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Awards

Sunshine Brosi

Professor

SJ and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Eastern
Wildland Resources Department

USU Honors Faculty Fellow, 2026-2029

 

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer/Assistant Department Head

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Mathematics and Statistics Department

Department Faculty University Service Award

 

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor

College of Arts and Sciences | Uintah Basin
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department

Commendation, Utah State Board of Trustees

 

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year

 

John Barton

Principal Lecturer

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Uintah Basin
History Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Clinton Behunin

Lecturer

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Blanding
Communication Studies & Philosophy Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor

SJ and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Eastern
Wildland Resources Department

College Faculty University Service Award

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer/Assistant Department Head

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Mathematics and Statistics Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year

Sean Camp

Clinical Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Tooele
Social Work Department

USU Tooele Outstanding Faculty of the Year

Mark Chynoweth

Associate Professor

SJ and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Uintah Basin
Wildland Resources Department

College Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year

Jake Clement

Professional Practice Instructor

College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Eastern
Technology, Design and Technical Education Department

Teaching Award of Merit – North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Brigham City
Social Work Department

Department Graduate Faculty Mentor
College Graduate Faculty Mentor

Evey Gannaway Dalton

Assistant Professor

College of Science | Eastern
Geosciences Department

Department Teacher of the Year

Shana Geffeney

Associate Professor

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Biology Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Faculty Researcher of the Year

Kim Horsley

Professional Practice Instructor

College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Eastern
Technology, Design and Technical Education Department

Teaching Award – Utah Association for Career and Technical Education (UACTE)

Hannah Lewis

Professional Practice Assistant Professor

College of Science | Eastern
Mathematics & Statistics Department

Department Faculty University Service Award

Robert Mueller

Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Tooele
History Department

Department Teacher of the Year

Michaelann Nelson

Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Benson Faculty Mentoring Award – Tenure Line Faculty Recipient

Jeremy Ricketts

Lecturer

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Benson Faculty Mentoring Award – Lecturer Faculty Recipient

Eric Rowley

Clinical Professor

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Mathematics & Statistics Department

College Cazier Professor Lifetime Achievement Award

Julie Stephens

Clinical Assistant Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Southwest
Social Work Department

Department Teacher of the Year
College Teacher of the Year

Tammy Taylor

Clinical Assistant Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Uintah Basin
Social Work Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Teacher of the Year
College Teacher of the Year

Katherine Vela

Assistant Professor

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Charlie Bayles

Clinical Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Blanding
Social Work Department

Department Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year
College Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Bruce Boucher

Professional MHR Program Director / Lecturer

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business | Salt Lake
Management Department

Department Teacher of the Year

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor

S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Eastern
Wildland Resources Department

College Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Noel A. Carmack

Associate Professor

Caine College of the Arts | Eastern
Arts and Design Department

College Faculty University Service Award

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Faculty of the Year

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Salt Lake
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Teacher of the Year

College Teacher of the Year

Maria Givler

Clinical Assistant Professor

College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Salt Lake
Dietetics Program

Outstanding Dietetic Education in the Graduate Program Category from Nutrition and Dietetics NDEP West Coast Region

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Brigham City
Social Work Department

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Association for Infant Mental Health

Steven Merrell

Adjunct Instructor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Uintah Basin
English Department

Department Adjunct Instructor of the Year

Gustavo Ovando-Montejo

Assistant Professor

S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Blanding
Environment and Society Department

College Teacher of the Year

Jason Olsen

Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Researcher of the Year

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internship

College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Salt Lake
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences Department

Department Faculty University Service Award

Jeremy Rickets

Lecturer

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Jason Twede

Associate Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences| Tooele
Sociology Department

USU Tooele Outstanding Faculty of the Year

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Graduate Teacher of the Year

Becky Williams

Associate Professor

College of Science | Uintah Basin
Biology Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Researcher of the Year

Grants

Priscilla Arungwa

Director of Student Services

Blanding

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor

Wildland Resources | Eastern

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer / Assistant Head of Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Statewide Campuses

Mathematics & Statistics | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2030: National Science Foundation Noyce Grant: “Community Impact with Teacher Leaders in Data Science and Math Modeling”: $3,000,000
    • (Senior Personnel): Provides comprehensive support and training for Master Teaching Fellows to enable them to become local teacher-leaders in mathematical modeling and data science and bring learning opportunities in these blossoming fields to students in rural Utah.

