Graduating senior Jennifer Albretsen Roth was named Scholar of the Year and doctoral candidate Boris Averkiev was named Graduate Research Assistant of the Year at April 18 ceremony.

Two Utah State University students have won a prestigious math and science scholarship that will pay for two years of their education at the school.

Three Utah State University students who are headed toward careers in science have been selected for scholarships and recognition by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

High school and college chemistry labs might not be the places where energy will be captured from burning ice or where new medications based on artificial DNA are designed, but every student lab could make a green chemical-engineering breakthrough.

The April 1 Intermountain Graduate Research Symposium, hosted by USU's Graduate Student Senate and partnered with the Vice President for Research Office and the School of Graduate Studies, featured 54 posters and 69 oral presentations.

Peak Prize recipient Sydney Chamberlin, Undergraduate Researcher of the Year and J.R. Dennison, Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, were honored at March 31 ceremony.

Alexander Boldyrev, a professor in Utah State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the recipient of the 2009 D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award.

USU's Department of Biology received a prestigious university award at a surprise March 24 ceremony.

Nanoparticles in sunscreens, cosmetics and hundreds of other consumer products may pose risks to the environment by damaging beneficial microbes, scientists reported Tuesday.

The north pole of Saturn has a constant hurricane located above it. If you were to stand in its eye and look up, you'd see what's equivalent to the Northern Lights on Earth, says USU physicist Shane Larson.