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General Education Subcommittee Minutes, December 16, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Course Designation Approvals

Syllabus Approval

Other Business

• Update from Assessment Subcommittee
• CIL Exam Update
• International Baccalaureate Diploma and Gen Ed Discussion
• Distance Delivery Concerns for Course Approvals
• Spreadsheet of All General Education Requirements
• Sustainability Criteria Update–Breadth Designation Subcommittee Chairs
• Raise Minimum English 1010 Grade to C Minus
• QL/QI Accommodation Process
• Aligning LEAP Outcomes with University Studies Objectives

Next Meeting

Faculty Diversity, Development, And Equity Committee Minutes, December 10, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Diversity, Development, and Equity Committee

• GLBT language approved by Faculty Senate
• Change on submitting names
• Inconsistencies of calendars
• Care-giving Leave Policy-Faculty Forum
• Priorities

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, December 8, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Council on Teacher Education
• Scholarship Advisory Board
• Code Revision Committee Report
• EPC Items

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, December 8, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Council on Teacher Education
• Scholarship Advisory Board
• Code Review Committee Report
• EPC Items
• Faculty Forum Minutes

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Science, December 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Name Change: Information Systems Emphasis from Software Development Emphasis

The Department of Computer Science at Utah State University (USU) requests a name change of the BS emphasis in Information Systems to an emphasis in Software Development, effective Fall Semester 2009.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, December 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) requests authorization to restructure departments within the school, effective Spring Semester 2009.

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, December 4, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, December 4, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 4, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Applied Economics

• New Courses
• Course Prefix Change
• Course Prefix Change, Prerequisite Change
• Course Prefix Change, Add Multiple List
• Course Prefix Change, Add Multiple List, Prerequisite Change
• Course Prefix Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Delete Course

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• Prerequisite Change

School of Accountancy

• Course Prefix Change

Department of Economics and Finance

• New Course
• Course Prefix Change
• Course Prefix Change, Course Number Change
• Course Prefix Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change
• Course Prefix Change, Add Multiple List, Prerequisite Change
• Course Prefix Change, Prerequisite Change
• Course Prefix Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description …

Insights, Fall, 2008, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Agenda, December 1, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Medicare Advantage Plan
• Code Revision Committee Report
• Athletic Council Report
• ASUSU Report
• Retention and First Year Experience Report
• EPC Items
• PRPC Report

Effects Of Olfactory And Visual Predators On Nest Success And Nest-Site Selection Of Waterfowl In North Dakota, Jennifer Borgo

Green Canyon Environmental Research Area, Logan Utah

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Perspectives On The Health Needs Of Pastoral Women On The Borana Plateau Using Participatory Approaches, D. Layne Coppock, Seyoum Tezera, Solomon Desta

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Since 2000, the PARIMA project has conducted participatory research and outreach among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. This has led to notable achievements in terms of forming collective-action groups dominated by women, stimulation of sustainable micro-finance and micro-enterprise activities, and improving linkages of pastoral producers to livestock markets. Despite such gains, there are many other challenges to be addressed. One is poor human health. PARIMA researchers used participatory and qualitative methods to conduct a preliminary assessment of women’s health problems among members of six, well-established collective-action groups from the Borana and Gugi zones in the Oromia Regional State during 2008. Conventional …

The Certainty Of Spinning, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Mexican Cliffrose In The Landscape, Heidi Kratsch, Graham Hunter

Gardening

No abstract provided.

Sagestep News, Fall 2008, No. 7, Utah State University

Newsletters

Seasonal newsletter of SageSTEP.

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, December 1, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Commencement
• International Students
• Budget Reduction Committee
• Student Death
• University Closure
• Football Coach
• Accreditation Process
• Rainy Day Fund
• Code Review Committee
• Medicare Advantage Plan
• PRPC Items
• Section 403 Standards of Conduct
• Section 405.7 Potential Reviewers
• Section 407 Definition of Days

Water Rights In Utah, Chad R. Reid, Keith H. Christensen, Robert W. Hill

All Current Publications

If you are connected to a municipal system, your water is probably categorized as “culinary or municipal water” and is used for everything from drinking and bathing to washing the car to watering tomatoes.

