Utah State University chemist Alina Sergeeva is among an elite group of about 300 scientists gathering Feb. 24-March 2 at one of the world’s premier conferences for quantum chemistry, solid-state physics and quantum biology.

Utah State University chemistry and biochemistry professor Steve Scheiner has been named the 2010 recipient of the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award, USU’s most prestigious faculty research accolade.

Cradled on the toe of the boot-shaped Arabian Peninsula, the United Arab Emirates borders Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Oman and the southern shores of the Persian Gulf.

Famed South Pole explorer Roald Amundsen asserted that good luck was actually good planning.

During the recent SuperComputing 2009 conference in Portland, Oregon, Intel's Justin Rattner put it on the line during his keynote by demonstrating one such simulation live. The Fern Seed project from Utah State University, developed by Aaron Duffy, runs multiple islands inside ScienceSim.

USU's College of Science was "front and center" at the university's first annual Latino Family Day.

President Barack Obama has proposed a $433 million allocation to construct dozens of environmental monitoring stations across the country — an effort that a USU dean has helped spearhead.

What does a rocket motor have to do with breast cancer? USU physicist Tim Doyle and colleagues at the Huntsman Cancer Institute have found a unique connection that may change the way surgeons remove tumors, not only in breast cancer, but other cancers as well.

Recent developments in a massive environmental monitoring project have Utah State University College of Science Dean Jim MacMahon feeling optimistic.