BRIEFS: Campus and Community
Therapist speaks on depression
Nancy Webb, registered nurse and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist will be speaking on post-partum depression, Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Physical Facilities Building.
She will be addressing what the symptoms are and what mothers can do about it. Many mothers experience some change in their mental health within the first year of
delivery.
Architect to talk at Utah State
Noted landscape architect Alan Ward will speak at Utah State Unversity Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium.
His presentation is titled “On Making Icons: Photography, Design and the Landscape.”
Ward’s visit is sponsored by a grant awarded to USU’s landscape architecture and environmental planning department (LAEP) and the department of art by the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
Mike Petry, a student in the LAEP department and program coordinator, said, “Alan Ward is a principal in one of the country’s most prestigious landscape architecture firms. His visit benefits many at Utah State, including students and faculty in the LAEP and art departments, as well as members of the community at large.”
According to LAEP faculty member John Ellsworth, Ward’s visit and lecture will provide an insight into the relationship between landscape architecture and art as expressed through photography.
Several of Ward’s photographic prints will be displayed in the cases located in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum foyer and on the first floor of the northwest wing in the Fine Arts Visual building.
Professor tackles plateau debate
The debate concerning the Colorado Plateau’s uplift and erosion has been tackled in an article written and published in the scientific journal Geological Society of America Today, as well as the 114th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, Colo.
Utah State University geology professor Joel Pederson and two undergraduate students, James Eddleman and Rob Maclay, laid the foundation for understanding the uplift and erosion history of this famous landscape centered around the Four Corners region, including Southern Utah and the Grand Canyon. The group conducted the research using Graphic Information Systems (GIS), a computer software for making maps and analyzing spatial databases.
“Not a lot of groundwork had been established before this article,” Pederson said, “This is a breakthrough in the field, resulting from the simple collection of data into a GIS that helps us explain the high elevation of the plateaus and deep incision of the canyons.”
The debate involving the causes of the uplift and erosion of the Colorado Plateau has been widely argued for more than a century, starting with John Wesley Powell in his first explorations of the region. Pederson and colleagues have answered some of the questions by simply calculating the total amount of uplift and erosion in the region.
Logan fire chief resigns position
Chief Jeff Peterson of the Logan City Fire Department resigned as chief Tuesday morning.
Mayor Doug Thompson said he left the post for personal reasons and not as any disciplinary measure. He will assume the post of assistant fire chief.
Current assistant fire chief Dave Harston will serve as interim fire chief until a replacement is chosen.