LOGAN, Utah, March 9 -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University is competing against universities nationwide in Campus Race to Zero Waste through February and March. The competition focuses on reducing the campus waste stream through recycling, composting and other waste reduction efforts by encouraging education and competition to reduce the weights of waste, which schools track throughout the competition. "Race to Zero Waste is open to anyone who uses USU's fac  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 10 -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University will begin disbursements of a new round of student relief grants on March 9, to continue to support students during the COVID-19 pandemic. USU has received an additional $8.7 million in funds to distribute to eligible students who demonstrate exceptional need. University officials estimate that nearly 10,000 students will receive grants. Students who think they may qualify should check their inboxes  more

ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 10 -- Dixie State University issued the following news: Recognizing Dixie State University's commitment to student success, the Utah State Legislature allocated $15 million toward a campus expansion project and more than $3.7 million in new university appropriations during the 2021 legislative session. "We are incredibly fortunate to be located in a state that values higher education," Dixie State University President Richard B. Williams said. "As I meet with administra  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 11 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: What if you could take an environmentally harmful greenhouse gas and transform it into clean, affordable energy? It's a challenge within reach, says Utah State University chemist Yi Rao, who is developing laser techniques to advance photoelectrical chemical reduction of carbon dioxide for energy production. Rao recently received a boost to ramp up his research and educational outreach. The assistant professor i  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 11 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 2.0 degreeC and, ideally, to 1.5 degreeC, over preindustrial levels. However, even before that treaty was signed, scientists had already warned that those "best case" targets were unlikely to be achievable. Consequently, many fire weather studies are built with mo  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 11 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: With 10 years of monitoring data on the Right Hand Fork indicating that the brown trout in this stream were negatively impacting the entire cutthroat trout population in the Logan River, the research team proposed to the natural resource management agencies and the local anglers to remove introduced brown trout and reintroduce Bonneville cutthroat trout as part of a larger conservation effort in the Logan River.   more

LOGAN, Utah, March 11 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Most of the websites that Utahns use to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine contain accessibility errors that could potentially prevent people with disabilities from signing up independently, according to a recent review from WebAIM. The nonprofit, part of the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State university, is dedicated to ensuring web accessibility. The Utah report is a follow-up to a national eval  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 10 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: In a recent Ecological Monographs article, David Soderberg, a doctoral candidate from Utah State University's Ecology Center, and his colleagues, asked how resilient mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) are to changing temperatures, and their results have important management implications for forests threatened with climate change. Larval mountain pine beetles live under the bark of pine trees and fee  more

LOGAN, Utah, March 11 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Researchers at Utah State University are using silkworm silk to grow skeletal muscle cells, improving on traditional methods of cell culture and hopefully leading to better treatments for muscle atrophy. When scientists are trying to understand disease and test treatments, they generally grow model cells on a flat plastic surface (think petri dish). But growing cells on a two-dimensional surface has its limitati  more