqueline Chen recently received the 2023 Kellina Craig-Henderson Early to Mid-Career Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS).

Adam Rose (BA ‘70), an alumnus whose transformative journey from a postwar displaced persons camp to a prolific career in academia led him to establish the Adam Rose Family Scholarship for Refugee Students in the Department of Economics, honoring the professors who inspired him and the Salt Lake community that welcomed his family in 1951.

Dr. Alexandra Greenwald, assistant professor of Anthropology and curator of enthnography at the Natural History Museum of Utah, led a six-month initiative funded by the NEH's A More Perfect Union grant, employing Indigenous consultants to share oral histories and perspectives on ethnographic items, with the primary goal of centering Indigenous knowledge in the museum's collections and enhancing public education about Indigenous cultures.

U Geography professors Andrew Linke and Simon Brewer and grad student Matt Shawcroft's recently published research demonstrates how drier growing seasons are driving emigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

In a recent program of the Hinckley Institute Radio Hour, researchers from the Departments of Economics and Sociology discussed women in Utah's workforce, and the underlying social and institutional inequities present in our state.