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Outstanding Undergraduate – Sahar Kanishka
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Biology Alumna - Amy Davis
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Chemistry Alumni - Leon Jones
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Mathematics Alumna - Susan K. Rushing
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Physics Alumni - Cameron Soelberg
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Crimson Laureate Society Update
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Donor Recognition
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The Class of 2021
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Dean’s Corner Peter TRAPA Dean, College of Science
Dear Alumni and Friends,
Science is impacting society today unlike any time in recent history. Mathematicians and
scientists guided us through the pandemic, and the vaccines–scientific triumphs in their own right –are leading us out of it. We will continue to harness the power of science for the betterment of humanity. Many of our faculty and students are at the forefront of these efforts.
Celebrating Convocation in Rice-Eccles Stadium, joined by the Class of 2021 and their families,
was the highlight of my entire year. Looking out onto our graduates, I was inspired by the challenges they overcame to be sitting on that field, and by the perseverance that unlocked the potential in each of them.
Many of you contributed this year to support our students, and for that I am truly grateful.
Because of your generosity, we awarded dozens of emergency scholarships to students affected by the pandemic, enabling them to stay in school on a path to graduation. We will continue to provide emergency funding for students in need over the coming months.
The College is eagerly anticipating the arrival of a new class of entering students on campus this
fall. Our labs are ready and our lecture halls are waiting. This incoming class has already proven their resiliency, and I cannot wait to see what they will accomplish once they are on campus. Amidst great challenges–and motivated by them–scientific progress continues. Peter E. Trapa
Dean, College of Science
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“Celebrating Convocation in Rice-Eccles Stadium, joined by the Class of 2021 and their families, was the highlight of my entire year.”
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Isaac Mar tin U ’s SIX T H STRAIGHT CHURCHILL SCHOLAR
“I would not be where I am today without the incredible faculty at Utah and their willingness to devote time to undergraduates.”
“I would not be where I am today without the incredible faculty at Utah and their willingness to devote time to undergraduates”
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For the sixth consecutive year, a
the research labs of physics professors Vikram
College of Science student has received the
Deshpande and Yue Zhao, Martin found
prestigious Churchill Scholarship to study
himself gravitating more toward mathematics.
at the University of Cambridge in the UK.
He completed a Research Experience for
Isaac Martin, a senior honors student, who
Undergraduates (REU) at UC Santa Barbara
majored in mathematics and physics, is one
studying almost Abelian Lie groups, which have
of only 17 students nationally to receive the
applications in cosmology and crystallography,
award this year.
under Zhirayr Avetisyan. This experience resulted
in Martin’s first research paper. He later completed
Martin’s designation ties with Harvard’s
six-year run of consecutive Churchill Scholars
another REU at the University of Chicago.
(1987-1992) and is second only to Princeton’s
seven-year streak (1994-2000).
because while it applied to physics, the work
itself was firmly rooted in the realm of pure
“Isaac’s recognition as a Churchill Scholar is
“This research was incredibly rewarding
The Churchill Scholarship
the result of years of remarkable discipline and
math.” Martin says.
The Churchill Scholarship, established in
dedication to a field of study that he loves,” said Dan
1963 at the request of Winston Churchill,
Reed, senior vice president for Academic Affairs.
professors Karl Schwede and Thomas Polstra to
study F-singularities and developed this work into
Martin decided to apply for a Churchill
Returning to Utah, Martin worked with
provides undergraduates with outstanding
Scholarship as a freshman after meeting for
a single-author paper and his honors thesis with
academic achievement in the science,
lunch with Michael Zhao, a 2017 Churchill
professor Anurag Singh.
technology, engineering and math fields
Scholar, who unexpectedly passed away in 2018.
the opportunity to complete a one-year
“I am positively delighted and quite
“I would not be where I am today without
the incredible faculty at the U and their willingness
master’s program at the University of
flabbergasted to receive the scholarship,” Martin
to devote time to undergraduates,” Martin says.
says, “but I wish I could phone Michael to thank
At Cambridge, Martin will study algebraic
Cambridge. Utah students have been
him for making the opportunity known to
geometry, number theory and representation
awarded scholarships every year since
me. His legacy lives on in the undergraduate
theory (“in that order,” he says) in pursuit of a
program of the math department here at
master’s degree in pure mathematics.
