The College of Science welcomes news from our alumni, students and faculty. To submit information, contact Mary-Ann Muffoletto at maryann.muffoletto@usu.edu; 435-797-3517.

 

Aug 19, 2008

College of Science alums Kyle Tubbs and Stephanie Chambers are among more than 500 students who've benefited from USU's Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities (URCO) grant program.

Aug 18, 2008

USU's Jim Powell, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is among researchers cited in an article about bark beetles in western forests in 'ScienceNews.'

Aug 14, 2008

USU analytical chemist Phil Silva investigates amines in fine particulate matter that accumulate in Cache Valley's air during winter inversions.

Aug 8, 2008

Teen participants in the college's second annual High School Summer Internship in Chemistry and Biochemistry explored exciting research topics with faculty and student mentors.

Aug 7, 2008

Goldwater Scholar Jodie Barker-Tvedtnes is one of three students in the nation who received the Society of Physics Students' Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research.

Aug 1, 2008

USU entomologist Erin Hodgson describes new six-legged arrivals from Europe.

Jul 30, 2008

Erin Hodgson, Biology Department faculty member and Extension entomologist, says the red firebug is new to North America and was first found in Salt Lake City this past spring.
Michael Piep, mycologist, botanist and assistant curator for USU's Intermountain Herbarium, led a wildflower walk along Logan Canyon's Limber Pine Trail.
Aggie geologists are examining a deep trench along the East Cache Fault near Avon, Utah, an area feeling development pressure.

Jul 18, 2008

Using a tokamak, physicists Farrell Edwards, Ajay Singh, Eric Held and colleagues investigate a new way to use magnetic fields to confine plasma long enough to use its energy and neutrons.