Upcoming Events

Swaner's Craft Sunday

Arts/Entertainment | Home, Family, and Food

Bring your crafty kids to Swaner's Craft Sunday! Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter will offer a nature-themed craft every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All ages are welcome!

Little Naturalist

Lecture/Readings | Home, Family, and Food

Little Naturalist is the perfect program for 3 to 5 year olds who are curious about animals, their habitats, the environment, and exploring nature. Join us twice a month, October through May, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. to read a specially selected nature-themed book, explore the natural world, and complete a craft. Some favorites include snowshoeing on the Preserve, interacting with live reptiles and amphibians, upcycling old materials into holiday decorations, and much more!

Cost is $2.00 per youth participant, or buy a $15.00 punch card good f or 10 programs.

Biological Engineering Department Seminar Series

Conference/Seminar

The BE Department's Seminar Series Speaker, Ms. Rachel Muller, Project Engineer at Merit Medical , will present: "Using Your Resources; A Look At Project Management In Engineering".

February 24th at 12:30 pm in ENGR 326

Behind the scenes of Merit Medical’s success as a global leader in medical manufacturing are the people that make it possible. Learn about what it takes to bring a product to market, key project management strategies, and vital skills to learn as an engineer before entering the medical device industry.

A meet and greet with Ms. Muller will be held immediately following the seminar in ENGR 326.

Tough Love Women's Self-Defense Training

Workshop/Training

Learn a little self-awareness, self-defense, and self-motivation by taking a two-hour class from Officer Tana Christensen

Geosciences Speaker Series: Beth Christensen

Conference/Seminar

Beth Christensen will present on Plate Tectonics - Climate Change.

Alumni Lunch Series: Tamara Martinez-Anderson, Director of Admissions, Reno School of Medicine

Special Event

Tamara Martinez-Anderson (BA American Studies '94) will speak at the CHaSS Alumni Lunch Series, which allows juniors and seniors trying to get into a career to hear from alumni who have made that journey. Tamara will speak about her career journey and her experience as the Director of Admissions at Reno School of Medicine. Enjoy free lunch while meeting esteemed CHaSS alumni.

Brown Bag Lecture - Black History Month

Breakfast/Luncheon/Dinner

Featuring speakers Kizzy Ellington, Ray Jones and Lori Brassaw

Beyond the RN: Shaping Healthcare through Advanced Degrees | Tamara Martinez-Anderson, Reno School of Medicine

Special Event

Join us on Tuesday, February 25th for a nursing presentation from Tamara Martinez-Anderson (American Studies '94). Tamara has titled her talk "Beyond the RN: How Nurses are Shaping Healthcare through Advanced Degrees."

The professional pathways available for registered nurses includes advanced practice degrees, leadership, research, informatics, care coordination, specialization, and education.? Join USU Alumnae, Tamara Martinez-Anderson for a comprehensive overview of your options for academic progression and how to plan for a future of success beyond your RN degree.

Join us in WIDT 007 for this presentation directed at Nursing students. However, all students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

Tamara will conduct additional presentations on February 25th for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (MAIN 338 at 12pm) and those interested in applying to med school (ESLC 046 at 4:00pm). See Handshake for additional details.

[CANCELED] Department of Physics Colloquium

Conference/Seminar

Weekly presentations on topics in physics.

Medical School Admissions: Preparing for Success | Tamara Martinez-Anderson, Reno School of Medicine

Special Event

Join us on Tuesday, February 25th for a Pre-Health presentation from Tamara Martinez-Anderson (American Studies '94). Tamara has titled her talk "Medical School Admissions: Preparing for Success using AAMC Core Competencies ."

With a commitment by medical schools to utilize a holistic review process, the criteria used to evaluate applicants is evolving. Join USU Alumnae, Tamara Martinez-Anderson for insights into what it takes to successfully navigate and prepare for the medical school admissions process. She’ll introduce the core competencies identified by the Association of American Medical Colleges and discuss the experiences valued by admission committees when evaluating candidates.?

Join us in ESLC 046 for this presentation directed at Pre-Health students. However, all students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

Tamara will conduct additional presentations on February 25th for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (MAIN 338 at 12pm) and those interested in advanced Nursing degrees (WIDT 007 at 2:15pm). See Handshake for additional details.

Tough Love Women's Self-Defense Training

Workshop/Training

Learn a little self-awareness, self-defense, and self-motivation by taking a two-hour class from Officer Tana Christensen!

