Campus and community briefs
Students plan to help tie quilts Thursday
Utah State University students are invited to join several organizations Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help tie 30 quilts that will be donated to families in need.
Students Together Ending Poverty (S.T.E.P.), LDSSA and Families First will be tying the quilts in the Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge.
For more information, call the Val R. Christensen Center at 797-1709.
Ecology seminar to be presented Thursday
Dr. Knute Nadelhoffer, current director of the Ecosystem Studies Program at the National Science Foundation will be visiting Utah State University this week as part of the Ecology Center Seminar Series.
Nadelhoffer is the newly named director of the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Mich.
He will be presenting two seminars Thursday at 3 and 6 p.m. in the Natural Resouces Building, Room 105. They are titled “Research opportunities at the National Science Foundation: What graduate students, silverbacks and others need to know” and “The fate of N inputs to temperate forests at decadel time scales: Implications for C sequestration.”
Nadelhoffer’s reserach program is aimed at understanding how plants, soils and climatic factors interact to determine ecosystem characteristics.
For more information call Stephanie White at 797-2555.
Green space institute established at USU
Utah State University’s department of landscape architechture and environmental planning recently received an endowment from 1984 graduate Sumner Swaner and his mother Dr. Paula M. Swaner-Smoot, a Salt Lake City psychologist.
Sumner Swaner is a licensed landscape architect in Salt Lake who has been working with green space design projects for the past several years, according to a press release.
The endowment establishes a green space institute and the Sumner Margetts Swaner Professorship. The institute’s mission is to provide education and scientific research in responsible planning that incorporates community values, sustainable growth and the conservation of open space.
The department is conducting a national serach for the professor and hopes to make the hire in time for the 2003-04 academic school year.
USU student selected to be guest organist
Utah State University student Eric Gundersen has been selected to be a guest organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle for six months.
Gundersen is a student of USU faculty member James Drake. Gundersen began his study at USU with Drake in 2001, according to a press release.
“This is a singular honor for Eric,” Drake said. “The organ recitals at the Salt Lake Tabernacle are attended by visitors from all over the world.”
Gundersen will play a number of daily recitals during his time as a guest organist. His selection caps a rigorous audition process, Drake said.
Gundersen is a senior and will graduate Fall semester 2003. He is from Norway and began taking organ lessons when he was 17 years old.
The organ program at USU is part of the department of music. It is geared toward training organists to serve in community churches. As its head, Drake has trained hundreds of organists who now serve their communities in the United States, Denmark, Germany and England.
SMOC to organize meeting Wednesday
Stop Monopolies on Campus (SMOC) will hold a meeting Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Old Main, Room 318.
Everyone is invited to attend.