March 25-28, 2003 Highlights
Prestigious
Evans Book Awards to Be Presented at Utah State University
 Two
book awards, the Evans Biography Award and the Evans Handcart
Award, will be presented at Utah State University March 27.
Ronald O. Barney will receive the $10,000 Evans Biography Award.
Mary Clearman Blew will be honored with the $1,000 Handcart
prize.
Coordinated by the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies
at Utah State, the awards are designed to encourage writing
about the people who have shaped the growth and character of
western America. The Evans Biography Award was established in
1983 to recognize outstanding scholarship and writing in this
field. The Handcart Award was established in 1996 to recognize
a biography of merit.
The public is invited to attend the awards ceremony and reception,
which begin at 3 p.m. in the Tanner Room of the Merrill Library
on the Utah State campus. The awards are presented for books
published in 2002.
Barney, the biography winner, is recognized for his book "One
Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808––1894,"
published by Utah State University Press and Scholarly Publications.
Seven distinguished reviewers selected Barney's book from a
field of 10 nominees. The judges' review said the book "addresses
an under-acknowledged subject, is based on fine research and
is an empathetic and thorough exploration of the life of its
subject."
The Evans Handcart Award is presented to Blew for her book
"When Montana and I were Young: A Frontier Childhood,"
published by University of Nebraska Press. The work is based
on a memoir by Margaret Bell (1888––1982), a rancher
and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier
childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Her memoir
was lost for nearly 50 years.
Utah
State Extension in Summit County:
Pooling
for Profits
 Metta
Richins married into the sheep business, and, at age 84, is
in her 30th year as lamb pool secretary and the only woman ever
to be named as president of the Utah Woolgrowers.
She likes to talk about the good old days of thousands of range
sheep in the county but has also adjusted to the realities of
small "farm flocks."
Farm flocks are measured in hundreds, while range flocks generally
number in the thousands. These small flocks make it hard for
sheep growers to make a profit.
Summit County Extension agent Sterling Banks has worked with
the county growers and Richins to help pool resources. Pooling
allows these small farm flocks to get the same prices as the
larger scale ranchers.
"This year we helped the farm flocks get 6-10 cents more
per pound than they would have trying to go it on their own,"
Richins says. "Sterling was also instrumental in getting
land and funding for a new county stockyard that allows farmers
to bring in their flocks, weigh them and get them ready for
shipping. He also helps with the computer aspects of the lamb
pool secretary's job."
Banks has also been successful at getting the county grant money
to control predators, she concluded.
To find out more about Summit County, click
here. For more about Extension in other counties take the
Extension
tour of Utah.
Utah
State's Wright Flyer and Space Dynamics Laboratory Featured
in Prime Time Commercial
 As
part of the NCAA March Madness, brought to Logan thanks to the
Aggie basketball team, Utah State University was given a chance
to grab a bit of the television spotlight through a tournament
television package. In a 30-second commercial narrated by President
Kermit L. Hall, viewers take to the skies and venture into outer
space with Utah State.
The commercial, produced by the Office of Public Relations
and Marketing and University Media Production, highlights the
Utah State Wright Flyer project, showing footage of its first
test flights on the Salt Flats. It also features the Space Dynamics
Laboratory and its cutting-edge research for NASA.
The commercial will air three times during the NCAA Sweet
Sixteen, March 27–28, as well as during KUTV's 10 p.m.
news broadcasts March 24 and 25. To view the commercial online,
click one of the the links below. The clip requires RealPlayer
and is available in high and low bandwidths. (To get RealPlayer,
click here.)
Utah
State Commercial -- High bandwidth
Utah
State Commercial -- Low bandwidth
Utah
State Administrators Release Budgetary White Paper
As reported earlier this week,
the administration at Utah State released the much anticipated
White Paper, outlining the budgetary recommendations for present
and future fiscal years at Utah State University.
As many of our readers are probably
interested in this analysis of the budget outlook for Utah State
University, it has been included under our "Highlights"
section through next Monday for easy access.
The White Paper, in its entirety, is available by clicking
on the link below. The paper is in PDF format and requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view it. (Click here
to get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
White
Paper -- Utah State University: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
utah
state today/archives/March
2003/archives
prior to Sept 2002/
Brought
to you by Utah State University Public Relations and Marketing
|