Upcoming Events

Friday, April 21

Apr

MFA Thesis Exhibition: Ben Nathan & Marlaina Lutz

Arts/Entertainment

Personal Details by Ben Nathan

Personal Details is an exhibition of mixed media works on paper by artist, Ben Nathan. The art in the exhibition is the culmination of three years of aesthetic inquiry and research done by Ben while earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking at USU. Personal Details borrows techniques and materials from Printmaking and Drawing, combined in the interest of creating subtly detailed layers and textures which reflect the artist’s thoughts on childhood, adulthood, and parenthood. Ben’s artistic goal is to produce images that are rich with personal detail, and aesthetically representative of the mental tapestries that he creates for himself when memory and reflection overlap. Each composition has been carefully crafted to portray Ben’s lived experiences through the representation of significant places, spaces, and objects. The works in the exhibition are the fruits of deep introspective thought fueled by memory, experience, and emotion.

A reception will be held Thursday, April 20. from 5 – 7PM.

9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Tippetts and Eccles Galleries | More Info

Apr

CIDI Workshop - Creating Inclusive, Accessible Courses

Workshop/Training

Your Canvas course already has great content, but have you considered how usable and accessible that content is?

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual | More Info

Apr

Earth Week Celebration

Student Activities

We will be having a wide variety of events to look forward to including live music, outdoor yoga, a food drive, a plant swap, and a ton of local businesses to support. We will also be doing prizes for those who bring the most canned or nonperishable items. Outdoor yoga will be led by Rachel Quillen and we will have two 30 minute sessions starting at 11 and 12. Please bring your own yoga mat. Food drive - We will be collecting donations throughout the event until 12:30. To win, you must be present at 12:45 when the winners are announced and prizes are given away.

10:00 am - 1:00 pm | Quad | More Info

Apr

The Great Salt Lake: All Hands on Deck

Panel Discussion/Presentation

This year, Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (LAEP) devoted many of its studio gatherings with students from freshmen to seniors and graduate students to understanding the many challenges threatening the Great Salt Lake. Building on this academic year’s intense focus on the lake and surrounding communities and activities, the department invites all to its Great Salt Lake: All Hands on Deck presentation on Friday, April 21, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Fine Arts Visual Building (FAV) 210.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

Apr

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual | More Info

Apr

Geosciences Award Ceremony and Poster Session

Ceremony/Awards/Celebration

Department awards will be announced, and students will share posters they have made over the past year.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Maverik Stadium | More Info

Apr

A Conversation with George Herms

Arts/Entertainment

Please join us for a moderated conversation with George Herms led by Bolton Colburn. A reception will follow. George Herms is one of the last living beat generation artists. A rebel to the core, he still makes assemblage sculptures from the detritus of our culture's castoffs and waste. Herms have been active both in northern and southern California with the assemblage and beat movements since the 1960s and have worked and collaborated with luminary artists and poets like Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Michael McClure, and Diane di Prima.

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Apr

Sweat Day

Student Activities | Inclusive Excellence

Sign up early so you can get your correct shirt size. For 3 hours you will sweat your butt off with Group Fitness Class having 30 minute duration and happening every 15 minutes and Spin class happening every 30 minutes. We will have a Wellness Station where you can get a drink and snacks for a short Break. Bring a friend along. Get a Sweat day shirt as well. A sweat day schedule will be provided the day of. Please come 15 minutes early if you can to get a warm in.

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Aggie Recreation Center (ARC) | More Info

Apr

Society of American Foresters Section Meeting

Conference/Seminar

Registration required. See link for details.

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Taggart Student Center | More Info

Apr

Can North Korea Feed Itself in the Near Future?

Conference/Seminar

"Juche", or total self-reliance, was a founding principle for governing North Korea, which is only 60-65% self-sufficient for food. Food systems must now consider food safety, environmental preservation, climate change, and quality of life. Dr. C. Jerry Nelson, Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri, presents a collage of agricultural and social issues creating both opportunities and challenges to improving food supplies in North Korea.

