With our land-grant mission and statewide educational and Extension sites, Utah State University truly serves all of Utah. During my first year in this role, it has been incredible to see the Aggie impact through the entire state. From research to recreation, this issue of Utah State Magazine focuses on that

When I was 16 years old, I hopped into a truck with my dad and grandpa and headed to Lake Powell. It was during fall break, so it was mid-October and the weather was gorgeous — days in the mid-70s to low-80s with the water still retaining much of its

Few things on the Utah State University campus indicate that fall is on the horizon more than the trickle of students turning into a full-on torrent. As summer wanes and the campus population explodes, the new arrivals are met with a barrage of events unmatched for the reminder of the

Timothy R. Olsen '09, '18 MBA A whistle cuts through the morning air. one by one, figures emerge from beneath cottonwood trees lining a shaded trail. For several minutes — absent phones, electronic devices, and even the conversation of others — they have wandered alone.Now, though, it is time to return.  A simple

By Lael Gilbert '01 Scarlet Globemallow. Winterfat. Deathcamas. Coyote melon. Showy goldeneye.  These aren’t names of hard-rock bands, though maybe they should be. They are, however, a few of the thousands of native plants found growing on the vast, underappreciated space tucked between Utah’s ski slopes and red rock canyons — rangelands. These

By Chiara Elwood Sorensen What happens when the pixelated visual language of video games leaves the screen and enters the  landscape?  This year, Utah State University's Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will invite visitors to explore that question with a campus-wide exhibition that brings the aesthetics of the digital world into conversation

By Adrien Bastidas '30, Megan Morrison '31, and Sammy Baron '27 Utah is a state defined by its unique landscapes. Ranging from red-rock deserts and rugged canyons to dense conifer forests and alpine peaks this state is home to some of the most iconic wildlife in the West.  Mule deer, elk, and

By Hazel Harris-Staples '27 | Photo by Ezra Robertson Once the sun goes down while camping, the imagination comes alive. The wind through the trees, the gurgle of a stream, the rustling of a tent. Is there something out  there or is the mind playing tricks?  For Trisha Cracroft, a 2001 Utah State

By Julene Reese '85 Helping justice-involved youth was not a focus Lewis Kogan envisioned when he became the executive director of utah state university’s swaner preserve and ecocenter. Yet less than a year after arriving in Summit County, he helped launch an outdoor recreation and mentorship program for at-risk teens in

By Taylor Emerson '18 A wildfire is a dazzling spectacle of dread and destruction.  As it dances through a landscape, it moves and bends with the wind, sometimes created from the depths of its own consumption. Its yellow-orange light has tantalized and traumatized generations of humans and animals alike — stretching back