CENTER OF ATTENTION: USU’s Sorenson Center for Clinical Excellence is a...
By Timothy R. Olsen, ’09, M.B.A. ’18 Mental health concerns are on the rise across the United States throughout all demographics. Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral...
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THE DEEPEST GRIEF: Blake Anderson Seeks to Help Others in Need Following...
Editor’s note: This article discusses suicide and may be distressing for some readers. If you or someone you know is impacted by these issues or is considering suicide, a list of resources is...
View ArticleEditorial Board Message: A Sweet Impact
By Elizabeth Lord ’04, Art Director Look at that sweet face — is there anything quite as charming as the countenance of a well-fed, happy cow? No matter how the rest of the workday might go, any day...
View ArticleGround Broken for USU’s New Monument Valley Education Building
By Logan Wilbur Representatives of Utah State University and the Navajo Nation broke ground for the long-awaited academic building in a ceremony on Friday, August 2. The education building, which will...
View ArticleUSU’s Blanding Campus Provides Unique Opportunities for Native American Students
By Andrea DeHaan & Alicia Richmond Located in the Four Corners region and spread across roughly 27,000 miles of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Navajo Nation is larger than 10 states and home...
View ArticlePersuasion and the Art of Photography
By Levi Sim, Utah State University Photographer The most consistent thing about my job is persuasion. I am constantly persuading people to let me make a photo, put them in a photo, or do something for...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Taggart Student Center
By Jeff Hunter ’96 After emerging victorious in World War II, Americans were riding high with confidence and optimism about the future. And many of the young men and women who had stood up to tyranny...
View ArticleThe Lasting Legacy of Ross Peterson
By Jeff Hunter ’96 As a longtime professor of history, Ross Peterson is keenly aware of some of the great “what ifs” of American history. What if the Confederate army had won at Gettysburg in 1863?...
View ArticleLDS Apostle, Elder Gary E. Stevenson, Fondly Recalls Growing Up An Aggie
By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, M.B.A. ’18 Long before he was called as an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and long before he started what eventually became, at one time, the...
View ArticleAggie Ice Cream from Cow to Cone: The Making of an Icon
By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, M.B.A. ’18 It’s 6 a.m. on a typical summer morning in Cache Valley. Mist from the cool night air hangs in low pockets on the west side of the valley as the sun-kissed tips of...
View ArticleFinding Home A World Away
By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, M.B.A. ’18 Jeff Dahdah and Amy Reid, both 2016 Utah State University graduates, couldn’t have imaged a year ago where they’d be now. The couple had settled back into life in...
View ArticleUSU Grad Student Examining How Megacarcasses Impact the Ecosystem
By Lael Gilbert ’01 In life, big animals create outsized impacts in the places they live. They eat more, live longer, and move further afield than their more compact counterparts. Really big animals —...
View ArticleLexie and Lindsay Kite are Changing the Body Image Resilience Game
By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, M.B.A. ’18 Competition between siblings is not uncommon. That desire to be different, to stand out, to get better grades, or to perform better in various activities is a...
View ArticleMehdi Heravi’s Generosity ‘An Obligation of Love’
Jeff Hunter ’96 The Merrill-Cazier Library is a quiet place today. And not just because it’s a library. It’s mid-morning on a summer day, so the typical throng of students hustling in and out of the...
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Drones & Data: Learning How to Restore a Complex River System with AI
By Lael Gilbert ’01 Despite the name, it’s actually rust-and-cream colored water that flows between the banks of the Green River in southeastern Utah. As a flotilla of canoes meanders down the narrow...
View ArticleBronco’s On Board: Mendenhall Tabbed as Aggies’ 31st Football Coach
By Jeff Hunter ’96 The distance between Alpine and Logan is just 112 miles, and the drive can easily be made in less than two hours depending on traffic. Needless to say, Bronco Mendenhall definitely...
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Learning By Doing: How 4-H Photography Led to a Pursuit of STEM
By Julene Reese ’85 Cassey Ivie joined a 4-H photography club when she was just 5 years old. Taking “way too many photos of the library drinking fountain,” she was captivated by the thrill of hands-on...
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Faculty Mentors Play a Major Role in Utah State’s Undergraduate Research Success
By Jeff Hunter ’96 Lisa Berreau has been heavily occupied serving in an administrative role as the Vice President of Research at Utah State University for the past five years, but it’s evident the...
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Redefining Research: Understanding USU’s Undergrad Impact
By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, M.B.A. ’18 Under the microscope, research is interesting, but for many the word itself often isn’t. While research may conjure up images of microscopes, beakers, and white lab...
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Aggie Above: The Force is Strong with Major Jake Singleton
By Jeff Hunter ’96 Since it wasn’t around when he was in college, joining the U.S. Space Force wasn’t a dream of Major Jake Singleton’s while he was attending Utah State University. But thanks in a...
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