College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)

Faculty Seed Grant Program (application portal open)

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Ongoing through Friday, October 30, 2026

This Incentive Seed Grant Program is intended to provide initial support for impactful research exploring the fundamental processes surrounding climate change, as well as the policy impacts and opportunities.

Submissions are due by October 30, 2026.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

La China Pobalana: Women's Stories Stitched, Worn & Remembered in the Borderlands

Ongoing through Thursday, December 31, 2026, 9pm

The American West Center is proud to co-sponsor this curated exhibit by Profesor Romeo Garcia. Explore the rich and layered history of La China Poblana through dress, performance, memory, and community storytelling. This exhibition brings together historic China Poblana ensembles, recorded cultural performances, and stories rooted in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands—examining how clothing can become an archive of identity, tradition, migration, and belonging.Throughout the exhibition, visitors will also be invited to take part in workshops and community conversations that help build a growing, living archive of dresses, stories, and memories.

Event Categories: Exhibitions, Public Event
Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB)
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: awc.utah.edu…

2027 Wilkes Climate Innovation Prize (Accepting Submissions)

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Ongoing through Friday, November 20, 2026

The Wilkes Climate Innovation Prize seeks bold, high-potential solutions that address significant challenges affecting the climate/energy/economy ecosystem and are positioned to make measurable progress toward real-world use. The Prize is designed to support solutions at a stage where uncertainty remains high, conventional funding or adoption pathways are limited, and targeted support can plausibly influence outcomes. Solutions may be technological, policy-driven, operational, financial, or hybrid. Applicants may be for-profit or nonprofit organizations, academic teams, public-sector innovators, or mission-driven collaborations from anywhere in the world.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

Fall 2026 - Fall Break (Oct 10-18)

Ongoing through Sunday, October 18, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Second Half - Classes begin

Monday, October 19, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

CANCELLED - Martin Edwards, University of Arkansas

Monday, October 19, 2026, 4 – 5pm

Physical/ Analytical Chemistry Seminar
with Martin Edwards, University of Arkansas

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: TBA
by Martin Edwards

Abstract: TBA

Host: Henry S. White

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: 4630 Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar room
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: edwardslab.uark.edu…

Dissertation Defense | Leon Guerra

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 10 – 11am

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Explore Careers | U.S. Department of the Interior

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

Sam Crofts, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior is visiting campus to talk with students about what the DOI does, the careers it offers, and how to get started. Come with questions.
Pizza provided.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: science.utah.edu

Dissertation Defense | Preston Hymas

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 1 – 3pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 2429 (Thatcher 2nd Floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Dissertation Defense | David Loertscher

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 2 – 3pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th Floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Find upcoming department seminars and Zoom links on the Events tab at physics.utah.edu. Notify us of your events at webmaster@physics.utah.edu

Campus Locations: Skaggs, L. S. Applied Science Building (LSSB)
Room Name/Number: LSSB W0120
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Dissertation Defense | Mark Cisewski

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 11am – 12:30pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th Floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Dissertation Defense | Jared Boster

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 1 – 2pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th Floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Panel Discussion on the Evolution of Diet and Nutrition

Hinckley Caucus Rm, GC 2018
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 2 – 3pm

How did endurance running shape the human body-and what can it teach us about health, movement, and life today?
Survival programs use insights from human evolution to illuminate consequential challenges in modern life. Each program begins with a familiar present-day question, connects it to the evolutionary past through current scientific evidence, and considers what those insights mean for our future. Through accessible storytelling and concrete examples, active researchers make clear how studying human evolution can help us better understand—and navigate-the world we live in today.

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Owning Your Professional Skills | Career Workshop Series

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 3 – 4:20pm

Recognize, articulate, and confidently own the professional skills you bring to the table. Led by the Goff Institute, this interactive workshop will help you identify the skills you’ve developed through your academic, work, and life experiences and learn how to communicate them effectively to employers. You’ll also learn about internship and practicum opportunities through the Goff Institute and hear directly from students who have completed Goff programs about their experiences and how those opportunities gave them an advantage.

Handshake signup.

Zoom link.

Event Categories: Community Engagement
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC), Virtual
Alternate Location: utah.zoom.us…
Room Name/Number: 2575
Ticket URL: utah.joinhandshake.com…
Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian
Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: utah.zoom.us…

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 5:15 – 6:15pm

Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.

Event Categories: Community Engagement
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Conference Room
Contact Name: Karen Marsh
Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Ming Hammond TFR Seminar

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 10:45am – 12pm

TFR Chemistry Seminar
with Ming Hammond, University of Utah

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: Advancing the fluorogenic toolkit to study signaling and enzyme activity
by Ming Hammond, University of Utah

Abstract:
Fluorescent dyes have enabled cellular imaging of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules, in the process revolutionizing our understanding of cell biology. A subset of these dyes are fluorogenic, meaning that they exhibit large changes in quantum yield and so “turn on” fluorescence in certain environments or upon reaction. We have been exploring ways to convert this fluorogenic activity into a read-out of enzyme activity in real-time in live cells.

By combining fluorogenic dyes with RNA aptamers, we have designed and developed RNA-based fluorescent biosensors, which we have applied to study methyltransferase activity and inhibition, immune and bacterial signaling. In this seminar, I will highlight some of our latest innovations in RNA-based biosensor design. In addition, I will discuss our strategy and development of fluorogenic probes capable of providing real-time information about antibiotic permeability, activity, and resistance.

Bio:
Dr. Ming Chen Hammond is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Henry Eyring Center for Cell & Genome Science at the University of Utah. Her research group was one of the first to develop RNA-based fluorescent biosensors to study signaling and metabolism in living cells, and her research interests span the fields of chemical biology, synthetic biology, and microbiology. She received a B.S. in chemistry at Caltech, Ph.D. in chemistry as an HHMI predoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, and was a BWF CASI postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She is a recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and a Kavli Fellow.

Host: Aurora Clark

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Tanner: Jeremy Rosen, author of "Genre Bending"

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12 – 1:30pm

Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Jeremy Rosen, author of Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12 – 1pm

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as “genre bending” and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genre—a recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly.

Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers’ embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a modernist-inspired project of formal experiment, to pursue high cultural prestige, and to preserve the distinctiveness of the literary, which they perceive to be under threat, while also embracing the role of providing pleasure to readers. Examining what today’s most critically acclaimed and widely read literary writers have done with the genres of genre fiction, Genre Bending reveals the values, practices, and forms, as well as the tensions, that constitute literary fiction today. — Stanford University Press

Jeremy Rosen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (2016).

Views expressed in Tanner Humanities Center events do not reflect the official views of the Center or the University of Utah.

Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box Room 143
Cost: Free
Ticket URL: tanner.utah.edu…
Contact Phone: 801-581-7989
Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: tanner.utah.edu…

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Linguistics Colloquium - Jordan Kodner (Stony Brook)

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 3:30 – 5pm

Event Categories: Colloquia
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 1100
Contact Phone: (801) 581-8047
Contact Email: Linguistics@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Neuroscience Information Session

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5 – 6pm

Students pursuing a Bachelor's of Neuroscience have the opportunity to participate in the Science Research Initiative (SRI), a nationally recognized program that provides early, immersive research experiences. Through SRI, students will have opportunities to join research labs, working alongside faculty and peers to investigate questions related to brain function, behavior, and health using modern experimental and analytical approaches.

Students can emphasize biological or psychological approaches to neuroscience while maintaining a strong interdisciplinary core, and are encouraged to work closely with advisors to prepare for medical school, graduate study, and careers in research, healthcare, and emerging technologies such as AI and neurotechnology.

Fill out this form if you're interested in the Neuroscience major.

Neuroscience Information Session Zoom link.

Event Categories: Community Engagement
Campus Locations: Virtual
Alternate Location: utah.zoom.us…
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: psych.utah.edu…

Guest Writer Series: Divya Victor reading

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7 – 8:30pm

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Frontiers of Science Lecture featuring Martin Chalfie

Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7 – 8pm

Martin Chalfie, University Professor and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Full bio: https://chalfielab.biology.columbia.edu/people/martin-chalfie

In 1939, the first director of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Abraham Flexner, wrote an article in Harper's Magazine titled "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge." Flexner questioned whether our idea of usefulness had become too narrow for the wide-ranging, unpredictable nature of human curiosity, arguing that real discovery happens when scientists are free to explore without needing to justify usefulness in advance. Several Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that emerged sideways from what researchers originally set out to study. Chalfie will argue that "useless knowledge" is as necessary today as ever for improving human health and well-being, and will offer thoughts on how we can create space for the unexpected discoveries that drive future scientific breakthroughs.

Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI)
Alternate Location: Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Second Half - Last day to add, drop (delete), elect CR/NC, or audit classes

Friday, October 23, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Second Half - Last day to wait list

Friday, October 23, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Communities, Health & Democracy Research Symposium

Friday, October 23, 2026, 9am – 4:30pm

How does communication contribute to, and detract from, building healthier communities and a healthier democracy? Join twelve researchers and practitioners from across the U.S. to engage this pressing question during a full-day symposium. Addressing a range of topics including information flows, advocacy, and violence, sessions will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, students, patient advocates, and anyone interested in health and democracy. All events are free and open to the public.

This is the first event in a two-part symposium co-hosted by the Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute at the University of Utah and the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida, with support from the Carnegie Foundation.

Event Categories: Public Event, Seminars
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 2910 - The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: institute.communication.utah.edu…

Guest Writer Series: Divya Victor Colloquium

Friday, October 23, 2026, 12 – 1pm

Event Categories: Colloquia
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery
Campus Wide Event: Yes

ENABLERS: Normalizing the Unimaginable - Legal Accountability and Professional Responsibility

Friday, October 23, 2026, 12:15 – 1:30pm

“The Constitution does not authorize Congress to create independent officers or agencies that exercise executive power.”

For more than a century, Congress has created independent agencies designed to operate with some independence from presidential control, including through statutory limits on the President’s power to remove their leaders. These agencies exercise substantial authority over areas such as labor, communications, securities, consumer protection, and monetary policy. But the Constitution vests executive power in the President and requires the President to ensure that federal law is faithfully executed. How much control must the President have over officials who exercise executive power?

Supporters of strong presidential control argue that officials who exercise executive power must remain accountable to the President and cannot be insulated from presidential supervision. Critics argue that the Constitution allows Congress to create independent officers and agencies, and that complete presidential control is neither required by the Constitution nor consistent with the nation’s history.

The Supreme Court brought new urgency to this longstanding debate in 2026 with major decisions addressing presidential power over independent agencies. Those decisions strengthened presidential control in some contexts while leaving important questions about the scope and limits of that authority unresolved. What does the Constitution require, and how much independence may Congress give to federal officers and agencies?

Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW)
Room Name/Number: Moot Courtroom
Cost: $0-15
Ticket URL: events.zoom.us…
Transportation / Parking: Take Trax to the stadium lot and walk a half block north or U pass parking in the stadium lot.
Contact Name: Kris
Contact Phone: 801-585-3440
Contact Email: events@law.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: www.law.utah.edu…

RPT Advisory Meeting

Friday, October 23, 2026, 12:30 – 2pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Lessons from Recently Published Book Authors, with tea and treats!

Friday, October 23, 2026, 3 – 4:30pm

Please join us for the next College of Humanities Research Event, “Lessons from Recently Published Book Authors, with tea and treats!” In recent years, College of Humanities faculty have published a record number of acclaimed academic books.

This afternoon gathering will celebrate their work and make the publishing process more visible. It will take place on Friday, October 23rd from 3-4:30 pm in LNCO 2110. Presenting authors include: Leandra Hernández, Ashton Lazarus, Joe Metz, Melissa Parks, Susie Porter, Jeremy Rosen, Natalie Stillman-Webb, and Thomas Swenson.

For questions and to RSVP, please contact Robin Jensen at r.e.jensen@utah.edu.

Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: 2110
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Salt 18: Amor Muñoz’s UMFA Public Opening

Friday, October 23, 2026, 6 – 9pm

Amor Muñoz is a Mexico City-based artist who works at the intersections of technology, craft, labor, and biology. In her expansive, research-driven practice, she traces how technology is deeply embedded in our material and cultural lives.

For her salt exhibition, Muñoz turns to corn (also known by the Nahuatl name elotl, or elote in Spanish). Corn is more than a food: it is a carrier of memory, a record of cultural exchange, and a living system of knowledge that has been passed across generations. The exhibition features an immersive installation called KaleidescopElote. Using enlarged resin kernels as building blocks, the central sculpture can be an observatory, a lighthouse, a seed bank, or an oracle. With an interactive digital kaleidoscope of stars and seeds inside, the work explores ancient relationships between agriculture, architecture, and celestial observation.

Attend the free Public Opening, October 23!

Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: umfa.utah.edu…

National Theatre Live, “The Playboy of the Western World”

Saturday, October 24, 2026, 12 – 3pm

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema audiences the “best seat in the house.”

The Tanner Humanities Center began screening National Theatre Live in 2010, now hosted at Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Centre Cinemas.

Season tickets are available from the Tanner Humanities Center.

Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway
Ticket URL: tanner.utah.edu…
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: tanner.utah.edu…

Nuestra Tierra/Our Land: A Film Screening and Q&A

Saturday, October 24, 2026, 4 – 7:30pm

Alternate Location: UMOCA
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Language as a Function of Time: Putting the Rate of Change Inside the Description of Language - A Presentation by Cliff Miller

Monday, October 26, 2026, 10 – 11:30am

Abstract:
Change runs through every part of language. Sounds shift, morphology and syntax evolve, and new words and their meanings appear every day. This talk presents a framework, LAAF (Language as a Function), that puts language change inside the description and formalizes it mathematically. The linguistic state of a speaker at time t is written L(t) = Φ(K(t), Ȧ(t)). K(t) is the knowledge that a speaker has stored: elements, the relations between them, and for each element the values it has been experienced with. Ȧ(t) is the rate and direction of change of those values. Φ resolves the two into the speaker's current language state.

