Upcoming Events

Friday, April 5

Apr

Lake Powell Kayaking Trip

Recreation

We are heading down south to the amazing red rock and blue waters of Lake Powell to explore some of its many side canyons in sea kayaks. We will pack our kayaks with our gear and spend two nights camping on the lake. Participants must be able to swim and comfortable in open water. Trip costs include sales tax, food, transportation, kayak equipment, tent, sleeping bag, pad, and student leadership.

All Day | More Info

Apr

BFA Capstone Exhibition | 2024

Exhibition

Seniors in the Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Utah State University will present their works during a capstone exhibition. The show includes seniors from various artistic disciplines, including drawing & painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and art education. The work in the exhibition represents a culmination of refined skills, ideas, and perspectives that took students several years to develop and master.

This exhibition is free and open to the public and runs April 1–12. The Tippetts & Eccles Galleries is located in the Fine Arts Center and is open Monday–Friday from 9–5 p.m.

9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Tippetts & Eccles Art Galleries | More Info

Apr

Salt Lake City Investment Banking Career Trip

Social/Networking

Join us as we travel to Salt Lake City to visit investment banking firms and learn more about the companies, working in investment banking, and potential internship opportunities. We will visit Crewe Capital and Harrison Co. in Salt Lake City. Please plan to arrange your travel to the companies. Register to attend. https://crewe.com/ https://harrisonco.com/

10:00 am - 12:30 pm | More Info

Apr

Baseball vs Christian Community College

Sports

Baseball vs Christian Community College

11:00 am - 3:00 pm | More Info

Apr

Aviation Week Day 5: Airport Open House

Information/Orientation

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week will conclude at the Logan/Cache Airport with our Open House. You will tour USU Flight training facilities, hangars, and the fixed-wing and rotary aircraft we use for training. Students and staff will be available for any questions you may have. This event is open to the public.

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm | More Info

Apr

USU at The Leonardo: Wind Tunnels

Special Event

Wind Tunnels: Discover wind tunnels with us! Join us as we learn how engineers test airplanes (and other things) without ever leaving the ground. Presented by the USU AeroLab in partnership with The Leonardo museum.

Activity for kids and youth.

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | More Info

Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Sarah Creachbaum, Distinguished Alumnus

Lecture/Readings

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

Music Scholars Series: Dr. Megan Lavengood

Arts/Entertainment

What is "our music"? As an institution in the intermountain West, USU is located in a place associated with many different kinds of music. The decisions we make about which of these we foreground have profound implications. What do our students deserve to learn? Which faculty have the responsibility—or the right—to teach each repertoire? And how, as a university, do we define the collective “us” we seek to serve? Dr. Megan Lavengood is an Associate Professor and Area Director of Music Theory at George Mason University, where she teaches undergraduate core theory and graduate courses in advanced theory topics. Her research primarily deals with popular music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques. She has also published on video game music, music theory pedagogy, and public music theory.

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Family Life Building | More Info

Apr

Music Scholar Series: Dr. Megan Lavengood

Arts/Entertainment

Topic: I Want It That Way: Good Practices for Pop Music Pedagogy

This talk gives an overview of some prominent scholarly methods for analyzing popular music, and discusses issues surrounding the inclusion of pop music in music curricula. I discuss two common forms of pop music inclusion—through token examples that fit neatly into a classical-music-based curriculum, and through upper-level electives—and show how these approaches undercut popular music’s potential to be inclusive. I advocate instead for pop music to be included early in the curriculum as its own distinct repertoire, and present my own syllabus for a pop music theory course as a model. As time allows, I will elaborate on the analytical and compositional approaches students learn in that course, with the goal of giving audience members an idea of the tools they might use in their own future work with popular music, whether that be analyzing, composing, or teaching to young musicians.

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

Apr

Robins Awards

Student Activities

The Robins Awards are the most coveted of all Utah State honors, and the awards night is the year’s most prestigious event. Students and faculty are rewarded for their hard work and dedication to their individual goals, as well as the goals of USU. The awards memorialize William E. Robins, a campus hero who had a rare quality to turn his vision into Utah State’s vision.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | TSC, Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom | More Info

Apr