Creating Tomorrow, Fall 2008, College Of Engineering

College of Engineering Magazines

Annual magazine for the College of Engineering at Utah State University.

Socio-Demographic And Financial Predictors Of Discharged Chapter 12 Bankruptcies For Utah, Idaho, And Wyoming, Jessica Johnson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine the socio-demographic and financial characteristics that were associated with the likelihood of a discharge among Chapter 12 bankruptcy filers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Previous bankruptcy studies conducted in Utah have looked at the same associations in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. This study contains individual filer-level data from 158 Chapter 12 bankruptcy cases filed in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming between 1997 and 2005. These cases were accessed through the Web-PACER system, a database of imaged court documents filed in district bankruptcy courts. Free access to this system was given by the …

Dechlorinating And Iron Reducing Bacteria Distribution In A Trichloroethene Contaminated Aquifer, Carmen Lourdes Yupanqui Zaa

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Operable Unit 5 (OU 5) area of Hill Air Force Base currently has two trichloroethene-contaminated groundwater plumes underneath residential areas in Sunset and Clinton, Utah. Bioremediation by biological reductive dechlorination can be an important mechanism for the removal of chlorinated compounds from the plumes. The presence of suitable bacteria to carry on reductive dechlorination is the key in the bioremediation process. The goal of this study was to determine the distribution and population density of the 16S rRNA genes of Bacteria, Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, Desulfuromonas michiganensis, Geobacter spp and Rhodoferax ferrireducens-like bacteria, as well as the functional genes trichloroethene reductive …

Use Of Stimulus Management Techniques To Reduce Sedentary Behaviors Of Overweight Children, Julie A. Pelletier

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

An epidemic proportion of children and adolescents is currently overweight or at-risk of being overweight. This is associated with many negative outcomes, including short-term and long-term health risks, as well as increased psychosocial problems. The etiology of this problem is likely complex, though environmental factors (i.e., factors related to decreased physical activity and increased consumption of calories) have been implicated in previous research. Providing effective, easy-to-implement treatment strategies for children who are overweight or at-risk of being overweight could be helpful to reverse the current epidemic and to decrease current health care costs associated with pediatric obesity. The overall purpose …

Application Of Resiliency Theory And Adaptive Cycles As A Framework For Evaluating Change In Amenity-Transition Communities, Scott L. Hoffmann

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In recent decades, many rural, natural resource-dependent communities have experienced ubiquitous and oftentimes substantial economic decline due to downturns in their commodity-oriented industries. In spite of this, communities with access to varying forms of natural capital have experienced an upsurge in activities such as recreation, tourism, second home growth, and retirement in-migration. If managed properly, amenity-oriented development has potential to reverse economic decline by attracting tourists, entrepreneurs, younger and more educated workers, and retirees, and may ultimately generate economic diversification, local growth, and an improved quality of life for residents. While there are literally thousands of potential measures of well-being, …

Integrating Surface And Sub Surface Flow Models Of Different Spatial And Temporal Scales Using Potential Coupling Interfaces, Alphonce Chenjerayi Guzha

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The main objective of this research was to develop and utilize a coupled surface water groundwater model to simulate hydrological responses of watersheds. This was achieved by coupling the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) groundwater flow model, MODFLOW, and the rainfall runoff model, TOPMODEL, in one case study and coupling MODFLOW with a networked version of TOPMODEL called TOPNET in another case study. The model coupling was achieved using the InCouple approach, which utilizes Potential Coupling Interfaces (PCIs) that are abstractions from model flow diagrams that expose only those aspects of a model relevant to coupling. Coupling the rainfall-runoff models to …

