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Faculty Senate Agenda, April 7, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Commencement
• Honorary Degree and Awards Committee Report
• Academic Integrity Policy
• Criminal Background Checks
• Relocation Assistance Policy
• FDDE Business Code 405.7.2 Proposal
• PRPC Annual Report
• EPC Report
• Faculty Evaluation Committee Report and Course Evaluation Form
• Committee on Committees
• Election of Senate President Elect
• Nominations and Election for Committee on Committees Vacancies
• Announcement of Senator Interest Form

Rangeland Fires And Cheatgrass: Values At Risk And Support For Preservation, M. D. R. Evans, Kim Rollins

Articles

The high desert sagebrush ecosystems of the Great Basin evolved with fire. However, the introduction of cheatgrass (t. bromus), a highly flammable invasive annual grass, has contributed to the increased intensity and frequency of wildfires we have seen in recent years. Cheatgrass-fueled fires often kill native perennials, which creates openings for further cheatgrass expansion. Winters with more moisture than usual result in more cheatgrass and increased fire risk. Over time the result is ever larger areas dominated by cheatgrass and other invasive weeds that burn with greater frequency, and increasingly severe fire seasons.

Utah Science Vol. 64 No. 1, Spring/Summer 2008

Utah Science

2 MICROSCOPIC VIRUSES & BIC SCIENCE

8 THE WAR ON WEEDS

14 NOT HARD TO DIGEST

24 FORAGE KOCIA AFTER RANGE FIRE

20 SYNTHESIS: Science at Utah State

28 SEEK: Students in science

29 SEARCH: Science on the web

Neurologic Equine Herpes Virus (Ehv-1), L. Earl Rogers, Kerry A. Rood

All Current Publications

This publication provides background information and describes clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, vaccination and preventive measures.

Usu Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, March 24, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• ASUSU Smoking Resolution
• PRPC Report
• Honorary Degree & Awards Committee Report
• EPC Report
• Criminal Background Checks
• Relocation Assistance Policy
• Nominations for Committee on Committees
• Committee on Committees Report
• Faculty Evaluation Form
• Election of Senate President Elect

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, March 24, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• ASUSU Tobacco Policy Paper and Resolution
• PRPC Report
• Honorary Degree & Awards Committee Report
• EPC Report
• Academic Integrity Procedures
• Criminal Background Checks
• Relocation Assistance Policy
• Nominations for Committee on Committees
• Committee on Committees Report
• Faculty Evaluation Committee Report and Forms
• Election of Senate President Elect

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, March 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

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

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, March 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate

• New Course

Department of Business Administration

• New Course

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change
• Course Description Change

Department of Psychology

• New Course
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation

• New Course

Department of Engineering and Technology Education

• Course Description Change

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Art

• University Studies Request

Department of Religious Studies

• New Course

Other

• Combining minors to create an Equine minor and an Animal and Dairy Science …

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, March 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

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

Faculty Senate Agenda, March 3, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• VPR Seed Funding
• Research Council Annual Report
• Committee on Committees Report
• BFW Annual Report
• EPC Business
• PRPC Items
• Representation of Extension and RCDE on Faculty Senate 402.10.1(2nd reading)
• Reasons for Non-Renewal 407.7.2 (2nd reading)
• Nomination of Senate President Elect
• Nominations for Two Seats on Committee on Committees

Feeding Camelina Sativa And Enhancing Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels In Market-Age Turkey Hens, David Frame, Matt Palmer, Robert Ward, Silvana Martini

All Current Publications

Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz (camelina) is an oilseed producing plant in the Family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) originating from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. There is increasing interest in converting waste cooking oil and oil produced from oilseed crops, such as camelina, into biofuels in order to decrease dependence on petroleum products for fuel sources. The interest for growing oilseed crops in Utah is growing as well. Camelina sativa is a low input oilseed-producing crop adapted to climates similar to central Utah. Central Utah is also home to the Utah commercial turkey industry.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, February 19, 2008, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Academic Integrity Policy
• VPR Seed Funding Programs
• Research Council Annual Report
• Committee on Committees Report
• BFW Annual Report
• EPC Business
• PRPC Items
• Representation of Extension and RCDE on Faculty Senate 402.10.1 (2nd reading)
• Reasons for Non-Renewal 407.7.2 (2nd reading)
• FDDE - Code 405.7.2 Proposal
• Faculty Code Review Committee

Environmental Assessment Experimental Releases From Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, 2008 Through 2012, U.S. Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, Salt Lake City, Utah

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Use Of Landsat 30m Enhanced Thematic Mapper To Monitor Vegetation Cover In Shrub-Steppe Environments, R. Douglas Ramsey, Dennis L. Wright, Chris Mcginty

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Many land‐management agencies are caught between decreased budgets and increasing public interest. Furthermore, semi‐arid landscapes are sensitive to management prescriptions and use, and require a significant amount of monitoring in order to assess vegetation productivity and health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM) Imagery to monitor seasonal vegetation cover in a shrub‐steppe ecosystem. The study area, managed by The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, consists of a shrub‐steppe environment in south‐central Utah. Biotic (tree, shrub, grass, and forbs) and abotic (slope, aspect, elevation, landform type, and slope shape) …

Over The Range, Richard V. Francaviglia

All USU Press Publications

Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion—the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape. Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusiast's knowledge of trains, a cartographic historian's understanding of the knowledge and experience embedded …

