LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 9 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: As Utah's third driest year in the past 128 years of records persists, Utah State University's Utah Climate Center continues to provide climate services and drought data to state professionals. The center monitors conditions for an ongoing committee called the Utah Water Assessment & Conditions Monitoring Task Force -- for which Jon Meyer, the Assistant State Climatologist with the Utah Climate Center, says his gr  more

MAGNA, Utah, Aug. 11 -- Northrop Grumman issued the following news release: Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is expanding its solid rocket motor manufacturing facilities with the groundbreaking of new state-of-the art facilities to support nearly every phase of solid rocket motor manufacturing, including case manufacturing, propellant mixing and casting, and final assembly. The infrastructure investment and expansion of solid rocket motor manufacturing will more than triple the company  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 9 (TNSper) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: Robert S. Fujinami, Ph.D., esteemed professor, researcher, and administrator is named the Associate Vice President for Faculty at University of Utah Health. Effective July 1, 2022, Fujinami oversees faculty across six schools, colleges, and libraries within the Health Sciences campus. In this role, he will oversee and support faculty success, appointments, reviews, advancement processes, a  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 12 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development issued the following news: The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity (Go Utah) awarded Lineage Logistics Holdings, LLC a temporary, marginal tax reduction for its expansion in rural Utah. The post-performance corporate incentive is part of the Legislature's Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) program. Lineage plans to bring up to 96 new high-paying jobs and invest $125 million in rural  more

LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 11 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: USU aerospace engineering graduate student Christine Case has received a fellowship from the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium. This funding will support Case's research to improve the sensing applications for drones. "I'm very pleased to represent USU under the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium and am honored to have received the fellowship," Case said. The consortium was founded in 1989 with a variety of goals i  more

LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 9 -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University is joining two other Utah higher education institutions in the expansion of the University of Utah's Presidential Leadership Fellows program. The program, which was launched in 2019, aims to foster talented, emerging leaders with administrative potential and looks to increase the number of academic leaders from the arts and humanities, specifically those historically excluded and underrepresented from  more

LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 12 (TNSrpt) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The Utah State University Utah Women & Leadership Project released a report Thursday, "Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment: Public Policy Solutions for Utah," to help raise awareness and provide recommendations. With two recent news stories regarding sexual harassment in Utah ("Women leaders show solidarity against harassment in Utah politics" from Fox13 Utah and "Documents detail 2016 sexual harassment claims  more

LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 10 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University researchers recently published a paper showcasing important advancements in the treatment of cytomegalovirus, or CMV. CMV is a latent virus without a vaccine and is the leading cause of congenital birth defects. Antiviral treatment is effective but is also associated with toxicity, especially in infants and immunocompromised patients. In order to successfully treat the virus and minimize ne  more