GSAS News

Alumnus Jesse Han, PhD '26, has won the Robert J. Trumpler Award, "given each year to a recent recipient of the PhD degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy."

The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) is excited to introduce its cohort of writing specialists for the 2026–2027 academic year. 

The research, co-led by PhD student Olivia Venezia, could add potentially thousands of new targets for drug discovery.

Biologist Ania Puszynska, PhD '18, explores how aging affects the way our cells function. At the center of her research are lysosomes and a decades-old question: how do these organelles change with age?

Nadia Colombi, PhD '25 advances understanding of the risks and potential for wildfires to help developers in Utah design safer buildings, and help policymakers develop guidelines for safer communities.

PhD student Lily Fornof looks at how motherhood shapes the social lives of wild bonobos, one of humanity's closest genetic relatives.