The LAAF framework encapsulates two traditional distinctions in its central equation: Saussure's langue and Chomsky's competence fall on the stored side, K, and parole and performance on the resolved side, L.

I show how the same equation runs at three timescales (a conversation, a lifetime, generations), how the rate and direction of an individual speaker's language change at a point in time may mirror those of their language community, and how classical synchronic theories appear as its still frame, the case in which time is held fixed and the rate of change is zero. Because the rate of change is a defined term, the framework lets us state and test conjectures that cannot be posed without it across language acquisition, sociolinguistic change, and other fields. I present some conjectures and the experiments I'm using to test them, and report the status. I welcome criticism of the formal definitions and of the test design and its corpora.

Event Categories: Colloquia, Community Engagement, Employer Campus Visits, Kids/Family, Public Event, Other
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 2110
Contact Phone: (801) 581-8047
Contact Email: Linguistics@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

How Did Housing Get So Expensive — and What Solutions Would Actually Work?

Monday, October 26, 2026, 1:15 – 2:30pm

Why has housing become so expensive, and which policies would actually improve affordability? Join our panel of expert economists for an accessible discussion of what has driven rising housing costs, what determines whether new housing gets built, and which local, state, and federal solutions are most likely to work.

Panelists
Adam Looney, Marriner S. Eccles Institute
Andra Ghent, Ivory Boyer Institute
Elena Patel, Brookings Institute
Moderator: Scott Schaefer, Department of Economics

Campus Locations: Garff Executive Education Building - Robert H. and Katharine B. (GARFF)
Room Name/Number: 1425
Campus Wide Event: Yes

STEM Major Mixer

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 12 – 3pm

Meet your major -Find your people! Build connections, share ideas and meet other STEM students. Everyone is welcome, invite a friend, activities and free snacks!

Campus Locations: Union - A. Ray Olpin (UNION)
Room Name/Number: East Ballroom
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: science.utah.edu

Hugo Rossi Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 3 – 5pm

Changing Our Minds about Introductory Student Success

The higher education community has a problem. Far too many students (especially those from underserved populations) are not succeeding in our introductory courses – especially in STEM. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how academia’s views of students, of how they learn, and of what’s best for them contribute to this problem. Through discussions of several surprising studies, you might even change your mind, coming away with specific things you can do to better support your students.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Gender & Social Expectations | Fall 2026 Brave Conversations

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm

What expectations about gender are there in your family, in your culture, on our campus, in your major, in your religion, in our country? Share a meal with people with diverse backgrounds and beliefs to listen, learn, and discuss.

Campus Connect RSVP Link:
https://cglink.me/2zF/r384720

Co-Sponsor: Center for Campus Wellness

Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: 2660
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: cglink.me…

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Tanner: Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate of South Africa

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7 – 8:30pm

Alternate Location: SLC Public Library
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate of South Africa

Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7 – 8pm

South African poet and novelist Mongane Wally Serote, born in 1944, was politically active against the apartheid regime. He was detained without trial and held in solitary confinement under the Terrorism Act. After earning an MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship, he was barred from reentering South Africa, and he lived in exile in Botswana and London before returning to South Africa in 1990. A member of the African National Congress, he was elected to Parliament in the pivotal election of Nelson Mandela’s government in 1994.

Serote’s talk will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in the context of his friendship with Steve Biko and other members of the Black Consciousness Movement, and will consider parallels to the Black Power Movement and Black Lives Matter Movement. He will also give a short reading from his work.

Serote’s work speaks directly to political resistance and engagement. His collections include Yakhal’inkomo (The Cry of Cattle at the Slaughterhouse, 1972), No Baby Must Weep (1975), Third World Express (1992), and History Is the Home Address (2004). His novels include To Every Birth Its Blood (1981) and Revelations (2011).

Serote’s honors include the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize, and the Chilean government’s Pablo Neruda Award.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of English, and is part of the Utah Humanities Books Festival. Additional support from Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and O.C. Tanner.

Views expressed in Tanner Humanities Center events do not reflect the official views of the Center or the University of Utah.

Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library downtown
Room Name/Number: Auditorium
Cost: Free
Ticket URL: tanner.utah.edu…
Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library garage.
Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: tanner.utah.edu…

Ryan Looper, University of Utah TFR

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 10:45am – 12pm

TFR Chemistry Seminar
with Ryan Looper, University of Utah

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: TBA
by Ryan Looper, University of Utah

Abstract: TBA

Host: Aurora Clark

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

SRI-CAP Graduate School for science majors Workshop

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 12 – 1pm

In the workshop we will discuss if graduate school is the right option, how graduate school operates and what to expect; and application process, expectations, and timelines.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - Ben Frandsen - BYU - LSSB W4202

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Ben Frandsen
BYU
Hosted by Vikram Deshpande

Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Earth & Environmental Science Mixer

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3 – 5pm

This is a community building event for existing EES, undeclared or interested students at the U. This is an opportunity for new students to learn more about the degree program, and learn more about supporting partners on campus and their collaborations with the program and similarly oriented organizations. There will be snacks, swag and faculty from the program.

Campus Locations: Sutton Building - Frederick Albert (FASB)
Room Name/Number: Confluence of FASB
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: science.utah.edu

Linguistics Colloquium - Charles Yang (UPenn)

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:30 – 5pm

Event Categories: Colloquia
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 2110
Contact Phone: (801) 581-8047
Contact Email: Linguistics@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jennifer Funk, UC Davis

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 4 – 5pm

TBA
Host: Eleinis Avila Lovera

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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The National Humanities Center invites proposals for events to be included in the 2027 Being Human Festival (US)

Friday, October 30, 2026

The National Humanities Center invites proposals for events to be included in the 2027 Being Human Festival (US), a public humanities initiative for diverse, non-academic audiences across the United States. Events for the 2027 Festival will take place from April 17 to May 1, 2027, and will be organized around the theme of “Crossroads.” Successful proposals will receive modest grants and other forms of support from the National Humanities Center. All proposals must be received by October 30, 2026. Interested in learning more? Register now for a virtual information session on October 6, 2026 at 12pm MT. For further information, see the application form or email the Public Engagement team with questions.