Ivory Homes Off Campus

Breakfast/Luncheon/Dinner

The COO of the Ivory Companies (Ivory Homes, Ivory Development, etc.) are seeking an outstanding junior (minimum 3.7 GPA) to join its Management Training Program. This is a fantastic opportunity for a student who desires to attend a top graduate program after several years of successful work experience. Upon graduation, this position is one of the top-paying opportunities in Utah for recent undergraduates ($60,000 to $65,000 annually DOE). To learn more, RSVP here and come chat with the COO himself over dinner. See this position on Aggie Handshake.

Men's Basketball v. San Jose State

Sports

Watch USU Men's Basketball take on San Jose State at home. Come support your Aggies!

Second 7-week Session

Academic Calendar | Spring Semester

34 instruction days, 1 test day

Morgan Stanley Lunch & Learn

Information/Orientation

Fin/Econ Come learn about opportunities at Morgan Stanley! One of the nation's largest multinational investment bank and financial services companies, Morgan Stanley has been a great place for many Aggie grads. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP here.

Talk to the Experts: a panel on navigating relationships, healthy sexuality

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Come enjoy a light lunch while you have the opportunity to speak to a panel of experts about navigating relationships, healthy sexuality, and a safe spring break.
Sponsored by SAAVI, CAPS, Student Health Services, and Women and Gender Studies.

Tough Love Women's Self-Defense Training

Workshop/Training

Learn a little self-awareness, self-defense, and self-motivation by taking a two-hour class from Officer Tana Christensen!

[CANCELED] Chemistry & Biochemistry Departmental Seminar

Conference/Seminar

Mar 11 - Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mar 18 - Chunsheng Wang, University of Maryland
Mar 25 - Li Li, University of Nevada, Reno
Apr 1 - Hansen Seminar: Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University - Old Main 115
Apr 7 (Tuesday) - Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Yale University - ESLC 046
Apr 15 - Jeffrey Moore, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Apr 22 - Lawrence Que, University of Minnesota
Apr 29 - Yugang Sun, Temple University

Get Away Special General Team Meeting

Meeting

The Get Away Special Team is an undergraduate, extracurricular, small satellite research team within the Utah State University Department of Physics. This meeting is where sub-teams collaborate to ensure the success of projects such as a NASA CSLI-selectee CubeSat GASPACS and other small satellite research. All majors in any college are welcome to attend!

Entrepreneur Leadership Series - Joel Clark & Jon Clark

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Joel Clark & Jon Clark, Founders of Kodiak Cakes
Jon started Kodiak Cakes in 1994 based on his Mother’s suggestion of creating a whole-grain food mix company. At the time, he had completed his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Utah and was working for the OC Tanner Company in Salt Lake City. In 1995, Jon’s brother, Joel, came on board and helped sell Kodiak Cakes in resort towns and gift stores. In 1997, when Jon decided to go back to the University of Utah for an MBA, he turned the tiny company over to his brother Joel who has developed it into a nationally recognized brand. Joel was a 23-year- old economics major attending the University of Utah when the company was handed to him. Over the next 12 years, Joel juggled side jobs, earned an MBA from Oxford University, and still found time to make Kodiak Cakes a success.

Got Wealth? Wealth Advice from Wealth Advisors

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Join us for a Q&A with Brendan Dennis, CFP® and Erin Reed CFP®, CPA, CEP® from Adams Wealth Advisors. These young professionals have backgrounds in finance, economics, tax, estate planning, and personal financial planning. Take this opportunity to ask them your tough questions! Dominoes pizza provided.

Solutions to Plastic Pollution

Workshop/Training | Home, Family, and Food

Looking for ways to reduce the plastic waste in your life? Join the Swaner team and Recycle Utah for our Solutions to Plastic Pollution Workshop!
During this workshop we will discuss plastic alternatives, learn some DIY, cost effective, solutions, and talk about why reducing plastic is good for everyone.
Participants will have the chance to enter into an opportunity drawing full of all kinds of awesome plastic alternatives like _finalswab, Stasher Bags, Bee's Wrap, Simple Ecology Produce Bags, ZeroWaste Floss, and so much more!
This event is free to the public, tickets for the opportunity drawing can be purchased at the event. Participants will get a 15% discount on plastic alternatives in the Swaner Gift Shop.

