Upcoming Events

Friday, December 15

Dec

Early Bird Sale: Group Fitness Spring Semester Passes

Student Activities

Starting on December 11th, group fitness passes for spring semester classes in the ARC go on early bird sale for just $35! Group fitness passes give you access to all semester classes, including yoga, high fitness, weightlifting & more. You'll also get access to all special fitness events. To grab your pass, go to recportal.usu.edu and use code: 5OFF to redeem. Sale ends December 31st.

All Day | Aggie Recreation Center (ARC) | More Info

Dec

Honors Book Lab Registration: The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories

Lecture/Readings

Registration is now open for an Honors Book Lab that will be held in-person on the Blanding campus. Honors Book Labs are faculty-led ungraded book groups that engage 4-5 students in cross-disciplinary conversation. sponsored by the Utah State University Honors Program. Students do not have to be currently enrolled in Honors to participate. This Honors Book Lab will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m. between January 10 and January 31. Participating students will receive a copy of The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories by USU's own Stacie Shannon Denetsosie to keep. Synopsis: How do the places where you grew up shape the way you see the world? How do your relationships with family and friends make you who you are? What forces push or pull you out of your community and what draws you back? What do you do when it feels like other people have failed you? How do you make peace with your own mistakes and disappointments? How do you function in a society that feels like it's built to keep you down? The Missing Morningstar explores all these questions and more as it traces the lives of Dine individuals and families moving between Utah's cities and Navajo Nation.

8:00 am - 10:00 pm | Utah State University Blanding Campus | More Info

Dec

Honors Book Lab Registration: Heart Berries

Lecture/Readings | Learning Circles

Registration is now open for an Honors Book Lab that will be held in-person on the Uintah Basin campus. Honors Book Labs are faculty-led ungraded book groups that engage 4-5 students in cross-disciplinary conversation, sponsored by the Utah State University Honors Program. Students do not have to be currently enrolled in Honors to participate. This Honors Book Lab will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 6:00-7:00 p.m. between January 16 and February 6. Participating students will receive a copy of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. Synopsis: Mailhot writes with a unique and unsettling voice as she recounts a troubled childhood, a tumultuous early motherhood, and her own mental health and identity in adulthood. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Mailhot writes her way out of trauma while simultaneously writing a memorial to her mother, a reconciliation with her father, and an elegy on the complexities of loving someone beneath the burden of shame. In finding her own voice, Mailhot shows us how to seize control of our own stories.

All Day | More Info

Dec

Drops of Mindfulness

Workshop/Training

Live and online guided mindfulness practices offered freely by the IDRRP to support the well-being of faculty, staff, and students. Everyone in the USU community is welcome all or any of these 10-minute practices whenever they fit in the schedule. There is no requirement or no pre-requisite to participate.

8:45 am - 8:55 am | Online/Virtual | More Info

Dec

Guerrilla Grrrl Now! An exhibition of political posters

Arts/Entertainment

Guerrilla Grrrl Now! is an exhibition of political posters by the anonymous art collective Guerrilla Girls (active since 1985) placed alongside contemporary work by USU Art + Design students and interactive spaces for viewer responses. The Guerrilla Girl posters were selected from USU’s Special Collections and Archives, which is currently the only institution to house a complete Guerrilla Girls portfolio (1985-2023) IN THE WORLD! The Guerrilla Girls, who call themselves the “conscience of the art world,” use brazen visuals, confrontational headlines, and undeniable statistics to illuminate gender, racial, and ethnic discrimination in cultural institutions. The issues addressed in their work, including reproductive rights, sexual assault and abuse, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the gender pay gap, remain incredibly relevant in our lives today. Guerrilla Grrrl Now! loudly proclaims that the fight isn’t over, and by using our voices and our art to activate awareness on campus, in Cache Valley, and in Utah, we continue the feminist fight against discrimination on all fronts.

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

Dec

WILD Defense Seminar: Trevon Strange

Conference/Seminar

Trevon Strange will be presenting on "Are Universities Adequately Preparing Undergraduate Students for Careers as Professional Wildlife Biologists?" Attend in person: NR 202 Or Join Zoom Meeting https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/83521084856?pwd=bHZvb3NUaTcrVWtpcytJbXEvVEphUT09 Meeting Number: 835 2108 4856 Pass Code: 279590

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Dec