Project Spotlight

Utah State University grad student links modern medicine and obscure 17th century autopsy

The NSF has funded a study to understand how behavioral changes affect health outcomes. Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, François Dengah, will conduct a three-year project looking at the impact of gender roles and family life on an individual...

Research on women in the world of business, conducted by the interdisciplinary team of sociology professor Christy Glass and business professor Alison Cook, has been used as an authoritative source by the New York Times.

Rails East to Ogden: Utah’s Transcontinental Railroad Story,” a publication in the Bureau of Land Management’s cultural resources series, has been recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Social Work student, Porscha Doucette hopes to diversify the social work curriculum. 

Alex Lambert is currently a Boren scholar studying Turkish and Azerbaijani in Baku

Tori Bodine, a USU political science grad working on a statistics degree, heads to Utah's Undergraduate Research Day at the State Capitol, to report on untraceable weapons created on a 3-D printer.

See how a popular Middle Ages' heavy artillery actually worked on October 20th.

Chris Babits and graduate student Jace Jones set out to create a master course for HIST 1700 concurrent enrollment.

Respected annual conference brings folklorists to USU to study today's digital folklore.

Greg Goelzhauser has published an article in the Journal of Law and Courts titled "Does Merit Selection Work?"

Daniel Bertrand and Frankie Urrutia-Smith, both seniors, earned the rare distinction of presenting their work at the American Historical Association.

History | James E. Sanders | Democracy in Las Americas, additional journal article

Julia Gossard, expert on childhood in medieval France, has published two journal articles

USU history student Rachel Walker’s undergraduate research project examines the narrative surrounding corsets and their effects on women’s bodies.

"Perspectives on Effective Teaching in DLI and Foreign Language Classrooms" is available; editors include USU faculty Karin deJonge Kannan and Maria Luisa Spicer Escalante

Faculty-Student Mentorship Grants end first year as a success. Read about highlights from the program.

Yun Kim demography laboratory celebrates its 50th anniversary with symposium

Eric Reither, a USU sociologist, has received a $2.1 million grant from the NIH to find links between sleep and weight gain

Students in an upper level Technical Communications class have created projects designed to find solutions to under-addressed issues in Cache Valley. They will share ideas for community projects April 23, 2019, at the Logan Library.

Anthropology graduate student Alexandra Wolberg teamed up with the College of Veterinary Medicine to analyze an Indigenous pouch.

Tegan Durfee, senior at USU majoring in English literature, completed an undergrad research project analyzing the work of May Swenson as a pioneer LGBTQ+ artist.

Three Utah State University archaeologists process massive amounts of brand-new data

This spring, Palfreyman conducted an undergrad research project analyzing the dissonance that USU undergrad students feel between their religious values and their personal beliefs about queer sexual identities.

This USU history grad student seeks to illuminate women’s contribution in past national conflicts. In recent years, the number of women enlisted in the United States military has increased dramatically.