Sunshine Brosi
Wildland Resources
Professor/Director, Masters of Natural Resource Program
Contact Information
Office Location: Price, RV 260Phone: 435-613-5016
Email: sunshine.brosi@usu.edu
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Educational Background
Biography
Dr. Sunshine Brosi is an Associate Professor in the Wildland Resources Department in the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Agriculture & Natural Resources at USU’s Eastern Campus in Price, Utah.
Teaching Interests
Sunshine has sixteen years of teaching experience and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. Sunshine is passionate about teaching and has developed and instructed fifteen different courses over the past three years at USU including a General Education course and six Community-Engaged Designated Courses that have been taught in-person, through Connect, and online.
Sunshine has received several awards include the Faculty Fellowship in Community Engagement, Teaching Fellows from the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research, Empowering Teaching Excellence’s Teaching Excellence Scholars, and ACUE Certification. Sunshine leads research embedded courses focusing on natural resource land, water, and air issues in rural Utah with Federal and State agency collaboration. Course projects build throughout students’ academic careers and include occupancy surveys of kit foxes, migration corridors for pronghorn, and improving stream water quality for wildlife habitat in the rural Carbon and Emery Counties. These projects are driven by agency professionals and students are provided opportunities for real-life research skills including presenting research results to agency collaborators at the end of each semester. Dr. Brosi is passionate about providing valuable career skills imbedded in opportunities for professional networking.
Research Interests
Dr. Brosi is committed to training students for next generation careers and to enhance their abilities to work with various audiences. Dr. Brosi enjoys mentoring clubs on campus and high school students at the National 4-H Forestry Invitational, Carbon and Emery High Schools 4-H & FFA Rangeland Career Development Events and judging local science fairs. Dr. Brosi holds a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Tennessee, a MS in Forestry from the University of Kentucky, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She grew up the middle child of seven in Berea, Kentucky.
Awards
FAMNet Incubator, 2025
National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Coordination Network, Undergraduate Biology Education RCN-UBE
Rocky Mountain Science and Sustainability Network FIELDS Fellows Grant, 2025
Henry Luce Foundation Award
Honors Faculty Fellows, 2025
Utah State University, Honors Program
Visionary Indigenous Training and Leadership for Natural Resources (VITAL4NR), New Beginning for Tribal Students, 2024
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
BioInteractive Faculty Online Learning Community (FoLC), 2024
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Faculty Fellowship in Community Engagement, 2023
USU Center for Community Engagement
Faculty Service Award of the Year, 2025
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year, 2024
S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources
Master Teacher Certificate, Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE), 2022
Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE)
Life Discovery Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN), Ecological Society of America (ESA) and Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES), 2022
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Teaching Scholar Certificate, 2021
Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE)
Effective Online Instructor Training, 2021
Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
ETE Scholars Program , 2021
Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE)
ETE Teaching Excellence Scholars, 2021 Cohort, 2021
Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE)
Publications | Book Chapters
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Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Brosi, S., (2021). The Prevalence of the Raccoon Roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, in Allegheny Woodrat Habitat in the Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.A.. The American Midland Naturalist, 185:1, doi: 10.1674/0003-0031-185.1.145
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Publications | Technical Reports
AES Reports
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Publications | Other
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