Jer Pin Chong named Diversity Award Recipient

Scientists Gather at USU to Discuss Aspen Decline

 

Trees Dying Off in Unprecedented Numbers

 

Weeding Out New Theories

     Fred Provenza, Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Cougar Population Rebounding After Hunting Reduced

     Michael Wolfe, Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

A Fighting Chance for Antelope Island's Bighorn Sheep

    Amanda Murray -- S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney PhD Fellowship recipient, Wildland Resources Department

    Major professor:  Johan du Toit 

 

Mike Conover (Professor, Wildland Resources Department) has been selected as the CNR Researcher of the Year.  Mike's years of research have contributed significantly to a better understanding of wildlife management, particularly of the conflicts that arise as human activities expand into the habitat of native wildlife.  He has mentored many successful students, published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles with these students and has published three books since 2002.  He has now been nominated for the USU Researcher of the Year Award, which recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative activity over the past three to five years.  

 

Fred Provenza (Professor, Wildland Resources Department) has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award.  Fred’s selection for USU’s top research award was based on a review by a committee of former recipients and also involved peer review by international specialists. This award recognizes outstanding achievements over a researcher’s entire career to date.  It formally recognizes Fred for his prominence in his research field and for enhancing Utah State University’s reputation in the international research community.

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USU Wildlife Ecologist Receives Award of Excellence 

    Michael Wolfe, Professor Wildland Resources Department 

 

Karen Mock has been selected as the 2007-08 CNR Undergraduate Research Mentor.  Since coming to USU, she has mentored 7 undergraduate students in her laboratory, providing them with invaluable experience in the generation and application of genetic data for a variety of applications.  Five of these students have gone on to graduate school.  Her nomination has now gone forward to the USU Research Office for the university-wide competition. 

 

Mike Kuhns won the “Overall Specialist Award” from the Extension Specialist Association for 2007-08.  It is in recognition of being an overall great Extension specialist. 

 

Terry Messmer has been selected by the School of Graduate Studies to receive the 2007-08 University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award.  The award will be presented to Terry at the USU hooding and graduation ceremony for Masters and Doctoral candidates on 2 May.

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Mike Conover has been selected as a Fellow of The Wildlife Society.  The honor will be officially bestowed upon him in November at the 2008 annual conference of The Wildlife Society in Miami.

 

Living With Big Cats in Salt Lake Valley

    Michael Wolfe, Professor Wildland Resources Department and David Stoner, Graduate Student

Climate Report Adds More Gloom

    Fee Busby, Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

ABC 4 Investigation:  Cougar sightings and what to do

    Michael Wolfe, Professor Wildland Resources Department and David Stoner, Graduate Student

 

Research May Have Found new Mussel Genus

    Karen Mock, Associate Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Predators, humans sharing habitats a volatile mix

    Mike Conover, Professor Wildland Resources Department

When Neighboring Worlds Collide

    John Shivik, Associate Professor (USDA National Wildlife Research Center, Predator Ecology)

 

Range Conservation a Step at a Time

    Gene Schupp, Associate Professor Wildland Resources Department and Beth Fowers, Undergraduate Student

 

More to Tracing Aspens' Family Tree than Meets the Eye

    Karen Mock and Ron Ryel, Associate Professors Wildland Resources Department

 

Researchers Looking Into Dying Aspens

    Ron Ryel, Associate Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Behave and Eat Your Veggies -- and Forage

    Fred Provenza, Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Sharing the Roaded Landscape

    John Bissonette, Professor (Leader, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Landscape Rcology, Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology) and Patty Cramer, Research Assistant Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Experts Tell State Panel Global Warming is Occurring

    Fred Wagner, Emeritus Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Turkey CSI: USU Lab's DNA Analysis Nabs Poacher

    Karen Mock, Associate Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

USU Wildlands Expert is Wildly Unusual "Rebel"

    Fred Provenza, Professor Wildland Resources Department

 

Phenomenon:  Wildlife Crossings

    Patricia Cramer, Research Assistant Professor Wildland Resources Department