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Sparking STEM Interest in Rural Utah

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The Kane County Best Friends Animal Society approached 15-year-old Kellen Cotter to see if he would design a prosthetic beak

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Measure to Manage — With Better Water Data

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It might come as a surprise that the water stores we assume are so carefully measured and divided are not

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Open Education Materials: A Cost-Saving Approach to Instruction

August 24, 2022
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Remember buying textbooks? One day — potentially soon — that may be a thing of the past. A side project by

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Sampling Mercury at 10,000 Feet

August 24, 2022
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It’s admittedly a complicated work commute. But for a lifelong snowboarder like Tyler Elgiar, who used to dream of working

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The Fight For Disability Rights Goes Online

May 17, 2022
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COVID-19 upended the planet. Suddenly everything happened on-screen and in cars. But for those with disabilities, the rush online made

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Planting a Way of Life: Farm Grants for Refugees and Native Americans

May 17, 2022
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Lay Win grew up in the Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp in Thailand in the small bamboo house her father built.

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A Mighty Pest

March 4, 2022
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Over the course of a mosquito’s life, it may travel, on average, 75 meters from where it began. That doesn’t sound

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Here Comes the Boom

March 4, 2022
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At 4 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2021, 10 members of Utah State University’s Get Away Special (GAS) team, watched its

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A Little Light

March 4, 2022
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Night on Navajo Nation lasts long. Nearly 30% of households of the country’s largest Native American reservation lack electricity and about

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The Lara Project: Unraveling the Universe

March 4, 2022
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