Mark Chynoweith

Associate Professor

Wildland Resources | Uintah Basin

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education & Leadership | Salt Lake
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature". $25,000
  • 2024-2026: Spencer Foundation Education Grant: "I can't teach that: The determinants of curriculum and instructional choices of elementary Social Studies teachers in the age of declining teacher autonomy". $49,995

Colleen Jones

Lead Researcher

Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2025: Utah Public Lands Initiative. Cattail Control Management Strategies on Utah’s Public Lands. $42.465
  • 2023-2026: Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Reaction Rates. Colleen P. Jones and Seth Lyman. National Science Foundation. $584,512

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director

Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2021-2024: Uinta Basin Air Quality Research. Funded in annual contracts by Uintah Special Service District 1 (formerly Uintah Impact Mitigation Special Service District). $1,000,000
  • 2023-2026: Methane Emissions from Energy Production to Consumption: multiscale test bed in the Uinta and Salt Lake Basins. Funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. $73,361
  • 2023-2026: Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Reaction Rates. Co-investigator with Colleen Jones, USU, as lead investigator. Funded by National Science Foundation. $585,000
  • 2021-2024: Collaborative Research: Development of a Better Understanding of Ambient Reactive Mercury Chemistry. Funded by National Science Foundation. $403,000
  • 2024-2027: Uinta-Piceance Basin Carbon Management and Community Engagement Partnership. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. University of Utah is prime awardee. $363,000
  • 2024-2026: Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. Oversight and management of grantees for the Air and Water Innovations Grant Program. $30,000

Kristian Olsen

Senior Associate Vice President

Blanding

Gustavo Ovando-Montejo

Assistant Professor

Environment and Society | Blanding

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor

Environment and Society | Moab
  • 2023-2028: S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Science: “Incorporating above- and below ground carbon into terrestrial dryland state and transition models to better understand, predict, and manage for carbon”: $492,749
    • (PI): Proposed research to provide novel, actionable science in partnership with the NRCS to directly address ongoing management questions related to carbon sequestration.
  • 2022-2028: Bureau of Land Management, Rangeland Management Program: $250,000
    • (Co-PI): Collaborative effort to inventory and scale soil carbon stocks on Utah’s BLM lands and identify management practices to sequester carbon and increase forage and drought resiliency. This work aims to help build a framework with which the U.S. can sequester carbon on public lands.

Tim Riesen

Research Assistant Professor / Director of Research and Training

Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice | Salt Lake

Marla Robertson

Associate Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature": $25,000

Eric Rowley

Clinical Professor / Director of the Utah Mathematics Endorsement Project

Mathematics & Statistics | Blanding
  • 2024-2030: National Science Foundation Noyce Grant: “Community Impact with Teacher Leaders in Data Science and Math Modeling”: $3,000,000

    • (Senior Personnel): Provides comprehensive support and training for Master Teaching Fellows to enable them to become local teacher-leaders in mathematical modeling and data science and bring learning opportunities in these blossoming fields to students in rural Utah.

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Eastern
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature": $25,000
  • 2024-2026: Spencer Foundation Education Grant: "I can't teach that: The determinants of curriculum and instructional choices of elementary Social Studies teachers in the age of declining teacher autonomy". $49,995

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director

Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2022-2023: The Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study. Funded by Utah Division of Air Quality, Chevron, and Big West Oil. $125,000
  • 2022: Measurement of Organic Compound Emissions from a Produced Water Disposal Facility. Funded by a produced water disposal company (subject to a non-disclosure agreement). $68,000
  • 2021-2022: Analysis of Glycols in Water Samples. Funded by a private company (subject to a non-disclosure agreement). $10,000
  • 2021-2022: Development of Top-down Hydrocarbon Emission from Oil and Gas Production in the Uinta Basin. Funded by the Utah Division of Air Quality. $38,000

Becky Williams

Associate Professor

Biology | Uintah Basin

Publications

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor

Organic Chemistry | Uintah Basin
  • Christiansen, M. C.; Diaz, B.; †Zager, K.; †Holmes, B. V.; †Carter, T. L.; Colver, M. (2026). Course-Integrated Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in Organic Chemistry: A Model for Rural Satellite Campuses. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence.

