Utah State University ( USU ) is a public land-grant university with its main campus in Logan, Utah.
USU was founded in 1888 as the Agricultural College of Utah under the Morrill Act. The college's name was subsequently changed to Utah State Agricultural College , and became Utah State University in 1957. USU now has 870 faculty, and over 25,000 students enrolled in fall 2009. USU is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, and is now a major research university with longstanding ties to the Department of Defense and NASA, for which it conducts extensive aerospace research.
Beyond its Logan campus, Utah State's Extension community provides academic resources and support for the state as a whole, including a Continuing Education program. Created in 1907, Extension now includes USU Regional Campuses at Brigham City, Tooele, and the Uintah Basin, as well as USU Centers at Moab, Ogden, Price, and Salt Lake City. USU operates Extension locations in each of Utah's 29 counties. Snow College, at Ephraim, is also affiliated with the university. USU's current president is Stan L. Albrecht.
Academics
Utah State University is a land and space-grant research-extensive institution in northern Utah, 80 miles from the state capital. The university enrolls 25,065 students as of 2009. Slightly more than 80% of the students are undergraduates. The Princeton Review ranked Utah State University among the "Best Western" schools in 2009.
The university offers 113 distinct undergraduate majors leading to 176 different bachelor's degrees, which is by far the most in the state. The university also offers 97 master's and 38 doctoral degrees.
The University is organized into 7 academic colleges:
- College of Agriculture
- College of Engineering
- College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- College of Natural Resources
- College of Science
- Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
- Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
Agriculture
The College of Agriculture is known for Nutrition and Food Science research, as well as significant breakthroughs and global outreach in plants and soil science, animal science, veterinary science and economics. College researchers were instrumental in the creation of the first cloned equines (horses), in a project collaboration with researchers at the University of Idaho. The college is also a leader in the international project to classify and research the sheep genome. The departments of the College of Agriculture include the Plants, Soils and Climate Department, the Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Science Department, the Nutrition and Food Science Department, and the Agricultural Systems & Technology Department.
Engineering
Much of USU's most widespread academic renown stems directly from the College of Engineering. USU houses the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), which is a research facility focusing on military and science applications. The SDL frequently submits projects to the Department of Defense and NASA. According to recent National Science Foundation statistics, USU ranked first among all universities in the U.S. in funding for aerospace research. USU has also won multiple national aerospace engineering competitions in the past, including two in the 2008-09 academic year alone.
The Utah Water Research Laboratory is the oldest and largest facility of its kind in the nation. USU is considered the world's #1 university in a number of water-related engineering and scientific disciplines due in large part to the UWRL. The lab heads and contributes to numerous international projects, particularly in arid Middle Eastern nations.
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS), the largest college at Utah State University, is also its most diverse and touches nearly every student on campus through its teaching of required general education classes. The College has fourteen Departments and fourteen additional programs, and offers 28 majors.
In the Humanities, USU has long history in the study of the American West. The university, through its departments of English and History, is the host institution for the scholarly journals Western American Literature and the Western Historical Quarterly , the official publications of the Western Literature Association and the Western History Association. The Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, a Humanities outreach center at USU, sponsors public events and research focusing on the cultures and history of the Interior West and larger American West. University Special Collections and Archives, located at the Merrill-Cazier Library, has extensive archival holdings documenting the histories of Utah, the Intermountain West, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as collections pertaining to American folklore and the lives and works of western authors such as Jack London and poet May Swenson, a Logan native and USU alumna.
Unique among USU’s colleges, HASS includes the Caine School of the Arts, which houses the departments of Art, Music, Theatre Arts, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Creative Writing, and Interior Design, along with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Performance facilities include the Kent Concert Hall and the Manon Caine Russell-Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall, completed in 2006. The 400-seat Performance Hall, designed by the architectural firm Sasaki Associates, has been praised as one of the best acoustic performance spaces in the American West, and received an Honor Award from the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened in 1982, contains one of the largest art collections in the Intermountain Region. Its holdings include nationally-significant collections of ceramics, Native American art, and especially artworks produced in the American West since 1945. Notable departments within the Caine School of the Arts include Art, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Music, Interior Design, and Theatre Arts.
Natural Resources
The College of Natural Resources includes the departments of Watershed Sciences, Environment and Society, and Wildland Resources. USU has a long and illustrious history in the science and management of forests, rangeland, wildlife, and fisheries and watersheds. Many graduates of the College of Natural Resources have gone on to high-ranking careers in the National Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. The College of Natural Resources also operates the Quinney Library, with collections relevant for natural resources education, management, and research.
Science
USU's College of Science houses the Departments of Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics & Statistics, and Geology. Among the most impressive aspects of the College of Science include the rates at which its students are accepted into medical and dental schools. Despite the absence of such schools at USU, students are admitted to medical and dental programs at a rate of more than 20 percent above the national average each year. This is largely due to the rigorous Prehealth Advising Program.
Education and Human Services
USU's Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report in the top 2% of prestigious graduate schools of education in the U.S. for the past decade. One aspect of that, the College houses one of America's few combined programs in graduate psychology training, which integrates doctoral-level training across clinical, counseling, and school psychology, and is accredited by the American Psychological Association. Faculty are active in many of areas of psychological research, including neuropsychology, child development, health psychology, and behavior therapy.
Department of Psychology faculty member Karl R. White is director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, which focuses on the early identification and intervention of hearing loss in infants and young children.
Business
In 2007, Utah State's College of Business became the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business after a $26 million donation by the billionaire. The School hopes to model itself after Huntsman's alma mater and prestigious business school, Wharton, located at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Huntsman School of Business offers a number of graduate and undergraduate degrees in fields including management, accounting, economics and finance, and management information systems (MIS). The bachelor's degrees in entrepreneurship and international business are also unique to USU within the state. The school's travel programs, including the Huntsman Scholar Program, have received much renown as of late as well.
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