By Eric Warren Hollywood is obsessed with space. From Armageddon to Deep Impact to Don’t Look Up, these movies about world-ending doom entertain us and also, potentially, leave behind a kernel of concern in our psyche. While these blockbuster films are works of fiction, space is incomprehensibly vast, and there are countless objects

By Timothy R. Olsen, '09, M.B.A. '18 For millennia the eyes and hearts of humanity have been drawn to the stars. In North America the Crow Nation, or Apsáalooke, whose historical homeland covers parts of Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, tell stories about a young orphan boy who was adopted by a

By Jeff Hunter '96 Jed Hancock’s career was just starting to come into focus in 2002. An electrical engineering student at Utah State University, Hancock was beginning his master’s degree when he embarked on an internship at Micron Technology in Boise. The work there captivated him. At the time, camera phones were still

By Timothy R. Olsen, '09, M.B.A. '18 To create something with a worldwide impact is a grandiose dream to be sure. But that’s exactly what a trio of university faculty members did in the late 1980s. Frank Redd, Gil Moore, and Rex McGill — all faculty members within the College of Engineering

By Jeff Hunter '96 Shortly after completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Utah State University in mechanical aerospace engineering in the late 1990s, Curtis Bingham’s career took off. He secured a position as a performance engineer at Pratt & Whitney, founded a century ago and long considered one of the world’s finest

By Jennifer Payne Apparently, Harvard graduates aren’t always smarter than a fifth grader. In a documentary produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 21 of the 23 Ivy League students or graduates interviewed struggled to explain what causes the changing of the seasons on our planet and why the phases of the

By Timothy R. Olsen '09, M.B.A. '18 More akin to the sludge you find in the bottom of a wet-dry vac than a college research project, fish puke isn’t high on the list of study topics for most students. But that grey muck — similar in consistency to grits — was

By Jeff Hunter '96 Since it wasn’t around when he was in college, joining the U.S. Space Force wasn’t a dream of Major Jake Singleton’s while he was attending Utah State University. But thanks in a large part to a dream, the Kaysville native is now doing exactly what he wants

By Timothy R. Olsen '09, M.B.A. '18 Under the microscope, research is interesting, but for many the word itself often isn’t. While research may conjure up images of microscopes, beakers, and white lab coats, its scope is infinitely broader. Each year, hundreds of Utah State University students participate in undergraduate research. These

By Jeff Hunter '96 Lisa Berreau has been heavily occupied serving in an administrative role as the Vice President of Research at Utah State University for the past five years, but it’s evident the longtime professor still hasn’t lost her passion for mentoring young chemistry students. “I have one student right now