Upcoming Events

Friday, March 13

Mar

USU Employee Giving Campaign

Fundraiser

Every year employees demonstrate an extraordinary spirit of community by participating in the USU Employee Giving Campaign. This year, the USU Employee giving campaign begins March 2 and lasts through March 31.

Employees can contribute to their passions: students, staff development and the local Community - the possibilities are unlimited. And every dollar given is more than just a gift; it is an investment in Utah State University. Your participation also boosts student recruitment and retention, helps foster the support of outside donors, advances academic research, study, and initiatives, provides development opportunities for staff and give back to this beautiful community we live in.

Visit employeegiving.usu.edu and make a donation today.

All Day | Utah State University | More Info

Mar

Utah Women Making History Exhibit

Exhibition

2020 marks three important anniversaries for the women’s movement. We are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first Utah woman casting her ballot, the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, and the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Brooke Smart’s illustrations celebrate the Utah women who worked to advance their communities. These are on display in the atrium of Merrill-Cazier Library now.

All Day | USU Libraries | More Info

Mar

Haikus, Modernism and Stanton MacDonald-Wright

Exhibition

Stanton MacDonald-Wright’s “Haiga Portfolio” (1965-1966) blends Eastern and Western influences, pairing vibrant modernist paintings with haikus written by some of Japan’s most influential poets.
The term “haiga” refers to a style of Japanese painting by haiku poets, whose poems are known for their brevity and simplicity. Each of the ten prints that compose the “Haiga Portfolio” have a corresponding haiku.
The “Haiga Portfolio” exemplifies the 20th century modernist movement Synchromism, cofounded in 1913 by MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. The movement sought to arrange color in the same way that sound is composed in music and is considered the first American avant-guard movement to be accepted internationally. Seventy-five years old at the time of the portfolio’s creation, MacDonald-Wright employed the use of energetic, swirling shapes coupled with dense, vivid colors orchestrated in the modernist style and the rhythm of Synchromism.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

Sky Above, Earth Below: A History of Western Landscape Photography

Exhibition

“Sky Above, Earth Below” traces the development of western landscape photography from the late 19th century to the 21st century, starting with early American photographers like Myra Albert Wiggins, Edward Curtis, and Karl Struss and concluding with contemporary photographers like Barry Andersen, Kimberly Anderson, Karalee Kuchar, and Charlotte Trolinger. The exhibition includes work from members of the Seattle Camera Club, FSA (Farm Security Administration), f/64 (a group of 20th-century photographers known for precise exposures and depiction of natural forms) and contemporary photography portfolios such as American Roads (printed in 1981), The Museum Project (printed in 2015), and DEMARCATION (printed in 2018).

10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated

Exhibition

"Particle & Wave" features forty-five artists from across the world who incorporate paper pulp and organic fibers into their clay. The exhibition explores innovation, creativity and connection by sharing the breadth of work being created by artists spanning five continents who choose paperclay for its adaptability, tensile strength, translucency, and ecological and sustainable characteristics.

"Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated" is organized by The International Paper Clay Exhibition Project, and curated by Peter Held.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

Thomas Campbell: Lint Basket Supremeo and Unii Ciøn Yyikæ

Exhibition

Thomas Campbell is an interdisciplinary media maestro who creates eloquent and romantic narratives about the fringes of contemporary American culture in a variety of formats, including sculpture, ceramics, music, printmaking, painting, photography, drawing, and film.

A two-part, two-gallery sequence, "Lint Basket Supremeo" (a multi-medium survey) and "Unii Ciøn Yyikæ" (new works) give a sense of Campbell’s creative output over the last ten years leading up to today, including new works created during an artist residency at Utah State University’s Department of Art & Design last fall.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

Latinx from the NEHMA Collection

Exhibition

Latinx works of art represent a growing part of the NEHMA collection and reflect a significant influence in Western American art. New acquisitions by Yolanda Gonzalez, Leo Limón, Paul Sierra and Eloy Torrez will be featured in Latinx from the Collection as well as a grouping of paños, artworks created on handkerchiefs by artists incarcerated in Texas penitentiaries.

