For nine years, students from Utah's two research-intensive institutions, USU and the U of U, have been showcasing projects at Utah's capitol. Efforts are made to persuade lawmakers to keep the research dollars flowing.

Eleven undergraduate researchers from the College of Science showcase their projects to Utah legislators and capitol visitors in Salt Lake City.

USU physics alum Laura Swift is so passionate about astronomy that she quit her job at Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium and moved to Cache Valley to teach the subject — as a volunteer. (After accessing Web link, scroll down for story.)

Dozens of people attended a reception Jan. 9 at Utah State University’s Intermountain Herbarium, but the guest of honor was a tree branch.

Research led by a Utah State University professor is among the best evidence of Darwin’s evolutionary theories, according to Nature magazine.

In the course of today's activities you might send a text message, pay for your gasoline purchase at the pump or use your car's GPS system.

USU’s longtime research on space weather forecasting recently received a boost with the approval of USTAR funding to establish the new center and build on the university’s expertise in developing forecast models for Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere.

2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theories of natural selection continue to stir controversy.

Winter cold is sitting as tight as a bottle cap in the mountain valleys, but Utah State University can't think of a better time than now to celebrate Utah's flora and fungi by officially welcoming the 250,000th specimen at the Intermountain Herbarium this Friday.

Utah's greatest snow on earth is sometimes tainted by the dreary condition of the air around it but Utah State University chemist Phil Silva is working to abate the frequent inversion problem.