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Full Term - Last day to withdraw from classes

Friday, October 30, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Wilkes Scholars Program - SPRING 2027 DEADLINE

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Friday, October 30, 2026

The Wilkes Scholars Program (WSP) enables outstanding undergraduate students to explore pressing climate challenges facing our state, region, and planet through transformative research. Wilkes Scholars will work with a mentor to advance research related to the mission of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy — catalyzing innovative science and solutions to address climate change.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

English Speakers Series: Debbie Urbanski ("After World", "Portalmania"), in Conversation with Lindsey Drager

Friday, October 30, 2026, 10am – 12pm

A writers' conversation between Debbie Urbanski (Portalmania, After World) and Lindsey Drager (Associate Professor, English). Speaker Biography: Debbie Urbanski is the author of the novel After World (S&S 2023) -- named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, the Los Angeles Times tech, Booklist, and Strange Horizons -- and the story collection Portalmania (S&S 2025), longlisted for the Story Prize and named a best horror book of the year by the New York Public Library. Her stories and essays have been published widely in such places as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Granta, and Conjunctions. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a CNY Book Award, and an ASLE book award for environmental creative writing. She lives with her family in Central New York. Lindsey Drager Biography: Lindsey Drager is the author of four books of literary-speculative fiction. Her work has received a Shirley Jackson Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize.

Date: 10/30/2026. Time: 10am. Location: Tanner Jewel Box. Open to all.

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Economics CAKE Talk Seminar: Joe Price

Friday, October 30, 2026, 12 – 1:15pm

Professor Joe Price will present his lecture on the paper, "Like a Good Neighbor: Childhood Neighbors Influence Occupation Choice"
Occupation choice is a key determinant of economic mobility. This paper studies how childhood neighbors influence occupational choices and later-life earnings. Using linked historical U.S. census records for over six million boys and four million girls, we reconstruct neighborhood microgeography to identify childhood neighbors and their occupations. We find that living next door to someone in a given occupation increases the probability of working in that same occupation 30 years later by about 10 percent relative to other children on the same street. The transmission effect is higher with more intense exposure, in more connected neighborhoods, and among more similar families. Exposure to high-income or highly educated neighbors has lasting economic effects, leading to significant gains in adult income and education even compared to other children from the same street. These findings suggest that neighborhood networks play an important role in shaping intergenerational economic mobility.
Link to the paper: https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f245728.pdf

Event Categories: Conferences, Lectures, Seminars
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Gardner Commons 4680
Campus Wide Event: Yes

What Were You Thinking?: Korean Literature through the Translator's Archive

Friday, October 30, 2026, 12 – 1:30pm

Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: CTIHB 201/211
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Graduate Student Colloquium

Friday, October 30, 2026, 12 – 1:30pm

Collin Bright, “Seguimos Aquí”: Contextualizing the Benito Bowl’s Refusal of Authoritarian Rhythms
Gabby Garza, Indigenous Science and Material Medicine: Ethnographic Explorations of Border Medicine in a Community/University Classroom
Teri Harman, Acceptable Scars: The Disabling Rhetoric of Dugway Proving Grounds
Caitlin Walrath, Wearing My Dead Mom’s Skin: A “Choose Your Own!” Performance to Navigate Grief

Event Categories: Public Event, Seminars
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 2910 - The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute
Campus Wide Event: Yes

SRI Stream Open House

Friday, October 30, 2026, 2 – 4pm

The SRI is hosting a poster session/open house for streams within the research project. Come join us to see the different types of research available within the SRI.

Campus Locations: Skaggs, L. S. Applied Science Building (LSSB)
Room Name/Number: Event space (atrium)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Race for Campus Safety 2026 LAUREN MCCLUSKEY FOUNDATION

Saturday, October 31, 2026, 9am

The Lauren McCluskey Race for Campus Safety will be held on October 31, 2026, at McCarthey Family Track and Field in Salt Lake City, Utah. This annual, community-driven event raises awareness and funds to improve how colleges respond to relationship violence and stalking. Inspired by Lauren McCluskey’s life and legacy, the race brings together students, families, advocates, and campus communities in a shared commitment to creating safer campuses.

Taking place on Halloween morning, this year’s event will also have candy available for kids trick-or-treating at vendor booths as a part of the race festival.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: runsignup.com…

Applications are now being accepted for the College of Humanities’ Scholarly Conference and Research Convening Program

Monday, November 2, 2026

Applications are now being accepted for the College of Humanities’ Scholarly Conference and Research Convening Program, which provides College of Humanities faculty with up to $5,000 to host conferences, symposia, workshops, and other scholarly convenings that bring leading researchers, community partners, and prospective collaborators to the University of Utah. The Dean’s office privileges events that: (a) create interdisciplinary and cross-institutional partnerships, (b) increase the national or international visibility of University of Utah scholarship, and (c) generate opportunities for future publications, externally funded projects, and sustained research collaborations. Applications should include a two-page narrative describing the event and addressing how the convening meets the above criteria. They should include a detailed budget for the event as-a-whole inclusive of costs related to venue, speakers, and supplies, earmarking how the requested funds from the College will be used specifically. Applicants should upload their materials by November 2, 2026, by 5:00 pm MT to InfoReady: College of Humanities’ Scholarly Conference and Research Convening Program.

Campus Wide Event: No

Student Innovation Prize (Accepting Submissions)

Website to be updated soon
Monday, November 2, 2026 – Friday, March 12, 2027

Information to be posted soon.

Naihao Chiang, University of Houston

Monday, November 2, 2026, 4 – 5pm

Physical/ Analytical Chemistry Seminar
with Naihao Chiang, University of Houston

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: TBA
by Naihao Chiang

Abstract: TBA

Host: Long Luo

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: 4630 Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar room
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: chiang.chem.uh.edu

Seminar | Ampofo Darko, University of Tennessee

Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:45am – 12pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.

Job Searching and Networking | Career Workshop Series

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 3 – 4:20pm

Take a more proactive approach to your job search by using networking, outreach, and professional connections to uncover opportunities and get your foot in the door. Through live, real-time simulations, we’ll walk through examples of students searching for opportunities in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, demonstrating how to identify potential employers, find the right people to connect with, and reach out effectively. You’ll leave with practical strategies you can immediately put to work in your own job or internship search.

Handshake signup.

Zoom link.

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Spring 2027 - Registration dates begin

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Leigh Lecture Series-Jennifer Raff

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 2:15 – 4:15am

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Crimson Conversations

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10am – 2pm

Crimson Conversations (CC) is an educational program created to enhance the cultural education and awareness of University of Utah campus community. CC will provide opportunities for students from all backgrounds to learn with and from one another and promote community success.

For room location and any questions, please reach out to the center at culture@utah.edu.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: culture.utah.edu…

Stang-Burrows-Sessler Distinguished Lectureship | Geoffrey Coates, Cornell

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:45am – 12pm

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: Rethinking Plastics: Molecular Strategies for Sustainable Polymers

Abstract:
Modern society relies on polymers more than ever, but their production and disposal come at an environmental cost. In this lecture, I will share our work to improve polymer circularity by designing materials for mechanical recycling, creating systems for chemical recycling, and developing sustainable pathways to biodegradable plastics.

