Shortly after Noelle Cockett was first appointed president of Utah State University, she began investigating ways to increase the diversity of its faculty, staff, and students. She identified people and groups already engaged in diversity programming to build upon. Cockett discovered early on that, yes, USU could promote diversity through its

Did you know that not only millions of birds frequent the marshlands surrounding the Great Salt Lake but also dozens of Utah State University students and faculty? They tend to blend in and keep to themselves. Graduate students like Maya Pendleton and Emily Leonard who you might easily have missed camouflaged

Rod Miller ’75 studied journalism at Utah State, graduated to a career in broadcast, and found his creative footing in advertising. But the former USU Rodeo Team member never lost sight of his Western roots. Miller began crafting cowboy poetry in the mid-1990s and later writing fiction. He’s won four

Landscape architecture is more than deciding which plants to use when designing a garden. A lot more. The discipline examines how humans shape the natural environment and how the built environment affects the humans moving through a space. Before a shovel of dirt is turned at a construction site, a

NASA describes orbital debris as any man-made object orbiting the Earth that no longer has a useful purpose. Traveling up to 17,500 mph, even the tiniest speck of space junk is a threat to functioning spacecraft. The catastrophic collisions depicted in science fiction films are exaggerated, but experts say the

David Schramm admits he is selfish. When asked why he conducted a research study on parenting advice and regrets from empty nesters, he says because he wants to be a better parent, and no one has ever done such a study. “I only get one chance at being a dad, and

“The ubiquity of connection drives a ubiquity of application—or perhaps it’s the reverse,” says Hawley, USU’s chief information officer who teaches IT strategy in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. “In the mid-‘90s when we still had dial-up, you couldn’t stay online forever because we still had to make

A pivotal discovery in Lisa Berreau’s chemistry lab happened like many scientific advances throughout history—by serendipity. A few years ago, while her lab was investigating the chemistry of metal flavonate compounds, a student left a sample sitting on a benchtop for a few days and found that it changed after exposure

The sound of motor boats in the distance triggers a Pavlovian response in Bahamian Rock Iguanas. The endangered lizards dart to the water’s edge of uninhabited islands and wait for the buffet to drop anchor.      “It’s not enough to see nature anymore,” says Susannah French, associate professor of biology at

“Instructors are advised to limit their instruction to one of the other branches of our student population, either civilian or military, and are further advised to avoid all public gathering and otherwise render themselves, as far as possible, free from danger of carrying the infection.” – President Elmer G. Peterson, October

You’ve hummed it in the shower, in the car, and walking across the Quad. You’ve bellowed it from the stands in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Admit it. You love performing “The Scotsman.” Well, so do we. And we have for a century. This classic Aggie anthem was penned by agronomy