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(Courtesy photo) USU wildlife resource research assistant professor Patty Cramer advises UDOT on use of wildlife underpasses and overpasses.

Wildlife crossing structures save lives, hides

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 9:57pm

LOGAN -- If Utah drivers take the high road and wildlife takes the low "road," everyone gets home safely.

Patty Cramer helps design underpasses and overpasses that help prevent collisions between drivers just passing through and the moose, elk, mule deer and smaller animals moving around in their home habitat.

The Utah State University wildland resource research assistant professor determines where underpasses or overpasses are needed based on past collisions and her surveillance footage.

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WSU Toastmasters to meet Monday

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 11:22pm

OGDEN — Weber State University’s Alumni Association on Monday will sponsor its weekly meeting of Toastmasters International.

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Weber State University students present their senior research projects at the Capitol on Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Weber State seniors present projects at the state Capitol rotunda

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 6:29am

this week than last about ribbon worms and heat-shock proteins, he's got three Weber State University students to thank.

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Two libraries offer free Zumba classes

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 11:13pm

The Weber County Library system will present Zumba classes Saturday at two library branches.

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Junior high opens doors for community enrichment classes

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 10:19pm

OGDEN — Mount Ogden Junior High School will launch its first session of community school classes on Tuesday.

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Zions Bank CEO will speak at WSU

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 10:30pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University on Thursday will present Harris Simmons, Zion's Bancorporation chairman, president and CEO.

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Students leave Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden Thursday after seeing a Sundance Film Festival movie. NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner

Lessons in the dark

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 3:52pm

OGDEN -- About 1,400 Top of Utah high school students on Thursday stepped off yellow school buses, into the ornate auditorium of Peery's Egyptian Theater. There they were enveloped in the frustrating, politically manipulated world of top Lithuanian basketball players of the 1980s.

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Thishandout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, shows a solar flare erupting on the sun. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation, with more to come. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later.

USU prof. says it's safe to enjoy solar flares

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 6:39am

LOGAN — Solar flares nearly 93 million miles away have sparked both awe and concerns this week on our small blue-green planet.

People intrigued by space and beauty have enjoyed photographic images of the flaring sun, and of aurora borealis effects the flare caused on Earth.

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Human library “book” Jose Castillo, a Utah State University philosophy student, talks to his “readers” Tuesday about his specialty topic: making the most of life’s second chances. (NANCY VAN VALKENBURG/Standard-Examiner)

Public checks out human library books at Utah State

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Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 6:27am

LOGAN -- Christian Orr waited, with neatly combed hair and a dapper outfit with a sweater vest, hoping someone would check him out.

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Ogden board sets later start to school

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Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 10:52pm

OGDEN -- The Ogden School Board has approved its 2012-13 calendar, with classes starting Aug. 27, half a week later than in the 2011-12 school year.

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Weber State class asks 'Are Machines Making Us Stupid?'

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Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 6:18am

OGDEN -- It's not a question you would expect from a top-tier techie:

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Weight-loss guru inspires audience at WSU seminar

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Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 10:24pm

OGDEN -- Joyce Plastrow came to Weber State University for Chris Powell's talk about weight-loss motivation.

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Speaker: Utah on better quake footing than Ore.

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Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 5:08pm

OGDEN -- Utah is famous as earthquake country, with the Wasatch Mountains serving as an obvious natural marker for the fault line that built them hundreds of millions of years ago.

The earthquake potential of western Oregon was a much better-kept secret until the past decade or two, said Scott F. Burns, a geology professor at Portland State University.

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WSU to host volunteer fair on Wednesday

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 10:43pm

OGDEN — Weber State University’s Community Involvement Center will host a volunteer fair from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Shepherd Union Atrium.

Representatives from more than 30 community agencies will be on hand to offer volunteer opportunities.

For information, call 801-626-7737. WSU is at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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Occupy movement to be discussed

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 10:15pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University's Center for Diversity & Unity will kick off its Common Ground Discussion Series on Wednesday with "Occupy Wall Street: What Does It Mean? Who Is Involved? What Is At Stake?"

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