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Press Releases
- 29 November 2011 / Energy Dynamics Lab technology used for USU Spinout Company to Wirelessly Charge Mass Transit Vehicle
- After years of research and planning, it's not exactly a cosmic crapshoot.
- 19 October 2011 / Two Utah State University satellites ready to be shot into space
- After years of research and planning, it's not exactly a cosmic crapshoot.
- 18 October 2011 / Small satellites prompt big ideas for next 25 years
- There is big news on the small satellite front. From super-secret agencies and the U.S. military to academia and private firms, as well as world space agencies and NASA, ultra-small satellites are the big thing.
- 11 October 2011 / Energy Dynamics Lab researches algae as biofuel
- What looked like a crop circle in an acre of farmland next to Utah State University's Vernal campus is now a "floating pond," in a body of water east of the Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center, and is set to grow algae for biofuel production.
- 07 October 2011 / EDL working to electrify the nation's road system
- Science Questions profiles a project at the Energy Dynamics Lab at Utah State University where they are working to electrify the nation's highway system.
- 01 October 2011 / 2 tiny satellites from USU part of rocket launch set for end of October
- Imagine a spacecraft small enough to fit in your hand.
- 29 September 2011 / USU sends tiny satellites to launch into orbit
- A few days ago, the world cowered in fear, or at least mock fear, when a six ton satellite the size of a school bus plunged out of orbit. That's old-school.
- 25 August 2011 / Small Satellite Conference
- Sheri Quinn profiles the 25th annual Small Satellite Conference held in Logan, Utah every year. She gives an in depth look at some of the new innovations shown at the meeting that attracts attendees from across the world in the aerospace industry.
- 08 August 2011 / SDL sets sights on future – New projects loom as world convenes for USU's satellite conference
- As more than 350 organizations ranging from the U.S. Defense Department to the European Space Agency descend on Logan for the next four days, Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory is looking ahead at new projects.
- 29 July 2011 / Asteroid shares Earth's orbit shows USU-built telescope
- The discovery of an asteroid that's hitching a ride on Earth's orbit is drawing international attention and is a point of pride in Cache County.
- 29 July 2011 / Fellow traveler: WISE satellite spots asteroid following Earth
- A satellite built by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory has discovered an asteroid that has been following Earth for thousands of years, proving that the moon is not the planet's only travel companion.
- 26 July 2011 / USU invention powers electric motors without wires
- Batteries are the key challenge to developing practical electric vehicles, which have the potential to dramatically cut greenhouse emissions and U.S. dependence on oil. To store enough juice to enable a car to function the way Americans expect, batteries have to be big and expensive.
- 22 July 2011 / A WISE Investment in Astronomy
- Last week, astronomers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, Germany, announced they had discovered two brown dwarf stars 15 light-years and 18 light-years from Earth, among the closest such objects known.
- 08 July 2011 / SDL reflects on a 29 year legacy with the Space Shuttle Program
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- 06 July 2011 / USU scientists make breakthrough in study of electric vehicle charging systems
- Electric roadways could one day power cars to travel for miles and miles without having to stop and recharge - at least that's the dream scientists at Utah State University's Energy Dynamics Laboratory have after making a recent scientific breakthrough.
- 05 July 2011 / Energy Dynamics Laboratory Achieves Historic Milestone for Electric Vehicles
- Utah State University Research Foundation's Energy Dynamics Laboratory recently operated the first high-power, high-efficiency wireless power transfer system capable of transferring enough energy to quickly charge an electric vehicle. The lightweight, low-profile system demonstrated 90 percent electrical transfer efficiency of five kilowatts over an air gap of 10 inches. The demonstration at EDL's North Logan, Utah, facility further validates that electric vehicles can efficiently be charged with wireless technology.
- 30 June 2011 / Researchers experiment with electric roads to charge electric cars
- Electric vehicles have long been touted as the answer for drivers who want to avoid high gas prices and help protect the environment. But the heavy, short-lived batteries are a big obstacle to the vehicles becoming affordable and commonplace.
- 29 June 2011 / Scientists say answers to energy problems could be found in algae
- When you have a problem as big as trying to solve our energy future, sometimes you have to think big.