Utah, where many others like me have greatly
benefited from the example he set.”
much as I can about mirror symmetry, which I
intend to make my essay topic,” he adds. “I also
Martin, a recipient of an Eccles Scholarship
“I’m particularly interested in learning as
and a 2020 Barry Goldwater Scholarship,
plan to drink a lot of tea and to buy one of those
remembers as a kindergartener trying to write
Sherlock Holmes coats. I will also begrudgingly
down the biggest number in existence and,
begin using the term “maths” but I promise to stop
as an eighth grader, suddenly understanding
the instant I board a plane back to the U.S. in 2022.”
trigonometry after hours of reading on Wikipedia.
to earn a doctoral degree in pure mathematics
“That sensation of understanding, the feeling
After he returns from Cambridge, Martin plans
that some tiny secret of the universe was suddenly
and enter academia, using his experiences in many
laid bare before me – that’s something I’ve only felt
different educational systems including U.S. and
while studying math and physics, and it’s a high I will
British public schools, homeschooling and online
continue to chase for the rest of my life,” he says.
learning, to broaden opportunities for students from
a diversity of backgrounds.
Books by Carl Sagan and Jim Baggott
also kindled his love of math and physics, and
after several years of self-directed study in
am today,” he says, “and I hope I can use my
middle and high school and a year at Salt Lake
experiences to create programs in STEM for
Community College, Martin enrolled at the U as
opportunity-starved students, whether they are
a mathematics and physics double major.
held back due to non-traditional schooling or to
socio-economic factors.”
After early undergraduate experiences in
Utah joined the Foundation in 2014.
“My past has molded me into who I
U TA H ’ S C H U R C H I L L S C H O L A R S 2021 - Isaac Martin, Mathematics 2020 - Michael Xiao, Biology 2019 - Cameron Owen, Chemistry 2018 - Scott Neville, Mathematics 2017 - Michael Zhao, Mathematics 2016 - Mackenzie Simper, Mathematics
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“The faculty and staff at the College of Science have been incredible. I could not have achieved this without them.”
For Karrin Tennant, recipient of the 2021
sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon
SBS greenhouses and the lab downstairs.
College of Science Research Scholar Award,
dioxide and water, clearly happens during
The samples she collects come from as many
the never-ending story of environmental
the day. But why and how do trees like the
as thirty-five trees in various degrees of
science has plenty of plot twists. A member
Black Cottonwood in the Pacific Northwest,
competition with each other for water. Using
of the Anderegg lab in the School of
continue to draw H20 from the ground at
a Licor LI-6800 photosynthesis system which
Biological Sciences (SBS) which studies the
night? “What’s the ecological value of this
measures gas exchanges and fluorescence,
intersection of ecosystems and climate
happening?” Tennant asks. At night “can trees
she determines the flow of C02, O2 and H20
change, Tennant has been busy working in
pull water from underground like a straw
in and out of the leaf through the stomata.
the area of nighttime water loss in plants.
away from competitors?”
She and her team also conduct statistical tests
The work tests a major hypothesis in the
using research software, initiating how the
field and has the potential to greatly advance
implications about how forests survive and
micro affects the macro of ecological systems.
our understanding of plant physiology. The
thrive, especially during drought as the
award is given annually to the College’s
earth continues to warm globally. Tennant
to the U because of family in the area and,
most outstanding senior undergraduate
sees her work as multi-faceted ... and multi-
of course, the mountain environment.
researcher. Tennant will be honored at the
disciplinary--narrative threads that tell the
Along with her passion for science, she says,
College Convocation May 6th and received a
broader story of not only life systems, as in
“they’re what kept me here.” Her ambition
$1,000 award, a plaque commemorating this
forests, but even larger systems, and not
is to be a research professor someday, to
achievement, and a one-year membership
only ecological.
“spread my knowledge and education as far
in the American Association for the
as I can,” and “to apply focused research to
Advancement of Science (AAAS), which
Humanities, introduced to her by adjunct
a much broader discussion.”
includes a one-year subscription to Science.
biology professor and Dean of the Honors
In his letter of support, Assistant
College Sylvia Torti, extends the questions
that Tennant is helping to author, and it seems
Professor Bill Anderegg and Principal
Tennant is addressing both in the field and
to move with extraordinary balance and ease
Investigator says, “Karrin has blown me away
in the lab. The intersection between biology
between more than one campus lab (she
with her incredible independence, creativity,
and the humanities fosters empathy for
also works with SBS’s Bryn Dentinger’s fungi
dedication, initiative, and intellectual
the natural world that can inform public
lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah),
maturity. Her Biology Honors research is
discourse as well as public policy that
the forest field and the broad community
incredibly exciting, eminently publishable,
extends beyond scientific inquiry. This
contours represented by the humanities.
and on par with advanced and successful
“leaning into the interdisciplinary,” says
Ph.D. students I have mentored.”
