Alumni House & Student Union

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Alumni House & Student Union

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Alumni House Ballroom

Boxed lunch provided to registered participants.
Poster awardees recognized. 

Event open to the public. 

Music provided by Derek Coombs and Sean Wilson.

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Mitzi Montoya, University of Utah

Dr. Montoya joins the University of Utah as the new Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. She brings with her strong leadership skills, including years of service in dean and provost positions at several universities in the U.S., including the University of New Mexico, Oregon State and Arizona State University. Montoya’s experience in leading large academic enterprises has given her an eye toward problem-solving and engagement. Throughout her career she has supported student and faculty success, enhanced entrepreneurial ecosystems, and led collaborative initiatives to find solutions for social, technical and political challenges. As provost, Montoya seeks to inspire students, faculty and staff; lead innovation efforts; and help the U become a top 10 public university with unsurpassed societal impact.

Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Chase Hagood, University of Utah

Dr. Thomas Chase Hagood serves as the Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Utah. His approach to student development and passion for student success initiatives emerged from a commitment to research-based, faculty development as well as academic training as a historian and wealth of experiences as a faculty member. Since his arrival at the U in July 2021, SAVPAA Hagood's work at Utah includes cultivating creative partnerships between the various units of Undergraduate Studies and other entities across the university to enrich students’ learning experiences as well as enhancing the University’s national and international reputation for excellence in undergraduate education. SAVPAA Hagood earned his Ph.D. from University of Georgia.

Associate Vice President for Research Jake Jensen, University of Utah

Dr. Jakob Jensen currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Research and Professor of Communication in the College of Humanities. Dr. Jensen was born in Circle, Montana, a rural community located in a federally-designated frontier county. After leading Circle to a state championship in Speech and Drama, Dr. Jensen received a speech scholarship and Pell Grants to attend Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Following graduation from Concordia, Dr. Jensen completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Jensen began his faculty career as an assistant professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University before relocating to the University of Utah.

Dr. Jensen’s central research program examines how to communicate complex information to non-experts. Over the last decade, he has conducted a series of message experiments examining how to communicate scientific research to the public. Dr. Jensen’s research program has received multiple awards, including the Golden Anniversary Monograph (twice) from the National Communication Association which honors “the most outstanding scholarly monograph published during the previous calendar year.” In terms of funding, Dr. Jensen is the first communication scholar to win the prestigious New Innovator Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His work has also been supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense, the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, the Utah Department of Health, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, the Indiana State Department of Health, the Center for Families, the Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease Initiative, and the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.

Here is Jake’s full bio on our website: https://research.utah.edu/about/meet-the-avpr-jakob-jensen.php.

Associate Dean Annie Isabel Fukushima, Undergraduate Studies, University of Utah

Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah. She is the author of the award-winning book, Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US (Stanford University Press, 2019). She also serves as the Co-Principal Investigator and Founder of the University of Utah Gender-Based Violence Consortium. Fukushima is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition.

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Alumni House & Student Union

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Download the program as an e-pub or pdf.

Alumni House & Student Union

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Download the program as an e-pub or pdf.