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 of...
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, which...
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 in...
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 and...
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 Snot...
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 WiFIRE...
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, Tanzania.”...
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 locations...
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 graduate...
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. During...
