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USU Football Unveils New Home Uniforms, Helmets For 2010 Season

Navy Blue Facemasks And Spackles Added To Helmet     LOGAN, Utah - When the Utah State football team takes to the turf of newly named Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium on Sept. 11 for its home opener against Idaho State, the Aggies will be donning new home uniforms. Full story

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USU archaeologists conduct 'prehistoric' research in Wyo

Researchers and Students Work in Wyoming’s Wind River Range

 Utah State University anthropology professor Chris Morgan is leading a team of researchers this summer investigating why the prehistoric inhabitants of western Wyoming chose to build and live in a large village at nearly 11,000 feet elevation in the Wind River Range. Full story

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Mountain Man Interpreter Bill Varga is Featured at USU Event

Museum of Anthropology -- “Early Contact: When the Shoshone met the Mountain Men”

In the continuing Saturdays at the Museum Series, Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology hosts Bill Varga, mountain man interpreter from the American West Heritage Center.            Varga’s interactive presentation is Saturday, July 31, with two offerings, first at 11 a.

Space Environment Technologies Opens Corporate Office in Logan, Utah

SET has ties with USU’s USTAR Space Weather Center

 Space Environment Technologies (SET), with affiliates in seven states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Texas, has now opened a new corporate presence in Logan, Utah. SET, a privately-held company, conducts space science research, provides space weather operations and develops space systems standards.

USU Technology Commercialization Office Announces Third Spinout Company of 2010

 Water Prevention Solutions LLC, Utah State University’s third spinout company in fiscal year 2010 is centered on a USU technology created by former USU employees Jim Reese and Ron White. The new technology is a patent pending wastewater backflow valve that can be installed in new construction homes and businesses or retrofitted to work on existing pipes, even those made of clay.

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Founding Director Named for New Women’s Academic Unit at USU

Women’s Vital Leadership Role Recognized Under New Single Structure

 Women are leaders in virtually all aspects of Utah State University’s campus, and a new academic unit at the university will create a single structure to give emphasis and attention to their important contributions to the university, society and the world.

USU President Connects With Common Reading Experience

Connections students, others reading same literature for event

 Utah State University President Stan L. Albrecht received a copy of Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference, by Warren St. John, this year’s selection for the Connections program’s Common Literature Experience.

ORC lists summer activities

The summer has started and we are starting some of our summer trips!  There are tons of things to do here in Logan for the summer some come drop in and see us for all your outdoor needs. Some trips that we have planned that you should come join us are, starting Tuesday June 29 (and everyother Tuesday after) we are starting our tubin' tuesdays!  What we do for that is we carpool up to the Oneida Narrows (which is in Idaho) and we go tubing down the river.

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USU Alumni Band Presents Final Concert of the 2010 Summer Season

 Utah State University’s Alumni Band wraps up its 2010 season with its final concert of the summer Sunday, Aug. 1, with a 7 p.m. concert. The traditional outdoor concert is free and open to the public.            Sunday’s program features several special guest conductors, including Larry Smith and Glen Fifield, both professors emeritus of music at USU, and Barbara Day Turner, known to Cache Valley audiences and beyond for her work as one of the conductors with the Utah Festival Opera Company.

Songs of Solomon Inspirational Ensemble Performs July 29 at USU

 Harlem based performing company Songs of Solomon Inspirational Ensemble will perform a concert Thursday, July 29, in the Performance Hall on the Utah State University campus. Concert time is 7:30 p.m.            Tickets are $10 and are available through the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 139-B, on the USU campus.

REVIEW: Big game of 'Clue' is a lot of whodunnit fun

“The Mousetrap,” the fourth and final production in repertory at the Old Lyric in Logan this summer, is often described as a classic. It is the longest-running play in England, in continuous production since 1952. It was penned by famed mystery writer Agatha Christie.

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REVIEW: Hardly a flaw in strong UFOC season

    “The Barber of Seville” is a grand example of grand opera, full of farce and familiar strains and music with characters that are easy to like and appreciate.     And it is a work that the Utah Festival Opera Company has done before, the last production being in 2001, causing some who had seen it at the Ellen Eccles Theatre before to compare the two productions.

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Utah Festival Opera outlines summer season

The summer season of the Utah Festival Opera Company will soon be on stage. Here are some highlights: The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini. It’s one close shave after another when the resourceful barber, Figaro, concocts an uproarious scheme to free the vivacious young Rosina from her jealous guardian.

REVIEW: "Blithe Spirit' needs more life

“Blithe Spirit,” the second offering of the Old Lyric Repertory Company this summer season, is billed as a comedy about death, odd as that may sound. And while that is true, it also could have used a bit more, well, life.     Delightful on the eyes, thanks to a warm set by Old Lyric Artistic Director Dennis Hassan, “Blithe Spirit” was written by Noel Coward and first staged during World War II.

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USU football gets highlighted on SportsBeat

Just in case you missed SportsBeat Sunday when USU was highlighted, take a look here. A chance to hear Coach Anderson talk about coming year, the rivalry with Utah, and check out the new uniforms.

Utah State’s Diondre Borel Tabbed To Manning Award Watch List

- Utah State senior quarterback Diondre Borel was announced as a member of the Manning Award Watch List on Saturday, as he is the fifth player named by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in its daily release of honorees. The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in 2004 to honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning.

Utah State Picked Fourth In WAC Preseason Polls

 Utah State was selected 2010 Western Athletic Conference football coaches’ poll and sixth in the league’s media poll, which were both released by the conference office Monday at the opening of the conference preview, held in Salt Lake City at the Airport Hilton.

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USU Football Unveils New Uniforms, Helmets For 2010

Navy Blue Facemasks And Spackles Added To Helmet     LOGAN, Utah - When the Utah State football team takes to the turf of newly named Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium on Sept. 11 for its home opener against Idaho State, the Aggies will be donning new home uniforms.

COLUMN: The Case for Bobby Wagner

Media members covering WAC football teams were mailed their preseason ballots this past week, and for a first-time voter like me, the decisions of where to rank the conference’s nine teams – not to mention choosing offensive and defensive players of the year – took a great deal of mental strain and contemplative thought.

USU Football Staff To Hold Free Women’s Clinic On Thursday, July 29

 Utah State’s football coaching staff will host a free football clinic for women to learn football skills, techniques and the ins-and-outs of the game at Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium on Thursday, July 29.  The clinic is sponsored by America First Credit Union.

COLUMN: Aggies Becoming Top Choice for Utah Recruits

In the world of college football recruiting, Bingham (UT) safety Bridger Peck’s recent commitment to Utah State hardly registered on the Utah sports scene, much less the national headlines. Rated as a two-star recruit by Scout.com, Peck’s online profile listed only two official scholarship offers before his commitment last week.

USU Ranks Among Most Efficient Athletic Departments in Nation For Second Year in a row

 the second year in a row, Utah State has been nationally recognized as one of the most efficient Athletic Departments in the nation as it placed third for the Excellence in Management Cup, presented by Texas A&M's Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) it was announced Wednesday.

COLUMN: Steelemas a Bah-Humbug for WAC, USU Fans

There are few days in the year that excite a college football fan more than Steelemas. That’s right, Steelemas. Otherwise known as Christmas in June, ‘Steelemas’ – as it’s known to diehard fans – is the day in which long suffering college football junkies finally receive their Phil Steele college football preview magazine.

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