Tim Collins' research on green spaces and gentrification featured in @theU. Living near green spaces improves mental health, reduces mortality, and boosts lifetime earnings. Cities have built green spaces in low-income areas to reduce health and economic disparities, but this often leads to "green gentrification," displacing original residents.
Mickey Campbell’s research on balsam woolly adelgid is featured in @theU. U researchers track the spread of nonnative balsam woolly adelgid across northern Utah forests, which is killing trees in recreation-heavy mountain ranges and canyons.
University of Utah part of new NSF-funded initiative to ensure regional climate solutions and economic opportunities
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