Tennant, is what propels her learning at the
Trapa talked about Tennant’s demonstrated
One of those plot twists includes
University of Utah and what appears to be
“genuine wonder of the world around” her
nighttime transpiration through tiny pores
the foundation of an auspicious career later
and her “thirst for knowledge.” Her response
known as stomata on the underside of tree
in forest ecology and related fields.
to the award? “I am honored to be a woman
leaves. Photosynthesis, the process by which
in STEM and to follow the footsteps of other
green plants and some other organisms use
between a growth chamber adjacent to the
Answers to these questions have
Tennant’s minor in Ecology & Legacy
In the meantime Tennant pivots
A Texas native, Tennant was attracted
That discussion has added to the story
In her citation for the award, Dean Peter
trailblazing female researchers.””
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Sahar Kanishka U O F U
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Sahar Kanishka, recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, remembers daily where her family came from, where they are now, and what opportunity there is for her at the School of Biological Science (SBS).
“I’ve always wanted to be a doctor ever
since I was younger,” she recently explained in a video interview. “Because my family’s from Afghanistan and they actually fled from the Soviet invasion, they were telling me how the medical resources over there were very scarce when they were escaping. Like things we take for granted here [in the United States]. I want to be able to give back in some way. And that’s my way of giving back, becoming a doctor and contributing what I’ve learned here.”
What Kanishka, now in her junior year
as an honors student, is learning happens largely in the Gagnon lab at the SBS where she and her colleagues are studying vertebrate lineage and cell fate choice along with cell signaling and genome engineering. Their subject model is the living zebrafish with which they are attempting to answer the question of how biology builds an animal with millions of cells. The question is complicated by the fact that those millions of cells are continually sharing information while shape-shifting at the same time.
A living organism is the culmination
of science turning chaos and cacophony into a kind of marvelous symphony. Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, the
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R E S E A R C H
A W A R D
Gagnon lab is busy marking cells with a
the College of Science. It was a scholarship
visit by Reshma Shetty, the inaugural SBS
genetic barcode that could later be used
and mentorship experience that led to re-
Distinguished Lab Alumni who worked
to trace the lineage of cells that in the
figuring what research could be. Instead of
with Baldomera “Toto” Olivera in his lab and
zebrafish are similar to other vertebrates,
working primarily on a computer in isolation
is a co-founder of Boston-based Gingko
including humans.
and doing anatomy lessons from a book,
Bioworks, a bio-engineering start-up.
The micro “scissors” of CRISPR is no
ACCESS and SBS provided her with a hands-
longer just being used to decode the
on approach in its full cadaver lab. As a pre-
that of her academic career’s and that of her
genome, but to make a version, readable to
med student hoping to earn a joint medical
personal story’s--continues to be family. That
humans, of what cells are doing in real time
degree and doctorate, Kanishka’s turn as a
includes not only her younger sister and
and how. It’s research that’s contributing
teaching assistant to professor Mark Nielsen
parents here in Utah, but also her extended
to a sea change in genomic studies, and
gave her added invaluable experience.
family in Afghanistan and beyond. “I hate
Kanishka is there at the bench experiencing
Access also gave her a practical skill set, like
that we’re separated by distance,” she says,
it firsthand. The way Jamie Gagnon,
creating her first research poster and then
referring to her overseas cousins, aunts and
Principal Investigator who holds the Mario
presenting it publicly.
uncles as “my other parents and siblings.
Cappechi Endowed Chair at SBS, puts it,
I owe everything to them. They mean
the research Kanishka is doing “may lead
lab where she says you are free to mold
everything to me.”
to a holy grail method for developmental
your research experience to your own
biology—the ability to record
expectations. Research at the U “fosters an
all at least on the same side of the globe,
developmental history, in living animals,
environment of curiosity of real research. It’s
Kanishka has both advice and a caution for
with molecular and spatial resolution.”
really beautiful,” she says, “to have someone
her undergraduate colleagues. “Figure out
[like Gagnon] believe in you like that.” This,
if you want to do something by actually
Undergraduate Research Program at
she concedes, in spite of feeling at times like
doing it,” she advises, recommending
the University of Utah chose Kanishka
an imposter as the child of an immigrant
internships for high schoolers not bound
for this year’s award. In his nomination
family and as a woman. She’s had to “learn
for college, including through a program
letter Gagnon, who referred to Kanishka
through lots of struggles.”
