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Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, November 19, 2018, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Monthly Report – November 1, 2018
• Athletic Council Annual Report
• Faculty Evaluation Committee Annual Report
• Retention and Student Success Annual Report
• USUSA Annual Report
• Faculty Forum Outcome - Rebecca Lawver
• 405.7.2 (1) Code – External Reviewers
• 405.11.2 Code – Term Appointment Promotions
• 405.2 Code – Tenure and Promotion: Criteria for Core Faculty Ranks

Street Life And The Built Environment In An Auto-Oriented Us Region, Keunhyun Park, Reid Ewing, Sadegh Sabouri, Jon Larsen

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Faculty Publications

Urban planners and designers believe that the built environment at various geographic scales affects pedestrian activity, but have limited empirical evidence at the street scale, to support their claims. We are just beginning to identify and measure the qualities that generate active street life, and this paper builds on the first few studies to do so. This study measures street design qualities and surrounding urban form variables for 881 block faces in Salt Lake County, Utah, and relates them to pedestrian counts. This is the largest such study to date and includes suburbs as well as cities. At the neighborhood …

Assessing The Limitations Of Effective Number Of Samples For Finding The Uncertainty Of The Mean Of Correlated Data, Barton L. Smith, Douglas R. Neal, Mark Feero, Geordie Richards

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

The efficacy of recent and classical theories on the uncertainty of the mean of correlated data have been investigated. A variety of very large data sets make it possible to show that, under circumstances that are often too expensive to achieve, the integral time scale can be used to determine the effective number of independent samples, and therefore the uncertainty of the mean. To do so, the data set must be sufficiently large that it may be divided into many records, each of which is many integral time scales long. In this circumstance, all lags of the autocorrelation should be …

Five-Part Radio Series Highlights Disability In Rural Utah, Jolynne Lyon

Blog Posts

The blog post is about a radio series highlighting disabilities in rural Utah.

The Utah Statesman, November 13, 2018, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, November 6, 2018, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Others’ Publications About Ehdi: April Through October, 2018

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Agenda, November 5, 2018, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Forum - November 12, 2018
• EPC Monthly Report - October 4, 2018
• Libraries Advisory Council Annual Report
• Code 405.11.4 (External Reviewers)
• Proposal to Develop USU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resolution

Faculty Senate Minutes, November 5, 2018, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Forum – November 12, 2018
• EPC Monthly Report – October 4, 2018 - Edward Reeve
• Libraries Advisory Council Annual Report - Bryce Fifield
• Code 405.11.4 - External Reviewers(second reading)
• Proposal to Develop USU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resolution - Patrick Belmont

Tremblings, November 2018, Western Aspen Alliance

Tremblings

Aspen seedlings follow Brian Head Fire

Karen Mock

Larissa Yocom

Over the past decade, views on the importance and frequency of aspen seeding events in the Intermountain West have begun to change. Once thought to be so rare as to be ecologically and operationally negligible, there is increasing evidence that aspen seedling establishment may actually be common under certain conditions. These conditions include seed production, soil moisture sufficient for germination and establishment, low herbivory pressure, and reduced competition for soil access, light, and water. Post-fire landscapes often provide just this “window of opportunity,” and in fact most observations of aspen …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, November 1, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Adding School Based and Community Based Emphases in Family and Consumer Sciences Education
• Offering an Emphasis in Farm and Ranch Operations
• Changing the name from Agricultural Communication and Journalism to Agricultural Communication
• Offering an Elementary Mathematics Specialist Graduate Certificate
• Establishing an I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies
• Offering an Associate of Applied Science degree in Surgical Technology

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, November 1, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee report
• Academic Standards Subcommittee report
• General Education Subcommittee report

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, November 1, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Adding School Based and Community Based Emphases in Family and Consumer Sciences Education
• Offering an Emphasis in Farm and Ranch Operations
• Changing the name from Agricultural Communication and Journalism to Agricultural Communication
• Offering an Elementary Mathematics Specialist Graduate Certificate
• Establishing an I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies
• Offering an Associate of Applied Science degree in Surgical Technology

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, November 1, 2018, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

The Utah Statesman, October 30, 2018, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Hidden Cost Of Disease In A Free-Ranging Ungulate: Brucellosis Reduces Mid-Winter Pregnancy In Elk, Gavin C. Cotterill, Paul C. Cross, Arthur D. Middleton, Jared D. Rogerson, Brandon M. Scurlock, Johan T. Du Toit

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Demonstrating disease impacts on the vital rates of free‐ranging mammalian hosts typically requires intensive, long‐term study. Evidence for chronic pathogens affecting reproduction but not survival is rare, but has the potential for wide‐ranging effects. Accurately quantifying disease‐associated reductions in fecundity is important for advancing theory, generating accurate predictive models, and achieving effective management. We investigated the impacts of brucellosis (Brucella abortus) on elk (Cervus canadensis) productivity using serological data from over 6,000 captures since 1990 in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA. Over 1,000 of these records included known age and pregnancy status. Using Bayesian multilevel models, …

Usu Lights Up The Twin Cities At National Women In Engineering Conference | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Utah State University was turning heads at the Minneapolis Convention Center last week at a large conference and expo for the Society of Women Engineers, known as SWE.

The Importance Of Small Fire Refugia In The Central Sierra Nevada, California, Usa, Erika M. Blomdahl, Crystal A. Kolden, Arjan J.H. Meddens, James A. Lutz

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Fire refugia – the unburned areas within fire perimeters – are important to the survival of many taxa through fire events and the revegetation of post-fire landscapes. Previous work has shown that species use and benefit from small-scale fire refugia (1 m² to 1000 m²), but our understanding of where and how fire refugia form is largely limited to the scale of remotely sensed data (i.e., 900 m² Landsat pixels). To examine the causes and consequences of small fire refugia, we field-mapped all unburned patches ≥1 m² within a contiguous 25.6 ha forest plot that …

Have You Heard Of Shpe? | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is quickly becoming one of Utah State University’s most active student organizations.

What's New: New Tutor Center | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The cramped engineering tutor center is a thing of the past.

Why Are There Fewer Women Ceos? Media Seek Answers From Usu, Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

Professors Christy Glass (sociology) and Alison Cook (business management) have collaborated for a decade on research on gender diversity in top business roles.

A Shpe Family Success Story | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Lucy Campos and her brother José don’t shy away from responsibility.

Generous Gift Establishes The Dr. Reid And Evelyn Brown Scholarship Endowment | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Reid Brown says he established a $100,000 scholarship endowment to pass on the same benefits he received from Utah State University’s education.

What's New: Metal Factory | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Today’s engineering students need a foundation of technical knowledge and advanced training in design and problem solving.

Combating Alzheimer’S With 3-D Engineered Neuro Tissue | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Biological engineers at USU are developing new tools to combat the debilitating effects of Alzheimier’s and Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders.

Aircraft On Demand | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

We live in an on-demand society. At the push of a button, we have access to entertainment, technology and information.

What's New: Recirculating Wind Tunnel | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

This year, the MAE Department acquired a new wind tunnel for use in thermal and fluid dynamics labs.

Engineers Without Borders: Team Mexico | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The USU student team, Engineers Without Borders, continues their water quality improvement project in rural Mexico.

Where Are They Now: Usu Engineering Alumni José Campos | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

José Campos graduated from Utah State University in 2016 with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering.

Medical Cannabis: A Tale Of Two Patients, Jolynne Lyon

Blog Posts

Blog post is about medical cannabis.