Adam Johnston

WSU guest opinion: Step into our shared science community this week I should begin by making sure you know at least this much: The College of Science will host its annual Science Open House this Friday from 6–9 p.m. at Weber State University in the Tracy Hall Science ...

This month’s guest piece, mostly PR but also something about why we’d do this work.

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Op-ed this month, an ode to teaching ... and maybe admitting too much about my lack of focus and how I cope? www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

WSU guest opinion: All press is good press The line, “all press is good press,” has been ringing in my head this week. It’s an expression meant to soften the blow from the attention drawn toward dark corners we might not want illuminated, the ...

All press is good press.
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This month’s column, printed the morning after we were treated to aurorae. Maybe a few people will recognize it would have been better without city light.

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Guest opinion: Lessons from our cohabitants “Who’s a pretty bird?” This was the typical refrain when my family and I would visit Cronk, the resident raven at the Ogden Nature Center. From his enclosure’s perch, Cronk would reply with a twist an...

The monthly column, this is about Cronk and Nina and all of us. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

WSU guest opinion: A role model in leadership Now that Dr. Andrea Easter-Pilcher is no longer employed at Weber State University and is no longer my boss, I can finally say what I really think about her. I’ll begin by stating publicly that I didn...

This month’s column. Weber has some leaders I look up to, but Andrea was the very best of them. I wish there were more examples like her in other positions of power.

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JOHNSTON: Our lives, hand in hand I took a dumb fall last week, a hard tumble on rocks of the high Uintas, as if they’d been piling and solidifying for hundreds of millions of years just for the opportunity to throw me down upon the p...

This month’s regular due date coincided with our 30th anniversary. I worried a little that this might be a self-indulgent use of my column not relevant to others … and then the editor asked to expand publication to multiple newspapers. Go figure. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

JOHNSTON: A country worth defending Leading into our Independence Day weekend, our legislative branch passed and the president signed a budget reconciliation bill. It’s gotten a lot of press already, and I suspect its effects will conti...

This month’s piece, patriotism in a form I can muster.
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A temporary waterfall spills over a cliff in Harris Wash, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument.

I was facing a deadline but tired of my usual axe grinding and notes, so at the last minute I wrote this sketch about our walk: www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

WSU: Life in the universe It seems natural for us to wonder what might live outside of our own neighborhoods. We imagine mythological creatures in deep woods and we search for systems of life in deep ocean trenches. And once w...

This month's piece. Life probably abounds in the universe, but living is very rare. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...

JOHNSTON: The politics of education “Let’s do everything possible to make our classrooms one of the last remaining politically neutral places in our state.” So wrote Gov. Spencer Cox in a letter to lawmakers a couple weeks ago when he a...

This month’s piece about politics not being in schools but totally shaping them.

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Johnston: Astronomical alignments We live on an orb that rounds its way around an ever-bending corner on its path about a star, dangling along our companion Moon. All the while, we get a glimpse of other wandering bodies tracing out t...

This month’s piece, an astronomy lesson of sorts. I should have confessed that I never took an astronomy course, though it was my first teaching assignment.
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Johnston: On how I’m spending your money First of all, thank you. Your tax dollars and democratic voice enable my work in the field of science education. You determine government spending by voting for and giving input to your representative...

My first post, here's my monthly op-ed in the local paper about how cuts to federal funds affects very real local people. www.standard.net/opinion/gues...