When I first arrived at Utah State University in 1990 as a new professor studying sheep genetics, I never imagined becoming USU’s president someday. Instead, my days were filled with organizing and delivering an animal genetics class, writing papers and grants, traveling to scientific conferences, and conducting research in my lab.

My first awareness of limited water was in 2009. Our neighborhood’s well was shut off after nitrates were discovered in the water. Although we were reconnected to the local town’s water supply, our neighborhood was informed we couldn’t use culinary water for landscape watering. As an avid gardener I had already planted

“For over 30 years Miller has been driven to photograph the United States’ space program in an artistic and scientific approach to storytelling. He has traveled throughout the USA to photograph launches, landings, and related structures to introduce his personal exploration of NASA’s history and to transform science into art.

People who are overly perfectionistic do not see perfectionism as a problem; most likely, they see perfectionism as an attribute. Like most attributes, there are times they help us and times they hold us back. Look at the outcomes of perfectionism and see if there are parts of it that could

By Timothy R. Olsen '09, '18 M.B.A.Photos by Levi Sim Ancient tablets? Check. Important religious texts? Check. Unexpected items of both local lore and worldwide significance? Check and check. While nearly every person who sets foot onto a college campus recognizes the library as a source of information and repository of knowledge,

By Timothy R. Olsen '09, M.B.A. '18 It's 6 a.m. on a typical summer morning in Cache Valley. Mist from the cool night air hangs in low pockets on the west side of the valley as the sun-kissed tips of the Wellsville mountains preview the golden hue that will soon blanket

After nearly a week of instructing and collaborating with theater and set design students and instructors at Utah State University, Patrick Larsen ‘99 settles into a chair in a quiet corner of the University Inn, contemplating the journey home to Indonesia — a trip that takes on average 28 hours. “It’s

Decades of drought leave many people wondering what they can do to preserve every last precious drop. In April, with most of Utah in severe or extreme drought and following a winter with below normal snowpack, Governor Spencer Cox ‘98 issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency, asking residents

By Andrea DeHaan Claudia Wright insists that qualitative research is good at making the evident more obvious. “We have an awareness for the things we think we do,” she says, “but not necessarily for the things we actually do.” A doctoral candidate in sociology, Wright has studied migrant motherhood for six years at

Drought isn’t something that Grace Affram worried about growing up. “In Ghana, there are just a few places that have droughts,” she explains. “We have a lot of water — and we don’t really use it wisely.” But she became fascinated with drought as an undergraduate and couldn’t shake her interest in

By Jeff Hunter '96 The darkest day in the history of Utah State University happened on a clear autumn afternoon. On Sept. 26, 2005, a horrific van accident north of Tremonton, just 30 miles from the Logan campus, claimed the lives of eight USU students and their instructor and severely injured two

By Jeff Hunter '96 As a longtime professor of history, Ross Peterson is keenly aware of some of the great “what ifs” of American history. What if the Confederate army had won at Gettysburg in 1863? What if the Germans had repelled the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944? Or