- 10 June 2011 / The Future of America's Electric Transportation System
- Now more than just a battery that powers your car, 22 year-old engineer Hunter Wu is implementing a plan to install electric pads into the nation's highways that will transfer electricity wirlessly to a plate on the bottom of your car and allow you to drive longer without fuel, and eventually completely cut ourselves off of fuel based cars!
- 24 May 2011 / Electric roads – the throttle EVs need
- The electric vehicle industry, long held back by consumer concerns over the capabilities of batteries and the logistics of refuelling, has received an unexpected boost from a group of scientists bunkered down in the Bear Lake Mountains, 130 kilometres north of Salt Lake City.
- 18 May 2011 / Shuttle Endeavour arrives at space station
- Endeavour and its six astronauts showed up at the International Space Station on Wednesday with the most expensive payload ever carried by a shuttle, a $2 billion magnetic device that scientists hope will unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.
- 17 May 2011 / SDL-built camera part of Endeavour's cargo
- Employees at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab watched in awe as space shuttle Endeavour thundered into the clouds at 13,500 miles per hour.
- 16 May 2011 / Utahns take part in Endeavour's final flight
- As the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off through the blue Florida sky Monday morning, three juniors at Hillcrest High School eagerly watched television screens.
- 16 May 2011 / Endeavor carrying new star camera from Utah State University
- As the Endeavor orbiter blasted into space Monday on the second-to-last space shuttle mission, it carried a small camera designed and built at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory.
- 03 May 2011 / Scientists work on in-road charging for EVs
- Electric vehicles may work for the everyday commuter looking to cut fuel costs, but what about those EV owners looking for a road trip? How do you travel cross-country when you're tethered to your charging station?
- 22 April 2011 / Clouds, Clouds, Burning Bright
- High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. First noticed in 1885, these clouds are known as noctilucent, or "night shining," clouds. Their discovery spawned over a century of research into what conditions causes them to form and vary — questions that still tantalize scientists to this day.
- 20 April 2011 / NASA Releases First Batch Of WISE Imagery
- Professional and amateur astronomers are likely to spend decades poring over a massive data-dump from NASA that represents 57% of the take from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, which imaged the entire sky from polar orbit.
- 16 April 2011 / SDL-built spacecraft releases new photos
- Images of asteroids, galaxies and stars taken from the Space Dynamics Lab-built Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer are now available to the public after NASA's preliminary release of the data.
- 14 April 2011 / WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
- Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
- 14 April 2011 / W.I.S.E. telescope provides never-before-seen view of universe
- An instrument designed and built in Utah is about to give astronomers, and the general public, an entirely new view of the universe.
- 14 April 2011 / NASA Releases Millions of Images from SDL Built Space Telescope
- Astronomers from across the world can now search hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids thanks to NASA’s preliminary release of data from the SDL-built Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). NASA announced earlier today the release of WISE data to the general public, which includes images from the first 105 days of WISE survey observations.
- 12 April 2011 / BAE Systems-led team delivers shipboard intelligence systems for two U.S. Navy Ships
- BAE Systems engineers have delivered two production units of the U.S. Navy's primary shipboard intelligence system for U.S. naval forces, designed to provide greater intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), and targeting capability compared to legacy systems. This first BAE Systems-built production system of the Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) is now being installed onboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in Norfolk, Va. The second system is being shipped to the USS George Washington (CVN 73) in Yokosuka, Japan. The BAE Systems-led team also includes General Dynamics, Sun Microsystems, ManTech, Space Dynamics Laboratory, InVisM, Argon ST, and Athena Consulting.
- 12 April 2011 / Navy gets new onboard intel system
- Two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are getting greater intelligence capabilities with new systems delivered by BAE.
- 08 April 2011 / WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid
- An asteroid recently discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may be a bit of an oddball. Most near-Earth asteroids -- NEAs for short -- have eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits that take the asteroids right through the inner solar system. The new object, designated 2010 SO16, is different. Its orbit is almost circular such that it cannot come close to any other planet in the solar system except Earth.
- 01 April 2011 / The Art of Making Stars
- It might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex called Rho Ophiuchi. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, captured the picturesque image of the region, which is one of the closest star-forming complexes to Earth.
- April 2011 / Study of winter ozone pollution moves forward
- Ozone pollution has been a recognized problem in urban areas for more than 50 years.
