Campus and community briefs
Cowboy up to healthy lifestyles in April
Utah State University students together with Cowboy Ted Kid’s Club and local law enforcement are bringing healthy lifestyle presentations to the youth of Cache Valley.
Assemblies promoting anti-drug and alcohol use have been scheduled at Adams, Hillcrest, Lincoln, Nibley and Woodruff elementary schools on March 28, April 7, April 9 and April 11.
Eleven USU students, enrolled this semester in Management and Human Resources 3110, organized presentations to benefit Cache Valley youth, while they implemented management and planning skills in sponsoring each assembly.
They have teamed up with cowboy celebrity and role model, Cowboy Ted, to bring fun and interactive programs to elementary students.
Cowboy Ted is the founder of Cowboy Ted Kid’s Club, a non-profit organization that teaches healthy living skills to children up to the fourth grade.
The group has recruited the sponsorship of Deseret First Credit Union to provide coloring books and handouts for participating students.
For more information, visit Cowboy Ted Kid’s Club at www.cowboyted.com.
USU research project recognized in journal
Four Utah State University speech communication research students are getting national recognition for a project they recently conducted.
The students’ research has been selected for presentation at the International Communication Association’s annual meeting in San Diego in May. Their work will also be published in the national journal Perceptual and Motor Skills as a short empirical report.
Tomie Day Bankhead, Amy Bench, Trisha Peterson and Risa Place conducted the research project under the supervision of professor John S. Seiter. The group examined how emotionally intense language affects an attitude change in people.
Their research found emotionally intense messages to be more positively associated with attitude change than those messages with low emotional intensity.
Distinguished artist to speak for LAEP week
Students and faculty in the department of landscape, architecture and environmental planning at Utah State University will celebrate LAEP week, April 9 to 11.
Among activities planned is a lecture by distinguished landscape architect and artist Martha Schwartz.
Schwartz is the keynote speaker for the week. Her lecture is Friday, April 11, at 2:30 p.m. in the Eccles Science Learning Center auditorium. All community members are invited to attend.
Schwartz was selected for her reputation as a free-thinking advocate of landscape architecture as art, and her numerous projects, which she compiled for a wide variety of clients around the world, said LAEP professor John Ellsworth.
For more information, visit www.usu.edu/laep/.
Library week to start April 4 on campus
University Libraries at Utah State University will celebrate National Library Week in April.
Activities on campus begin April 4 and continue through April 11. The week’s first activity features campus personalities reading short passages from their favorite books. The first 100 students who arrive get a free drink of their choice from the Quadside Cafe, the site of the opening activity.
Readings begin April 4 at 2 p.m. Guest readers include Daren Olson, instructional designer for USU Libraries; Brian McCuskey, associate professor, department of English; and Kevin Dustin, associate athletics director.
The centerpiece of the week’s activities is Wednesday, April 9, when a discussion of scholarly communication will be offered. The symposium begins at 9:45 a.m. and continues through noon at the Eccles Conference Center on campus.