December 5, 2002 News Releases
Released 12/4/02
UTAH
STATE PHYSICS STUDENT WINS INTERNATIONAL POSTER CONTEST
LOGAN — A Utah State University senior with a double major
in physics and mathematics took first place in the Dirac Centenary
Conference poster contest held at Baylor University in Waco,
Texas, Sept. 30.
Utah State student Lara Anderson, the winner of the cash award,
submitted a poster explaining in detail the possibility of putting
gravity into a super-symetric context.
Anderson called this project the “holy grail of physics.”
She said the work is part of a current goal in physics worldwide
to describe the standard model and successfully unify gravity
with quantum mechanics.
Dr. James Wheeler, a physics professor at Utah State, has been
a mentor and research supervisor for Anderson during her pursuit
in the Dirac Centenary contest.
“Ms. Anderson has played a leading role in writing a physical
theory for these news spaces. It has been great to work with
her,” said Wheeler.
Anderson said the Utah State physics department and faculty
have placed great emphasis on undergraduate research and have
helped her achieve much of her success. Anderson will graduate
in the spring and plans to do graduate work in mathematical
physics.
December 4, 2002
Writer: Heidi Broadwater, hab@cc.usu.edu, 797-1350
Contact: Lara Anderson, lbanderson@cc.usu.edu
UTAH STATE
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES AWARD
LOGAN — The USU/Community Associates is now accepting
nominations for their seventh annual recognition award. It will
be given to two individuals during their spring social.
The USU/Community Associates award was designed to recognize
individuals or couples who have made significant contributions
that benefit Utah State University or the Cache Valley community.
The award is designed to promote individual service and contributions,
to recognize leadership efforts and to stimulate awareness of
the value of service.
“Being a co-chair of the committee that selected last
year’s recipients,” said Paul Riley, a former professor
at Utah State, “I shared part of the difficult responsibility
to choose from several incredible individuals who were nominated.
I have been inspired by their service to Utah State and the
community.”
Claude Burtenshaw and Janet Osborne were last year’s recipients
of the award.
Burtenshaw served in the Idaho Senate. He was chairman of the
Utah Education Legislative Committee, director of the Logan
City Reform Committee, a member of the Logan City Council, and
co-director of the Old Main Society at Utah State with his late
wife, Francis. Burtenshaw is currently a volunteer at the Cache
County Chamber of Commerce.
Osborne, director of the Women’s Center for Life Long
Learning at Utah State, has helped hundreds of students get
an education. She also served on the Bear River Regional Arts
Council, the Cache Valley United Way, the League of Women Voters,
and the board of directors for Sunshine Terrace. She is an active
Mortar Board alumni and helps Cache Valley abused children through
the Children’s Justice Center.
Other recipients of the award are Walter Dansie, Vern and Emma
Rae Eyre, George Hargreaves, Austin and Gwen Haws, Ed Koch,
Alma and Kay Moser, Bonnie and Reece Nielsen, Allice C. Smith,
George Sunada, and Richard and Viola Thomas.
Applications for nomination can be picked up in Old Main 102
and should be mailed to Bob and Debbie Ellis in the University
Advancement Office, Utah State University, Old Main 102, Logan,
UT 84322-1440 by Friday, Jan. 10, 2003. People may call 797-1280
for further details.
December 4, 2002
Writer: Mykel France, (435) 797-1351
Contact: Jan Appuhn, (435) 797-1280
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