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Utah State Aggies create transformational impacts through meaningful research, particularly in space, water, land, air, and quality-of-life questions.
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Green Spaces for the 21st Century: A Research Landscapes Presentation
calendar Date: November 13, 2025
clock Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
location pin Location: O.C. Tanner, 1930 S State Street, Salt Lake City
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A Cold War base beneath Greenland's ice, ancient life frozen in time, and a USU lab helping decode it all — The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice and how the past may give us a view of the future.
For a century there have been just five places in the continental United States with year-round frozen peaks — all in Washington state. But newly published research documents that these ice-capped summits are changing — melting — faster than many thought possible.
How do you keep people from being total jerks? When communities have a problem to solve — sharing limited resources (like toilet paper), or dealing with a crisis (like a government shutdown) — they fare better when more people make decisions contributing to the common good. People don’t always do that.
New research from Stefani Crabtree from the Department of Environment and Society sought to answer that using simulations to mathematically explore strategies to keep people from acting in selfish ways.
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