Upcoming Events

March 30 - April 5, 2025

Mar

Free Nutrition Workshop

Workshop/Training

These mini nutrition workshops are 30 minutes long and are designed to give you the basic skills you need to improve your eating habits! Each workshop will feature a different topic so come and learn about all things nutrition! These classes are put on by USU Dietetics students.

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Aggie Recreation Center (ARC) | More Info

Apr

QCNR Mid-Morning Mingle

Social/Networking

Eat a free pastry, sip a free hot beverage, and get some face-to-face with your QCNR community. Please bring your own mug if possible!

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

Apr

Sew & Repair Workshop with True Blue Reuse & Repair

Student Activities

Join True Blue Reuse & Repair and learn more about how to sew and repair your own clothes. Bring items that need fixing and gain hands-on experience patching, stitching, and fixing your wardrobe helping you to create more and consume less. Free patches and stickers to take home.

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Gear & Apparel Repair Night

Special Event

Join True Blue Reuse & Repair and Outdoor Product Design & Development for a gear and apparel swap and repair event! Bring the gear and clothes that still have some life in them, but you don't use anymore to swap out for something new-to-you. Bring the gear and clothes that need some repairs and put some life back into your favorite items.

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Wildland Resources Department Seminar with Dr. Lynne Baker

Panel Discussion/Presentation

Human-Hippo Conflict & Coexistence in West Africa: A Conservation Conundrum The river hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN, but this classification does not reflect regional variation. Hippos are at greatest risk in West Africa, owing to high human population densities, degraded freshwater habitats, and human-wildlife conflict. The species’ precarious situation is exemplified in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. In this presentation, Lynne will discuss the threats to hippos in West Africa and highlight a case from rural Nigeria — where humans and hippos vie for limited space and resources in a region impacted by climate change, land degradation, poverty, and political insecurity. Is there any hope for hippos?

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Biology & Natural Resources building | More Info

Apr

Book Use, Book Value: the Paradoxes of Renaissance Herbals

Lecture/Readings

Renaissance herbals- sixteenth and seventeenth century printed guides to plants, herbs, and trees, sometimes beautifully illustrated- may be the most popular early modern book you've never heard of. This talk will explore how the Renaissance herbals in USU's Special Collections, and other best-sellers in their time, are often least likely to survive, making them paradoxically obscure by virtue of their ordinariness.

4:00 pm - 5:05 pm | Merrill cazier Library | More Info

Apr

ENVS Community Lunch

Social/Networking

ENVS Community Lunch

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Data Science Workshops with the Ecology Center

Workshop/Training

This is a free skill sharing program though the Ecology Center that lets grad students learn immediately applicable techniques from their peers. All students from all departments are welcome! Tell your friends! This semester, we are pleased to offer 5 new workshops in addition to our most popular classics. Please review the schedule below and sign up for the workshops that you would like to attend via the event URL.

Jan 16 - Data management with data.table - Michael Stemkovski
Jan 23 - Iteration with loops/apply - Dani Berger
Jan 30 - Writing custom functions - Michael Stemkovski
Feb 6 - Script organization with Rmarkdown - Annie Schiffer *
Feb 13 - Visualizations with ggplot - Soren Struckman
Feb 20 - Working with words using regex & stringr - Michael Stemkovski *
Feb 27 - Wrangling spatial data - Dani Berger
Mar 6 - Plotting maps - Maria Stahl
Mar 20 - Demystifying R model formulas - Michael Stemkovski
Mar 27 - Generalized linear mixed models - Kelvyn Bladen *
Apr 3 - Bayesian models with RStan/BRMS (NR 202) - Annie Schiffer *
Apr 10 - Machine learning methods - Kelvyn Bladen
Apr 17 - Working with databases using SQL - Soren Struckman *
* brand new workshop

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr

Legacy and Stewardship: Utah's History of Air Quality

Conference/Seminar

Watershed Sciences spring seminar series with Logan Mitchell.

Logan is a climate and air quality scientist who has researched everything from greenhouse gases in Antarctic ice cores to evaluating emissions and monitoring urban air quality with TRAX trains, to studying Utah’s history of air quality. With over 35+ peer-reviewed publications, he has a deep scientific knowledge of air quality, climate and energy systems in Utah and globally. He is passionate about solutions to our air and climate challenges that will improve our quality of life and be essential for our economic future. In addition to climate communication, he will help represent Utah Clean Energy in regulatory dockets and proceedings before the Utah Public Service Commission. He received a BS and PhD from Oregon State University and is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah.

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Apr