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Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, November 5, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Applied Economics

• University Studies Request

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Credit Hour Change

Huntsman School of Business

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Economics and Finance

• Delete Course

Department of Management

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

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Remove repeatable for credit
• Course Description Change, Grade Mode Change

Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences

• New Course
• Inactivate Course

Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Description Change …

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, November 5, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

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

Factors Affecting Carbon Dioxide Release From Forest And Rangeland Soils In Northern Utah, Hayley R. Olsen, Helga Van Miegroet

T.W. "Doc" Daniel Experimental Forest

No abstract provided.

Modeling Soil Depth From Topographic And Land Cover Attributes, Teklu K. Tesfa, David G. Tarboton, David G. Chandler, James P. Mcnamara

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Soil depth is an important input parameter in hydrological and ecological modeling. Presently, the soil depth data available in national soil databases (STATSGO and SSURGO) from the Natural Resources Conservation Service are provided as averages within generalized land units (map units). Spatial uncertainty within these units limits their applicability for distributed modeling in complex terrain. This work reports statistical models for prediction of soil depth in a semiarid mountainous watershed that are based upon the relationship between soil depth and topographic and land cover attributes. Soil depth was surveyed by driving a rod into the ground until refusal at locations …

The Utah Statesman, October 28, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

General Education Subcommittee Minutes, October 20, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Course Approval

Other Business

• Expiration date for Gen Ed Courses
• Educated Person’s Conference
• Visit of the Reaccreditation team
• Appointment of new Chair for Social Sciences Subcommittee
• Computer Information Literacy Survey

Next Meeting

The Utah Statesman, October 14, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, October 9, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Leading Students To Investigate Diffusion As A Model Of Brine Shrimp Movement, Brynja R. Kohler, Rebecca J. Swank, James W. Haefner, James A. Powell

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Integrating experimental biology laboratory exercises with mathematical modeling can be an effective tool to enhance mathematical relevance for biologists and to emphasize biological realism for mathematicians. This paper describes a lab project de-signed for and tested in an undergraduate biomathematics course. In the lab, students follow and track the paths of individual brine shrimp confined in shallow salt water in a Petri dish. Students investigate the question, “Is the movement well characterized as a 2-dimensional random walk?” Through open, but directed discussions, students derive the corresponding partial differential equation, gain an understanding of the solution behavior, and model brine shrimp …

The Utah Statesman, October 7, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Agenda, October 5, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Senate Calendar Revision – FEC Reporting date
• Faculty Forum November 2, 2009 Eccles Conference Center 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
• EPC Annual Report
• Honors Program Report
• Libraries Advisory Council
• Parking Committee Report
• EPC Items

Aspen In Scotland: Biodiversity And Management, John Parrott, Neil Mackenzie

Aspen Bibliography

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, October 2, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Scared Sick? Predator-Pathogen Facilitation Enhances The Exploitation Of A Shared Resource, Ricardo A. Ramirez, W E. Snyder

Biology Faculty Publications

Resource use generally increases with greater consumer diversity, an effect often attributed to resource partitioning. Pathogens and predators are two classes of consumer that exhibit differences in ecologically important traits (e.g., size, resource acquisition strategy, foraging location) that could lead to complementary effects on shared prey/hosts. To examine this possibility, we manipulated diversity among a community of predators and pathogens that together attack an herbivorous beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, and measured resulting effects on herbivore suppression and resulting plant damage. We found that herbivore mortality increased, and plant damage decreased, when more natural enemy species were present. However, closer examination revealed …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 1, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course
• Title Change
• Course Number Change
• Title Change, Course Number Change
• Course Description Change, Course Prefix Change, Course Number Change
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Course Description
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Course Description Change, Reactivate Course
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Course Description Change, Course Number Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change, Dual List Change
• Delete Course

Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

• Title Change
• Add Multiple List

Department of Applied Economics

• University Studies Request

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change
• Delete Course

Department …

The Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Richard W. Clement, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Jeffrey Belliston, Marilyn Billings, Jay Burton

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

J.G. will speak about the Edikit journal software. Jeff will speak about Open Journal Systems software. Rick and Marilyn will speak about publishing on their campus. Jay will talk about using online journal software.

The Utah Statesman, September 30, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, September 28, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, September 21, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Annual Report
• Honors Program Report
• Libraries Advisory Council Report
• Parking Committee Report
• EPC Items
• Committee on Committees (results of election - Honorary Degrees/Awards Committee)

The Utah Statesman, September 21, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, September 18, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Diversity, Development, And Equity Committee Minutes, September 16, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Diversity, Development, and Equity Committee

• Minutes
• Data Indicators
• AA/OE Office
• Mentoring for Advancement from Associate to Full Professor
• Promotion of the Hiring for Excellence Video
• Diversity and Program Building Group
• 2009-2010 Priorities

The Utah Statesman, September 14, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, September 2, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Self-Similar Nested Sequences On A Chaotic Attractor For Travelingwave Electrophoresis, Boyd F. Edwards

All Physics Faculty Publications

Oscillating electric potentials are applied to interdigitated arrays of cylindrical electrodes above and below a stationary conducting viscous fluid. The phases of these potentials are chosen to produce a longitudinal traveling wave that traps high-mobility ions and partially traps intermediate-mobility ions in periodic and narrowband chaotic attractors with average velocities that are commensurate with the wave speed. Stable periodic attractors have periods up to 101 times the wave period. Incommensurate broadband chaotic attractors are described by one-dimensional iterated contact-angle return maps, which feature self-similar nested sequences that converge geometrically at unstable trapped orbits. Sequences of singular angles and sequences of …

Energy Budgets Of Eared Grebes On The Great Salt Lake And Implications For Harvest Of Brine Shrimp, Michael R. Conover, Joe N. Caudell

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

About 1.5-million eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), representing half of the North American population, stage on Utah's Great Salt Lake, USA (GSL) during autumn migration to forage on brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana). Indirectly competing with birds for brine shrimp are commercial harvesters who annually collect >1 million kg (dry wt) of shrimp cysts (i.e., hardened eggs), an amount that during some years equals up to half of all brine shrimp cysts produced annually on the GSL. No information was available regarding what impact this commercial harvest was having on eared grebes. We determined daily energy requirements of eared grebes so that …

Consequences Of Recruitmentdecisions And Heterogeneity On Age-Specific Breeding Success In A Long-Lived Seabird, Lise M. Aubry, David N. Koons, Jean Yves Monnat, Emmanuelle Cam

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

An individual’s age at first reproduction and investment in successive reproductive attempts are involved in mechanisms that can impede somatic repair, resulting in a decline in reproductive abilities with age (reproductive senescence). We used long-term data from the Black-legged Kittiwake, a long-lived seabird, to address the relationship between recruitment age, age-specific breeding success (BS), and reproductive senescence, while accounting for breeding experience and temporal variation in BS. We first detected late-life improvement in BS across all recruitment groups, which we recognized as ‘‘within-generation selection’’ or the selective disappearance of ‘‘frail’’ phenotypes. When such heterogeneity was accurately accounted for, we showed …

Raspberry Horntail (Hartigia Cressonii), Brent Black, Marion Murray, Diane Alston

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, August 26, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, August 24, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.