Research Integrity and Compliance

Utah State University’s ninth annual Research Week, to be held Apr. 8-12, will feature longstanding popular events, as well as new highlights.

Developmental presentation, or DEV PRES, is a new presentation opportunity for graduate students to present their research and receive feedback without the added pressures of a grade or broader professional consequences.

USU’s Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow (PDRF) Pratima Labroo developed an interest in biology and mathematics in high school and decided to pursue biological engineering, an area that integrates both fields of study, she said.

USU’s Office of Commercialization and Regional Development invites faculty, staff and students to submit their inventions for possible patent and development assistance.

USU’s Environmental Health and Safety division in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies is currently updating USU’s Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plans (SPCC) to determine the potential escape of organic materials from the campus to the waterways of the country.

The seventh annual Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) will be held at Utah State University on February 22, 2013. The conference, modeled after the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, is designed to showcase the best undergraduate work from students all over the state.

The primary cause of most water crises is social change, said Douglas Jackson-Smith, who gave a talk during the recently held Sunrise Session.

In honor of Radon Action Month (January), Utah Governor Herbert is urging all State of Utah employees to test their homes for radon. Radon is the most common non-tobacco-related cause of lung cancer, and many Utah homes have dangerously high levels.

Brooke Berry started to develop an interest in a type of mindfulness-based psychotherapy called the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) when she was studying psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Utah State University’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Richard S. Inouye has accepted the position of associate vice president for research and associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies.