PRESIDENTIAL SOCIETAL IMPACT SCHOLAR

ATMOS’S KEVIN PERRY WAS NAMED BY PRESIDENT TAYLOR RANDALL AS ONE OF FIVE 2024-25 PRESIDENTIAL SOCIETAL IMPACT SCHOLARS. The award—$10,000 and support from University Marketing & Communications to promote each recipient’s research scholarship and initiatives—recognizes exemplary public engagement.

Perry has studied the impacts of mineral dust for more than two decades, a research focus that took on major importance with the shrinking of Great Salt Lake. Riding a fat-tire bicycle, he surveyed the 800-mile exposed lakebed and found dust from the Lake contains high concentrations of toxic metals.

Perry, who regularly shares his findings with policy makers, has also shared his research to the public in three documentary films and more than 115 print, radio, and TV interviews to date.