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Salt Lake

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor

Social Work | Brigham City
  • Droubay, B. A., Lefmann, D. D., Zhang, S., *Snow, J. L., & Hoy-Ellis, C. P. (2025). A new avenue to pathologize sexual minority populations? Internalized sexual stigma and endorsement of compulsive sexual behavior disorder. Sexual and Relationship Therapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2025.2507799
  • Lecy, N., Hendrix, E., & Droubay, B. A. (2025). Learning a little bit harder: The intersecting experiences of first-generation and single-mother college students. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, (9)1, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.59620/2644-2132.1158

Shana Geffeney

Associate Professor

Biology | Uintah Basin

Kim Hales

Senior Lecturer

English | Uintah Basin
  • Spears, J., Deliman, A., Lewis, H., LaMuth, J., & Hales, K. (2025). Mentorship matters: Capturing the unseen impact of faculty-student relationships. In K. deJonge-Kannan & T.
    N. Thurston (Eds.), Documenting teaching excellence: Promoting the university’s vital mission (Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Chapter 13). Utah State University.

Charles Hanifin

Professor

Biology | Uintah Basin

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

Jim LaMuth

Director of Programs

Uintah Basin
  • Spears, J., Deliman, A., Lewis, H., LaMuth, J., & Hales, K. (2025). Mentorship matters: Capturing the unseen impact of faculty-student relationships. In K. deJonge-Kannan & T.
    N. Thurston (Eds.), Documenting teaching excellence: Promoting the university’s vital mission (Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Chapter 13). Utah State University.

Hannah Lewis

Professional Practice Associate Professor

Mathematics & Statistics | Eastern
  • Spears, J., Deliman, A., Lewis, H., LaMuth, J., & Hales, K. (2025). Mentorship matters: Capturing the unseen impact of faculty-student relationships. In K. deJonge-Kannan & T.
    N. Thurston (Eds.), Documenting teaching excellence: Promoting the university’s vital mission (Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Chapter 13). Utah State University.

Roslynn McCaan

Professor and Sustainable Communities Extension Specialist

Environment & Society | Moab

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor

Environment & Society | Moab
  • Nelson, R. A., Sullivan, L. L., Hersch-Green, E. I., Seabloom, E. W., Borer, E. T., Tognetti, P. M., [along with 43 members of the Nutrient Network, including Osborne, B.], and Harrison, S. P. (2025). "Forb diversity globally is hared by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory". Communcations Biology, 8(1). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07882-7
  • Chen, H., Xu, Q., van Groenigen, K. J., Hungate, B. A., Smith, P., Li, D., Moorhead, D. L., Osborne, B. B., Ma, Z., Olesen, J. E., Wang, C., Liu, J., Sun, X., Chu, C., & Chen, J. (2025). "Linking soil extracellular enzymes with soil respiration under altered litter inputs". Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 367, 110503. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110503
  • Ferrenberg, S., Faist, A., Osborne, B., & Lee, S.† (2025). “Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the nurse-plant effect in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert.” Oecologia. (Accepted)
  • Stemkovski, M., Bernhardt, J. R., Blonder, B. W., Bradford, J. B., Clark-Wolf, K., Dee, L. E., Evans, M. E. K., Iglesias, V., Johnson, L. C., Lynch, A. J., Malone, S. L., Osborne, B. B., Pastore, M. A., Paterson, M., Pinsky, M. L., Rollinson, C. R., Selmoni, O., Venkiteswaran, J. J., Walker, A. P., Ward, N. K., Williams, J. W., Zarakas, C. M., & Adler, P. B. (2025). “Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change.” Functional Ecology, 39(8), 1923–1939. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70079
  • Chen, Q., Blowes, S. A., Harpole, W. S., Ladouceur, E., Borer, E. T., MacDougall, A., Martina, J. P., Bakker, J. D., Tognetti, P. M., Seabloom, E. W., Daleo, P., Power, S., Roscher, C., Adler, P. B., Donohue, I., Wheeler, G., Stevens, C., Veen, G. F., Risch, A. C., Wardle, G. M., Hautier, Y., Estrada, C., Hersch-Green, E., Niu, Y., Peri, P. L., Eskelinen, A., Gruner, D. S., Olde Venterink, H., D'Antonio, C., Cadotte, M. W., Haider, S., Eisenhauer, N., Catford, J., Virtanen, R., Morgan, J. W., Tedder, M., Bagchi, S., Caldeira, M. C., Bugalho, M. N., Knops, J. M. H., Dickman, C. R., Hagenah, N., Jentsch, A., Macek, P., Osborne, B. B., Laanisto, L., & Chase, J. (2025). “Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands.” Nature Communications, 16(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7
  • Zheng, Y., Jian, J., Frew, A., Chen, J., Osborne, B. B., Zhou, G., Xu, Q., Zheng, Z., Yang, Q., Ma, L., He, X., Bell, S. M., & Zhao, G. (2025). “Tree functional group mediated the effects of nutrient addition on soil nutrients and fungal communities beneath decomposing wood.” Plant and Soil, 501(1), 797–813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06959-2