- 11 March 2011 / UPR – Science Questions
- Host Sheri Quinn has the latest Science Questions program. Science Questions is a weekly program exploring new technologies and advances in science. SQ seeks to answer our curiosities about the technology all around us.
- 22 February 2011 / Scientists aim to crack Uinta Basin's ozone mystery
- Sunshine here makes the snowy landscape glow. Turns out, the same ultraviolet rays that show off the rare beauty of these wide-open spaces also play a startling role in transforming the Uinta Basin into a wintertime factory for ozone pollution.
- 21 February 2011 / Bingham Center: A hub for research, business innovation
- Utah State University has had boots on the ground here for four decades. But it wasn’t until last fall that it put a distinctive new footprint in the community with the opening of the Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center.
- 21 February 2011 / Energy frontier: USU scientists seek solutions to power problems
- Studying under the world's expert of inductive power transfer, it might be easy to see how Hunter Wu got a job at a Utah State University research facility right after college.
- 14 February 2011 / Electric Roads: America's Transportation Future?
- Imagine driving on I-80 from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and never stopping for gas. Or breathing clean air, even in winter. Scientists at Utah State University are working on a technology they hope could one day make that fantasy a reality. Kim Schuske has the first in a series of reports on innovative technologies being developed by Utah scientists.
- 03 February 2011 / Energy Dynamics Laboratory Awarded Utah Center of Excellence Grant for Smart Building Work
- Utah State University's Energy Dynamics Laboratory (EDL) announced today that it has received a grant valued at $40,000 from the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development Centers of Excellence program. The grant was awarded for further development of the Smart Occupancy Sensor that has been designed and is being tested at EDL.
- 21 January 2011 / Mapping the Sky in Infrared Light: The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
- John Elwell, WISE Program Manager, presents at Utah State University's Sunrise Session
- 21 January 2011 / USU professor receives governor's medal for science and technology
- An associate professor at Utah State University who also works for the Energy Dynamics Laboratory has received the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology.
- 19 January 2011 / Paul Israelsen Receives Prestigious Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology
- Energy Dynamics Laboratory Deputy Director Paul Israelsen was presented the Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology yesterday by Utah Governor Gary Herbert to recognize Israelsen’s transformational solutions to environmental issues, which foster both the economic growth and the energy independence of Utah.
- 22 November 2010 / USU space lab to build parts for weather satellites
- Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Lab will partner with a private weather observation company to design and build weather-sensing instruments for satellites.
- 19 November 2010 / SDL to build new weather satellites
- The Space Dynamics Laboratory at the Utah State University Research Foundation announced this week that it has teamed with a commercial company to design and build weather-sensing instruments.
- 18 November 2010 / Utah State University lands big contract for weather sensors
- Better information about storms and Utah's unpredictable weather is on the way thanks to a new collaboration involving Utah State's Space Dynamics Lab.
- 12 November 2010 / Space Dynamics Laboratory Teams with GeoMetWatch to Provide Unprecedented Weather Data
- The Space Dynamics Laboratory at the Utah State University Research Foundation today announced that it has teamed with GeoMetWatch to design and build weather sensing instruments.
- 06 October 2010 / USU’s space satellite nearly out of ‘gas’
- A space telescope designed and built at Utah State University has spent nearly a year mapping the entire universe, but now it's finally run out of gas.
- 29 September 2010 / New position will help fulfill Albrecht's goals
- Rob Behunin, special assistant to the president, was recently appointed as vice president over commercialization and regional development.
- 24 September 2010 / UPR – Live from Vernal
- It’s a live broadcast from Vernal in conjunction with Utah State University’s dedication of the new Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center building and UPR’s upgrade of radio signal to digital station KUSK.
- 26 August 2010 / WAVE technologies discussed on UPR
- Tom Williams talks with Wesley Smith, business development director at USU’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory, about EDL’s WAVE project in which electric cars and buses receive power from a power source embedded in the roadway.
- 13 August 2010 / NASA Selects Space Dynamics Laboratory for Climate Mission Support
- Space Dynamics Laboratory announced today that it has been selected to provide support for NASA's Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Mission.The contract value is up to $9.6 million over five years.
