May 28, 2003 News Releases
Released 5/23/03, 5/27/03
DVD
AIDS USU IN SHOWING THAT UNIVERSITY “RESEARCH MATTERS”
LOGAN — Utah State University’s K-SAR, a production
facility and division of Utah State’s Center for Persons
with Disabilities, received a Telly Award for creating “Research
Matters,” a DVD highlighting Utah State’s research
efforts. The Telly Awards showcase and give recognition to outstanding
non-network and cable commercials as well as to film and video
productions.
The Utah State Vice President for Research Office created “Research
Matters” to explain the many benefits of university research
and then sent the DVD to state legislators as well as other
target audiences in February. The research office hired K-SAR
to turn the “Research Matters” brochure into a DVD
to create more interest.
“It’s great to have such an effective outlet to
communicate the importance of university research,” said
Anna Brunson, public relations and media specialist for the
Vice President for Research Office. Brunson, who also wrote
the script for “Research Matters,” said the message
received more attention in the DVD format than in the print
brochure form.
“The DVD we produced presents the issue of university
research in a way that is not boring to the audience,”said
Tom Risk, director at K-SAR. “The DVD was created with
the highest quality technology available in the non-broadcast
market.”
On average, Utah State’s K-SAR has won two to three Telly
Awards each year since 1993, said Risk.
Utah State has experienced the rewards that come from university
research, including millions of dollars in federal grants and
quality education for students, said Brunson.
For further information about university research and “Research
Matters,” contact the Vice President for Research Office
at (435) 797-1180 or visit the Web site, www.usu.edu/vpr/. For
more information about K-SAR, call Tom Risk at (435) 797-2049.
May 27, 2003
Contact: Anna Brunson, (435) 797-1180; Tom Risk, (435) 797-2049
Writer: Jody Long, (435) 797-1351
UTAH
STATE CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT RECEIVES
GRANT TO RECRUIT FIVE DOCTORAL STUDENTS
LOGAN — The Utah State University civil and environmental
engineering department will award fellowships to five new doctoral
students studying environmental engineering thanks to a generous
grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant is called the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National
Need Grant (GAANN) and targets historically under-represented
groups, such as minorities and women, studying in areas that
include science and engineering.
“We’ve come a long way in the last few decades,
but there is still a need for more women and minorities studying
engineering,” said Randy Martin, associate professor of
civil and environmental engineering at Utah State.
As part of this grant, five students recruited by Utah State
will each receive a $21,500 stipend for their first year of
study, followed by a $27,500 stipend during their second year,
said Martin. The grant also includes a payment to Utah State
of $11,296 for each student for the department to use for books,
travel and miscellaneous supplies. The first year of funding
provided by the Department of Education totals $163,980 or 75%
of Utah State’s GAANN program funding. Utah State and
the civil and Utah State environmental engineering department
will contribute up to $40,995 or 25% of the program’s
first year funding. The grant continues for three years with
the possibility of extending to five years. As a part of the
program, the students will participate in a year long supervised
teaching experience to help prepare them for an academic career.
“With the financial climate so bad right now, it is hard
for faculty to get and fund doctoral students,” said Laurie
McNeill, assistant professor in the civil and environmental
engineering department at Utah State. “We will now be
able to recruit five more doctoral students than we would normally
be able to afford. We are so excited.”
McNeill’s graduate studies at the University of Colorado
Boulder were partially funded by the GAANN grant.
“This is a great program because it gives the students
lots of support, not only financially, but also in terms of
providing an invaluable infrastructure of connections and networking,”
said McNeill.
The grant will allow the civil and environmental engineering
department to bring in qualified doctoral candidates who want
to further their education, said Martin.
“It also furthers Utah State’s prominence as a nationally
competitive institution,” he continued.
The grant was given to Utah State because of the proposal submitted
by Martin, McNeill and Sonia Manuel-Dupont, associate professor
of civil and environmental engineering at Utah State. The department
will begin recruiting students for admission in the fall of
2003, as well as in 2004.