Bio:
Geoffrey W. Coates received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Wabash College in 1989, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Robert Waymouth at Stanford University in 1994, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology. He joined the Cornell University faculty in 1997, where he is now the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

The research focus of the Coates Group is the development of new catalysts for the synthesis of macromolecules and small molecules. Professor Coates' research concentrates on developing new methods for reacting commodity feedstocks in unprecedented ways. His current research centers on the development of homogeneous catalysts for olefin polymerization, heterocycle carbonylation, epoxide homo- and copolymerization, the utilization of carbon dioxide in polymer synthesis, and new polymers for energy conversion and storage.

Professor Coates has been awarded the A. C. Cope Scholar Award, the ACS Award in Affordable Green Chemistry, the ACS Award for Polymer Chemistry, the ACS Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, the ACS Applied Polymer Science Award, and the Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award. In 2011 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors in 2017. He was awarded the Eni Award in 2022 and the National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science in 2023. He is the scientific cofounder of Novomer, Ecolectro, and Intermix Performance Materials, and is an Associate Editor of JACS.

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: coates.chem.cornell.edu

Narrating Human Rights: Reflective Empathy, Memory, and Political Imagination in Latin America

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:50am – 12:30pm

Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box
Campus Wide Event: Yes

2026 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12 – 1:30pm

Professor Char Miller of George Mason University will deliver the 2026 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics entitled "The Nation-State as Casino."

Event Categories: Lectures, Public Event
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Hinckley Institute of Politics, GC 2018
Contact Name: Steven Johnston
Contact Email: steven.johnston@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: poli-sci.utah.edu…

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - Huiwen Ji - University of Utah - LSSB W4202

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Huiwen Ji
University of Utah
Hosted by Vikram Deshpande

Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Hirosi A. Maeda, University of Wisconsin

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 4 – 5pm

TBA

Host: Heejin Yoo

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - Kaelee Parker - University of Utah - LSSB W0120

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Guest Writer Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry Reading: Jennifer Chang and Caleb Nolan

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 7 – 8:30pm

Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery
Campus Wide Event: Yes

"Arming Every Hand: British Auxiliaries in the Revolutionary War" with Dr. Russell Arbic

Thursday, November 5, 2026, 7 – 8pm

This lecture is part of the 2026 Rocky Mountain Seminar.

Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box
Cost: Free
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Guest Writer Series: Jennifer Chang and Caleb Nolan Colloquium

Friday, November 6, 2026, 12 – 1pm

Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Can America Keep Its Promises? Social Security and the Math Washington Avoids

Monday, November 9, 2026, 12 – 1pm

The United States faces significant fiscal challenges driven by demographic changes, rising federal expenditures, and long-term budget pressures. This forum will examine the future of Social Security, federal spending priorities, and the policy tradeoffs economists believe policymakers must confront in the years ahead.

Panelists
Adam Looney, Marriner S. Eccles Institute
Elena Patel, Brookings Institute
Moderator: Scott Schaefer, Department of Economics

Register with the link.

Campus Locations: Virtual
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: eccles.utah.edu…

Aurora Clark | TFR Seminar

Monday, November 9, 2026, 4 – 5pm

TFR Chemistry Seminar
with Aurora Clark, University of Utah

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: TBA
by Aurora Clark, University of Utah

Abstract: TBA

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Careers in Criminology

Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 5 – 6pm

More info coming soon!

Room Name/Number: TBA
Campus Wide Event: Yes

How Do We Feel About Politics? | Fall 2026 Brave Conversations

Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm

Something both Democrats and Republicans agree on: We have a shared responsibility to engage with people whose backgrounds and viewpoints are different from our own.

Come share a meal and a structured conversation about politics, where the goal is to understand one another better and to learn from each other—not to change one anyone’s minds.

Campus Connect RSVP Link:
https://cglink.me/2zF/r384721

Co-Sponsor: The Hinckley Institute

Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Hinckley Caucus Room (2018)
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: cglink.me…

Coffee Chat | ChemSAC and Curie Club

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 10 – 11am

Event Categories: Meetups
Campus Locations: Eyring Chemistry Building - Henry (HEB)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Kevin Reed Atmos Seminar: "Changing extremes in a changing world"

L. S. Skaggs Applied Science Building, Suite W1204
275 S. University Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 3 – 4:30pm

ABSTRACT:
The coming decades will see unprecedented changes to the Earth system with direct consequences for society. Changes in the characteristics of extreme weather are key indicators of future change, at both local and regional scales. The goal of this research is to advance our understanding of potential changes in the location, intensity and structure of such extremes (e.g., hurricanes) which is crucial in planning for future adaptation as these events have large economic and social costs.

BIO:
Dr. Kevin Reed is the Chief Climate Scientist at the New York Climate Exchange, leading the strategic direction and co-development of research programs with a diverse set of academic, industry, and community partners. The New York Climate Exchange is a new non-profit focused on open exchange and collaboration that empowers sustainable solutions to climate change for New York City and the world. Dr. Reed has also served as the Associate Provost for Climate and Sustainability Programming at Stony Brook University and was responsible for facilitating and enabling campus-wide activities and initiatives on climate-related topics as the University advanced its leadership in climate, sustainability, and solutions. As a Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, Dr. Reed founded and leads the Climate Extremes Modeling Group, which focuses on investigating how societally-relevant extreme events, such as hurricanes, may change in the coming decades. This research aids in advancing our scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change, as well as developing new methodologies to better translate state-of-the-art science for climate adaptation applications and policies. Dr. Reed received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan, where he also completed a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Public Policy and his B.S. in Physics.

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

SRI-CAP Science Career Speaker Seminar

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12 – 1pm

Speaker TBD. Join us for a speaker seminar featuring industry careers in science.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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"The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times" the O. Meredith Wilson Lecture from Kathleen DuVal

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1 – 4pm

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kathleen DuVal will present a public lecture entitled “The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times.”

Yorktown, Virginia, holds a familiar place in the history of the American Revolution: In the Siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781, American and French forces helped to end the Revolutionary War and win American independence. Yet the famous siege is only part of Yorktown’s involvement in the Revolution. Its townspeople participated in the boycotts and protests from the beginning, and repeated invasions endangered the town and its people. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kathleen DuVal explores what the Revolution was like for the people of Yorktown—men and women, wealthy and poor, free and enslaved—and how their experiences can help us craft a more complete history of how people lived through the Revolution and what it meant to them.

Reception at 2pm, lecture at 3pm.

Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI)
Room Name/Number: Ballroom A/B
Cost: Free
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Kevin Reed Public Lecture: "Advancing climate solutions through discovery and partnership"

L. S. Skaggs Applied Science Building, Suite W1204
275 S. University Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 3 – 4:30pm

Abstract:
Addressing the complex challenges associated with climate change requires strong partnerships among universities, industry, government, and communities to better understand local climate impacts and co-develop solutions that are practical and responsive to regional needs. Universities play a critical role in advancing discovery, fostering innovation, and serving the communities and regions they represent through research, education, and collaboration. This presentation highlights how research universities can convene diverse partners to accelerate climate solutions and translate scientific discovery into meaningful regional impact. Drawing on the experiences of the New York Climate Exchange, it illustrates how cross-sector collaboration can advance research, inform decision-making, and help build more resilient and sustainable communities

BIO:
Dr. Kevin Reed is the Chief Climate Scientist at the New York Climate Exchange, leading the strategic direction and co-development of research programs with a diverse set of academic, industry, and community partners. The New York Climate Exchange is a new non-profit focused on open exchange and collaboration that empowers sustainable solutions to climate change for New York City and the world. Dr. Reed has also served as the Associate Provost for Climate and Sustainability Programming at Stony Brook University and was responsible for facilitating and enabling campus-wide activities and initiatives on climate-related topics as the University advanced its leadership in climate, sustainability, and solutions. As a Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, Dr. Reed founded and leads the Climate Extremes Modeling Group, which focuses on investigating how societally-relevant extreme events, such as hurricanes, may change in the coming decades. This research aids in advancing our scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change, as well as developing new methodologies to better translate state-of-the-art science for climate adaptation applications and policies. Dr. Reed received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan, where he also completed a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Public Policy and his B.S. in Physics.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Aaron Straight, Stanford University

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 4 – 5pm

"Epigenetic Control of Human Chromosomes"

Host: Ofer Rog

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Fall 2026 Second Half - Last day to withdraw from classes

Friday, November 13, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Graduate JD Fellowship applications due

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Friday, November 13, 2026

The Wilkes JD Fellowship is a new initiative in partnership with the S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment supporting law students at the University of Utah who are committed to addressing climate, energy, and environmental challenges through legal and policy scholarship and work.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

America250 Student Symposium

Friday, November 13, 2026, 9am – 4pm

A symposium featuring original student research on the nation’s founding by college students from across Utah. Students from the University of Utah, BYU, Utah Valley University, and Utah State University will spend the summer and fall working with History faculty at their respective universities on original research papers that they will present at this symposium.

Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI)
Cost: Free
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Economics CAKE Talk Seminar: Sarah Robinson

Friday, November 13, 2026, 1:30 – 2:45pm

Associate Professor of Economics from Claremont McKenna, Sarah Robinson, will visit the University and deliver her lecture during this Economics CAKE Talk Seminar. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Some of Professor Robinson's research interests include health and public economics.

Event Categories: Conferences, Lectures, Seminars
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Gardner Commons 4680
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Career Opportunity: Gardner Institute Survey Data Dictionary and Mapping Intern

Saturday, November 14, 2026

The Gardner Institute is accepting applications for a Spring 2027 Graduate Internship.

The intern will support the Gardner Institute’s efforts to improve the documentation, consistency, accessibility, and effective use of survey data. The primary project will involve developing a comprehensive data dictionary and business glossary for survey-related files.

This internship is fully remote, with an expectation of 10-15 hours per week during the Spring semester, and includes a $1,500 stipend.

Applications are due November 14, 2026. Learn more about the Gardner Institute Spring Graduate Internship.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: forms.cloud.microsoft…

Applications are open and due for long- and short-term Huntington Fellows, as well as travel grants and exchange fellowships

Sunday, November 15, 2026

Applications are open and due for long- and short-term Huntington Fellows, as well as travel grants and exchange fellowships, on November 15th, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. PST.

The Huntington—a collections-based research institute—awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and contribute to, its intellectual life. Find more information, including how to apply, HERE.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: www.huntington.org…

Graduate Dissertation Fellowship (Application Portal Open)

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Sunday, November 15, 2026 – Friday, January 15, 2027

The Wilkes Dissertation Fellowship supports the dissertation writing phase for Ph.D. candidates whose dissertation projects focus around the broad themes of climate science and climate policy.
Applicants can apply for 1 or 2 semesters of support to complete a research-based dissertation-required Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Funds are intended to support the final semesters of writing and defense of the dissertation. This award is non-renewable.
Wilkes Dissertation Fellowships are open to applicants from any Ph.D. program as long as the focus of the dissertation project is in the area of climate science or climate policy.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

Henry Eyring Lecture | Daniel Neumark, University of California - Berkeley

Monday, November 16, 2026, 4 – 5pm

TBBC 4630
4th floor Thatcher
In-Person Seminar

Title: Spectroscopy and Scattering Experiments on Flat Liquid Jets

Abstract:
The dynamics of photoexcited solute molecules and the properties of liquid interfaces are studied by carrying out spectroscopy and scattering experiments on flat liquid water jets. In one set of experiments, solute dynamics are probed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in which molecules are photoexcited with a femtosecond UV pulse and photoionized with a time-delayed femtosecond XUV pulse (at 21.7 eV). The time-dependent photoelectron spectra provide a unique probe of the relaxation of photoexcited neutral and anionic species in aqueous solution. Results will be presented for several negative ions including phenolate,1 bromophenolate, 2 and nitrophenolate. These experiments probe the competition among the various relaxation pathways including internal conversion, dissociation, and electron ejection.
In complementary experiments, the liquid interface is explored in molecular beam scattering experiments from flat liquid jets of cold salty water (-50 °C, 8 m LiBr). In contrast to cylindrical jets, flat jets provide a large target area and well-defined surface normal, both of which are highly advantageous for scattering experiments. Product angular and translational energy distributions for rare gas and molecular scatterers will be presented.3, 4 The competition between impulsive scattering (IS) and thermal desorption is measured, and the energy loss in the IS channel is characterized using a soft-sphere model. Results are sensitive to both the scatterer identity and its collision energy. Possible effects of surface roughness on the product angular distributions will be discussed.

[1] Kang, D. H.; Basu, J.; Haldar, N.; Koga, M.; Neumark, D. M. Photo-relaxation dynamics of phenolate anions by extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in liquid jets. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2026, 28, 7754-7765.|
[2] Kang, D. H.; Basu, J.; Haldar, N.; Neumark, D. M. Time-resolved extreme ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of 4-bromophenotate anions in a liquid jet. Faraday Disc. 2026, DOI: 10.1039/d1036fd00059b.
[3] Yang, W.; Foreman, M. M.; Ly, T. C.; Wilson, K. R.; Neumark, D. M. Molecular beam scattering of neon from flat jets of cold salty water. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 11608-11618.
[4] Foreman, M. M.; Yang, W. L.; Ly, T. C.; Wilson, K. R.; Neumark, D. M. Selectivity in gas-liquid interactions: Molecular beam scattering of CD4 and ND3 from an aqueous flat liquid jet. J. Chem. Phys. 2026, 164, 014707.

Host: Scott Anderson

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: sites.google.com…

Level up your grant writing!

Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 1 – 3pm

Level up your grant writing! Discover proven strategies and practical tips to make your grant proposals stronger and more competitive. You’ll leave with actionable insights you can apply right away to your proposals. Join Jenna Taylor on the afternoon of November 17 for an in-person proposal writing workshop from 1-3 p.m., presented by the university’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR). The workshop is designed to support participants at all levels of experience, and the content is applicable across a wide range of funders and proposal types. Open to all UU faculty, research professionals, and staff involved in developing or supporting funding proposals.
RSVP by emailing jenna.taylor@utah.edu.

