Upcoming Events

April 2024

Apr

Nighthawk Review Night at the LLC

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USU Eastern’s Library & Learning Commons and the English Department present the first The Nighthawk Review Night. The Nighthawk Review is USU Eastern’s student literary magazine. Each year, students are invited to submit their original short stories, poems, and plays for an opportunity to be featured in this publication. Please join us at the Library & Learning Commons on Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:00pm, along with Dr. Jason Olsen and current and past editors to celebrate this statewide journal.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Utah State University Eastern Campus | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Sarah Creachbaum, Distinguished Alumnus

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Welcome to Scenario B: Lessons in survival from our national parks About the Lecture: My presentation will highlight three projects spanning my 30-year career in the National Park Service. Each project involves aspects of indigenous knowledge, science, and rational planning (endangered species management in Hawaii, river restoration at Olympic National Park, and subsistence management national parks in the Arctic region). I'll highlight the resulting exigent questions of policy and federal land management that are driven by our rapidly changing climate. I'll close with personal observations and lessons learned. Speaker Bio: M. Sarah Creachbaum currently serves as the regional director for the National Park Service Alaska Region in Anchorage, Alaska. Creachbaum has served as a national park superintendent since 2006, first at War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam, then at Haleakala National Park, and at Olympic National Park, where she led the Elwha River Restoration Project, the largest dam removal and river restoration in the United States. She has also served in numerous temporary assignments including Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, acting Deputy

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

Apr

D. Wynne Thorne Lecture

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The 2024 D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award Lecture will take place at 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the New Books Lounge of the Merrill-Cazier Library.
David Tarboton, winner of the 2023 D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award, will be giving the lecture.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm | USU Libraries | More Info

Apr

Castle Valley Archaeological Society Monthly Meeting

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Please join the Castle Valley Archaeological Society at 7 pm in the Don L. Burge Room at the Prehistoric Museum. Each month features an interesting talk about the archaeology of Utah and a chance to engage with others in our community interested in archaeology. You can find out more about each months event at the CVAS Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/CVASutah

https://utaharchaeology.org/Chapters/CastleV/

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

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Chris Creasey, The Craig Johnson Speaker

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Intersections of Practice: A Candid Conversation on Career Paths About the Lecture: What inspires you and drives your future career path? How does that inspired career intersect with your personal life? In this dialog, we’ll look at the differences between public and private sector practice in Landscape Architecture through a project-focused lens. Creasey will focus on providing transparent information and a wide variety of example projects to help new graduates make informed decisions about their future careers. Speaker Bio: Chris Creasey is a Landscape Architect with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District focused on large-scale interdisciplinary civil works and military projects throughout the Midwest and Mountain West. His practice includes work on tribal partnership lands bordering USACE managed waterways, interagency projects for NPS, Fish & Wildlife, and the Department of Energy, and stormwater management and master planning for seven military installations spanning five states. Chris began his career at Sasaki Associates in Boston where his practice included all phases of design, from planning to construction administration at a variety of scales.

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

Apr

Fireside Chat with Mehdi Heravi & President Elizabeth Cantwell

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Peace, Freedom and Friendship, a fireside chat with USU alumnus Mehdi Heravi and USU President Elizabeth Cantwell at the Cosmos Club in Washington DC.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | More Info

Apr

Hansen Lecture: Valter Longo - Fasting Mimicking Diets

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Virtual Event (Zoom): Valter Longo, Edna Jones Professor in Gerontology and Professor in Biological Science at the University of Southern California, is the USU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry's 2024 Hansen Lecture Series Speaker. Dr. Longo, director of the USC Longevity Institute, presents "Fasting Mimicking Diets: Longevity and Disease" at 5 pm via Zoom. For the Zoom link, visit usu.edu/chem/seminars

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | More Info

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