For more information about the GAANN Grant, contact Martin at
435-797-1585, or McNeill at 435-797-1522. For information about
the Utah State civil and environmental engineering department,
visit http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/ or visit the GAANN
Web site at http://www.engineering.usu.edu/uwrl/gaann/.
May 27, 2003
Contact: Randy Martin, (435) 797-1585
Writer: Maren Cartwright, (435) 797-1355
PUBLIC SERVICE
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Phone: (435) 797-3493
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and Archives.
UTAH STATE NEWS RELEASES FOR 05-23-03
JOURNAL OF CREATIVE
NATURE AND SCIENCE WRITING, “ISOTOPE,” RECEIVES
UTAH ARTS COUNCIL GRANT
LOGAN — The journal, “Isotope: A Journal of Creative
Nature and Science Writing” (formerly “Petroglyph”),
has received an Assistance to Literary Magazines Grant for fiscal
year 2003-04 of $2000. The funds are provided jointly by the
Utah State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Published by the department of English at Utah State University,
“Isotope” is edited by Christopher Cokinos, award-winning
author of “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” and
department of English assistant professor.
“‘Isotope’ seeks an expansive vision of explorations
of nature and science,” said editor Cokinos. “It
will both embrace and challenge the tradition of nature writing,
and move beyond it by including a wide range of work that engages
such fields as astronomy, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering,
sexuality, urban ecosystems, restoration ecology, physics and
math.”
“Isotope,” along with the department of English,
also sponsors the Mt. Naomi Nature Writing Workshop in scenic
Logan Canyon. This year’s workshop takes place Sept. 19-21
and features author and Utah State alum C.L. Rawlins. Registration
information is available at (435) 797-0423 or (800) 538-2663.
For more information on “Isotope” or the department
of English at Utah State, call (435) 797-3858.
May 23, 2003
Contact: Marina Hall (435) 797-3858
Writer: Marina Hall (435) 797-3858
TREAT FOR CODLING
MOTHS NOW
LOGAN — The time has arrived in northern Utah for the
first application of insecticides to prevent codling moth larvae
from entering apple and pear fruits.
The first treatment is the most important because good, early-season
control will reduce the population available to reproduce for
the remainder of the season, said Diane Alston, Utah State University
Extension entomology specialist. In the spring, the codling
moth population is synchronized as the moths emerge from over
wintering sites and the first insecticide application is timed
for the 1-3 percent egg hatch. An insecticide applied at this
time will prevent newly hatched larvae (worms) from chewing
into the fruit. Accurate timing is determined by monitoring
temperatures and first moth activity. Male moths were first
caught in pheromone traps hung in representative northern Utah
orchards in late April to early May. Their rate of development
is predicted based on temperature, as insects are cold-blooded
and cannot substantially regulate their own body temperature.
Shawn Steffan, Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM) coordinator
said projected treatment intervals are May 24-27 for Salt Lake
City, Perry, Willard and warmer locations in Utah County, such
as Genola; May 25-28 for West Mountain (Utah Co.); May 26-29
for Kaysville, Payson, Santaquin, Spanish Fork, Lincoln Point
and Weber County; May 28-31 for Brigham City; May 30-June 3
for Alpine and North Logan benches (warmer sites in Cache Co.);
and June 4-7 for Logan (cooler sites in Cache Co.).
Registered insecticides available to homeowners that are effective
for codling moth control include phosmet (Imidan), carbaryl
(Sevin), malathion, spinosad (Success or Entrust), Bacillus
thuringiensis (Dipel, Thuricide, Crymax Bt, Javelin), kaolin
clay (Surround), permethrin (Astro and others), horticultural
mineral oil (suffocates codling moth eggs), and diazinon (if
the product is labeled for tree fruit use).
Steffan says commercial growers can also use azinphosmethyl
(Guthion), dimethoate, fenpropathrin (Danitol), acetamiprid
(Assail), methoxyfenozide (Intrepid), and pyriproxifen (Esteem).
