DENVER, Colorado, Oct. 2 -- Holland and Hart, a law firm, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021: Holland & Hart attorney Michelle Quist has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Utah to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure. Michelle, whose term will end in 2024, joins a select group of attorneys, clerks, and judges with experience navigating Utah's appellate courts. The Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure continually rev  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 2 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: A team from Utah State University is creating tools to better understand the global impact of climate change and other disasters. The multi-disciplinary team is made up of David Tarboton, the director of the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL); Jeff Horsburgh, an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the UWRL; and Courtney Flint, a professor in Environment and Society in the S.J. & Je  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Orphaned bear cubs are getting a better chance at life, thanks to the combined efforts of Utah State University, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) and the USDA National Wildlife Research Center Predator Research Facility. This year the facility is taking care of a single cub with special needs, and the public can monitor its progress on a special live video feed. Each year, the Department of Wildlife  more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 25 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Two Utah State University College of Engineering graduate students recently presented their research at the Association of State Dam Safety Officials Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Emma Lyon and Caitlin Arnold attended the conference earlier this month. Lyon presented her research about what communities can do to prepare for hundred-year floods. "Some places say, we are just going to build one big structur  more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 28 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The dominant force driving wildfires in California for hundreds of years may no longer be the key factor in the frequency or severity of these blazes. Using observations that have been collected since the late 1800s, and tree-ring data that estimates drought conditions over the past 500 years, researchers from South Korea and the United States identified a five-to-seven-year "loop" of fire weather conditions in   more

LOGAN, Utah, Sept. 30 (TNSJou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * It's certainly easy to do, but not very useful, to stereotype outdoorsy people based on the types of recreation they choose. * * * It's certainly easy to do, but not very useful, to stereotype outdoorsy people based on the types of recreation they choose. What kind of person takes a side-by-side vehicle up a dusty mountain road, for instance? And why? In reality, off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation attr  more

LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- Utah State University issued the following news: According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a telescope built by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory has led to a discovery that hints at a hidden population of cosmic objects. SDL built the state-of-the-art Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer payload, known as WISE, for NASA to map and catalog the sky with far better sensitivity and resolution than previous space-based infrared survey telescopes.   more