she helps facilitate as a volunteer called
as having “transitioned quickly into an
Talent Ready Utah. “College can be a
independent scientist”, also wrote that he
have been hard won. “You can’t just
business,” she warns, “pumping out
has been “impressed with Sahar’s poise,
put science in a box and tell it what to
students” for a job market they may not
focus and commitment to research over
do,” she explains. “I have to allow it the
resonate with or even prosper in.
the last year, which has been particularly
freedom to seek to understand the world
challenging for our undergraduate
rather than to just understand me.” Her
things as well. When asked about the
researchers… . Sahar is already the face of
joint undergraduate degree in business
pandemic and the social and economic
STEM research in the College.”
administration speaks to Kanishka’s sense
upheaval, she proffers a winning smile, while
of the intersectionality of all learning. She
adding, “I’m excited to see how college will
was especially impressed with a recent
change and adapt.”
Little wonder then that the
Kanishka’s journey at the U threaded
through ACCESS, a signature program of
The same has been true in the Gagnon
Some lessons from those struggles
But the ballast in Kanishka’s life--both
Until she and her extended family are
But Sahar Kanishka optimistic about
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A my D a v i s
“I enjoy learning about how infectious
diseases have shaped human history because I find it inspiring to frame my current work in a broad historical context,” says Amy Davis, PhD’03, Biology, a Senior Director, Biochemistry Research & Innovation at Utah-based BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, Davis says she was “fortunate to be born into a world with antibiotics and large-scale vaccine production,” while reminding us that “these tools in humanity’s struggle against microbial pathogens have only been around for the last 70-80 years.”
With her work at BioFire whose
systems have become the new standard for syndromic infectious disease diagnostics, what she calls her “obsession” with the history of medical science could not have converged at a more timely, and daunting, time. Last fall when the coronavirus pandemic emerged in a scorching third wave, a herculean effort was underway to bring a vaccine to market. The effort required accelerated and accurate diagnostics, something BioFire’s co-founder Randy Rasmussen, also a PhD alumnus (‘98) from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), reiterated during last year’s virtual Covid Salon panel sponsored by SBS.
Davis, who earned her BS in biology with
honors from Penn State, followed by a year as a Fulbright Scholar, recalls what first drew her to graduate school at the SBS. It was the “fabulous faculty, collaborative culture,” and, of course, the spectacular mountain setting. “My graduate education at the University of Utah taught me how to think critically, work diligently, shake off setbacks, and thrive on the pursuit of understanding,” she says. “I loved 10
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everything from the journal clubs to late
Davis’s has been no exception. After spending
marked assays for more pathogens than
nights in a quiet lab dissecting tetrads to
twenty years in academic environments,
BioFire. Again, the timing of the company’s
‘TA-ing’ for Joe Dickinson’s Genetics course
Davis made the leap to work in industry. At
ascendancy has proven auspicious.
to planning the next experiment.”
BioFire she learned to work with dozens of
complementary teams to translate research
says Davis, “emerging pathogens (and
mitochondrial net phenotype for the first
ideas in robust clinical diagnostic tools. To
emerging antimicrobial resistance of old
time in a yeast mutant she had isolated
broaden her experience into the biotech
pathogens) can challenge societies in
in a genetic screen was “pretty exciting!”
space, Davis accepted a role at the start up
significant ways. …The more we learn
She also remembers fondly Professor
IDbyDNA as VP of Operations. The company,
about the patterns of infectious diseases
Janet Shaw. While studying the molecular
also located in the U’s Research Park with
and human efforts to understand and
mechanisms of mitochondrial dynamics
BioFire, works in metagenomics technology
combat their microscopic agents, the
in Shaw’s lab, Davis was taught by her
to simultaneously profile tens of thousands of
better we can prepare for present and
“amazing mentor and friend…how to ask
microorganisms and pathogens in any sample.
future threats.”
the right questions, how to write, how to
present, and how to balance.”
synergy Research Park was designed for,
attention on the threat of emerging
companies like BioFire and the newer
viral respiratory pathogens, she says she
mentoring have served Davis well. Following
IDbyDNA create opportunities for not only
hopes that this “reality check bolsters
her graduation from SBS, she did a post-
advancing medical technology but the
efforts to combat emerging antimicrobial
doc on the other side of the Rockies—at
careers of many University of Utah alumni.
