Community Engaged Leaning News

What does the fox say? Or to use research from students at USU Eastern, where do they stay? Three USU Eastern students in the Wildland Resource Techniques course presented research to the local BLM and the state DWR on a study of kit foxes and their habi...

Utah State University’s Transforming Communities Institute (TCI) has announced the launch of two new initiatives: the “Transforming Communities”open-access journal and the Community-Engaged Scholar Network. TCI will hold an event on Jan. 23 to commemorat...

On Nov.16, USU’s Philosophy Club, Effective Altruism Club, and ethics classes organized a walk-a-thon in support of the Malaria Consortium, a charity with a proven track record of making an actual impact through donations.

Sunshine Brosi, associate professor of Wildland Resources at Utah State University Eastern, has been named as a Faculty Fellow in Community Engagement. Brosi, alongside Professor Laura Gelfand, is the first USU faculty member to be named a fellow in the i...

Students and faculty from the Quinney College of Natural Resources participate in tree-planting project at Wuda Ogwa, a site sacred to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation near Preston, Idaho.

USU Eastern students in Dr. Sunshine Brosi’s WILD 2400 class worked with Trout Unlimited to plant trees in Mud Creek near Scofield Reservoir

The Cache Humane Society will soon be a lot more colorful thanks to Honors students in a USU course. In collaboration with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, students raised funds to commission mural artist Chuck Landvatter to design and paint a mura...

Judy Smith, Director of USU’s Equine-Human Science program and Community-Engaged Learning faculty member, advances research in the field of equine therapy with assistance from her students in ADVS 4230.

A student makes mention of this, a conversation happens, and an adjusted lesson plan (and a bit of serendipity) later, and USU students in LaMalfa’s WILD 2400 course had the chance to take class outside for a day to help plant bitterbrush for winter mule ...

Utah State University undergraduate Canyon Bryson put a lot of thought into two seemingly disparate STEM activities designed to introduce high school students to basic science and engineering concepts.

Families of refugees and Native Americans in Utah will benefit from a three-year grant to provide them with farming opportunities.

On April 20, Utah State University’s Center for Community Engagement observed its annual Community Engagement Awards.

Social work students at Utah State University are working with each other — and building on the work of classmates who came before — to build a program combatting homelessness in the Bear River region.

Students at Utah State University Eastern have the unique opportunity to participate in deer collaring research to track mule deer through the San Rafael Swell with associate professor Sunshine Brosi and the Department of Wildlife Resources in Utah.

During the fall 2021 semester, students in the Utah State University Honors program took up the cause of man’s best friend. Working with the Cache Humane Society, these students, who were enrolled in a Community-Engaged Learning Honors course, experimente...

Gathering a group of fourth graders around her, Utah State University educator Shannon Erickson asked the youngsters if they knew what a fossil was. “It’s like when an ancient creature dies and sediment is left on top of them,” one child responded. “They ...

In #103 of the Lecture Breakers podcast, Dr. Jess Lucero joins us to talk about community-engaged learning, or what is also known as service-learning.

Karli Ludwig has studied and enjoyed the benefits of yoga. This past semester as a Community-Engaged Scholar, she wanted to bring that enjoyment and knowledge to others

Utah State University's Center for Community Engagement has switched to AggiePulse, a new platform, to assist with finding and organizing engagement opportunities in the community.

Utah State University’s Office of Research and the School of Graduate Studies named the 2020 Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year, Melanie Domenech Rodríguez, and the Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor of the Year, Mehmet Soyer.

Utah State University has been awarded the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, the highest level of recognition for community engagement.