Ground Breakers
The University of Utah is proud of the groundbreaking work of our exceptional researchers who are pioneering advancements and making a global impact. Learn about our innovative researchers who continue to make a difference in shaping a better future for current and future generations.
![Jane Hatter](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/Near-I-Tatti-1-scaled-e1719248078922.jpeg)
Musical Women in Visual Culture of Early Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gender, Sexuality, and Knowledge
![Jane Hatter](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/Near-I-Tatti-1-scaled-e1719248078922.jpeg)
Jane Hatter
Musical Women in Visual Culture of Early Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gender, Sexuality, and Knowledge
![Ying Li](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/Ying-Li_03132024-1-e1719248129711.jpg)
Awarded S10 Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase new Promethion system
![Ying Li](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/Ying-Li_03132024-1-e1719248129711.jpg)
Ying Li
Awarded S10 Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase new Promethion system
![Zhaoxia Pu](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/ZhaoxiaPu-1-e1719248267367.jpg)
Improving Weather Forecasting Through Enhanced Data Assimilation Methods
![Zhaoxia Pu](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/06/ZhaoxiaPu-1-e1719248267367.jpg)
Zhaoxia Pu
Improving Weather Forecasting Through Enhanced Data Assimilation Methods
![Jorie M. Butler](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/JORIE-BUTLER_001_HP_AUGUST-16-2023-scaled-e1717449063633.jpg)
AHRQ grant for An Age-Friendly Learning Healthcare System: A Transformative Digital Solution for Geriatrics Clinics
![Jorie M. Butler](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/JORIE-BUTLER_001_HP_AUGUST-16-2023-scaled-e1717449063633.jpg)
Jorie M. Butler
AHRQ grant for An Age-Friendly Learning Healthcare System: A Transformative Digital Solution for Geriatrics Clinics
![Manish Parashar](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Manish-Parashar-705x705-1-375x375-1.jpg)
2024 CRA Distinguished Service Award
![Manish Parashar](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Manish-Parashar-705x705-1-375x375-1.jpg)
Manish Parashar
2024 CRA Distinguished Service Award
![Jaclyn Wright](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/JWright_StudioPortrait-600x400-1-e1717448812993.jpg)
International exhibition opening at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and book release of High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
![Jaclyn Wright](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/JWright_StudioPortrait-600x400-1-e1717448812993.jpg)
Jaclyn Wright
International exhibition opening at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and book release of High Visibility (Blaze Orange)
![Jolie Haun](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Head-shot-2022-600x800-1-e1717449182936.jpg)
Multi-Principal Investigator on the Department of Defense Focused Program Award, Improving Healthcare Engagement and Access to Optimize Long-Term Outcomes: Supporting Veteran and Service Members with TBI Morbidity (I-HEAL)
![Jolie Haun](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Head-shot-2022-600x800-1-e1717449182936.jpg)
Jolie Haun
Multi-Principal Investigator on the Department of Defense Focused Program Award, Improving Healthcare Engagement and Access to Optimize Long-Term Outcomes: Supporting Veteran and Service Members with TBI Morbidity (I-HEAL)
![Joshua McCrain](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/processed_headshot-1024x683-1-300x200-1-e1717449429261.jpg)
Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives – National Institute of Justice
![Joshua McCrain](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/processed_headshot-1024x683-1-300x200-1-e1717449429261.jpg)
Joshua McCrain
Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives – National Institute of Justice
![WIRED Global Center](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/WIRED-Global-Center-Map-258x300-1-e1717449331257.png)
WIRED Global Center Secures Nearly $9 Million in Grants to Fortify Western Interconnected Grid Against Weather-Related Disturbances
![WIRED Global Center](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/WIRED-Global-Center-Map-258x300-1-e1717449331257.png)
WIRED Global Center
WIRED Global Center Secures Nearly $9 Million in Grants to Fortify Western Interconnected Grid Against Weather-Related Disturbances
![Eric Herschthal](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Eric-Herschthal-Profile-262x300-1-e1717449547376.jpg)
2023-2024 Huntington Fellow for Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
![Eric Herschthal](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Eric-Herschthal-Profile-262x300-1-e1717449547376.jpg)
Eric Herschthal
2023-2024 Huntington Fellow for Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
![Valerie Vaughn](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Valerie-Vaughn-Profile-200x300-1-e1717449599791.jpg)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
![Valerie Vaughn](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Valerie-Vaughn-Profile-200x300-1-e1717449599791.jpg)
Valerie Vaughn
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
![Julia Szymczak](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Julia-Szymczak-Profile-258x300-1-e1717449671135.jpg)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
![Julia Szymczak](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Julia-Szymczak-Profile-258x300-1-e1717449671135.jpg)
Julia Szymczak
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Grant (R01) for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
![Ellen Altermatt](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/altermatt-e1717449814763.jpg)
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
![Ellen Altermatt](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/altermatt-e1717449814763.jpg)
Ellen Altermatt
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
![Andrea Rorrer](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/rorrer-e1717449862317.jpg)
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
![Andrea Rorrer](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/rorrer-e1717449862317.jpg)
Andrea Rorrer
Utah Education Policy Center – National Science Foundation AISL Program
![Yong Lin Kong](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/kong-e1717449919108.jpg)
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
![Yong Lin Kong](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/kong-e1717449919108.jpg)
Yong Lin Kong
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
![Torri Metz](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/metz-torri-e1717450115684.jpg)
Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence – National Institutes of Heath
![Torri Metz](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/metz-torri-e1717450115684.jpg)
Torri Metz
Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence – National Institutes of Heath
![Steven Lobell](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/lobell-e1717450086591.jpg)
Minerva Research Initiative and Office of Naval Research White Paper
![Steven Lobell](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/lobell-e1717450086591.jpg)
Steven Lobell
Minerva Research Initiative and Office of Naval Research White Paper
![William Anderegg](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/WilliamAnderegg_Headshot-600x800-1-e1717450451134.jpg)
Alan T. Waterman Award
![William Anderegg](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/WilliamAnderegg_Headshot-600x800-1-e1717450451134.jpg)
William Anderegg
Alan T. Waterman Award
![Kelly Glazer Baron](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/HP_KELLY-BARON_005_OCT-18-2018-300x238-1-e1717450491227.jpg)
R01 Grant from the National Institute on Aging to study dyadic mechanisms of health
![Kelly Glazer Baron](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/HP_KELLY-BARON_005_OCT-18-2018-300x238-1-e1717450491227.jpg)
Kelly Glazer Baron
R01 Grant from the National Institute on Aging to study dyadic mechanisms of health
![Eric Hutton](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Hutton-Headshot-232x300-1-e1717450562556.jpg)
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies New Professorship Grant
![Eric Hutton](https://innovate.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2024/05/Hutton-Headshot-232x300-1-e1717450562556.jpg)
Eric Hutton
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies New Professorship Grant