resistance in pathogens that have been
the University of Colorado, Boulder. There
Davis later returned to BioFire as a Senior
with us for centuries.”
she was at the bench researching the
Director in research and development,
biology of the yeast telomerase RNA, an
where she is enjoying applying the
to her passion for the history of medicine.
essential core component of the telomerase
perspective gained from operations roles to
She finds that her reading deeply informs
ribonucleoprotein (RNP) enzyme that
early-stage innovation projects.
her intense career at BioFire, providing
synthesizes telomeric sequences onto
perspective, inspiration and context for
chromosome ends.
cleared and CE-IVD (European Union-cleared)
She remembers that seeing the
That training, experience and
The call of the Wasatch Front, however,
Emblematic of the extraordinary
To date, no other company has FDA-
“As we are learning from COVID,”
While COVID has focused global
Meanwhile, Davis continually returns
their work. And what exactly is on her bedside reading stand? The Mosquito
as well as that of the U’s Brain Institute,
by Timothy C. Winegard; the portentous
propelled Davis in 2007 back to Salt Lake
sounding Superbugs: The Race to Stop an
City where she was manager and then
Epidemic by Matt McCarthy; and Microbe
associate director at the Institute for a total
Hunters by Paul de Kruif.
of six years. Following that she moved
From these historical tomes she
to the U’s Medical School for a two-year
is happy to base her advice to new
stint to help establish a research program
graduates of the SBS, particularly
development office.
telling during this pandemic time:
A career in what’s been called “The
“Take the long view and train for a
Century of Biology,” especially as it relates
career that will fulfill you ten, twenty,
to health, can take one on a circuitous route.
thirty, forty years from now.” 11
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Bill Jack
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Bill Jack has long been interested in
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have insights into other organisms, other
of Cindy Burrows’s group. Megan studied
finding new ways to look at the world. It all
processes whether they be normal ones
DNA G-quadruplexes and RNA modifications
began when he was an undergraduate of
or ones that cause disease, and there’s
using a protein nanopore.
chemistry at the University of Utah in Dr.
also even prospects from a commercial
Swaggart’s summer physics course where
perspective that some of the enzymes
nanopore as a tiny hole between 2 chambers,
the instructor announced on day one, “I’m
involved will be useful in advancing other
and a voltage between the two chambers to
going to teach you about a new way to look
molecular biology techniques.” Bill’s work
drive ions through the pore. Some of these ions
at the world.” Bill not only applied this to his
at NEB takes enzymes that occur in nature,
are small buffer ions that flow through easily.
scientific education, but carried it with him
extracts them, and characterizes them
However, larger ions like DNA and RNA get stuck
into a handful of humanities courses he took
so they’re available in other workflows to
and block the smaller buffer ions from going
as an undergrad where he learned about
prepare DNA sequences for all kinds of
through causing a decrease in electrical current
the world of James Joyce and other literary
research purposes.
through the pore that I detected. This provides
and cultural giants. As much as Bill enjoyed
information about the DNA and RNA such as its
his undergraduate experience, he wishes
giving back to the Department of Chemistry
he would have slowed down to take his
to help graduate students as they begin
time exploring more humanities courses in
careers in uncertain times. And so, in an
addition to his chemistry education.
effort to give students something that
would last throughout their careers, the
Bill’s educational foundation led him
Recently, Bill expressed an interest in
What this entails was using a protein
shape or what modifications are on it.
to a graduate program at Duke University
department decided to use funds donated
where he thought he would begin a
by Bill to create a graduate award for the
career as a physical biochemist while
best thesis in biological chemistry. For the
“tailing” Sidney Velick all summer. However,
next 30 years, a student will be awarded
to simplify his then newlywed life, he
the William E. Jack Life Science Graduate
requested to work in a lab with Paul Modrich
Research Award which comes with a cash
where he ended up researching an enzyme
prize as well as lifelong recognition for such
that became foundational to his 32-year
an achievement.
career at New England Biolabs. Bill greatly
study of DNA and RNA, especially in roles beyond
enjoyed his career at NEB, where he became
Distinguished Alumni award from the
the simple A,T,G and C information storage. She
a Senior Research Scientist and served as the
department alongside Kurt Zilm, the current
was encouraged by a peer, Yun Ding, to join the
Executive Director of Research for a number
Chair of Yale’s Chemistry Department,
Burrows lab as he saw it as a perfect fit for Megan
of years. In these roles, he was able to take
and Michelle Williams, the Global Group
who was starting graduate school with a two-
risks in his research that gave him both a
President of Altuglas International at Arkema.
