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Eileen Ywang, 2014 Utah ARCS Scholar, Joins Moran Eye Center Faculty

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2020

Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, received the ARCS scholarship in 2014. She joined the Moran Eye Center faculty in 2019, specializing in the medical and surgical treatment of children and adults with retinal conditions.

Hwang was recently accepted into the University of Utah’s Vice President’s Clinical & Translational Research Scholars Program,... Read more

Brian Stagg, 2013 ARCS Utah Scholar, Joins John A. Moran Eye Center Faculty

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2020

Brian C. Stagg, MD, received the ARCS scholarship in 2013. He joined the Moran Eye Center as a faculty member in 2019, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He also performs cataract surgery and has a special interest in geriatric ophthalmology.

Stagg was recently accepted into the University... Read more

Brian Zaugg, 2012 ARCS Utah Scholar, Joins John A. Moran Eye Center Faculty

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2020

Brian E. Zaugg, MD, received the ARCS scholarship in 2012. He joined the Moran Eye Center as a faculty member in 2016, specializing in the medical and surgical treatment of corneal and anterior segment eye diseases, including LASIK, cornea transplantation, and complex cataract surgery.

Zaugg mentors medical students and residents... Read more

Utah Scholar Update: Jadie Adams

Posted on Monday, April 6, 2020

Jadie Adams (Utah ARCS Scholar 2019-2020) has been developing Bayesian models for quantifying uncertainty in predicting shape statistics from medical CT and MRI scans. She presented at the School of Computing prospective student poster session and is working on submitting her work to be published in the Medical Image Computing... Read more

Utah ARCS Scholar Runs Snot Lab

Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2020

Utah ARCS Scholar Anna Deleray is organizing a workshop for the 2020 Expanding Your Horizons Conference called Snot Lab. EYH is a one-day event that encourages girls in grades 6-10 to explore their interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and provides positive female role models in STEM Careers. The... Read more

Utah Scholar Aniqua Baset Part of Award Winning Team

Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Utah Scholar Aniqua Baset is part of a team of researchers from the University of Utah’s School of Computing and Idaho National Laboratory who received the prestigious 2019 “R&D 100 Award” from R&D World magazine for their development of a system for Wireless radio Frequency signal Identification and protocol Reverse Engineering, or... Read more

Utah Scholar Brad Jacobsen Receiving Scholar Research Award

Utah Scholar Jacobsen Honored by Ophthalmology Times

Posted on Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Brad Jacobsen, Utah ARCS Scholar 2017-2018, was recently recognized among the top five honorees of the Scholar Honoree Program at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) 2019 meeting in San Francisco, earning 4th place with his presented research, “Prevalence of Retinal Diseases and Associated Risk Factors in an African Population from Mwanza,... Read more

$Dr. Brian Zaugg (right) with Drs. Lin and Mifflin, Members of the Refractive Surgery/Cornea Division$

Update with Dr. Brian Zaugg - Utah's First Moran Award Recipient

Posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Dr. Brian Zaugg was selected as an ARCS Scholar in 2012 as a resident in ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center, receiving the chapter's first award outside the College of Engineering. After completing his training he joined the cornea faculty at the Moran Eye Center. His current practice... Read more

Marcus Parry at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Lab

Marcus Parry at Argonne National Lab

Posted on Monday, July 8, 2019

Marcus Parry, ARCS Utah Scholar 2016-2017, spent time this Spring working at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Lab performing high-pressure diamond anvil cell compression experiments to explore compressibility, texture, and stress in superhard materials in extreme environments. He is finishing up work on his degree and plans to... Read more

Utah Scholar Szendrei Accepts Position at Lehi's IM Flash

Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2019

Alexander Szendrei, ARCS Utah Scholar 2014-2015 is currently finishing up his last projects at the university and will be starting an engineering position at IM Flash this summer in Lehi Utah.

Alex graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Maine with BS degrees in both biology and chemistry. ... Read more

Current News

Eileen Ywang, 2014 Utah ARCS Scholar, Joins Moran Eye Center Faculty

Brian Stagg, 2013 ARCS Utah Scholar, Joins John A. Moran Eye Center Faculty

Brian Zaugg, 2012 ARCS Utah Scholar, Joins John A. Moran Eye Center Faculty

Utah Scholar Update: Jadie Adams

Utah ARCS Scholar Runs Snot Lab

Utah Scholar Aniqua Baset Part of Award Winning Team

Utah Scholar Jacobsen Honored by Ophthalmology Times

Update with Dr. Brian Zaugg - Utah's First Moran Award Recipient

Marcus Parry at Argonne National Lab

Utah Scholar Szendrei Accepts Position at Lehi's IM Flash

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