Marla Robertson

Associate Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Uintah Basin

Jeff Spears

Associate Professor

Social Work | Eastern
  • Spears, J., Deliman, A., Lewis, H., LaMuth, J., & Hales, K. (2025). Mentorship matters: Capturing the unseen impact of faculty-student relationships. In K. deJonge-Kannan & T.
    N. Thurston (Eds.), Documenting teaching excellence: Promoting the university’s vital mission (Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Chapter 13). Utah State University.

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Eastern

Becky Williams

Professor

Biology | Uintah Basin

Joseph Wilson

Professor

Biology | Tooele
  • Wilson, J. S., Hunsaker, A., Griswold, T. L., & Carril, O. M. (2025). "A Checklist of the Bees of Utah". Diversity. 17(3), 212.
  • Wilson, J. S., Smart, M. (2026) Nesting Material Preferences of Cavity-Nesting Insects in Man-Made Insect Hotels. Journal of Melittology.
  • Wilson, J. S., Wilson, L. T., Wilson, T. M., Carter, M., & Ruggles, Z. (2026). Bee Diversity Across Forest and Farm Habitats on Organic Tree Farms in Idaho: Evidence for Sustainable Farming Supporting Native Pollinators. Ecologies, 7(1), 6.
  • Wilson, J. S., Wilson, T. M., Packer, C., & Pacheco, O. (2025). A Preliminary, Photography-Based Assessment of Bee Diversity at the Finca Botánica Organic Farm in the Central Pacific Coast of Ecuador. Conservation, 5(4), 57.
  • Jackson, R. B., Wilson, T. M., Wilson, J. S., Ruggles, Z., Topham Wilson, L., Packer, C., Young, J. G., Bowerbank, C. R. & Carlson, R. E. (2025). Pollination and Essential Oil Production of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. (Lamiaceae). International Journal of Plant Biology, 16(3), 72.
  • Chartier, M., Kopper, C., Münch, M., Messinger Carril, O., Díaz-Infante, S., Lachmayer, M., M., Ulrich, S., Wilson, J.S., Schönenberger, J., & von Balthazar, M. (2025). Pollination biology and secondary pollinators in seven North American Aquilegiaspecies. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 186, 20-37.

Clayton Brown

Associate Professor

History | Uintah Basin

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor

Wildland Resources | Eastern

Benjamin Burger

Associate Professor

Geology | Uintah Basin

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer and Assistant Department Head

Mathamatics & Statistics | Uintah Basin

Noel A. Carmack

Professor

Art & Design | Eastern

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor

Organic Chemistry | Uintah Basin

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Salt Lake
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A. & Lott, K. (2023). Inquiry-based Learning on Biomimicry: Linking Science and Literacy Using Children’s Picturebooks in the Early Childhood Classroom. Science and Children, 60(6). 20-24.
  • Deliman, A. & Breitenstein, J. (2022). Nurturing Meaningful Student Agency: A Kindergarten Teacher Supports Beginning Readers Using Wordless and Post-Modern Picturebooks. The Dragon Lode, 40(2), 25-36.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357
  • Deliman, A., Smith, J.M., Robertson, M.K., *Bunnell, G. & *De Oliveira, J. (2024). The texts, the tasks, the talk: Reading, discussing, and exploring children’s literature. The Dragon Lode, 42(2), 47-57.