year-old. Megan has just started a post-doctoral
lot of freedom as well as a daily sense of
These three alumni came for a celebratory
fellowship on upper campus at the University of
excitement.
visit, and brought with them a deep sense
Utah working with Amy Barrios in the College of
of camaraderie and enthusiasm for the
Pharmacy studying phosphatases. “I love the U
to collaborate with scientists all over the
chemistry department and the role it played
so much I wasn’t ready to leave. I’d love to end
world at many institutions and universities
in helping them find their way in their
up someday at the NIAID studying viruses,” says
as they worked to replicate naturally-
diverse and meaningful careers.
Megan. She feels that receiving this award will
occurring DNA splicing. “I believe that there
help her help others to make a significant impact
will be steps along the way that we will
year is Dr. Megan Browning who was part
While researching at NEB, Bill was able
In April 2019, Bill Jack received a
The first recipient of the award this
Megan is absolutely fascinated with the
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Jan McCleery
Jan McClure was one of four women in a
physics class of 200. It was Professor Emeritus Irvin Swigart’s sophomore physics lecture class. The students were seated alphabetically, and the guy next to McClure was Michael McCleery—they met for the first time that day. “I got really lucky,” said Mike. Later, after they had both completed their undergraduate degrees, they married.
“Math was always my favorite subject,”
said McCleery. “As a child, my cousin would gather the neighborhood kids to marvel while I solved long-division problems on the sidewalk in chalk. Yes, I was quite the geek.”
As a senior at South High School, she
was encouraged to apply to the U, Stanford University, and Carleton College in Minnesota. She was accepted to all three, but her parents couldn’t afford to send her out of state. “My father never owned a credit card and paid cash for his cars and our home. I was only 17, so the idea of financial assistance was never a consideration,” she said. “I received a scholarship to the U and could live at home. I’m glad it worked out that way since I met Mike at the U”
In addition to their classes, she and Mike
enjoyed Greek life—Mike was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and she joined the Golden Hearts little sister group. They both enjoyed the special friendships they made and still get together for reunions when they visit Utah.
She loved skiing, and she and Mike would
arrange their Tuesday/Thursday schedule so
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they could finish classes by 10 or 11 a.m. “We’d wear our ski clothes to class, so we could go directly to the ski slopes for a half-day pass,” she said. “In the warmer months, we enjoyed hiking and backpacking in the mountains.”
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and where Mike’s mother also taught. “The
analysis, and microprocessors. She enjoyed
kids called us the upstairs Mrs. McCleery and
the variety and wide range of programming
also enjoy college life. “Some of the friendships
the downstairs Mrs. McCleery,” she said. “They
languages she learned and new technologies.
you make at the U will last a lifetime,” she said.
were going to call us the old and the new, but
She found that her studies at the U equipped
She encourages students to study math, physics,
Mike’s mom squelched that idea quickly.”
her with strong analytical skills and a passion
astronomy, and computers to broaden their
Her advice to students is to study hard but
She also began taking graduate night
for problem solving. During her tenure, she was
analytical skills and to open up a wide spectrum
classes. The next year, she and Mike moved into
promoted to software manager, responsible for
of possible vocations. In terms of a career, her
his parents’ basement so they could afford to both
the company’s software design tools, artificial
recommendation is to find a company to work
attend school full time.
intelligence, software security, and computer
for that has a product or service you want to put
Her favorite math teacher was Professor
and configuration management.
your time and effort into—a product that excites
Don Tucker. “He was caring and wise, and I still
you and with a working atmosphere that inspires
remember his exciting outlook on mathematics,
in a commercial software company, eventually
you to be your best.
as well as his humor,” she said. The late Professor
moving on to become director of quality
Emeritus William J. Coles was her thesis advisor and
assurance at ASK Computers Ingres Database
California Delta, which marks the confluence of
encouraged her to use Professor Emeritus Klaus
division in Alameda, Calif. Later, she was a product
the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River.
