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Show UTA MONDAY, APRIL 25,2005 5 STATESMAN Humanities offer students creativity, speaker says BY ERICA C O T T A M Special to the Statesman The humanities add an element of creativity to a world of technology and allow students to get a broader education than they would in vocational training, Christine Hult said in a lecture at the Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge April 12. Hult, professor of English, associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and winner of the 2004 D. Wynne Thome Research Award, Utah State University's highest research honor, spoke as part of the first Research Week. Hult delivered her lecture, "The Place of Humanities in an Age of Technology" to an audience of about 40 people, including the winners of the outstanding undergraduate researcher awards and research mentors. "Creativity matters as much as knowledge matters," Hult said. Hult said machines can often outperform humans in leftbrain activities and that researchers may now be seeing the "revenge of the right brain." Technology is still necessary, Hult said, but not sufficient. She said the distinctions between humanities and sciences are blurring. The old binaries of technology versus the humanities and right brain versus left brain are breaking down, Hult said. The connections between them might be closer than students tend to think, she said. Hult said the College of HASS asks students what makes them happy, and that more income does not necessarily equate to more happiness. Happiness has more to do with family and personal life, Hult said, which are areas that the humanities can improve a person in. Happiness is "doing what you love with those you love," she said. Hult read a script from a HASS See Page 4 Word on ti Do yon think final exams be split over two weeks as they are this year? "Not really, I would much rather just getting finals over with as soon as possible." "I would like getting out earlier, but the weekend gives me a chance to study. It is very beneficial for procrastinators like me!" - Mandy Sroufe, senior - Katie Rutherford, senior "It is nice having two weekends to study, but I think we should have a dead week, instead of just one day. We should nave a whole week without classes to get ready." "I personally prefer having finals split up with the weekend because I get the extra time to rest that I normally don't have." "If my finals were split up then I would like the extra time to study, but I only have them on Thursday and Friday." - Panu Puikkonen, junior - Dan Rock, junior - Stacy Day, junior The College of Science at Utah State University honored its faculty, staff and students at an awards banquet April 21. Science Dean Donald Fiesinger honored Alvan Hengge, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, as Teacher of the Year for his excellence in teaching, and Alexander Boldyrev, also in chemistry and biochemistry, as Researcher of the Year. Rex Watkins, a student studying chemistry and biochemistry, was named spring 2005 Valedictorian. Watkins is a graduating senior with the highest Utah State grade point average in the college. His faculty escort for the commencement ceremony is Lisa Berreau, from chemistry and biochemistry. Ashley Ellsworth in chemistry and biochemistry was named Scholar of the Year for her excellence in scholarship and service to the university. The Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year award was presented to David Peak in physics, recognizing outstanding faculty mentors, and Dustin Keele from geology received Undergraduate Researcher of the Year. Janeen Ardito, a graduate student from mathematics and statistics, received the Graduate Student Teacher of the Year award, and master's student Alexander N. Steely from geology and doctoral student Anastassia Alexandrova received the Graduate Student Researcher of the Year awards. Undergraduates Cody Olsen from mathematics and statistics, David Hatch from physics and Chris Berentzen from biology received the Dean's Scholars award. For more information on the College of Science, visit www.usu.edu/science/. Audubon Society hosts spring banquet WUE From Page 7 year if students leave or graduate. All programs are available, making USU the only Utah four-year institution without program restrictions, according to the pamphlet. Admittance to USU is required before students are accepted into the WUE program. Freshmen are required to have an admissions index of 100 or higher. Transfer students must have at least a 3.0 GPA. If a student is awarded the scholarship, they must maintain a 2.5 cumulative College of Science honors faculty, staff and students GPA and take a minimum of 15 credits per semester. The program lasts for eight semesters, which do not need to be consecutive. Credits earned on WUE do not count toward residency, so the student may return home for the summer. The student body at USU benefits from WUE by gaining a greater variety of students. "It allows Utah State to have a more diverse student population," said Margo Stephenson, program coordinator of student exchange programs at WICHE. "It [also] fills seats that would otherwise be empty.51 USU students who need to complete their degrees at outof-state institutions for various