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

Kim Hales

Senior Lecturer

English | Uintah Basin

Colleen Jones

Lead Researcher

Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

David Law

Professor / Associate Vice President

Human Development and Family Studies | Uintah Basin

John Lawson

Senior Air Quality Scientist Research

Brigham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Hannah Lewis

Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Mathematics & Statistics | Eastern

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director

Chemistry & Biochemistry / Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • Jaffe, D. A., Ninneman, M., Nguyen, L., Lee, H., Hu, L., Ketcherside, D., Jin, L., Cope, E., Lyman, S., Jones, C., O’Neil, T., & Mansfield, M. L. Key results from the Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study (SAMOZA). Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association.
  • Ninneman M., Lyman S., Hu L., Cope E., Ketcherside D. and Jaffe D., (2023). Investigation of Ozone Formation Chemistry during the Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone, and Aerosol Study (SAMOZA). ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 7, 2521-2534.
  • Derry, E.J., Elgiar, T.R., Wilmot, T.Y., Hoch, N.W., Hirshorn, N.S., Weiss-Penzias, P., Lee, C.F., Lin, J.C., Hallar, A.G., Volkamer, R. and Lyman, S.N., 2024. Elevated oxidized mercury in the free troposphere: Analytical advances and application at a remote continental mountaintop site. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, 9615-9643.
  • Jones, C., Tran, H., Tran, T., Lyman, S., 2024. Assimilating Satellite-Derived Snow Cover and Albedo Data to Improve 3-D Weather and Photochemical Models. Atmosphere, 15, 954.
  • Elgiar, T.R., Lyman, S.N., Andron, T.D., Gratz, L., Hallar, A.G., Horvat, M., Nair, V.S., O’Neil, T., Volkamer, R., Živkovic,́ I., 2024. Traceable Calibration of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 10706–10716.
  • Gustin, M.S., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., Lyman, S., Horvat, M., Gay, D.A., Gačnik, J., Gratz, L., Kempkes, G., Khalizov, A., Lin, C.J., Lindberg, S.E., 2024. Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury: Current Limitations and Suggestions for Paths Forward. Environmental Science & Technology, 58,12853-12864.
  • Gačnik, J., Lyman, S., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., Gustin, M.S., 2024. Limitations and insights regarding atmospheric mercury sampling using gold. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1319, 342956.

Jason Olsen

Associate Professor

English | Eastern

Tzung-Shiang Ou

Assistant Professor

Kinesiology and Health Science | Salt Lake
  • Ou, T. S., Buu, A., Yang, J. J., & Lin, H. C. (2024). E-cigarette use reasons and associated e-cigarette use dependence among college students: A longitudinal examination. Addictive Behaviors, 155, 108039.
  • Ou, T.-S., Huber, L., Macy, J. T., Chow, A., & Lin, H.-C. (2024). Trajectories of polysubstance use: Are past-year internalizing and externalizing problems associated with trajectories of polysubstance use over time? Addictive Behaviors, 108136.
  • Ou, T.-S., Huber, L., Macy, J. T., Chow, A., & Lin, H.-C. (2024, November 12). "Psychological Pathways from Adverse Childhood Experiences to Cigarette, Marijuana, and Excessive Alcohol Use in Early Middle Adulthood: A Longitudinal Examination." International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Ou, T.-S., Buu, A., Yang, J. J., & Lin, H.-C. (2024, November 08). "A longitudinal study of the association between e-cigarette use contexts and alcohol use problems among college students." Journal of American College Health: J of ACH, 1-5.

Jim LaMuth

Director of Programs

Uintah Basin

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor

Environment & Society | Moab

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internship / Master of Dietetics and Food Sciences

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Marla Robertson

Associate Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Uintah Basin
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357
  • Deliman, A., Smith, J.M., Robertson, M.K., *Bunnell, G. & *De Oliveira, J. (2024). The texts, the tasks, the talk: Reading, discussing, and exploring children’s literature. The Dragon Lode, 42(2), 47-57.
  • Mohr, K., Jones, C., *Chamberlain, K., *DeCoursey, K., Robertson, M.K, *Summers, C., & *Bagley, M. (2024). Evidence-based practices to enliven writing instruction and support reading. The Reading Teacher, 77(6), 909-917. doi:10.1002/trtr.2321
  • Smith, J.M., & Robertson, M.K. (2025). Historical graphic novels: Three concepts to highlight for comprehension of historical information. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 38(1), 19-25.

