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For Pratt Rogers, the new chair of the Mining Engineering Department at the University of Utah, the future of our technological and information-driven society as we are living it now and imagining it in the future is going to require a meeting of the minds.

Peter Trapa, dean of the College of Science, announced the appointment of Dmitry Bedrov as the new chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the University of Utah as of January 1. He replaces Mike Free who will move to the appointment of associate chair of the department which Bedrov earlier held.

“Rebuilding a domestic supply chain for critical minerals and materials here at home will both safeguard our national security and support the continued development of a clean energy and industrial economy,” says Brad Crabtree, Department of Energy (DOE).

As the atmosphere continues to fill with greenhouse gases from human activities, many proposals have surfaced to “geoengineer” climate-saving solutions, that is, alter the atmosphere at a global scale to either reduce the concentrations of carbon or mute its warming effect.

Sometimes geologic inquiry presents itself so forcefully and on its own timetable that researchers have little choice but to "go with the flow," as it were. That has certainly been the case of late in the American Southwest as mega-drought conditions have plunged the nation's largest reservoirs to new lows and terrain, underwater for decades, is quickly being daylighted.