Solutions to Plastic Pollution

Workshop/Training | Home, Family, and Food

Looking for ways to reduce the plastic waste in your life? Join the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and Recycle Utah for our Solutions to Plastic Pollution Workshop!
During this workshop we will discuss plastic alternatives, learn some DIY, cost effective, solutions, and talk about why reducing plastic is good for everyone.
Participants will have the chance to enter into an opportunity drawing full of all kinds of awesome plastic alternatives like _finalswab, Stasher Bags, Bee's Wrap, Simple Ecology Produce Bags, ZeroWaste Floss, and so much more!
This event is free to the public, tickets for the opportunity drawing can be purchased at the event. Participants will get a 15% discount on plastic alternatives in the Swaner Gift Shop.

Students and Academic Advisors: Strategies for Co-Creating an Academic College Experience

Workshop/Training

What is an academic advisor and what do they do? Learn how an academic
advisor can partner with you to leverage your strengths to reach your goals!

Micron Info Session

Information/Orientation

Ryan Ellis and Aaron Berger will be on campus to discuss A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer at Micron. Pizza will be served. RSVP here.

Year of the Women: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Film screening + Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion/Presentation | Year of the Woman

Attendees will watch a screening of Love Chantal: Diary of an Eating Disorder which will be followed by a Panel Discussion

Women's Basketball v. New Mexico

Sports

USU Women's Basketball takes on New Mexico at home. Come support your Aggies!

Author lecture: 'Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier'

Lecture/Readings

Dr. Benjamin Park, professor at Sam Houston State University, will present a lecture sponsored by the Religious Studies Program. His just-published book, "Kingdom of Nauvoo," investigates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Latter-day Saints are essential to understanding American history. Using newly accessible sources, Park argues that far from being outsiders, the Mormons were representative of their era in their distrust of democracy and their attempt to forge a sovereign society of their own.

Diversity Conference

Conference/Seminar

The Diversity & Inclusion Conference is an annual event for students, faculty, staff and community members to explore issues of diversity and social justice on a deeper level.

Register online at https://usueastern.edu/cdi/conference

Women in the Judiciary panel featuring Utah Court of Appeals judges

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Women in the Judiciary: A Panel Discussion Featuring Judges from the Utah Court of Appeals. The panel includes judges Mary Kate Appleby, Michele M. Christiansen Forster, Diana Hagen and, Jill M. Pohlman, and moderated by Prof. Christy Glass, director of the new Center for Inter-sectional Genders Studies and Research.
Utah Court of Appeals is one of the few majority-female appellate courts ever constituted (4 of 7 judges are women).

Applied Mathematics Seminar: Stochastic Approximate Model-Checker for Infinite-State Analysis

Conference/Seminar

Speaker: Zhen Zhang, Department of E & CE, Utah State University

Abstract: There has been an increasing demand for providing formal guarantees in the design process of safety-critical synthetic genetic circuits. As a prominent formal verification technique, probabilistic model checking has demonstrated significant potential in formally analyzing the intrinsic probabilistic behaviors of complex genetic circuit designs. However, its scalability is limited as probabilistic models of real-world applications typically have very large or infinite state space. In this talk, I will present a new infinite state CTMC model checker, STAMINA, with improved scalability. It uses a novel state space approximation method to reduce large and possibly infinite state CTMC models to finite state representations that are amenable to existing probabilistic model checkers. It is integrated with a new property-guided state expansion approach that improves the analysis accuracy. This method is evaluated on a design of a genetic toggle switch and several other benchmarking examples. Comparisons with another state-of- the-art tool demonstrate both accuracy and efficiency of the presented method.

USU Women's Gymnastics Home Meet v. U.C. Davis

Sports

Watch USU Women's Gymnastics Home Meet v. U.C. Davis. Come support your Aggies!

Kim's Cold-Blooded Creatures at Swaner

Arts/Entertainment | Home, Family, and Food

Join us for a live animal presentation by Kims cold-Blooded Creatures. Meet and learn about some of the worlds coolest and most fascinating reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
This is a family friendly, one hour program. Please plan to arrive BEFORE 11 am if you would like to participate in the whole program.

Swaner's Craft Sunday

Arts/Entertainment | Home, Family, and Food

Bring your crafty kids to Swaner's Craft Sunday! Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter will offer a nature-themed craft every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All ages are welcome!