Jeff Spears

Assistant Professor

Social Work | Eastern
  • Spears, J., Hales, K., & Lewis, H.M. (2023). "Case study of the statewide faculty-to-student mentoring program at Utah State University." In D. Law & N. Dominguez (eds.), Making Connections: A handbook for effective formal mentoring programs in academia (pp. 359-368). Utah State University.
  • Vigil, P., & Spears, J. (2024). Passing Ashley's Law - Protecting persons with disabilities from violent crimes. Transforming Communities: 1(1), Article 6.

James Y. Taylor

Associate Professor / Vice President for Statewide Campuses

Sociology & Anthropology | Uintah Basin

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor

Teacher Education and Leadership | Eastern
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357

Joseph Wilson

Professor

Biology | Tooele

Martha Archuleta

Professor / Director of MDA Program

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Sean Camp

Clinical Professor

Social Work | Tooele
  • Camp, S., & Egbert, S.C. (2022). Enhancing Technology-Based Distance Education Delivery Using Collaborative Team-Teaching Methods. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 5(3), 9-26.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Self-Care for the Caregiver: Trauma Stewardship for Foster Parents. Fostering Families Today, Nov/Dec, 34-37.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Teaching Trauma-Burdened Students: Life-Balancing and Self-Care Strategies for Educators. The Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference, 36-42.

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor

Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Education | Uintah Basin

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

Pamela A. Dupin-Bryant

Professor / Vice Provost for Statewide Campuses

Data Analytics & Information Systems | Tooele

Susan Egbert

Clinical Professor / MSW Program Director

Social Work | Kaysville
  • Camp, S., & Egbert, S.C. (2022). Enhancing Technology-Based Distance Education Delivery Using Collaborative Team-Teaching Methods. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 5(3), 9-26.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Self-Care for the Caregiver: Trauma Stewardship for Foster Parents. Fostering Families Today, Nov/Dec, 34-37.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Teaching Trauma-Burdened Students: Life-Balancing and Self-Care Strategies for Educators. The Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference, 36-42.

Maria Givler

Clinical Assistant Professor

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Tooele

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor

Social Work | Brigham City

John Lawson

Senior Air Quality Scientist Research

Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor, Research Professor and Director

Chemistry & Biochemistry | Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • Lyman, N., Tran, H. N. Q., O’Neil, T. L., Mansfield, M. L. (2022) Low NOX and high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10, 00064.
  • Dunham-Cheatham S. M., Gustin M. S., Lyman S. N. (2022) Comparison and calibration of methods for ambient reactive mercury quantification. Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159219.
  • Lyman, N., Elgiar, T., Gustin, M. S., Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., David, L. M., Zhang, L. (2022) Evidence against rapid mercury oxidation in photochemical smog. Environmental Science and Technology, 56, 11225-11235.
  • Lin, J. C., Bares, R., Fasoli, B., Garcia, M., Crosman, E., Lyman, S. (2021) Declining methane emissions and steady, high leakage rates observed over multiple years in a western US oil/gas production basin. Scientific Reports, 11, 22291.
  • Gustin, M., Dunham-Cheatham, S., Huang, J., Lindberg, S., Lyman, S. (2021) Development of an understanding of reactive mercury in ambient air: a review. Atmosphere, 12, 73.
  • Mansfield, M. L., Lyman, S. N. (2021) Winter ozone pollution in Utah’s Uinta Basin is Attenuating. Atmosphere, 12, 4.
  • Gustin, M. S., Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., Zhang, L., Lyman, S. N., Choma, N., Castro, M. (2021) Use of membranes and detailed HYSPLIT analyses to understand atmospheric particulate, gaseous oxidized, and reactive mercury chemistry. Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07876.
  • Lyman, N., Holmes, M. L., Tran, H. N. Q., Tran, T., O’Neil, T. (2021) High ethylene and propylene in an area dominated by oil production. Atmosphere, 12, 1.

Roslynn McCaan

Professor and Sustainable Communities Extension Specialist

Environment & Society | Moab

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor

Environment & Society | Moab

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internships

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Becky Williams

Associate Professor

Biology | Uintah Basin