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Show Logan, Utah Utah State University Today is Friday, April 25, 2008 Breaking News www.utohstatesfnon.com College renamed after receiving million dollar gift BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS The USU softball team beats Idaho State 5-3 in a snowy game Thursday. Page 12 Campus News Meet the spring class of 2008 valedictorians. Page 3 Features The Crystal Hot Springs provides hot and cold springs. . , . -;; Page 5 Sports . USU celebrated two significant gifts April 23 and announced at the same time that it will rename is prestigious college of education the Emma Eccies Jones College of Education and Human Services. The $25 million gift from the Emma Eccles Jones Foundation, announced in December 2007, will support design and construction of a new building and five endowed faculty chairs in early childhood education. An additional $1 million gift announced Wednesday from the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation will support a new Center for Early Care and Education named for Dolores Dore Eccles. Carol Strong, dean of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, said the gifts will allow the already highly ranked college to affirm even further its status as one of the nation's leaders in early childhood education, research and service. "The synergy created by these generous gifts will serve as a powerful catalyst, helping to transform early childhood education not only regionally and nationally but internationally," she said. The new building will house all of the college's important programs and research in early childhood education, including the Emma Eccles Jones Center for Early Childhood Education and its endowed chair, Ray Reutzel. It will also be home to the Sound Beginnings Preschool, a one-of-a-kind program in the Intermountain West where children with cochlear implants or digital hearing aids can learn spoken language. Also under the same roof, the Dolores Dore Eccles Center for Early Care and Education will provide much-needed child-care facilities for infants and young children whose parents are USU students, staff or faculty. In addition, the facility will offer early childhood education, student and parent training, a model research environment and endless opportunities for USU undergraduate and graduate students to observe, tutor and experience hands-on learning internships. "These will be the critical training grounds for students who will become our nation's best teachers, deaf educators, speech-language pathologists and audiologists," Strong said. LI See GIFT, page 4 A L M O S T 2,000 S T U D E N T S will be graduating next week from USU. There will be an academic procession and formal commencement to mark the occasion. TYLER LARSON photo Preparing/or graduation By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN staff writer Nearly 2,000 students are preparing to enter the workforce as USU s spring 2008 graduation edges near. "We just always have great students to honor," said Sydney Peterson, chair of the Commencement Committee. The graduate commencement ceremony will take place Friday, May 2 and the undergraduate ceremony is Saturday, May 3. Peterson said a little more than 50 percent of the graduating students usually attend their graduation ceremony. According to a document provided by Marci Smith, supervisor of records at the Registrar's Office, 1,937 students are graduating this spring. That is 1,143 more students than fall's graduation. Fifty-two percent of this spring's graduating class are male. The young- est student graduating from USU this spring was born in 1990 and the oldest was born in 1946. The undergraduate ceremony will begin with an academic procession beginning at the Quad and ending at the Spectrum, where the actual ceremony will be held. Peterson said after the procession, an honorary degree recipient and CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, James H. Quigley will address the graduates. After his speech, Quigley and the other four honorary degree recipients will be recognized. Peterson said the other honorary recipients this year are Clark P. Giles, W. Eugene Hansen, L. Tom Perry and Beverley P. Sorenson. Once the five honorary recipients have been recognized, valedictorian Andrew Braithwaite from the College of Natural Resources will speak and the graduating LI See GRADUATION, page 4 Programs offering classrooms abroad Check out the top headlines in USU sports for the 2007-2008 By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN staff writer Many students from the art department will be taking advantage of USU's Study Abroad Page 11 program, traveling to Germany, Korea and China, or Switzerland this summer. Kay Forsyth, director of Study Abroad, said the programs give students the opportunity to "But, for whatever reason, there study as well as gain a new perspective and to are always a handful of students grow individually. "It gives an international flare to your expewho think whatever conversation rience," Forsyth said. they are having is so important that Robert Winward, associate professor of art everyone else needs to hear it too. and program leader for the Switzerland Study This exhibit of disrespect should not Abroad program, said his 44 students this summer will have the unique opportunity to learn be tolerated." -. .-.. . Page 14 from monks in the Great St. Bernard Hospice which is normally closed this time of year due to snow. To get there, Winward said students season. •/•-.;; •}'-^-A:^-^:^:-'" Opinion Almanac Today in History: In 1945, Germany becomes Allied territory when Russian and U.S. troops surround Berlin and split Germany in two. will be led by monks on a three-mile hike through a pass in the Alps. "They'll learn about medieval art and also about monastic lifestyle," Winward said. "This is where they breed St. Bernard dogs. Napoleon and Caesar went over this pass. The students will have the experience of staying up there with no one else up there for three days. The monks will essentially be their tutors." Winward said USU students have been studying in this part of Switzerland for seven years, and the program lodges students in the same hotel every year. "They're putting a USU plaque on the outside of the hotel this year," Winward said. "They like USU students because they're wellbehaved and not crazy students like others, and we enjoy a good relationship over there." Christopher Terry, a professor of art and leader of the Essen, Germany program, said College of Science staff writer High: 54° Low: 32° Skies: Partly cloudy with chance of rain in the afternoon and evening. Archives and breaking news LI See ABROAD, page 4 Students graduating at the top of their class ByDRUETOLMAN Weather although Germany isn't the only good place to study, it has a lot of both historical and contemporary art, which makes it a good location for the program. "Because of the density of the population, the program is based in a part of Germany with a lot of nearby cities and we can go to a bunch of world-class museums nearby," Terry said. "It's certainly got a lot to offer. It's a place where people can experience an awful lot of art." Terry said he hopes his program will help his 15 participants grow artistically and change their perspective. "I hope they will develop a more sophisticated attitude towards painting and drawing, and think not so much about technique but more conceptually," Terry said. "They see a lot of art Valedictorian of the College of Science, Ryan Campbell is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry. Campbell said there were a handful of influential professors that made a difference in his education. He said Stephen Biakowski, analytical chemistry, is really a helpful professor. "He has always cared. Anytime I have had a question, even if it's not in a course I have had with him, he's been really good to sit down and research something out with me and give me resources to find information. That's pretty rare" he said. For the future, Campbell said he will either COLLEGE O F SCIENCE valedictorian Ryan Campell is graduating next week. During his time at USU, Campbell has conducted research, testing for aerosol in the air. TYLER LARSON photo go to the University of Utah for graduate school or he will work for a year and then continue on to graduate school then. \ Campbell said he has been working at Campbell Scientific, a business dealing with scientific instrumentation. Working there, Campbell said he has done research on soils testing, weather sensors and instrumenta: tion along those lines. For his senior seminar, ' Campbell said he did research with a weather ] sensor here in Logan, specifically testing for aerosol in the air. Campbell has also worked as a river guide for two /ears in Jackson Hole, Wyo. and Salmon, Idaho. He has been teaching a kayaking class at USU this semester. He said "I've loved it, it's way different from < anything I do on campus. It's been a great place! to meet people and make new friends." | Campbell also plays the fiddle in the blue- ! grass band Dah. -n. drueJ@aggiemail. usu, edit LI See VALEDICTORIANS, page 3 |
