ABOUT US
THE WATER CENTER ROLE
RESEARCH
The Water Center manages and contributes to research projects that emerge as a result of the Center’s leadership or key contributions, especially for large and multi-investigator opportunities.
ENGAGEMENT
The Water Center helps to catalyze research by connecting the vast multi-disciplinary talent at the U by maintaining a water researcher database, stimulating ideas with seminars, promoting funding opportunities, and mentoring student groups.
IMPACT
The Water Center supports achieving a broader impact from research by promoting water research at the U through social media, a web site, and a monthly eNewsletter to audiences of the public, researchers, and the U community.
MOTIVATION
Water researchers are drawn to the University of Utah because of the opportunity to work across disciplinary boundaries on important local problems that translate to national and global impacts. The unique setting in a thriving metroplex embedded in an abrupt transition of a few miles from mountains to the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere provides a complex array of research challenges connecting water to all aspects of built and natural systems.
WATER @ THE U
Overall at the U, there are over 200 researchers from 15 colleges and schools working in areas of water. Investigators manage dozens of laboratories and computational facilities. The U manages core facilities and through the Office for Global Engagement numerous international programs are managed. The Center for Technology and Venture Commercialization supports development of new technologies and creation of start-ups.
