October 31, 2002 News Releases
Released 10/30/02
CORNELL
PROFESSOR TO SPEAK TO UTAH STATE SCIENCE STUDENTS
LOGAN — Internationally renowned scientist Eloy Rodriguez,
from Cornell University, will present a seminar for all Utah
State University students on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 1:30 p.m.
in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium. Rodriguez will also
hold a seminar specifically for multicultural students in biology
at 10 a.m. in the Multicultural Student Center.
“Rodgriguez is internationally known for his research
on natural pharmaceuticals and tropical chemical ecology,”
said Daryll Dewald, biology professor at Utah State. “He
is a co-founder of the discipline of zoopharmacognosy (animal
self-medication). Rodgriguez helped establish the field of chemo-ornithology
(bird defense and medication), and his research has discovered
natural substances from termites, scorpions, plants and birds
that kill tropical viruses and inhibit tumor cells and bacteria.”
Rodriguez, a James A. Perkins Endowed Professor at Cornell,
is currently the director for the Biodiversity Laboratory at
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and EsBaran Field Station in
Peru for Cornell University and directs summer programs for
students at both locations.
As part of a new program for the Multicultural Student Center,
the Inaugural Program for Multicultural Student Research in
Sciences will select one student from Utah State to participate
in Rodriguez’s summer programs in the Amazon and Carribean.
The student will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with
Rodriguez and be able to consult with Utah State faculty mentors
who will help get the student’s work published.
Dewald, Everardo Martinez-Inzunza, director of Multicultural
Student Services and Dr. Anthony Torres, director of the Immunogenetics
Lab at Utah State are hosting Rodriguez’s stay at the
university. Other hosts are the colleges of Science, Agriculture
and Natural Resources.
“Along with presenting the seminars, Rodriguez will spend
time visiting local schools aiming to get more young multicultural
students further involved in the field of science as part of
the Outreach program for Utah State,” said Dewald.
October 30, 2002
Writer: Heidi Broadwater, hab@cc.usu.edu
Contact: Everardo Martinez-Inzunza, everardo@cc.usu.edu
ENVIRONMENTAL
HEAVYWEIGHTS SPEAK AT UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
LOGAN—Citizens will be able to hear both sides of the
wilderness issue this week at Utah State University as Utah
Congressman James Hansen, chair of the House Natural Resources
Committee, appears the day before Stephen Boch, staff attorney
with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).
Hansen will appear Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. in the Eccles
Conference Center on the Utah State campus.
Boch, with SUWA, will appear Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., also
in the Eccles Conference Room.
Hansen, retiring from the United States Congress after 22 years,
will reflect on his involvement in natural resource and environmental
issues and will discuss how federal policy influences land management
in Utah. As chair of the Natural Resources Committee, Hansen
advocated multiple-use of public lands and stopped implementation
of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's re-inventory of BLM lands
in Utah. Hansen has advocated and helped pass many wilderness
bills nationwide, including the Hansen/Garn Utah Forest Service
Wilderness bill in 1984.
SUWA, which advocates for preservation of Colorado Plateau wilderness,
has been a major force in Utah’s environmental politics
for 20 years. Boch will talk about America’s Redrock Wilderness
Act and SUWA's efforts to close wilderness-quality lands to
off-road vehicle use, oil and gas exploration, and drilling.
SUWA is based in Salt Lake City, with field offices in Washington,
D.C. and southern Utah.
Hansen and Boch are appearing as part of the Natural Resource
and Environmental Policy Program at Utah State.
“The series seeks to stimulate the search for innovative,
workable solutions to challenges involved in developing environmental
policies and to facilitate public involvement in decision-making,”
said Director Joanna Endter-Wada.
Upcoming seminars will feature Stephen Trimble, naturalist,
writer and photographer; Lee Austin and Howard Berkes, with
National Public Radio; and Dianne R. Nielson, executive director
of Utah's Department of Environmental Quality.
The series is sponsored by the College of Natural Resources,
the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and the
S.J. and Jesse E. Quinney Foundation.
For more information, contact Judith Kurtzman at 435-797-0922.
October 30, 2002
Writer: Nadene Steinhoff, nadene.Steinhoff@usu.edu, 435-797-1429
Contacts: Shauna Leavitt, 435-797-2797, sleavitt@cc.usu.edu
and Judith Kurtzman, judyk@cnr.usu.edu
“TEXTUALLY
TAMING THE WEST” — BROWN BAG PRESENTATION AT UTAH
STATE UNIVERSITY
LOGAN — The Women and Gender Research Institute (WGRI)
Brown Bag Series at Utah State University presents Department
of English associate professor Kathryn Fitzgerald and “Textually
Taming the West” as its next offering Nov. 5 at noon in
the Center Colony Room of the Taggart Student Center on campus.
Fitzgerald’s WGRI funded research led to the discovery
of a cache of student papers written in 1898 and forgotten.
The papers, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wisconsin’s
statehood, perform some surprising ideological work.
For instance, students erase Indians from memory in terms of
lauding European colonization, at the same time that they write
themselves into the white community they are constructing on
the site of the former Indian lands. Fitzgerald’s presentation
will describe the rhetorical strategies that accomplish these
remarkable feats, she said.
The event is sponsored by the Women and Gender Research Institute
and the Department of English at Utah State. The event is free
and all are welcome.
October 30, 2002
Contact: Marina Hall (435) 797-3858
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