Upcoming Events

March 26 - April 1, 2023

Mar

CIDI Workshop - Improve the Canvas Student Experience

Workshop/Training

Learn quick and easy practical tips to make sure your content more usable and easy to learn for the students in your course. In this workshop we will go over how to: · Get rid of extra content in your course and simplify your course navigation. · Get rid of broken links and make sure your content is published. · Embed and caption your videos to make them more usable for everyone. · Provide content in user-friendly formats that work well on mobile devices.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Mar

Personalizing a Healthy Diet for YOU

Workshop/Training

This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Aggie Recreation Center (ARC) | More Info

Mar

Aetna Webinar – Perils of Procrastination and Perfectionism

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar on the perils of procrastination and perfectionism. Do you “put off for tomorrow what you could do today?” What’s getting in your way? Perfectionism? Fear of getting started? Lack of motivation? In this webinar, we’ll explore factors that might be impacting your behavior and provide tips to help make some changes. It’s never too late to get started, ease your stress, and increase your productivity. Join this webinar to learn more about: • Why people procrastinate • How, if at all, perfectionism, might be a factor • Tips for making so changes to overcome the urge to procrastinate *Presentation recording will be available on the EAP site. Visit the hr.usu.edu/aggies-thrive for more information.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Mar

CIDI Workshop - Creating Interactive Activities for OER Texts (Pressbooks)

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It allows teachers and students to find, reuse, author, and publish open content. Additionally, it incorporates tools for creating interactive activities to accompany the text using the open H5P assessment platform. Learn how to create or adopt an open textbook and make it interactive.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Mar

Ecology Center Workshop: Visualizing spatial data in R

Workshop/Training

Please join us for the ninth coding workshop in the Ecology Center's coding workshop series on Tuesday March 28th from 3:00 - 5:00 PM MT in NR 217. Equally important to analyzing spatial data is being able to visually display results. Maps and visual representations of data are critical to communicating spatial information quickly and clearly. This workshop is for folks who are interested in learning how to create informative and aesthetically interesting plots of spatial data in R. This workshop will cover: a) Short review on importing, wrangling, and manipulating spatial data using the sf() package b) Basic principles of good map-making c) Mapping vector and raster data using tmap() and ggplot() d) Basic sf() functions for extracting data stats from map layers e) Creating maps interactive maps with tmap()

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Mar

CyberSentinel Capture-the-Flag Training/Practice

Workshop/Training | Competitions

This meeting will be to practice cyber capture-the-flag skills in preparation for the National Cyber League competition. Come learn essential tools and tricks that will greatly improve your cybersecurity CTF prowess! Open to all who are interested in Cybersecurity and/or hacking!

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

Mar

Reactive & Proactive Strategies to Address Antisemitism: Creating a Jewish Inclusive Campus Environment

Workshop/Training

Following up on the introductory workshop on Jewish Identity and Antisemitism on Campus, this session guides participants to apply their earlier learnings to think about and plan what they can do to create a more inclusive environment for the campus Jewish community — both reactively and proactively. Participants develop response strategies to real-life scenarios and consider what they can do proactively in their role on campus to better support the Jewish community.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Taggart Student Center | More Info

Mar

Lunch & Learn - Food Is Medicine

Workshop/Training

USU Be Well and Registered Dietitian, Brooke Lister, present a lunch and learn on Food As Medicine. Food As Medicine is a growing movement that promotes using food and nutrition interventions as part of healthcare. Diet quality is one of the leading risk factors for death from chronic diseases in the United States which is partially fueling the Food As Medicine movement. Diet alone cannot and should not replace medicine in all circumstances but it can be helpful in promoting health and protecting our body from disease. In this presentation, we will be going through each food group and discussing ways that we can include these beneficial foods from each category in our diets to help create better lifestyle habits.

*Presentation is available in person and virtually and will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event will qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | USU Libraries | More Info

Mar

Strategies for Administration

Workshop/Training

Designed to address DEI and student affairs administrators. Activities will include a review of a UC Berkeley film and a follow-up to equip participants to complete the accompanying activity with additional colleagues.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Taggart Student Center | More Info

Mar

FE Thermodynamics Workshop

Workshop/Training

The Engineering Tutoring Center is hosting a workshop to review Thermodynamics to help students prepare for the FE. All CEE, BE, and MAE are required to pass the FE in order to graduate.

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Engineering Building | More Info

Mar

Trauma-informed Training for Student Services (TIPSS)

Workshop/Training

We are excited to announce a new professional development opportunity for Student Services staff called "Trauma-Informed Practices for Student Services" (TIPSS). Our training series will feature speakers who specialize in supporting mental health and trauma in schools and higher education settings. By attending TIPSS, you will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to provide sensitive and effective support to students who have experienced trauma. In addition to trauma-informed practices, we will also cover topics such as compassion fatigue and self-care for those supporting others. This event is open to both faculty and staff. Our first series will take place on Thursday, March 30th at 9:00 am in HSL 129. We hope to see you there!

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Utah State University Blanding Campus | More Info

Mar

CIDI Workshop - Creating Your Own Course Templates

Workshop/Training

This workshop shows how the Design Tools in Canvas can be made to create a customized template that can be quickly implemented.

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

Mar

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Mar

Women in Welding Workshop

Workshop/Training

NOTE: This workshop is now full. We will be offering more workshops soon!

Over the course of four sessions, participants will learn how to set up
a welder for GMAW/FCAW, apply basic troubleshooting techniques,
use basic shop tools and machinery, and will be introduced to
entry-level fabrication techniques. Students will complete a small
project by the end of the course to take home with them.
We are excited to educate and support women in the trades, and hope
you will join us for lots of fun and real-world learning!

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | More Info

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