Utah State University Eastern Magazine

Spring 2016

A Good Fellow

History writers can be history makers too, such as when Bob McPherson became the first Utah State University Eastern faculty member not housed on the Logan campus to receive promotion and tenure as a full professor back in 2012.

A Unique Addiction

When the chancellor’s assistant called Larry Severeid to tell him that he was chosen to receive the prestigious Upon Their Shoulders award at Utah State University Eastern’s annual Founders Day dinner, he wasn’t thrilled.

Above Paur

Forty years coaching 1,560 games, with 26 of those years spent at Utah State University Eastern and Dave Paur said if he had the chance, he would do it again. “Absolutely, if I had to do

Gold Star for "Blue Patina"

Nancy Takacs, Utah State University Eastern English department member from 1986 to 2008, is receiving high praise for her newest book of poems, Blue Patina

Hitching Her Stories

You will want to cut Josi Russell a little slack when she resumes her duties in the fall as associate professor of English on the Utah State University Eastern Blanding campus.

Lying Bones Tell No Lies

The naming of a new dinosaur and a new Utah-original dinosaur are among some of the bare-bone essentials that have emerged in recent weeks from Kenneth Carpenter, director and curator of paleontology at Utah State University.

Objects in Motion

The art of billiards is the ability to imagine, focus, anticipate and predict the force of one object upon another. This axiom did not come from

There are No Long Shots

Crediting his mother for instilling the value of education, Ryan Cano prepares to attend the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Wildlife Studies

Wallace Stegner in Wolf Willow talks about the importance of place and how it provides its own form of identity when he said, “I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.” Put another way, “Our where determines our who,” says Reg Saner.