News Clips | August 20-23, 2022

From kindergarten all the way through college, educators are trying to convey a sense of normalcy, and for Dr. Richard Martini, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Utah, that push comes with added baggage.

As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health. Dr. Karen Manotas, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Utah, said that social media sometimes seemed to play a role in the adolescent mental health cases she handled.

University of Utah water law professor and attorney Emily Lewis said an organized statewide water distribution system is critical to knowing water levels, where streams reach, if water gets where it needs to go and what rights holders have priority when supply is low.

Marshall Steinbaum, an economist at the University of Utah, said the fact that upper-middle-class workers were not able to claim a larger share of last year’s exceptionally high corporate profits “speaks to the disempowerment of workers at all levels of status.”

Many trans students in higher ed struggle with misgendering, isolation and excessive debt. Forgiving student loans could help. Jude Ruelas, an event manager at the University of Utah, is the subject of the article.

Reproductive rights may be subject to a number of changes in the Beehive State as its trigger law is challenged in court and lawmakers open abortion-related bill files for next legislative session. University of Utah law professors Leslie Francis and Teneille Brown are quoted.

Starting with high-definition scans of ammonoid shells, University of Utah paleontologist David Peterman created three dimensional models of ammonoid shells that he then turned into swimming robots.

University of Utah President Taylor Randall is traveling around the state this summer to redefine and rededicate our university’s unique role in the state.

The trip to Eastern Utah highlighted region’s rapid growth, need for affordable housing.

"Currently, I have a reminder on my phone to call the Gender Clinic at the University of Utah next month so that I can try to get an appointment in 2023. Let’s stop perpetuating the idea that children are obtaining gender affirming surgeries the minute they express any gender issues."