March 18-21, 2003 Highlights
Utah
State Students Present Research to Group of 2,000 at NCUR 2003
 A
group of Utah State University students shared their research
expertise with 2,000 other undergraduates from across the country
at the 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
at the University of Utah March 13–15.
NCUR 2003 brings together undergraduates involved in scholarly
and artistic activities representing a range of disciplines,
including creative arts, mathematics, business, social science,
humanities, physical and life sciences, natural resources and
engineering, among others. Participants come from more than
300 colleges and universities, representing almost every state
in the nation.
Twenty-one students, representing all of Utah State's seven
colleges made presentations at the NCUR 2003 conference that
encourages awareness of undergraduate research, scholarship
and creative opportunities as they exist in various disciplines
and institutions.
Utah State students who participated in NCUR 2003, along with
their research topics, are as follows:
- Andrew Auman, FAST: NASA's Developing Program
for Student Research Via Experiment Payloads on the International
Space Station
- Brian Layton Cardall, An Investigation of
Toxicity in the Rough-Skin Newt
- Stephanie Chambers, Structural Determinants
of Cardiac RGS Protein Function
- Marchet Clark, Unraveling the Past: The
Knitting Mills of Logan, Utah, Circa 1904
- Jodie Corbridge, Secondary Electron Emission
of Graphitic Carbon Small Bandgap Semiconductors
- Brandt Esplin, Activation of Plant Defense
Genes
- William Cragun, Linking Gully Erosion to
Precipitation Magnitude and Intensity at Lee's Ferry, Arizona
- Jeffrey Duce, Nucleic Boiling in a Microgravity
Environment
- Christopher Fox, Pluronic Adsorption, Distribution
and Stability
- Michael Huston, Acknowledging the Social
Learner: Moving Beyond the Process Approach to Writing Instruction
- Brandon Morton, Social and Economic Impacts
of Industrial Farming in Rural Utah
- Julia Nielsen, Quality and Distribution
of Soil Organic Carbon in Rangeland and Forest Soils: Implications
for Global Climate Change
- Kurtis Reed, A Glimpse Into the Past: Using
Lake Sediment Cores to Study Invertebrate Responses to Changing
Environments
- Kyle Tubbs, Chemical Properties of Copper
Alkoxide Complexes
- Katherine Ward, Microbiol Cell Signaling
and Biofilm Formation
- Daniel Webb, Visions of Hell in Navigatio
Sancti Brendani Abbatis
- Dustin Williams, Central Cord Syndrome in
a Football Player with Congenital Spinal Stenosis: A Case
Report
- Jill Williams, The Efficient-Market Theory
During a Recession
- Jared Younker, Mechanistic Study of Aryl
Sulfate Diesters
For more information about NCUR, visit its Web site, www.ncur.org.
Utah
State Extension in Salt Lake County:
First-Time
Homeowners
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but were a little scared of jumping into home ownership.
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It must have helped, because the couple now belong to the ranks
of successful home owners. And that's no small deal.
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tour of Utah.
Utah
Poet
Laureate Ken Brewer to Give Reading at Utah State in Honor of
English Department Alum
Ken Brewer, poet laureate of Utah, will give a benefit reading
for the Adrienne Platero Creative Writing Award March 24 at
the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on the Utah State University
campus at 7:30 p.m.
The award was established through an anonymous donation and
other contributions in memory of Adrienne Platero, a former
student in Utah State's English department, whose creative writing
accomplishments were well known among faculty and students.
Platero died last November of leukemia while pursuing a master's
degree in creative writing at Oregon State University. As a
tribute to Platero, friends, teachers and colleagues hope to
add enough funding to the original donation to award a cash
prize each year to the overall winner of the annual USU English
department's Creative Writing Contest. Platero's poetry won
second place in the contest in 2000 and 2002, and her essay
"Foreign Land" won first place in 2002. Her poems
have been published in literary journals throughout the western
states, including the English department's natural science and
creative writing journal, "Petroglyph."
Brewer, Utah State emeritus professor, said he will read from
Platero's work, the work of other Utah State poets and writers
who are "no longer with us," and from his own work,
donating his time to raise funds for the award.
College
of Business Alum Named CEO of Deloitte & Touche
College of Business alum James H. Quigley was named U.S. chief
executive officer of Deloitte & Touche, the world's No.
2 accounting firm.
Mr. Quigley, 50, currently co–regional managing partner
in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is widely respected
for his skill in serving large clients with complex needs. He
is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors.
In addition to his executive responsibilities, Mr. Quigley provides
oversight of Deloitte services for a number of large, multi-national
companies. As U.S. CEO, Quigley will lead the firm's client
service initiatives and will steer the firm's strategic direction.
He is a resident of New Canaan, Connecticut.
He joined the firm in 1974. As a partner, Mr. Quigley served
in several key management roles with the firm's national office,
including assistant to the chairman and chief of staff, and
secretary to the board of directors and operating committee.
He serves in an advisory capacity to several clients, including
American Industrial Partners, BASF, Cendent, Fisher Scientific,
Hunstman Chemical, International Paper, ITT Industries, Monsanto,
Solutia and Verizon Wireless. He also served for seven years
as the firm's lead client service partner to Monsanto Company.
Mr. Quigley is a graduate of Utah State University and is involved
in many professional and civic activities, including the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Economic Club
of New York and the United Way of Tri-State.
Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional
services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management
consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than
80 U.S. cities.
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