Campus News Briefs
USU professor to serve on UHC
Utah State University’s Extension specialist Leona Hawks has been appointed by Gov. Michael Leavitt to be one of nine members of the Board of Trustees for the Utah Housing Corporation (UHC).
Hawks is the Extension housing specialist in the department of human environments and has been working with developing and delivering educational programs that serve the needs of Utah residents for the past 23 years. Hawks is an advocate for housing rights and has been involved with the House of Representatives Full Committee on Aging and Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency’s national task force, Logan City Planning and Zoning and the Energy Star Home Program.
Hawks’ appointment to the Utah Housing Corporation expires in 2005. The UHC was established by the Utah Legislature in 1975 to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing for low and moderate income families. It is a self-supporting, public corporation that finances, develops and preserves affordable housing opportunities.
Sixth graders become curators
More than 250 sixth graders at Spring Creek Middle School in Providence have teamed up with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum at Utah State University to gain hands-on museum experience.
The students, from eight sixth-grade classrooms, learn different lessons about museum management and role play various museum positions such as artist and curator.
“We want this to be as hands-on as possible. The students learn how to look at art critically and creatively as they gain vision of art-based professions they might explore later on,” said Nadra Haffar-Peragallo, museum teaching artist.
Program organizer Meg Erekson said, “The students are given a chance to curate their own work and then act as docents as they take the rest of the students at Spring Creek, as well as family and friends, through the museum.”
Anyone wishing to view the students’ museum installation will have the opportunity April 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Spring Creek Middle School, 350 W. 100 North, Providence.
Students eligible for scholarships
The Utah State University’s nutrition and food sciences department has announced the creation of several new scholarships for undergraduate students in food science to be awarded beginning Fall Semester 2002.
The scholarships range from $500 to $2,000. One-year scholarships are available for incoming freshmen or transfer students and there are also multi-year scholarships for undergraduate researchers.
Bart Weimer, professor of food science, said the food industry is growing steadily and for the past several years 95 percent of food science graduates have found jobs in their field.
The deadline for scholarship applications is July 15, 2002. For more information and applications contact Weimer at 797-3356 or mmilkbugs@cc.usu.edu.
Student awarded writing scholarship
Undergraduate Aaron Law has received the Ralph Jennings Smith Scholarship for creative writing.
“The Ralph Jennings Smith full-tuition scholarship brings prominence and recognition to creative writing at USU,” English department head Jeffrey Smitten said.
The scholarship is the largest creative writing award the English department offers and was created by Arthur D. and Grace J. Smith, both graduates of USU, in honor of their son.
Law won for his short story For Dust Thou Art and said he was inspired by the works of Flannery O’Connor.
“I was really surprised but excited to be receiving this prestigious award,” Law said.