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Guang Tian, SCI’s First Urban Planning Faculty Member, Envisions Utah as a National Model for Smart Growth

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For Guang Tian, a new assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, getting stuck in traffic has a silver lining: it might inspire his next project. As SCI’s first faculty member from the City and Metropolitan Planning Department, Tian is pioneering research that blends advanced technology with urban design […]

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November 6, 2025

Malaria parasites are full of wildly spinning iron crystals. Scientists finally know why

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Reposted from @theU. The following Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute members contributed to this research article: SCI faculty member Tamara Bidone, assistant professor of biomedical engineering; co-first author Tomasz Skóra, a former postdoctoral research associate in Bidone’s lab and current assistant professor in physics at the University of Warsaw; and former SCI software engineer Keith Carney, […]

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November 4, 2025

The U to build an AI ecosystem in partnership with tech powerhouses

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The University of Utah is looking to join forces with two powerhouse tech firms to accelerate research and discovery using artificial intelligence (AI). The agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and AI chipmaker NVIDIA will amplify the university’s capacity for understanding cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, and genetics. The initiative is projected to enable medical […]

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September 11, 2025

Engineers’ AI Project Will Help Predict Natural Disasters’ Chaotic Flows

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Thanks to a new National Science Foundation grant, researchers at the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering will collaborate with teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University on a new project at the intersection of artificial intelligence and geoscience. Natural disasters — from avalanches, to earthquakes, to volcanic eruptions — are […]

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August 21, 2025

Four Scholars with SCI Ties Named Finalists in Bioengineering Student Paper Competition

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Three Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute students under faculty member Jeffrey A. Weiss were selected as finalists in the student paper competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference, and a fourth finalist is a recently defended Ph.D. graduate under affiliate faculty member Lucas Timmins. The four biomedical engineering students were […]

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July 17, 2025

SCI’s Bidone Helps Lead $8.5M Leducq Network for Vascular Breakthroughs

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Tamara Bidone, a faculty member in the University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is part of an international team of researchers awarded $8.5 million to develop treatments for peripheral artery disease (PAD)—a common and potentially fatal condition where not enough blood flows to the limbs. […]

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June 20, 2025

New Faculty Member Karli Gillette Returns ‘Home’ to SCI to Develop Cardiac Digital Twins

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After earning two of her three degrees at the University of Utah, native Salt Laker Karli Gillette returned in summer 2024 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. Read how her personal experiences—including a mild heart condition diagnosis at age 16—led […]

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May 7, 2025

$2M NIH Grant Renewal Will Bring FEBio Open-Source Software into its 20th Year

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Jeffrey Weiss, a University of Utah professor of biomedical engineering and faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, and Gerard Ateshian, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, received a $2 million grant to continue to improve Finite Elements for Biomechanics (FEBio), open-source software supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2008. […]

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December 10, 2024

Mendoza, Weiss receive $2.6 million grant to study biomechanics of lung tumors

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Michelle Mendoza, PhD, researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and associate professor of oncological sciences at the University of Utah (the U) and Jeffrey Weiss, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering and faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the U, are the recipients of a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of […]

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July 23, 2024