reasons may apply and possibly benefit from the program as well if awarded the scholarship, she said. The WUE Program began in 1988 and has assisted thousands of students since then. It is growing each year as more people hear about it and more institutions participate. In the 2004-05 school year,. WUE participants saved nearly $111.7 million in tuition costs, Stephenson said. Blotter ^Police uews from theCampus & Friday, April 15, 2005 • USU Police responded to the construction site where the new library is being built on a medical assist. A construction worker fell and hurt her neck. The worker was transported to Logan Regional Hospital for observation. • Parking employees found a parked vehicle that had an unauthorized parking pass inside of it. The individual using the pass was identified and police are investigating possible theft charges. Saturday, April 16, 2005 • USU Police observed an individual leave the Quad with two tiki torches belonging to the Student Alumni Association. The individual was arrested for theft. -..,.. .. • Police responded to an emergency phone alarm at the tennis courts. An individual in a large group of high school age students admitted to pushing the button. The individual was "WUE has been amazing" said Kelsey Benson, a freshman on the WUE scholarship. "It made it possible for me to come to Utah State, and I really wanted to come here." Information about WUE is sent to state representatives and school counselors to inform students about this program. To learn more, visit USU's Web site: www.usu.edu/scholarship/wue.html or call 1-800488-8108. Also, visit WICHE's Web site: www.wiche.edu/SEP/WUE/inde x.asp. -briannamo @ cc. usu. edu Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 released t o a school official w i t h a w a r n i n g . - - 1 .- ' : '-is . ; ' "' ••" .-: Sunday, April 17,2005 ; '; f. • An individual reported to police that his vehicle had been stolen. A short time later the individual called to report that he had located his vehicle and did not want any action taken. • Police responded to a report of two dogs that had cornered a bobcat in the USU Coal yard area. On arrival, it was determined that it was not a bobcat, but a feral cat. The dogs were captured by Logan City Animal Control and the cat ran away before it could be captured.The two dogs were impounded for running at large. Tuesday, April 19, 2005 v ^ • Police responded to the Sci-Tech library on a report of a broken glass panel. This investigatipn is continuing. • Police responded to the Taggart . / Student Center on three suspicious individuals in the area, seen jumping from cement piers. Police made contact with the individuals and explained the concerns of the university. The three individuals stated they understood the concerns and left the area. • Police responded to the Terrace parking lot on a vandalism that occurred. Three spot lights that illuminate the Aggie Bull sculpture were broken. At this time there are no suspects. • USU Police dispatch received a number of calls from an individual talking about nonsense, and tying up police telephone lines. Police are investigating. Wednesday, April 20, 2005 • Police responded to Mountain View Tower on a report of a stink bomb being set off. Police are investigating ' Compiled by Katie Ashton. All police blotters can be found at www.utahstatesman.com . . Bridgerland Audubon Society will be holding its Spring Banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Aspen Grove Reception Center, 868 N. 600 East Joan Degiorgio, Northern Mountains Regional Director of the Nature Conservancy will be speaking to the group on how TNC became interested in a 35-mile stretch of the Bear River in northern Cache County known as the Bear River Bottoms. There will be live music and dinner. Tickets can be purchased for $25 at Fuhrimans Fine Art and Framing, Caffe Ibis and Maya's corner through Tbesday at noon. Professor elected president of CRA Ray Reutzel, Utah State University professor and director of the Emma Eccles Jones Center for Early Childhood Education, has been elected president of the College Reading Association. Reutzel is the first CRA president elected from west of the Mississippi. He has been a member of the association for 20 years and has served on the board of directors and as editor of "Reading Research and Instruction," the association's nationally refereed journal. Reutzel holds the Emma Eccles Jones Endowed Chair at Utah State and is editor of "The Reading Teacher." He has received numerous awards, including the A.B. Herr Award for Outstanding Research and Publication Contributions to Reading Education from the CRA in 1999, the Outstanding Alumni Professional Achievement Award and Citation from USU in 1996 and the Excellence in Outstanding Service to Education from the Utah State Office of Education in . 1995. Reutzel was also nominated for president of the CRA in 1997 and 2002. Members of the CRA include scholars in thefieldof literacy education, past and present literacy leaders, prominent researchers, authors, editors of national and international professional journals, teachers, graduate students and publishers. Reutzel will take office in November as vice president, president-elect in 2006 and president in 2007- > v$ ;p *Sfe COMPILED BY STATESMAN STAFF |