Additional cultural practices that can help reduce codling moth
populations include sanitation (prompt removal of infested fruit
as they drop), trunk banding with corrugated cardboard strips
(ribbed side of cardboard facing trunk) to catch larvae as they
pupate on trunks (remove, destroy and replace bands from late
June through October as they fill with cocooning larvae), and
physical barriers such as bagging fruit with paper bags when
they reach golf-ball size.
See the Utah State University Extension Integrated Pest Management
web site for more information on insecticides, including suggested
re-application intervals, and other control recommendations
(http//extension.usu.edu/ipm).
May 23, 2003
Writer: Dennis Hinkamp, 435-797-1392 [dennish@ext.usu.edu]
Contact: Diane Alston, 435-797-2516 [dianea@ext.usu.edu]
CODLING MOTH
LOGAN — Controlling worms in fruit is the objective
of many, but the methods and timing to do so are important.
Utah State University Extension horticulturist Jerry Goodspeed
offers advice to those who want to control the pesky pests.
“For years, people have wondered how those worms acquired
the skill and strength to climb fruit trees,” Goodspeed
said. “Actually, once there is fruit on the tree, the
worms start out as eggs laid near the fruit by a very intelligent
mother moth. This whole process starts about three weeks after
full bloom.”
For some time, many homeowners thought they should begin spraying
when trees were in bloom to prevent wormy apples. In reality,
all this does is kill off the bees that pollinate the blossoms,
he said. Since the worms need apples to survive, the astute
codling moth mothers wait to lay eggs until after the tree has
bloomed and fruit has formed on the tree.
The female lays her eggs. The eggs hatch in six to 14 days,
and, like all young ones, they are hungry. They need a meal
now, so they dig into the apple within a couple of hours, he
noted. They like to enter the apple at the blossom end, but
often resort to any soft place they can find. Then they move
to the core where they feed on the seeds. After three to five
weeks of doing nothing but eating and sleeping, they grow bored
(and stuffed) and decide to mosey on out of the apple and drop
to the ground.
Once on the ground, they pupate, which takes from seven to 30
days, depending on the weather. Then they emerge as adults,
they mate and begin a second generation of apple eaters. After
the second generation, which mimics the first, they drop to
the ground and spend the winter as pupa until spring, said Goodspeed.
When trying to control these worms, timing is everything. The
first cover spray is the most important, he noted. If a gardener
or homeowner can control or at least reduce the number of codling
moths in the first generation, it greatly reduces the next.
As mentioned earlier, the eggs begin to hatch and cause damage
about three weeks after full bloom.
Apply a registered insecticide when putting on the first cover
spray, Goodspeed said. Three examples are Imidan, Diazinon and
Malathion. The apples need to be protected for about three weeks,
so be sure to spray at the proper intervals. For example, Imidan
protects for about 18 to 20 days, Diazinon protects seven to
10 days and Malathion protects for three to seven days.
Organic sprays are also available, but they only provide a limited
amount of control, he said. BT products can be used, but must
be applied about every three to five days. Insecticidal soaps
are also an option, but they must be applied on nearly a daily
basis to suffocate the hatching larva.
Small apple bags can also be placed over the apples before the
codling moth lays its eggs. However, this is very time consuming
and has other drawbacks, Goodspeed noted.
“I tried it a few years ago,” he said. “A
good canyon wind took all those bags, which acted like kites,
and blew them and the apples to somewhere past Wendover.”
Weber County Extension agent James Barnhill monitors these insects.
He predicts when the eggs will be laid, when they will hatch
and when to start spraying for the worms. That information is
left on a recorded message at 801-627-3270. Calls are answered
between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, with a recorded
message the rest of the time. Those interested can also visit
http://extension.usu.edu/ipm/advisory.htm for the same information.
May 23, 2003
Writer: Julene Reese, 435-797-1363
Contact: Jerry Goodspeed, 801-392-8908
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