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Steph Monty - NMSU - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

What the Great Salt Lake Means to Us | Fall 2026 Brave Conversations

Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm

A conversation about how the Lake affects Utah, and how it affects our future together. You don’t need to be a Great Salt Lake expert—come share a meal with people of all viewpoints and discuss the past, present, and future of the Lake.

Campus Connect RSVP Link &:
https://cglink.me/2zF/r384722

Co-Sponsor: COMM 5150

Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: 2660
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: cglink.me…

The Power of Internships | Career Workshop Series

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 3 – 4:20pm

The Power of Internships
Wednesday, November 18 | 3:00 - 4:20 PM |GC 2575/Virtual

Discover the many ways an internship can become part of your college experience and help prepare you for what comes next. This workshop will explore different types of internships and experiential opportunities, where to find them, how to successfully secure one, and why they matter for your future career. You’ll also learn about funding opportunities and university resources that can help make internships more accessible, along with practical tips for finding an experience that aligns with your interests and goals.

Handshake signup.

Zoom link.

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 5:15 – 6:15pm

Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, November 19, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Linguistics Colloquium - Kate Mooney (U Maryland)

Thursday, November 19, 2026, 3:30 – 5pm

Event Categories: Colloquia
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: LNCO 1100
Contact Phone: (801) 581-8047
Contact Email: Linguistics@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - Clausell Mathis - Michigan State University - LSSB W0120

Thursday, November 19, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Parry Lecture | David Cahen, Weizmann Institute

Friday, November 20, 2026, 10:45am – 12pm

Parry Lectureship Seminar at the University of Utah
with David Cahen, Weizmann Institute

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: Durable Materials: a Chemical Challenge for Sustainable Energy & Electronics

Abstract:
Achieving true sustainability by mid-century requires more than transitioning to renewable and low-carbon forms of energy; the materials that enable these technologies must themselves be sustainable. This presents a fundamental scientific challenge. Many of the materials used today for solar-energy conversion, batteries, hydrogen production, and the conversion of CO₂ into fuels and chemicals rely on resources, processing methods, or device architectures that are not inherently compatible with long-term sustainability. Moreover, sustainability demands long operational lifetimes, a requirement that challenges conventional approaches to manufacturing and consumption and renews the importance of designing materials and devices that can be repaired, regenerated, or healed.

Meeting this challenge requires moving concepts that can appear to belong to science fiction, i.e., materials capable of repairing or healing themselves into scientific and technological reality. Biology provides the most sophisticated examples of autonomous repair, but related phenomena can also be found across chemistry and materials science. Beginning with biological systems and established examples in chemistry, this lecture will trace the progression toward modern inorganic materials capable of repair, self-repair, and self-healing. Examples range from bio-solar systems and concrete to silicon photovoltaics, organic and ionic materials such as AgI, and inorganic light-to-electricity conversion materials including CuInSe₂ and lead-halide perovskites.

These examples raise fundamental questions: What enables a solid to recover from damage? Which structural, chemical, electronic, and ionic properties determine whether degradation is reversible? And can these principles be identified well enough to guide the discovery of new self-repairing energy materials? To address these questions, we examine what can be learned systematically from known compounds by identifying experimentally measurable descriptors associated with repair and healing and using these descriptors for data-driven materials exploration. Initial results illustrate how combining physical insight, experiment, and data mining may reveal design principles for a new generation of resilient materials.

Ultimately, the goal is to move beyond simply making energy technologies more efficient and toward materials that are long-lived, repairable, and intrinsically more sustainable, thus materials designed not merely to resist failure, but, where possible, to recover from it.

This work was supported in part by the Weizmann Institute of Science Institute for Environmental Sustainability.
The lecture will distinguish between repair, self-repair/self-healing, and autonomous self-healing and discuss their implications for materials design.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: www.weizmann.ac.il…

Economics CAKE Talk Seminar: Rene Crespin

Friday, November 20, 2026, 12 – 1:15pm

Assistant Professor of Economics from Michigan State, Rene Crespin, will visit the University and deliver his lecture during this Economics CAKE Talk Seminar. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Some of Professor Crespin's research interests include economics of education and labor economics.

Event Categories: Conferences, Lectures, Seminars
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Gardner Commons 4680
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Science Policy, Management, Entrepreneurship | Career Workshop

Friday, November 20, 2026, 12 – 1pm

More info coming soon!

Room Name/Number: TBA
Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian
Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: science.utah.edu

SRI-CAP-Science Policy, Management, & Entrepreneurship Workshop

Friday, November 20, 2026, 12 – 1pm

In this workshop we will discuss important factors in the scientific enterprise that form the basis of how science gets done and who makes the decisions.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Department Meeting

Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:30 – 2pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

British Studies: "The Oldest Poem in Scots? A British Studies Masterclass"

Friday, November 20, 2026, 2 – 4pm

Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
Room Name/Number: 2110
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Natural Products Interest Group Seminar- Bandarian Lab

Friday, November 20, 2026, 4 – 5pm

The University of Utah is home to a vibrant and interdisciplinary community of researchers interested in all aspects of natural products including discovery, synthesis, biosynthesis, and function. The Natural Products Interest Group is a forum where community members can share their research to foster discussion and potential collaborations across campus.

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: 4630
Campus Wide Event: Yes

National Theatre Live, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

Saturday, November 21, 2026, 12 – 3pm

Olivier and Tony Award winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema audiences the “best seat in the house.”

The Tanner Humanities Center began screening National Theatre Live in 2010, now hosted at Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Centre Cinemas.

Season tickets are available from the Tanner Humanities Center.

Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway
Ticket URL: tanner.utah.edu…
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: tanner.utah.edu…

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Holiday: Thanksgiving Break

Thursday, November 26 – Friday, November 27, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 - Open enrollment

Monday, November 30, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Grant Opportunity: FLAG Initiative Announces $5,000 Research Grants

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

The University of Utah’s Federalism, Law, and American Governance Initiative (FLAG) is accepting applications for its inaugural Research Grant Program, which will support research by scholars across the university on federalism and related questions of American governance.

Faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows are eligable to apply, and approximately 15 grants of up to $5,000 each are expected to be awarded. Applications are due Dec. 1, 2026.
Learn more on the FLAG grants.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: attheu.utah.edu…

Postdoctoral Fellowship (Application Portal Open)

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Tuesday, December 1, 2026 – Monday, February 15, 2027

This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors to attract spectacular recent PhDs in sciences that address studies with relevance to the Wilkes Center climate research and climate policy goals.

Postdoctoral scholars will perform cutting-edge and impactful research in climate science and/or policy , with particular priority areas on data informed climate forecasting, wildfire and climate extremes such as heat waves, droughts, and floods, climate impacts on local communities, economies, ecosystems, and human health, and the development of tools to mitigate, adapt, and manage climate impacts. These can include analysis of past, current, or possible future climate variability and change as well as the study of the underlying social, physical, chemical, and biological processes.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.

