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Students at WSU PREP are given a number of lives to complete a ropes course as a team without touching the ground, or lava. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

WSU program sharpens kids’ science skills

Jasmine Pittman June 13, 2016

The College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology is partnering with the College of Science to offer a seven week long math and science focused summer school.WSU Pre-Freshman Program, known as...

WSU PREP redefines summer camp

July 20, 2015

The phrase "summer camp'"may kindle memories of tents, s'mores and sleeping out under the stars, but for one group of 72 students in the Ogden and Weber school districts, camp this summer will consist of math,...

Roller Coaster camp combines fun and physics

June 28, 2015

America has a special attraction to amusement parks, which provide entertainment by way of their main attractions: the rides. These rides are designed by engineers to take us right to the edge of danger...

Space Camp: A summer frontier

June 22, 2015

The lazy days of summer vacation are a welcome change from the school year, but the break creates a learning gap in a young mind. A series of camps is being run by the Weber State's Department for Lifelong...

College programs spotlighted at WSU Major Fest

February 5, 2015

Booths invaded the Shepherd Union Wednesday as excited students and faculty displayed the best Weber State University has to offer. As a part of WSU's Wildcat Welcome, high school and college students...

Science Weekly: And the Nobel goes to…

October 12, 2014

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three researchers who improved the resolution of optical microscopes. The winners: Eric Betzig (United States), Stefan Hell (Germany) and William Moerner...

WSU HARBOR program flies high

July 12, 2014

The Weber State University High Altitude Reconnaissance Balloon for Outreach and Research (HARBOR) program has been gathering team members of all majors and interests to help “fly to the edge of space”...

Science Weekly: Researchers find gravitational waves from the Big Bang

March 22, 2014

Physicists have long speculated whether or not gravitational wave imprints could be detected in the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, which is the leftover light from the Big Bang. The CMB is the faint...

Physics professor reaches 50th year with WSU

February 4, 2014

By David Prete Before the Science Lab had walls, the Dee Events Center had a foundation and the Stewart Bell Tower had ticked its first tock, a younger though equally ambitious Ronald Galli answered the...

WSU physics professor presents natural history of air

February 2, 2014

The atmospheres of planets, including Earth's, can help scientists discover more about what the planet has to offer. Weber State University physics professor John Armstrong presented "A Natural History...

Sci-Fi Heroine: How supervillains are made

November 27, 2013

If I lived in a world that made it possible, I would be a supervillain or, at the very least, an antihero. There, I admitted it to all of Weber State University that, if push came to shove, I would probably...

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