The College of Science Alumni and Friends Magazine
Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 issue of the College of Science's Alumni and Friends magazine, Discovery , is now available to read online. In celebration of USU's Year of the Arts, stories in this issue highlight the crossroads of science and art at USU. We invite you to read about exciting current events on campus and other alumni stories in this new issue of Discovery .
Debbie Morgan with student collaborators during an outside experiment

Alum Deborah Stringham Morgan (’02 Geology) entered USU as a theatre arts major, but changed her major a number of times. “I’d have a class with an interesting professor and think, ‘That’s what I want to do,” says Morgan, a science teacher at Monroe, Utah’s South...
A still image from Dr Zach Brym's video

While earning his doctorate in ecology at USU, Zachary T. ‘Zack’ Brym entered the 2013 national Dance Your Ph.D.contest sponsored by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the journal Science and Gonzo Labs. Brym enlisted help from USU...
Artist Amy Landesbergs Surface Tension

What’s your favorite work of art on the USU campus? Is it James Russell’s celebratory Sojourn near Old Main? Or could it be Joseph Kinnebrew’s whimsical SNAFU (better known as “The French Fries”)? Perhaps your sentimental heart has a soft spot for the beloved Block A on the...
Dr. Sudipta Shaw and his camera

Sometimes, timing is everything. Had the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) contacted Utah State University alum Sudipta Shaw (Biochemistry, PhD’17) just a little sooner, he might be following his passion for wildlife photography as a vocation rather than an...
Dr. Sudipta Shaw's Grizzly Bear photo
Photo of Eagle by Dr. Sudipta Shaw
Photo of wolf in Yellowstone National Parks by Sudipta Shaw
Photos courtesy Dr. Sudipta Shaw
Dr. David Peak with Dr. Terry Peak with AARON

At the College of Science’s Science Unwrapped public outreach event in March 2018, featured speaker David Peak presented the talk, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Art?” Many of you sci-fi fans will immediately recognize Peak’s inspiration was Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream ...
Debbie Morgan with her students