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Cache Valley’s first cidery is opening this weekend. Here is a look inside. Hobbled Dog Cidery, Cache Valley’s first cidery, opens to the public Friday in Logan. The cidery will feature handcrafted ciders made from apples grown by the owners themselves, as well as those from ...

Lori Spears, USU Biology, Extension - Agriculture and Natural Resources Professional Practice Associate Professor, and partner Ben Kuethe open Hobbled Dog Cidery, Cache Valley, Utah's first cidery: www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06...

Science Unwrapped's "Celebrate Undergrad Research" series continues in Fall 2025 on Friday evenings Sept. 19, Oct. 3 and Nov. 14, at 7 pm in the Eccles Science Learning Center, USU Logan campus. Free admission for all ages; hands-on learning activities, refreshments usu.edu/science/unwrapped

THANK YOU to Everyone who participated in Recruitment Training, organized by USU's Undergraduate Recruitment Office of Strategic Enrollment Management with College of Science personnel and students!

It's SUMMER 🌞 And we're delighted to have incoming Aggies on campus, who are getting ready for a GREAT academic year at Utah State -- WELCOME! A big "Thank You" to our student ambassadors and academic advisors who are helping our new scholars as they begin an exciting, new journey. 💙

Ask an Expert — Tips to Help Reduce Grasshopper Grazing Consider these tips to help minimize grasshopper damage in the backyard or small farm.

GOT GRASSHOPPERS? 🦗 Mair Murray, USU integrated pest management specialist and Professional Practice Extension Associate Professor, has answers to your pest management questions: www.usu.edu/today/story/...

Different Strokes: USU Ecologists Say Plants Produce 'Astonishing' Array of Metabolic Substances Noelle Beckman and Gerald Schneider explore the vast chemodiversity and phylogenetic dispersion of metabolites in fruit, leaves and roots of neotropical plants.

Different Strokes: USU Ecologists Noelle Beckman and Jerry Schneider say Plants Produce 'Astonishing' Array of Metabolic Substances. Read more:
www.usu.edu/today/story/... #psychotria #palicourea #barrocolorado #barrocoloradoisland #smithsoniantropicalresearchinstitute #secondarymetabolites

USU Evolutionary Biologist Awarded $1.85M NIH Grant to Study Large-Scale Mutations Biology Professor Zach Gompert received a five-year Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to explore chromosomal rearrangements in studies wi...

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Gompert (Biology/USU Ecology Center), who received a $1.85M NIH MIRA Grant! Read about his research:
www.usu.edu/today/story/...
#adaptiveevolution #chromosomalarrangements #timematidae #lycaenidae #chrysomelidae #NIH #NIHMIRA

Tuesday, June 17: All Invited to "Check in with Utah Public Radio," 5-7 pm at Lundstrom Park, 1700 East 1350 North in Logan. All are welcome. @utahpublicradio.bsky.social
www.upr.org/community-ca...

TUESDAY, JUNE 17: "Walking with Dinosaurs," featuring USU Eastern's Prehistoric Museum's excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor, airs tonight at 7 pm Mountain on PBS Utah!

@prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social #WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025 #Gastonia #Utahraptor @pbsutah.bsky.social

THURS, JUNE 19: USU #Juneteenth 2025 Free Community BBQ, 5-8:30 pm at Bridger Park, 1181 North 400 West in Logan.
All are welcome to a celebration, led by USU's Black Student Union, of freedom, culture and community. Learn more at:
usu.edu/community

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18: "Knowledge on Tap," 6-8 pm, featuring USU scientists Sara Weinstein, Natalie D'Souza, at the Cache Bar & Grill, 119 S Main St in downtown Logan. No cover; must be 21 or older. www.cachebarlogan.com

Model Learning: USU Undergrads Use Math Modeling to Practice Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving Participants in USU's 2025 Native American Summer Mentorship Program, tackled a classic Fermi problem to hone estimation skills

Undergrad scholars participating in USU's 2025 Native American Summer Mentorship Program use math modeling to practice problem-solving. Scholars present Tuesday, June 10, 9 am, MAIN 121. All welcome!
www.usu.edu/today/story/...

Premiering Sunday, June 8 on BBC One and Tuesday, June 17 on PBS: Utah State University Eastern's Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social is featured in the "Walking with Dinosaurs" series. Tune in to learn more about Gastonia and Utahraptor, & hear from Prehistoric Museum paleontologists!