Schmitt’s new, unique approaches to boundary
line manager for ASK MANMAN, responsible for
The Delta is 1,000 miles of waterways, and they
value differential equations for her thesis. Dr.
marketing, development, and customer support.
enjoy exploring them by boat. A decade ago,
Schmitt’s findings enabled her to prove a set of
McCleery and others formed Save the California
non-linear stability equations each in less than a
she was invited to join a startup that focused on
Delta Alliance, when the state of California planned
page—theorems that had previously taken many
building sales tools for semiconductor companies.
a big tunnel construction project that would
pages to prove. Those three professors mentored
Starting a company had been her dream for years.
have ruined the Delta. She served as president for
her and gave her confidence during her orals.
She and two other co-founders formed Intelic,
several years, and the nonprofit has been raising
which was later renamed Azerity. She created the
money for scientists to testify on behalf of the
Math Department, typing up new math books
product prototype, formed an engineering team,
alliance. To date, they have successfully pushed
written by department professors. The day before
and served as vice president and chief technology
back on proposed projects that threaten the Delta.
the semester began, Professor Tucker realized he
officer. “Those years were the highlight of my
hadn’t received an acceptance from one of the
career,” she said. “We had a great deal of success
including two children’s books. One is called
teaching fellows from Stanford. He knew McCleery
because of the industry knowledge of my two
The Fable of the Farmer and the Fish educate
had applied as a teaching fellow and ran into the
partners and the quality of the talent we were able
kids about the water issues in the Delta and
office where she was typing to ask if she wanted a
to attract.” McCleery solicited a manager she knew
how to be good stewards of the environment.
half-fellowship starting the next day, teaching one
from Ford Aerospace to join them. Together they
Sassy the Salmon is about the circle of life.
undergraduate math class. “Sure!” she exclaimed.
developed a new, practical software methodology
She has also written two non-fiction books:
A few hours later, Dr. Tucker ran in again and yelled,
that resulted in bug-free, on-time, scalable, reliable,
It Starts with an Idea about her software start-
“Make that a full fellowship!”
and maintainable enterprise software.
up adventure, including advice on software
development and management. The other,
During the summer, she was working for the
After she and Mike received their master’s
She left Ford Aerospace after accepting a job
The dot-com boom was going strong, and
Azerity’s product was called “ProChannel”
The McCleery’s live in Discovery Bay on the
McCleery has written several books,
degrees in 1973, they began working at Ford
and was used by 30,000 semi-conductor company
Class of ’67, is for her granddaughter and
Aerospace in Silicon Valley—she spent nearly
sales reps and distributors worldwide. After the U.S.
contains stories about growing up in Utah. She
20 years there while they raised their two
economy began to slow in the 2000s, she and her
had so much fun writing them that she went
daughters. She began as a scientific programmer
partners sold the company, but their product is
on to write two spy novels: Alias Juno Wolfe
with assignments, such as satellite design
still being used worldwide today. Jan stayed on to
and Who Is Juno Wolfe. All titles are available on
and tracking, circuit simulations, raster-scan
consult for the new company and retired in 2014.”
Amazon under her name—Jan McCleery. 15
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C a m e ro n Soelberg Honors science graduate, Cameron Soelberg, HBS’00, forged an adventurous—and rigorous— path as a student at the U. He continues to travel on a pioneering trail to this day.
Soelberg recently climbed to the summit
of the highest point in Utah—Kings Peak at 13,528 feet—and has also lived and worked in Colorado, Illinois, New Hampshire, and New York.
“I think my personal history is a good
example that your education and career don’t need to necessarily move in a straight line from point A to point B, because your goals might change as you gain experience and that could launch you on a completely new path from what you had in mind originally,” said Soelberg.
When Soelberg first enrolled at the U in
1994, his intention was to pursue a Ph.D. and become a college professor.
After comnpleting his honors degrees
in mathematics and physics, he stayed to complete a Master’s Degree in Mathematics. While in graduate school, he was supported with a teaching assistantship in the Math Department.
“After finishing the Master’s Degree, I felt
like I needed some time away from school and decided to pursue an opportunity with a startup company in Colorado Springs. There I was involved in prototyping projects for the U.S. Special Forces, which was fascinating work,” said Soelberg.
