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Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018
Thursday, Aug. 09, 2018
In order to adapt to the changing needs of its students, Utah State University is undergoing an organizational restructuring that will shift a number of offices from the Office of Student Affairs to Academic and Instructional Services and Provost offices.
The university anticipates having the transition completed by Sept. 1. Read more.
USU Grad Michael Scott Peters Named U.S. Youth Observer to the UN
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Monday, Jul. 09, 2018
United States Air Force officials are taking a close look at a USU student design that may help the planet’s growing space junk problem.
A team of undergraduate students in USU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering designed and built a device to capture orbital debris. The Human-Assisted Debris Extractor for Space, or HADES, system is designed to capture orbital junk using a pressurized net and drag device. The design earned the 11-member team a first-place win at the Air Force Research Lab University Design Challenge held April 11 at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. The award is the third first-place win for USU. Read more.
Thursday, Jun. 14, 2018
Monday, May. 14, 2018
Kaluarachchi, who has served as the interim dean in the College of Engineering since July 2016, will officially step into a permanent role on July 1. Read more.
Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2018
Utah State University welcomes four distinguished individuals to receive honorary degrees during its 131st graduation ceremony.
Those receiving honorary degrees are Thierry Fischer, conductor and music director for the Utah Symphony, Bartell C. Jensen, former USU vice president for research former president of the USU Research Foundation and Space Dynamics Laboratory; John Welch, founding partner of Los-Angeles, California-based law firm Latham and Watkins; and Gail Sorenson Williamsen, founder of the Elizabeth Academy in Salt Lake, an innovative and fully-inclusive Montessori school. Read more.
Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2018
A veterinarian, researcher, author, teacher and administrator over the past 34 years has been selected to be the new executive vice president and provost of Utah State University.
Francis D. Galey, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, accepted the offer Monday from USU President Noelle Cockett. He fills the position she left vacant upon becoming the university’s 16th president in January 2017. Read more.
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Monday, Mar. 19, 2018
Thursday, Mar. 15, 2018
Thursday, Mar. 08, 2018
A researcher at Utah State University is developing non-visual techniques to teach the fundamentals of engineering to students who are blind or low vision.
Wade Goodridge, an assistant professor of engineering education at USU, is partnering with the National Federation of the Blind to help students develop spatial abilities and increase their awareness of education and career opportunities in engineering. Read more.Friday, Feb. 16, 2018
Is evolution predictable? Are changes in a species random or do they happen because of natural selection?
“Evolution often appears random, even when driven by the deterministic process of natural selection, because we just aren’t aware of all the environmental fluctuations and other factors taking place that drive change,” says Utah State University geneticist Zach Gompert. “If we had a better understanding of the mechanisms at play, we might have a better picture of evolutionary change and its predictability.” Read more.
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018
Utah State student-athletes registered record-setting results both on the fields of competition and in the classroom during the Fall of 2017 academic semester.
“It’s gratifying to have the success we’ve had on the fields of competition, but seeing our student-athletes achieve at such a high level in the classroom is especially rewarding,” said Utah State Vice President and Director of Athletics John Hartwell. “It shows that we are doing our very best to prepare them for life after their collegiate careers.”
Utah State student-athletes lit up the academic scoreboard last semester with 47 individuals achieving a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Read more.Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018
As our modern society slips away from the definition of a family as mom, dad and kids chatting over family dinner, researchers are trying to understand the “whys.”
Among the nation’s most accomplished researchers on family dynamics, particularly parent-child estrangement, is Kristina Scharp, an assistant professor of Communication Studies and director of the Family Communication and Relationships Lab in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Read more.
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Fremont Indians hunted, farmed corn and scooped out underground homes, all under the blazing blue skies of what’s now northeastern Utah.
But they remain something of a puzzle. Read more.
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017
Tuesday, Nov. 07, 2017
Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation of shifts in plant phenology caused by global warming?
“My mum reports her snowdrops are blooming earlier each spring in her English garden,” says Utah State University scientist Will Pearse. “Are her observations, like those of thousands of citizen scientists across the world, indicating unpredictability in temperature, precipitation and other weather patterns?”
Until now, scientists had few tools to piece together disparate data into a collective, bigger picture. Now, Pearse and colleagues announce a statistical estimator that extracts meaningful measures of phenological change – that is, the timing of plants’ reoccurring life history events – from scores of data collected by current and ancestral citizen scientists (Henry David Thoreau among the latter cohort), along a continuous record from herbaria plant collections stretching more than 200 years into the past. Their findings appear in the Nov. 6, 2017, online edition of Nature Ecology & Evolution. Read More.
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017
Broadcast students in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Utah State University took home the award for Best Newscast from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ university competition.
NATAS, the organization responsible for the Emmy Awards, announced the Student Production Awards Oct. 14 in a ceremony prior to its Regional Emmy Awards gala. Read more.
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017
Monday, Aug. 21, 2017
Wednesday, Jul. 26, 2017
Chris Thurston lives a pretty typical life for a 9-year-old; except that he just co-authored a research paper for a medical journal, and he manages Type 1 Diabetes during nearly every moment of his life.
Victor Lee, associate professor of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences in Utah State University’s Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, along with Chris’s father Travis Thurston, are co-authors of an article published in July 2017 in Methods of Information in Medicine on how data collection and its related discoveries are shaped by the design of wearable technology. Read more.
