Daniel Lenhart, research.usu.edu
LOGAN — Next week is Research Week at Utah State University. It is an opportunity for USU to showcase a series of events scheduled throughout the week that will highlight research, accomplishments of USU students and faculty.
Also it will give the public a chance to know some of the research that has been done, is being done right now and will be done.
On KVNU’s For the People program on Wednesday, Daniel Lenhart, program assistant with the Office of Research, was asked how they decide what to spotlight each year.
“We highlight…what our faculty has written books about this year. And every year we get interesting new topics, so every year our faculty writes books about new things, so we’re able to see brand new topics every single year,” he explained.
Lenhart said research is important not just in the university sphere but in the public sphere as well.
“Research helps impact daily decisions, it is research that helps us decide how to manage our water, how to manage our air. Everything we do is impacted by research and should be impacted by research, and it is. The wonderful researchers here at Utah State, both our student researchers as well as our faculty researchers, are helping push that work forward.”
A highlight of the week is a lecture which, this year, will feature Dr. Ron Sims, who was instrumental in starting the Biological Engineering department and who was the recipient of last year’s D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award.
It will be held Thursday, April 14th from 330 to 430p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library in the New Books Lounge. More details are available at research.usu.edu.