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State Tipoffs Involving Utah Newsletter for Sunday April 02, 2023 ( 8 items )  

'20/20', ESPN Explore 2018 Murder of University of Utah Student-Athlete Lauren McCluskey
NEW YORK, March 30 -- ABC News, the news division of Walt Disney Television, issued the following news: When Lauren McCluskey, a student-athlete at The University of Utah, met a bouncer at a local bar, it seemed like the start of a fairy-tale romance. However, Lauren's friends grew concerned by his increasingly controlling behavior and urged her to stop seeing him. Soon after, Lauren discovered that her boyfriend wasn't who he said he was - his real name was Melvin Rowland, a 37-year-old sex of  more

Colo. State Judicial Branch: Colorado Supreme Court Approves Creation of Legal Paraprofessional License
DENVER, Colorado, March 28 -- The Colorado State Judicial Branch issued the following news release: The Colorado Supreme Court has approved the licensure of legal paraprofessionals in a new rule that is designed to make legal representation more widely available and more affordable to people in certain domestic-relations matters. With approval of the new Rule 207 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, the state becomes one of five that will issue some form of limited license for non-lawyers  more

Graduate Student Investigates How Gladiatorial Training Affected Mind, Body
LOGAN, Utah, March 28 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Through conquest and conflict, the armies of Ancient Rome helped to carve out an empire that, at its peak, encompassed the Mediterranean Sea and spanned three continents. In his thesis research, Daniel Porter, a USU graduate student in Ancient Languages and Culture, found that within this Roman army, one general preferred soldiers with a certain type of training over any other. That general preferred soldiers wh  more

Using Biomarkers to Identify Stress in Dementia Caregivers
LOGAN, Utah, March 31 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: In China, it's common for multiple generations of a family to share a household. So when Yin Liu, assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies, talks about living with her grandfather for the first part of her life, this is not immediately a profound detail. It takes on new meaning when Liu shares that her grandfather had Alzheimer's disease, and after Liu's mother could no longer provide care for   more

USU Extension Presents Friend of Extension Award to Bastian Family Foundation
LOGAN, Utah, March 29 (TNSfund) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University Extension presented its Friend of Extension Award to the Bastian Family Foundation at Extension's annual conference in early March. The Bastian Family Foundation donated $41.25 million in 2022 to honor and preserve the state's farming past, present and future, and is the largest single gift in USU history. The Bastian family, in concert with USU Extension, founded the Bastian Agricultural   more

Utah State University: 'Raise the Bar - Zero to 1 Billion' Earns Shingo Publication Award
LOGAN, Utah, March 29 (TNSbook) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has awarded Michael Balle, Nicolas Chartier, Guillaume Paoli, and Regis Medina the Shingo Publication Award for their book, Raise the Bar: Zero to 1 Billion: Combining Lean and Digital for People-Centric, Sustainable Growth. "Receipt of the Shingo Publication Award signifies an author's significant contribution a  more

Utah State University: CHAOS Learning Lab Recognized for Innovative STEM Teaching, Diversity in Education
LOGAN, Utah, March 31 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: The CHAOS Learning Lab at USU was recently included in a national policy brief by the Education Commission of the States as an outstanding example of innovative STEM education, arts integration, and diversity and equity in education. The CHAOS (Culture, History, and Art Originating in STEM) Learning Lab is focused on engaging teachers in hands-on, arts-integrated STEM, social studies, and computer science learni  more

Utah State University: Doctoral Candidate Creates Technique to Improve AI Energy Efficiency
LOGAN, Utah, March 30 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news on March 29, 2023: An engineering doctoral student is shedding light on the reliability of today's modern-day artificial intelligence with an issue most do not think about: energy efficiency. Noel Daniel Gundi, who will defend his dissertation later in the semester, was the lead collaborator on research addressing reliability and faults in artificial intelligence. The research paper will be presented and publishe  more