The top of the mace depicts the circle of learning, the cycle of study, practice and tradition in which we learn, grow and teach. In the same way the students, alumni, professors and practitioners of Utah State University represent our highest achievements, the brushed copper disk emblazoned with the university’s official seal crowns the mace and sends light upward in every direction, symbolizing the illumination of truth reaching out across our community, our state and our world. The copper bezel has thirteen sunstones set into it. These symbolize the thirteen presidents who guided the institution through its first century. The white oak shaft comes from wood that was originally part of the banisters of Old Main and was rescued from the building after the fire of 1983. The base consists of limestone provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and taken from the same quarry that was used to build the Logan Temple. The mace of Utah State University envisions the very essence of our land-grant institution: seated in the bedrock of our community, striving and growing ever higher, sealed on top by a ring of metal, an emblem of our timeless quest for the merits born of learning.