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Huntsman Hall | More Info

Apr

The Colorado River: Research in a Watershed Context - Tanya Petach

Conference/Seminar

The Ecology Center and WATS are hosting a seminar by Dr. Tanya Petach of the Aspen Global Change Institute. Tanya Petach is currently a Climate Science Fellow at the Aspen Global Change Institute where her work focuses on co-creating actionable science in the Colorado River Basin. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.S. from Cornell University. Her research explores both the impact of climate change on mountain hydrology (with a focus on soil moisture impacts) and the gaps between stakeholder needs and scientific research.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | USU Libraries | More Info

Apr

Student Research Symposium

Student Activities

Please join us for the Student Research Symposium on April 21st. It will be a great opportunity to see the research that some of our amazing Uintah Basin students have been working on!

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Dave Livermore

Lecture/Readings

A Call to Action: The Great Salt Lake About the Lecture: Livermore will describe the role NGOs have playedover time in advocating for the protection of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem. He will summarize the role of the Nature Conservancy in conserving key wetland and upland habitats, efforts to reach diverse audiences and how public awareness initiatives are making a difference. He will describe the landscape planning and design work which goes into establishing Nature Conservancy preserves, and focus on the challenges and opportunities facing the Great Salt Lake at this key time in history. Speaker Bio: Dave Livermore has been with The Nature Conservancy since 1980 when he first was hired to cover the states of Utah and Nevada working out of the Conservancy’s Western Regional Office in San Francisco. In 1986, Dave moved to Salt Lake City to open the Great Basin Field Office. In 1995 Utah became its own state program and Dave has been Utah State Director ever since. Dave has enjoyed working on major land and water conservation projects throughout his 42-year career with TNC.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

Apr

End of Semester Escape the Museum

Student Activities | Inclusive Excellence

Join us in the galleries to test your skills! We invite all to come and participate in the end-of-semester escape rooms. There will be four themed escape rooms as well as pizza and prizes. This event is free and open to all. Create a team with other USU Students and join us at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. What more could you want for your Friday night?

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Apr

Youth Welding Workshop

Workshop/Training

For youth ages 14-18
Over the course of two sessions, participants will learn how to set up a welder for GMAW/FCAW, apply basic troubleshooting techniques, and use basic shop tools and machinery. Workshop is four hours total over two days.
Sessions are:
Friday, April 21 from 6:15 - 8:15 PM and
Saturday, April 22 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM.

From 4/21 at 6:15 pm to 4/22 at 8:15 pm | More Info

Apr

Take Back the Night

Special Event

Take Back the Night represents the earliest worldwide stand against sexual violence. This year SAAVI will host a Take Back the Night Community March, bringing together survivors of the Cache Valley and university community. This event is a space for survivors of every sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national origin, disability, and religion to come together as one and take back their narrative through a march in downtown Logan.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | More Info

Apr

Huntsman End-of-Year Event: "Wild West"

Social/Networking

The Business Council would like to invite all students to celebrate the end of spring semester with a “Wild West” party. Come have fun with a photo booth, steer roping, corn hole, dutch-oven cobbler & ice cream, mocktail saloon, raffle, and dance party. This event is a partnership with the Malouf Foundation, a nonprofit that combats sexual assault/abuse and child trafficking. $2 will get you in the door, and all proceeds from this event will go to the Malouf Foundation’s cause. We are excited to see you there!

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Huntsman Hall | More Info

Apr

Wind Orchestra

Arts/Entertainment

Concerts are part of the band large ensemble curriculum. As capstone events, they typically occur twice per semester. Students are required to participate in these events as large part of their grades, and these concerts are the culmination of several weeks of classroom rehearsals. All concerts are associated with one or more of the following Band ensembles: MUSC 4700 : Wind Orchestra MUSC 3795: Wind Symphony MUSC 3790: Symphonic Band MUSC 3785: Marching Band

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall | More Info

Apr