WELCOME TO EDUCATIONAL FREEBIES!!
A
monthly outline of some of the lectures and presentations up on campus! Go
enjoy listening to talented people on a topic that interests you! There will be an array of difference topics like business, art, world, science, and more!
WORLD
Nov 11th
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Shanshui City: Exploring
Sustainable Urban Development in China
WHERE: The Performance Hall,
USU Campus
TIME: 9:30AM – 10:30AM
Professor Hu will speak
on the dynamic changes in land planning and design in China. His talk will
focus on the adoption and impacts of sustainable practices in China’s rapidly
expanding urban fabric. Several of his masterpieces will be featured, including
the Beijing Olympic Forest Park (home of Beijing 2008 Olympics). Professor Hu
is vice-president of the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning &
Design Institute, Director of the Research Center for Landscape Architecture,
and council member of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture.
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Nov 15th
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Former VP of Dominican
Republic Visits USU
WHERE: TSC, Auditorium, USU Campus
TIME: 1:30PM
International Education Week - Special
Presentation: Dr. Rafael Alburquerque, former VP of Dominican Republic
(2004-2012).
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COMMUNITY
Nov 13th
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Tanner
Talks: Community and the Demise of Local Newspapers
WHERE: Agricultural Science Building, Room 101, USU
Campus
TIME: 11:30AM to 12:45PM
Media veterans Jeremiah Stettler (social
media manager for Social5), Keriann Strickland (senior editor of
iwantherjob.com), Angela Brown (SLUG magazine) and Patricia Quijano Dark,
(Deseret Connect's Spanish-language products) will offer their insights,
concerns, warnings and prognostications as local newspapers begin to go out
of business. The 2013–14 Tanner Talks, a series of cross-disciplinary events
focusing on the theme "Knowledge and Community," are a presentation
of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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SOCIAL & POLITICAL
Nov 14th
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Judge Alba,
Institute of Government and Politics
WHERE: Agricultural Science Building, Room 101, USU
Campus
TIME: 5:00PM – 6:30PM
Judge Sam Alba was a U.S. Magistrate Judge
for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, the first Latino
federal judge in Utah. He did his undergrad here at Utah State. He will
probably talk about his career, his upbringing and how he got to where he is
now.
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BUSINESS
Nov 13th
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Vernon L
Smith – Nobel Prize Winner
WHERE: Business Building, Room 215, USU Campus
TIME: 11:30AM – 12:45PM
Come join us for the annual George S. Eccles
Memorial Lecture in Economics at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. Dr.
Vernon L. Smith will speak on understanding recessions since 1929, focusing
on the relationship between housing-mortgage markets and market volatility.
Dr. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his
groundbreaking work in experimental economics.
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Nov 14th
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Why Would
You Build a Career Sticking Your Head in the Ground?
WHERE: Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 154, USU Campus
TIME: 11:30AM to 12:30PM
Brown Bag with Dr. Helga Van Miegroet
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SCIENCE
Nov 22nd
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Fighting and
Foodways, Lecture by Tiffany Tung
WHERE: Museum of Anthropology
TIME: 6:00PM
Dr. Tiffiny Tung is an associate professor of
anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She is an anthropological
bioarchaeologist who studies mummies and skeletons from archaeology sites. In
this lecture Dr. Tung explores the biocultural effects of the process of
imperial collapse and the effects of a subsequent severe drought in the
ancient Peruvian Andes.
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OTHER
Nov 13th
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Alumni Career Panel
WHERE: Family Life Building, Room 212, USU Campus
TIME: 11:30AM – 12:30 PM
Have you ever wondered what you can do with
an English major? This year’s Alumni Career Panel will focus on how an
English degree can lead to a career in law. The alumni panel will be made up
of three former English/American Studies majors who now have careers in law
and education; Tyler Buswell, Jared Hales, and Heidi Alder.
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