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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.

Retired General Lee Denson, PhD '67, head of the Pentagon’s arms control staff at the time of the 1986 summit between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tells the real story behind the new film The Brink of War. 

Roka Kakehi, an incoming PhD student in population health sciences, talks about how her encounter with a new food culture inspired her interest in nutrition research, her work on meat grown in a lab, and the association between yoghurt consumption and lower risk of colorectal cancer.