A Route For The Overland Stage, Jesse G. Petersen

All USU Press Publications

The 1859 exploration of the Great Basin by army topographical engineer James Simpson opened up one of the West's most important transportation and communication corridors, a vital link between the Pacific Coast and the rest of the nation. It became the route of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail and Stage, the line of the Pacific telegraph, a major wagon road for freighters and emigrants, and, later, the first transcontinental auto road, the Lincoln Highway, now Highway 50. No one has accurately tracked or mapped Simpson's original route, until now. Jesse Petersen shows in words, maps, and photos exactly …

Confluences, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Antiviral Activities Andphosphorylation Of 5-Halo-2'-Deoxyuridines And N-Methanocarbathymidine In Cells Infectedwith Vaccinia Virus, Donald F. Smee, D. E. Humphreys, B. L. Hurst, Dale L. Barnard

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

The Antipoxviral activities and phosphorylation of N-methanocarbathymidine ([N]-MCT) and four 5-halo-2'-deoxyuridines, namely 5-flouro- (FdU), 5-chloro- (CldU), 5-bromo- (BrdU), and 5-iodo- (IdU) derivatives were explored.

Small Pasture Management Guide, James Barnhill, Scott Mckendrick

All Archived Publications

As more people select rural settings for their homes, traditional farms are being divided into small acreage home lots. Many small acreage owners would like to have lush green pastures where they can raise horses, cattle, or sheep. The purpose of this booklet is to provide the educational guidance these owners need to successfully establish and maintain a healthy grazing system.

Photoelectric Charging By Ultraviolet Light Of A Lunar Dust Simulant In A Microgravity Environment, Microgravity Research Team 2008

Reports and Proposals

No abstract provided.

Virtual Manipulatives Used By K-8 Teachers For Mathematics Instruction: Considering Mathematical, Cognitive, And Pedagogical Fidelity, Patricia S. Moyer-Packenham, Gwenanne Salkind, Johnna J. Bolyard

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

This study examined teachers’ uses of virtual manipulatives across grades K-8 after participating in a professional development institute in which manipulatives and technology were the major resources used throughout all of the activities. Researchers analyzed 95 lesson summaries in which classroom teachers described their uses of virtual manipulatives during school mathematics instruction. The findings indicated that the content in a majority of the lessons focused on two National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000a) standards: Number & Operations and Geometry. Virtual geoboards, pattern blocks, base-10 blocks, and tangrams were the applets used most often by teachers. The ways teachers used …

Mrs. Ramsay's Knee, Utah State University Press

Swenson Poetry Award Winners

May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 12, with foreward by Harold Bloom. Mrs. Ramsay's Knee offers fresh and elegant poems by Idris Anderson, many of them ekphrastic considerations of visual works of art. Among her subjects are paintings by Rembrandt, Rousseau, Pollock, and Chagall, yet she equally explores a set of news photos from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life And Times Of William H. Smart, William B. Smart

All USU Press Publications

By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of …

Living With Stories, William Schneider

All USU Press Publications

In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Old Deseret Live Stock Company, W. Dean Frischknecht

All USU Press Publications

In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains lies what is left of one of the American West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent …

Experiments Station Service Project Update And Annual Report, 2007, Deevon Bailey

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

The research activities described in this document were supported by the Utah State University Economics Research Institute in 2007. The Economics Research Institute was founded in 1965 to provide training opportunities for graduate students and to assist in the solution oflocal, regional, and national economic problems. UAES has provided ongoing support for the ERr since 1972 under project number UTA-686. The project has provided the Department of Economics 'with resources to search out new developments in economics to analyze new and complex issues in public and private decision making processes. Boldface type is used to identify Utah State University Economics …

Review Of While They Slept By Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Communication Management And Trust: Their Role In Building Resilience To “Surprises” Such As Natural Disasters, Pandemic Flu, And Terrorism, P. H. Longstaff, Sung-Un Yang

All UNF Research

In times of public danger such as natural disasters and health emergencies, a country’s communication systems will be some of its most important assets because access to information will make individuals and groups more resilient. Communication by those charged with dealing with the situation is often critical. We analyzed reports from a wide variety of crisis incidents and found a direct correlation between trust and an organization’s preparedness and internal coordination of crisis communication and the effectiveness of its leadership. Thus, trust is one of the most important variables in effective communication management in times of “surprise.”

Interactive Landuse Planning In Indonesian Rain-Forest Landscapes: Reconnecting Plans To Practice, Eva Wollenberg, Bruce Campbell, Edmond Dounias, Petrus Gunarso, Moira Moeliono, Douglas Sheil

All UNF Research

Indonesia’s 1999–2004 decentralization reforms created opportunities for land-use planning that reflected local conditions and local people’s needs. We report on seven years of work in the District of Malinau in Indonesian Borneo that attempted to reconnect government land-use plans to local people’s values, priorities, and practices. Four principles are proposed to support more interactive planning between government and local land users: Support local groups to make their local knowledge, experience, and aspirations more visible in formal land-use planning and decision making; create channels of communication, feedback, and transparency to support the adaptive capacities and accountability of district leadership and institutions; …

N-Transfer Through Aspen Litter And Feather Moss Layers After Fertilization With Ammonium Nitrate And Urea, N A. Startsev, V J. Lieffers, S M. Landhausser, A Velazquez-Martinez

Aspen Bibliography

When fertilizer is broadcast in boreal forest stands, the applied nutrients must pass through a thick layer of either feather moss or leaf litter which covers the forest floor. In a growth chamber experiment we tested the transfer of N through living feather moss or aspen litter when fertilized with urea ((NH2)2CO) or NH4NO3 at a rate of 100 kg ha−1 and under different watering regimes. When these organic substrates were frequently watered to excess they allowed the highest transfer of nutrients through, although 72% of the applied fertilizer was captured in the substrates. In a field experiment we also …