Angles-Only Navigation For Autonomous Orbital Rendezvous, David Charles Woffinden

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The proposed thesis of this dissertation has both a practical element and theoretical component which aim to answer key questions related to the use of angles-only navigation for autonomous orbital rendezvous. The first and fundamental principle to this work argues that an angles-only navigation filter can determine the relative position and orientation (pose) between two spacecraft to perform the necessary maneuvers and close proximity operations for autonomous orbital rendezvous. Second, the implementation of angles-only navigation for on-orbit applications is looked upon with skeptical eyes because of its perceived limitation of determining the relative range between two vehicles. This assumed, yet …

The Effect Of Climate Change On The Hydrology Of A Mountainous Catchment In The Western United States: A Case Study At Reynolds Creek, Idaho, Anurag Nayak

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This research is focused on understanding the sensitivity of a hydrologic regime at the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW), a snowmelt dominated semi-arid mountain basin located in southwest Idaho, to climate warming.

Climate data, collected during 1962 to 2006 at many locations in the RCEW, was carefully checked, preprocessed, and corrected for errors and noise signals introduced by the instrument malfunctioning and extreme weather conditions. An Automated Precipitation Correction Program (APCP) was developed to remove mechanical errors from the weighing-recording bucket type precipitation gauge measurements. APCP produces comparable results to the manual techniques but a degree faster (few minutes against …

The Process Of Tracking In Mathematics In Box Elder School District, Megan Haramoto Bushnell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Educational policymakers have used tracking to instruct students in a variety of subjects, including mathematics. Tracking, which has also been called ability grouping, is a process by which students in the same grade are placed into different classes based on academic ability. Few educators and sociologists have looked at the process by which students are placed in different mathematics tracks. The research design of this study focused on accumulating, evaluating, and reporting the understanding and observations of 12 teachers and 4 counselors as they discussed their knowledge and involvement in the mathematics placement procedures from the intermediate and middle school …

Intergranular Phases In Cyclically Annealed Yba2cu3o7-X And Their Implications For Critical Current Densities, Andrew Peter Clarke

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

We report changes in the intergranular material and grain morphology of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x during cyclic anneals between 780 and 980 ºC in oxygen at atmospheric pressure. Two endothermic reactions were detected: (a) the eutectic reaction of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x with CuO and BaCuO₂ at 900 ºC (enthalpy ∆H_a) and (b) the peritectic reaction of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x with CuO at 950 ºC (∆H_b). During the first anneal, only reaction (b) is detected, and although it should only occur if there is an excess of CuO, …

Sex-Biased Predation On Taricha By A Novel Predator In Annadel State Park, Amber Noelle Brouillette

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Newts of the genus Taricha have long been studied due to the powerful neurotoxin found in their skin. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) acts by blocking receptors in sodium channels, ultimately resulting in death via asphyxiation. The only documented predators of species in this genus have been snakes of the genus Thamnophis. Recently, predation on Taricha in Ledson Marsh in Annadel State Park, Santa Rosa, CA was discovered. Predation was in the form of laceration or evisceration, and tracking of predation from 1998-2008 showed that it was male-biased. Two species of Taricha were found living sympatrically at this location, the California newt …

Predator-Prey Relationships And Spatial Ecology Of Jaguars In The Southern Pantanal, Brazil: Implications For Conservation And Management, Sandra Maria Cintra Cavalcanti

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Pantanal wetland of Brazil is an important area for the conservation of jaguars (Panthera onca) and a stronghold for the species. Although our knowledge of jaguar ecology has increased since the first field studies in the mid 1980’s, a detailed study of this cryptic species remains challenging. In the following chapters, we investigated the ecology of jaguars in the southern Pantanal of Brazil. In Chapter II, we examined the foraging ecology of jaguars, documenting predation rates, patterns, and species killed. We found individual jaguars differed in the selection of their prey. There were differences in the proportion …