Undergrad researchers participating in USU's 2025 Native American Summer Mentorship Program spent time with bumble bees in Biology's Schaeffer Lab. Scholars present Tues, June 10, 9 am, MAIN 121. All Welcome. Read more:
www.usu.edu/today/story/...

UNDERGRAD & GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHERS: Apply for URCO & GRCO grants June 1-15.

+Undergraduate Research & Creative Opportunities (URCO) grants: urco.usu.edu

+Graduate Research & Creative Opportunities (GRCO) grants: grco.usu.edu

#FundYourResearch

USU Industrial Hygienists RE-PRE-SENT at American Industrial Hygiene Association's AIHA Connect 2025 Conference, May 19-21 in Kansas City, MO. USU's program is one of only 4 ABET-accredited undergrad programs in the nation: www.usu.edu/biology/stud... #AIHAConnect2025 #keepingworkerssafeandhealthy

USU Chemist Awarded Patent Toward Connexin Hemichannel Inhibitor Development Professor Tom Chang has been awarded a patent for a method to synthesize and characterize novel molecules toward the development of a therapeutic agent to slow abnormal cell-to-cell communication.

www.usu.edu/today/story/...

Super Powers: USU Researchers Say Alpacas' Unique Immune Systems Could Aid Humans Undergraduate James Cisneros, his faculty mentor Zhongde Wang and doctoral student Julio Landinez Aponte are studying alpacas with the aim of developing therapeutics for human scourges such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

USU #UndergradResearcher James Cisneros says #Apacas' #ImmuneSystems Could Aid Humans
www.usu.edu/today/story/... #geneticengineering #CRISPR #hcAbs

USU Science Unwrapped's 'Coriolis Carousel' Headed to Salt Lake City's Clark Planetarium A merry-go-round built by USU scientists in 2024 to demonstrate rotational forces for the College of Science's Science Unwrapped public outreach program will delight new Wasatch Front audiences.

Science Unwrapped's CORIOLIS CAROUSEL makes its debut tonight in its new home, Salt Lake City's Clark Planetarium! @ClarkPlanet #CoriolisEffect #CoriolisForce #ClarkAfterDark
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USU UWLP Releases Research on Utah Women & STEM UWLP recently published a research snapshot,

www.usu.edu/today/story/...

GRAD STUDENTS:
The application window for the next round of USU's Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities (GRCO) grants is June 1-15, 2025.

Read about the grant, along with proposal requirements and evaluation criteria, at grco.usu.edu

On @kuer.org: USU Biology alumna Megen Kepas (PhD'22) is a founder of Iguanathon, an annual, four-day cooperative effort by state managers, scientists and community volunteers, held earlier this month, to assess a rare lizard species in southern Utah. 🦎 www.kuer.org/science-envi...

WHEN SOFT SKILLS ARE HARD: Teens Learn More than STEM at USU Physics Day at Lagoon

Science can be challenging, but COMMUNICATING science can be an even bigger challenge. Read more:
www.usu.edu/today/story/...

1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space

Photos captured aboard the #ISS by #NASA astronaut Don Pettit, @astrondonpettit44.bsky.social, former USU Physics adjunct professor and Get Away Special Team mentor, featured in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s... #donpettit

Yes, it's summer🌞 But mark your calendar: 2025 Hansen Life Sciences Retreat at USU is Fri-Sat, Oct. 24-25. Open to undergrads, grad students, postdocs, faculty, staff interested in study of life sciences at molecular level. Registration opens late summer:
usu.edu/chem/hansen-life-sciences-retreat

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UNDERGRAD & GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHERS:

JUNE 1-15, 2025 is the Application Window for:

+ Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities (URCO) grants
urco.usu.edu

+ Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities (GRCO) grants
grco.usu.edu

#FundYourResearch

On KSL NewsRadio: USU computer science major Tanner Helms, right, (pictured with faculty mentor Chad Mano) discusses a new app and business, Tarifflo, he founded with classmate Bryce Judy:
kslnewsradio.com/utah/usu-ai-... #tariffs2025 #executiveorders

UNDERGRAD & GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHERS: The Science Writing Center offers free research grant writing workshop TUESDAY, MAY 3-4 pm, Old Main, Room 117.
Questions? Call the Office of Research at 435-797-1180.