Data Collection Committee to improve the accuracy and reliability of reports being submitted to the Utah Legislature and other healthcare interest. Professor Rebecca Rasmusson and Level Three nursing students presented health promotion teaching at multiple sites in the community, including “Balance Diet and Food Choices” to East Elementary students, “Proper Hand Washing” at elementary schools in Iron County, and “Avoiding Illness” to Utah National Guard members. Professor Aja James presented “Constructs and Character: Reality in the Rural World” at the National 2009 Air Medical Transport Conference in San Jose, CA (October 2009). Professor Alan Pearson and Level Three nursing students coordinated and served the community through a blood drive in October 2009, provided flu immunizations throughout Southern Utah and assisted the Iron County School nurses with vision and hearing screening. He and RN to BSN students spent a day serving health care needs at the World Senior Games (October 2009). He also supervised Level Three students in the provision of H1N1 and emergency preparedness at the Iron County Fair (September 2009). Professor Kevin Tipton is supervising Level Three nursing students and RN to BSN students who are working one on one with 48 elderly citizens in Southern Utah, providing assessment and assistance with health promotion in the senior citizens’ homes. He is also collaborating with nursing faculty and Ocean View Community College in Florida and Seattle Pacific University in Washington sharing his teaching technique in geriatrics through the “Well Elder Project.”
Professor Selwyn Layton serves on the Practice Committee at Valley View Medical Center, working to improve the quality of practice and patient care through the hospital.
Biology Dr. Helen Boswell’s book, My Fish Ate Your Fish: Can Evolution and Religion Play Nicely, a discussion of the historical and current tension between evolution and intelligent design, is due to be released in January 2010. Dr. Bonnie Bain Curator, Museum of Natural History co-published “Pycnogonid-Cnidarian Predator-Prey Relationships in the Deep Monterey Submarine Canyon” in Invertebrate Biology and a book chapter in, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, Third Edition along with Dr. Fred Govedich. Dr. Betsy Bancroft, co-published “Experimental Examination of the Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation in Combination with other Stressors in Frog Larvae” in Oecologia (2009) and “Influence of UltraViolet-B Radiation on Growth, Prevalence of Deformities, and Susceptibility to Predation in Cascades Frog (Rana cascadae) Larvae” in Hydrobiologia (2009). Dr. Fred Govedich presented “Parental Care and Sibling Rivalry in Glossiphoniid Leeches: A Perspective on the Evolution of Animal Behavior” at the 2008 International Leech Conference held at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. He also co-authored “Annelida, Hirudinea (Leeches)” in The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (2009).
annus L., Asteraceae) Growth and Development,” co-authored with SUU undergraduate students Adam Weagle and H. Gaven Smith at the Botanical Society of America held in Snowbird, UT (July 2009). Also, she was an invited seminar speaker at Black Hills State University (Spearfish, SD) where she presented results from field and molecular research that explored the ecology and evolution of clubmosses (Lycopodium). Dr. Rachel Smetanka, attended a conference in Niagara Falls, NY on behalf of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Commitee. It was designed for programs that are starting the process of getting PHS assurance and for programs going through facility review and inspection. As we are getting our first official animal care facility with the Gibson Science Center, it was a great way to start connecting with other animal care programs and the governing bodies of animal welfare in teaching and research. Professor John Taylor, an administrator of the The Voyager Program (new to SUU, 2009) aims to hit elementary schools in southern Utah with exciting scientific discovery. The Voyager has already kicked off the year as a centerpiece of SUU’s Earth Day Celebration. Hundreds of kids from 1-99 years of age explored with the science equipment that was displayed. The Voyager also spent a day at East Elementary in Iron County as part of the “Geology Rocks!” program. Fourth grade teachers used the Voyagers handheld digital microscopes to show over 100 students the differences in soil types and the magnificent geology found in southern Utah.
Dr. Terri Hildebrand, presented “The Affect of Solution pH on Plant (Helianthus
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