- 01 July 2010 / Newly Formed International Research Partnership Envisions a New Roadway Electrification and Automation System
- Six internationally renowned organizations have formed an alliance to develop a new Partnership for Roadway Electrification and Automation. PREA aims to merge vehicle, roadway and energy infrastructures into a flexible, convenient and increasingly automated electric transportation network.
- 14 June 2010 / Jeff Muhs to Lead Energy Dynamics Laboratory
- The Utah State University Research Foundation has named Jeff Muhs as director of its Energy Dynamics Laboratory, headquartered in North Logan, Utah. The appointment became effective on June 11, 2010.
- 27 May 2010 / USU Research Foundation VP named president
- Doug Lemon has been named the president of the Utah State University Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that includes the school's well-known Space Dynamics Laboratory as well as the Energy Dynamics Lab.
- 24 May 2010 / Utah State University Research Foundation Names President
- The Utah State University Research Foundation today announced that it has named Dr. Douglas K. Lemon as its president.
- 30 April 2010 / Space Dynamics Laboratory Honors Student Employees
- Utah State University Research Foundation and Space Dynamics Laboratory today honored 36 undergraduate and graduate students that were employed at USURF and SDL while seeking degrees at USU.
- 25 January 2010 / NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid
- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. There is no danger of the newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth.
- 19 November 2009 / Park City Teams with Energy Dynamics Lab and the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to Reduce Carbon Footprint
- USURF’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory and USU’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business have teamed with Park City, Utah, to conduct an energy feasibility study that will serve as a guide as Park City works to reach major milestones for environmental sustainability and alternative energy.
- 13 November 2009 / USURF Taps Holt to Lead SDL, Marshall’s BD Role Expands
- The Utah State University Research Foundation has named Niel Holt director of its Space Dynamics Laboratory. The appointment became effective on November 13.
- 05 December 2008 / Utah State University Research Foundation names two executive vice presidents
- The Utah State University Research Foundation, known as USURF, officially announced and filled two new executive vice president positions at its last board of trustees meeting. Dr. Douglas Lemon and Mr. Forrest Fackrell accepted the titles of Executive Vice President and Director of Laboratories and Executive Vice President for Business Operations, respectively.
- 03 April 2007 / SDL welcomes new USURF board
chair, Oren Phillips
- Oren B. Phillips, retired vice president of business development for ATK,
a leader in aerospace technologies and manufacturing, is starting his responsibilities
as newly elected chairman for the USURF Board of Trustees.
- 05 October 2004 / Utah State Develops Process
to Clone Hybrid Seeds
- Utah State University recently received a patent for a clonal seed reproduction
process that could feed millions of people throughout the world and add billions
to the United States agriculture economy.
- 14 June 2004 / Utah State Professor Invents Technology
that Could Change the Airplane Industry
- Warren F. Phillips, a professor for 30 years in the mechanical and aerospace
engineering department at Utah State and a hang glider pilot, invented a technology
called Twisteron to minimize drag on airplanes as they fly.
- 29 January 2004 / Utah State University Receives
Patent for 3-D Camera
- A patent received by Utah State University for 3-D Multispectral Imaging
could revolutionize the world of reconnaissance, movies, video games, geological
surveying, disaster response, homeland security and even the way we view our
evening news.
- 02 September 2003 / New Technology at Utah State's
Research Foundation will Revolutionize Power Line Inspections
- New technology under development by Aerospect Precision Imaging, a unit
of the Utah State University Research Foundation, will use sensors to inspect
power lines, a technique that will help prevent major power outages.
- 06 June 2003 / USU Research Foundation Elects
New Board Chair
- Utah State University Research Foundation's (USURF)
Board of Trustees elected member Garrison Rapmund, M.D., of Bethesda, Maryland,
as its new chair today.
- 06 June 2003 / Space Dynamics Laboratory Appoints
New Director
- The Utah State University Research Foundation appointed Michael D. Pavich,
retired Major General of U.S. Air Force, as the new director of the Space
Dynamics Laboratory after Allan Steed announced he would be retiring as director
after 40 years of service with SDL.
- 06 March 2003 / USU Research Foundation Announces New
Water Laboratory
- Water research at Utah State University has just moved one step closer to
providing solutions for the Nation's water resources issues as Utah State's
Research Foundation announces the organization of the Water Dynamics Laboratory.
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