December 11, 2012
Weber State University’s College of Applied Science and Technology and the College of Science teamed up to hold an alumni reunion on Saturday. Alumni were invited to come and reconnect with faculty and current students over dinner and family-friendly games and demonstrations. Events took place west of the Science Lab in the A4 and A5 [...]
Continue reading …The physics department held a seminar on Wednesday in which John C. Armstrong presented about the possibility of habitable planets outside of the solar system. Armstrong, a physics professor at Weber State University, recently returned from a sabbatical in which he further studied the possibility of “Earth-like” planets in the Milky Way galaxy. In a 2012 study, [...]
Continue reading …Weber Pathways and the College of Science teamed up to take students and community members on a “science hike” on Saturday at Beus Trail to teach them about their environment. The hike, led by students Tim Remkes and Josh Poulson, was meant to teach the community about botany and geology. This is the last of many [...]
Continue reading …The proposal for a new science lab building at Weber State University tied for first among state projects before the Board of Regents on Sept. 14. WSU is awaiting a decision that the Utah State Building Board will make in October. The current science lab building, built in 1968, has numerous safety hazards, and the new building will provide [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University was named one of the Sierra Club’s “cool schools” for the efforts it has taken to promote sustainability and save energy around campus. WSU ranked the highest out of two schools in the state of Utah, the University of Utah being the other. WSU placed 74th on the list of “cool schools” [...]
Continue reading …Back in 2009, Weber State University professor Christopher Hoagstrom started a project to measure local creeks and look at which ones were good habitats for fish. “Partly, these creeks are just very convenient, and we’ve used them for classes,” Hoagstrom said about beginning the project. “It just makes a good outdoor laboratory.” The Utah Division [...]
Continue reading …