Uintah Basin Campus

Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center

Utah State University’s 75,000-square-foot Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center is a state-of-the-art, high-tech educational facility in Vernal, Utah, where students are trained in business, entrepreneurship, accounting, education, engineering, wildlife science, water management, social work, natural resources, environmental policy and other fields at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Bingham Center brings together USU scientists and researchers, county leaders, state and federal authorities and industry partners to create innovative best practices in education, resource development, economic growth and environmental stewardship.

The Bingham Center boasts 21 state-of-the-art distance education classrooms and 13 laboratories (6 teaching, 7 research). The building is also home to USU student support services and an entrepreneurship wing that provides incubation services for local innovators.

Williams Building

In 2003, Rob Behunin, then serving as associate director of the Utah State University Uintah Basin Campus, was tasked with bringing new opportunity and expansion. Shortly afterwards, local entrepreneur Robert (Bob) Williams came forward with ideas about expansion.

Bob wanted to rescue the land across from the high school believing it was the perfect spot to expand USU. The property was within weeks of closing by developers who wanted to make a housing project. Williams offered to buy the property at full-market value from the developers. In 2006, he completed the purchase and donated it to USU.

Huish Learning Center

This assemblage of Native American artifacts is the personal collection of Bob and Areva Huish, and is made up of items reflecting artistic expression from a number of American Indian tribes. Mr. and Mrs. Huish owned and operated Huish Drug Store in downtown Roosevelt, Utah from 1926 to 1973.