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A screenshot from the Geoscience & Society Lecture series talk Lightning Flowers with Katherine Standefer. (Marisa Nelson / The Signpost)

The striking weight of modern medical technology

Landin Griffith March 15, 2021

At 27 years old in 2012, Katherine Standefer, who had been attending graduate school in Tucson, Arizona and was playing a game of intramural soccer with her fellow graduate students, started screaming,...

This session of the lecture series focuses more on Utahs changing energy landscape and what the state of Utah is doing to help or harm. (Israel Campa / The Signpost) Photo credit: Israel Campa

Shocking revelations, life-or-death consequences, rocks: Geoscience seminar series has it all

Joshua Kamp February 8, 2021

Sustainability and the consequences of non-sustainable actions take a front seat at Weber State University’s spring 2021 Geoscience and Society seminar series. The series began on Jan. 15 and will...

Marek Matyjasik researches chemical reactions with water and mineral surfaces. He has received the Fulbright Scholarship to go to Poland and teach geology. (Press release from weber.edu on March 21)

From the ground up: WSU professor attains international acclaim

Nic Muranaka March 29, 2019

Matt - e - yah - shick. That's how you pronounce Dr. Marek Matyjasik's last name, the first skill students at Warsaw University will have to practice when he travels there early next year as Weber State...

Nearly $1 million in new science money at WSU

Nearly $1 million in new science money at WSU

Zac Watts November 1, 2018

In an effort to raise graduation rates among low-income and underrepresented students studying physical science, the National Science Foundation has awarded Weber State University nearly $1,000,000 in...

Riesgos del acceso abierto y la publicación en internet

Christopher Murphy October 12, 2015

Adolph Yonkee, un instructor de geociencias en Weber State University, publicó un artículo en la revista académica Science Direct. El documento, escrito con Arlo Brandon Weil de Bryn Mawr College,...

Risks of open access and online publishing

Christopher Murphy October 6, 2015

Adolph Yonkee, a geoscience instructor at Weber State University, recently had an article published in the academic journal Science Direct. The paper, written in collaboration with Arlo Brandon Weil...

Rock boxes rock elementary school lessons

January 15, 2013

Children in the Weber School District have the opportunity to experience learning earth science with hands-on material, thanks to a group of geoscience students who donated rock boxes to the surrounding...

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