LOGAN, Utah, April 22 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: By Lynnette Harris, Marketing and Communications A Memorandum of Understanding was signed April 20 between Utah State University and the Scotland-based James Hutton Institute formalizing efforts to promote cooperation in agricultural and environmental research, with an emphasis on climate change research. The agreement was signed by Professor Colin Campbell, chief executive of the James Hutton Institute, and US  more

LOGAN, Utah, April 24 (TNSAwa) -- Utah State University issued the following news: By Marcus Jensen, Executive Director, New Student Enrollment Utah State University received the CampusESP Q1 ESP MVP Award for its work using CampusESP to inform parents of prospective students how to prepare their student to enroll at USU. USU's focus on the influence family has on students and working with families as well as prospective students has yielded positive results. "Knowing how important parents ar  more

LOGAN, Utah, April 13 (TNSPer) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The College of Engineering at Utah State University extends its congratulations to two newly promoted faculty members. Sanghamitra Roy was promoted to full professor. Roy joined USU's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 as an assistant professor. She holds a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her doctoral research was sponsored by Inte  more

LOGAN, Utah, April 15 (TNSAwa) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State men's basketball junior Neemias Queta and gymnastics senior Autumn DeHarde were named the Male and Female Athlete of the Year, respectively, at the annual Robins Awards, taking place via an online stream on Saturday, April 10. Queta rewrote the defensive record books at Utah State, setting records in single-game, single-season and career blocks during his three years at Utah State. Queta finished the   more

LOGAN, Utah, April 15 (TNSOps) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University announced that it has been awarded a contract to support NASA's new space-based instrument to continue the agency's key climate record. The contract value was not disclosed. Under the leadership of Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Pilewskie from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, the new instrument, named   more

LOGAN, Utah, April 24 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: By Kelsie Holman, Associate Professor In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the world's largest saline lakes. Lake Urmia -- a massive salt lake in Iran's northwest and a sister to Utah's Great Salt Lake -- has lost nearly 95 percent of its volume over the last two decades. As water levels drop, salinity spik  more