Latinx from the NEHMA Collection is co-curated by USU Art History Professor Alvaro Ibarra and NEHMA Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Bolton Colburn.

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

"Teoría Latinx": Q&A with Communitas lecturer Jairo Salazar and Dr. Álvaro Ibarra

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Join Dr. Álvaro Ibarra, visiting professor of art history at USU and co-curator of "Latinx from the NEHMA Collection," in the gallery as he interviews his friend and visiting Communitas lecturer Jairo Salazar about the exhibition, his own experiences, and the changing definitions of Latinx.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | More Info

Mar

[CANCELED] Informational Seminar: Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy

Conference/Seminar

All USU students interested in pursuing a pharmacy program are invited to an informational seminar with Dr. Dustin Christensen-Grant, director of admissions and student affairs for Rosemont University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy.

The gathering will be held Friday, March 13, at 3:30 pm in the Life Sciences Building, Room 133 [LSB 133].

Learn more at this link: https://pharmacy.roseman.edu/admissions/

Questions? Contact Dr. Doug Harris in USU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at doug.harris@usu.edu

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Life Sciences Building | More Info

Mar

[CANCELED] Applied Mathematics Seminar: Numerical schemes for phase field models and its applications to biological...

Conference/Seminar

Speaker: Giordano Tierra-Chica, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss about some PDE systems to represent biological applications that are based on or involve the understanding of the rheology of complex fluids. In particular I will focus on ideas to design efficient and accurate numerical schemes for biofilms and vesicle membranes using phase field models. In fact, I will present an energetic variational approach to model biofilm interaction with fluid flows. The biofilm is assumed an incompressible ternary mixture of viscous and viscoelastic fluids that represents bacteria, EPS and solvent phases. The proposed model satisfies an overall dissipative energy law and is solved with an efficient unconditionally energy-stable splitting scheme that is able to capture large-scale events of biofilm deformation and detachment under different hydrodynamic conditions, results that are qualitatively consistent with laboratory experiments. Moreover, I will also talk about numerical schemes to simulate the deformation of vesicles membranes via minimizing the bending energy.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Animal Science | More Info

Mar

Traversing the Boundaries Lecture Series: J. Peter Burkholder

Arts/Entertainment

Public lecture on techniques of reimagining old music in new ways by Peter Burkholder, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Family Life Building | More Info

Mar

Better Together IInterfaith Dinner

Breakfast/Luncheon/Dinner

The USU Interfaith Leadership Fellows is hosting an interfaith dinner in order to build bridges between those who orient around religion differently, Our goal is to create a safe place where people from all religious and non-religious backgrounds can share authentically, gain appreciative knowledge of other worldviews, and create a greater sense of community. Let's start the conversation! Join us for the Interfaith Dinner this Friday. Admission is $5 (cash only at the door). Or come get a ticket at our table in the Hub, Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from 9-3 PM.

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | TSC, The Marketplace | More Info

Mar

Better Together Interfaith Dinner at the TSC Marketplace

Breakfast/Luncheon/Dinner

A $5.00 dinner at the TSC Marketplace open to all members of the USU community to create connections around all who orient around religion differently. (Religious and secular dietary restrictions will be accommodated). Arrive between 5:30-6:00 pm to get your food from the buffet and head to the Walnut Room for the event. Doors to the Walnut Room close at 6:00 pm so be sure to come early. Tickets will be available at the door at the time of the event or at the Interfaith Fellows Table in the HUB the week of the event.

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | TSC, The Marketplace | More Info

Mar

Founders Day

Ceremony/Awards/Celebration

A celebration of Aggie women, past and present, and their important contributions.

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall | More Info

Mar

Celebrating Women's Suffrage at the Utah Theatre

Arts/Entertainment | Year of the Woman

The Utah Theatre will feature films focusing on women in celebration of National Women's History Month in cooperation with Year of the Woman and the Cache Celebration of Suffrage. The line-up includes, Cinderella (2015), Hidden Figures, A League of Their Own, On the Basis of Sex, The Help, and many others! See the Utah Theatre website for a details lists of dates, times, and films.

6:00 pm - 9:30 pm | More Info

Mar