Thursday, Jul. 13, 2017
She was dignified, decorous and an island of calm waters. Still, Ms. Mary Thorp remains the perfect storm in the sea of World War I scholarship.
An English Governess in the Great War (Oxford University Press, June 2017) introduces one to this extraordinary, formidable English woman through the pages of her wartime diary, edited and footnoted by Tammy Proctor, head of Utah State University’s Department of History, and Sophie De Schaepdrijver, a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Read more.
Friday, May. 19, 2017
Tuesday, May. 09, 2017
USU natural resources sociologist Courtney Flint is usually absorbed in the study of humanity’s intersection with the natural world.
Since Monday, her time has gone to answering a barrage of emails and calls from news reporters worldwide seeking her opinion of news that she would no longer be on a scientific board that advises the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more.
Thursday, May. 04, 2017
Wednesday, Apr. 05, 2017
Thursday, Mar. 16, 2017
“U.S. News and World Report” magazine has again named the graduate programs in Utah State University's Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services among the top tier of colleges of education in the nation.
In the 2018 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," the magazine ranked the college 26th in the nation overall against all graduate colleges of education. The college has moved up from 30th last year and is the only school of education in Utah to place in the top 50. Read more.
Wednesday, Mar. 01, 2017
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Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016
If you’re shivering from unusually teeth-rattling cold this holiday season, global warming is probably the last thing on your mind.
“The local weather conditions people experience likely play a role in what they think about the broader climate,” says Utah State University researcher Peter Howe. “Climate change is causing record-breaking heat around the world, but the variability of the climate means that some places are still reaching record-breaking cold. If you’re living in a place where there’s been more record cold weather than record heat lately, you may doubt reports of climate change.”
Howe says people’s beliefs about climate change are driven by many factors, but a new study in which he participated suggests weather events in your own backyard may be an important influence. Read more.
Thursday, Dec. 08, 2016
President Stan and Joyce Albrecht may have planned on a brisk walk in the 21-degree weather from Old Main to the Taggart Student Center ballroom on the Utah State University campus in early December for their farewell reception, but something else happened along the way that slowed them down considerably.
Hundreds of university faculty, staff and students surprised the institution’s 15th president and first lady by lining the sidewalk the entire way in a show of gratitude and appreciation for their 11 years and 11 months of service. Read more.
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016
Two Utah State University interior design students from the Caine College of the Arts won prizes at the National Daltile Student Competition.
Ali Guyman and Ben Roghaar each took home honorable mentions and $2,500. USU’s Interior Design Program won a university grant of $10,000 for having the highest number of students entered in the competition. Read more.
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016
Thursday, Oct. 06, 2016
Thursday, Sep. 15, 2016
For the past four years, scientists at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab have spent much of their time designing and constructing cameras for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
On Thursday night [Sept, 8, 2016], the rocket finally lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and scientists gathered with their families to celebrate years of hard work. Read more.
Thursday, Sep. 08, 2016
A team of environmental engineers and a wetland ecologist have created a computer model that can help wetland biologists increase the size of migratory bird habitat and combat invasive vegetation using existing resources. Read more.
The on-campus parlor beat out 15 other contestants by taking 33 percent of the votes. BYU Creamery came in second place with 22 percent of the votes and Leatherby’s, with 15 percent, rounded out the top three. Read more.
Thursday, Aug. 04, 2016
In World War II, Britain and America built two full-size harbors, dragged them across the English Channel and hitched them in place at Normandy, France. That same day, thousands of Allied soldiers clambered onto the beaches of Normandy.
Now, we’re talking harbors, usually very large constructions that provide protective, wakeless enclosures for ships. So, why aren’t these portable, towable harbors that played such a vital role in the Normandy invasion a better-known fact of war history? Read more.
Thursday, Jun. 30, 2016
Fifteen students from Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) learned from prestigious landscape architects and explored notable landmarks on a ten-day educational trip to New York City. Read more.
Thursday, Jun. 02, 2016
With a sharp military salute — and hug from mom — nine young men in Utah State University’s Air Force ROTC were commissioned as second lieutenants May 6.
All of the new officers have their orders and are headed to Air Force bases around the country, said Lt. Col. Alex Dubovik, professor and director of Aerospace Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Read more.
Thursday, Apr. 14, 2016
NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer mission, known as ICON, will explore the area of the atmosphere where weather on Earth and weather in space meet, creating conditions that may affect terrestrial communications. ICON will help scientists better understand the upper atmosphere and to determine the causes of energy variations in that region. Read more.
Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2016
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016
Rahul Thakkar actually left his home in India because he figured it would be easier to make movies in Hollywood than it would be in Bollywood.
“Well … no,” he now says laughing. “It’s not. It’s a lot harder!”
Still, after securing a master’s degree in computer graphics from Utah State University in 1995 — which led to a digital movie-making toolkit of sorts he designed for DreamWorks Animation, and, later on, a number of patents — Thakkar is now a part of Hollywood’s most celebrated inner circle. He’s an Oscar® winner and will be presented a Science and Technical Achievement Academy Award® Saturday, Feb. 13, in Beverly Hills. Read more.
Thursday, Feb. 04, 2016
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