In 2006, Soelberg took a job as a
systems engineer with Lockheed Martin in Salt Lake City, developing biometric tagging and identification algorithms. “I enjoyed engineering and appreciated the quick 16
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learning curve and exposure to cutting-
accuracy. The most important contribution
stuck with me, and I still enjoy seeing him
edge technology, but I wanted to broaden
my University of Utah education has made
on campus,” said Soelberg.
my horizons in the direction of business
is the rigorous way I was taught to analyze
management, so after a year at Lockheed,
and attack problems. The scientific method
in the Fletcher building (Physics) and
I chose to leave Utah again to pursue an
(and mathematical proof, similarly) is a
the Cowles building (Math) after it
MBA at Dartmouth College,” he said.
disciplined framework for progressing
was renovated. He was active in many
from a hypothesis or question to a well-
organizations on campus, including a
became interested in investment banking.
reasoned and logical conclusion. I use this
fraternity, and he held offices in student
He completed an internship with Deutsche
every day in my job, and I’m grateful for
government and the Alumni Association.
Bank in New York in the summer of 2008,
how well my learning at the U prepared
between his first and second years of
me to succeed.”
I’ve kept in mind that could prove useful
business school.
for current students. The first is that there
experiences from his undergraduate years
will always be challenges, obstacles, and
as that was the start of the global financial
on campus.
setbacks to overcome, no matter how or
crisis but witnessing it firsthand was an
when you start out in life. Adversity creates
invaluable experience, and I was fortunate
especially stands out, mostly because I
opportunity. Being adaptable is one of
to receive a full-time offer to join the firm
was so impatient that I could never do the
the most important keys to success (and
in Chicago after graduation,” said Soelberg.
experiments quite right, but I had good lab
happiness),” said Soelberg.
(He earned an MBA at the Tuck School of
partners who kept me on track,” he said.
Business at Dartmouth College in 2009.)
how difficult things may become, you are
The first few years following the
really had an impact on me as a student.
not alone in the struggle. There are many
financial crisis were tough for investment
I took a couple of undergraduate courses
other people, both historically and in
banking, but Soelberg worked hard and
from him and helped with an accelerated
different parts of society today, who have
was promoted to vice president and then
calculus series one summer as a TA,” said
faced grave difficulties and found ways
to director and managing director. He
Soelberg. “He was a kind person and a
to rise above their circumstances. Take
spent a total of nine years at Deutsche
great teacher. He also lived an interesting
comfort and inspiration in that realization
Bank. In 2018, he joined the Global
life that spanned multiple dimensions in
and use it as a model for yourself,” he said.
Industries Group at UBS Investment Bank
mathematics, the military, engineering, and
and now splits his time between Chicago
private industry. I’ve always thought of his
adventure—to run the Chicago marathon.
and Salt Lake City.
career path as a role model for my own.”
“There’s always another mountain to
climb,” said Soelberg. “Life’s challenges,
While at Dartmouth, Soelberg
“The timing couldn’t have been worse
“My current position involves a lot
Soelberg recalls many people and
“Lab work in chemistry and physics
“In the Math Department, Jerry Davey
“Within the Physics Department,
Soelberg also remembers studying
“I think there are a couple of lessons
“Second, I would say that no matter
Soelberg is already planning his next
of numbers and a keen understanding of
I’d be remiss if I didn’t recognize Charlie
and rewards, can be found anew each day.”
the capital markets and valuation,” said
Jui for all that he taught me in the
Soelberg. “It’s not sophisticated or complex
pre-professional physics program as
mathematics and physics, and the Honors
in the way that algebraic topology or
a freshman. I wasn’t always the most
College, is an exceptional “base camp”
particle physics may be, but it does require
present or attentive student, but his love
from which to operate.
critical thinking and a high degree of
of physics and wry sense of humor has
A solid educational foundation in
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My wife, Lissa, and I are fortunate
to be able to provide a planned gift to the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah. The education I received while earning my PhD from the Department of Biology was instrumental in providing us with an enjoyable life together, and we feel it is very important to ensure that the programs that we benefitted from can continue for the benefit of those who follow. We know that one way to do this is to contribute to the creation of a lasting legacy for the School of Biological Sciences. The successful biology department that K. Gordon Lark built could not have happened without the vision and resources of alumni and friends who were willing to support his efforts.
Lissa and I are grateful that those
resources helped give us a life together that allows us now to give back. We hope other alumni and friends of the School will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to provide for the future through a planned gift in the Crimson Legacy Society.
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Our members are advocates for
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I am in awe of the fantastic work done by all of you – the applied mathematicians, data scientists, chemists, physicists, and biologists all completing rigorous, hard science to better understand the complexity of the situation we are in and to engineer a route that can take us out of it. 2021 S T U D E N T CO N V O C AT I O N S P E A K E R
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graduates
SUMMA cum laude
undergraduates
25
MAGNA cum laude
undergraduates
54
cum laude undergraduates
25
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