Program/Project Management Networking Panel

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 3 – 4:20pm

More info coming soon!

Event Categories: Community Engagement
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: 2527
Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian
Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Crimson Conversation

Thursday, December 3, 2026, 10am – 2pm

Crimson Conversations (CC) is an educational program created to enhance the cultural education and awareness of University of Utah campus community. CC will provide opportunities for students from all backgrounds to learn with and from one another and promote community success.

For room location and any questions, please reach out to the center at culture@utah.edu.

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: culture.utah.edu…

SRI-CAP Science Career Speaker Seminar

Thursday, December 3, 2026, 12 – 1pm

Speaker TBD. Join us for a speaker seminar featuring industry careers in science.

Campus Locations: Crocker Science Center (CSC)
Room Name/Number: 206
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, December 3, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jim Ehleringer, Univeristy of Utah

Thursday, December 3, 2026, 4 – 5pm

"Death in the desert? Encelia meets the megadrought"

Host: Sandy Parkinson

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - Ashna Gulati - University of Utah - LSSB W0120

Thursday, December 3, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Fall 2026 Full Term - Last day to reverse CR/NC option

Friday, December 4, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Second Half - Last day to reverse CR/NC option

Friday, December 4, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Economics CAKE Talk Seminar: Debora Machado Nunes

Friday, December 4, 2026, 12 – 1:15pm

Assistant Professor of Economics from Monmouth University, Debora Machado Nunes, will visit the University and deliver her lecture during this Economics CAKE Talk Seminar. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Some of Professor Nunes' research interests include international economics and development, history of economic thought, gender in the economy, and macro political economy.

Event Categories: Conferences, Lectures, Seminars
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC)
Room Name/Number: Gardner Commons 4680
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting

Monday, December 7, 2026, 5:15 – 6:15pm

Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Fall 2026 Full Term - Classes end

Thursday, December 10, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Second Half - Classes end

Thursday, December 10, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, December 10, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley

Thursday, December 10, 2026, 4 – 5pm

TBA
Host: Nicole Amedee

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - Deepak Eappachen - University of Utah - LSSB W0120

Thursday, December 10, 2026, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Fall 2026 Full Term - Reading day

Friday, December 11, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Natural Products Interest Group Seminar- Karsten Eastman, PhD (Sethera Therapeutics)

Friday, December 11, 2026, 4 – 5pm

The University of Utah is home to a vibrant and interdisciplinary community of researchers interested in all aspects of natural products including discovery, synthesis, biosynthesis, and function. The Natural Products Interest Group is a forum where community members can share their research to foster discussion and potential collaborations across campus.

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: 4630
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Full Term - Final exam period

Monday, December 14 – Friday, December 18, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: registrar.utah.edu…

Fall 2026 Second Half - Second-half grades due

Tuesday, December 15, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: registrar.utah.edu…

Graduate Research Fellowship Application Due Today

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

The Graduate Research Fellowship provides PhD and MFA students the opportunity to focus on their research/creative scholarly projects, conducting their research, and writing their dissertations. Applicants must be on track to pass their qualifying exams prior to the start of the fellowship year (by Fall 2027). Applications require a department endorsement.

Graduate Research Fellowship – December 16, 2026

All applications are on the University of Utah’s scholarship application platform, Scholarship Universe

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Marriner S. Eccles Graduate Fellowship in Political Economy Application Due Today

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

The Marriner S. Eccles Graduate Fellowship in Political Economy is a dissertation completion opportunity for PhD students whose research intersects with politics/economics, and is open to students from any discipline, provided the political economy component is a part of their research. Common areas of research include business administration, economics, sociology, history, communication, political science, social work, health & social policy, and education policy. Students must be on track to defend by the end of the 2027-2028 academic year.

Marriner S. Eccles Graduate Fellowship – December 16, 2026

All applications are on the University of Utah’s scholarship application platform, Scholarship Universe.

Campus Wide Event: Yes

University Teaching Assistantship Application Due Today

Wednesday, December 16, 2026

The University Teaching Assistantship provides seasoned teaching assistants with the opportunity to develop a new undergraduate or graduate course for their department. In the application, students will propose a new and innovative course that, if approved, will be taught during the 2027-2028 academic year. Applications will require a department endorsement.

University Teaching Assistantship – December 16, 2026

All applications are on the University of Utah’s scholarship application platform, Scholarship Universe.

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, December 16, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Holiday Recess (Dec 19 - Jan 10)

Saturday, December 19, 2026 – Sunday, January 10, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Fall 2026 Full Term - Semester-length grades due

Wednesday, December 23, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: registrar.utah.edu…

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, December 23, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Holiday: Christmas Day

Friday, December 25, 2026

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, December 30, 2026, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

La China Poblana: Women’s Stories Stitched, Worn & Remembered in the Borderlands

Thursday, December 31, 2026

The American West Center is proud to co-sponsor this curated exhibit by Professor Romeo Garcia. Explore the rich and layered history of La China Poblana through dress, performance, memory, and community storytelling. This exhibition brings together historic China Poblana ensembles, recorded cultural performances, and stories rooted in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands—examining how clothing can become an archive of identity, tradition, migration, and belonging. Throughout the exhibition, visitors will also be invited to take part in workshops and community conversations that help build a growing, living archive of dresses, stories, and memories.

Free and open to the public. Exhibit open from September 1 - December 31, 2026.

Presented by the Center for Community & Cultural Engagement, Latine Heritage Month, Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies. Special thanks to Sierra Mendez.

Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 - House Bill 60 registration

Tuesday, January 5, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, January 6, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Melinda Larsen, Department of Biological Science and The RNA Institute University at Albany, SUNY

Thursday, January 7, 2027, 4 – 5pm

"Stromal Signaling at the Crossroads of Salivary Gland Fibrosis and Repair "

Host: Martin Horvath

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Classes Begin

Monday, January 11, 2027, 12am – 12pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Classes begin

Monday, January 11, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Term Length - Classes begin

Monday, January 11, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, January 12, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, January 14, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Anthropology Colloquium

Thursday, January 14, 2027, 2:15 – 4:15pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Benjamin Blonder, UC Berkeley

Thursday, January 14, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Luiza Aparecido

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, January 14, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Last day to add, drop, audit

Friday, January 15, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Last day to wait list

Friday, January 15, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Term Length - Last day to add without a permission code

Friday, January 15, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Term Length - Last day to wait list

Friday, January 15, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Department Meeting

Friday, January 15, 2027, 12:30 – 2pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

National Theatre Live, “The Misanthrope”

Saturday, January 16, 2027, 12 – 3pm

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

Holiday: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, January 18, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, January 19, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, January 20, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

2nd Year Seminars - Organic | Kenny Drbohlav, Sam Powell & Liam Shores

Thursday, January 21, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, January 21, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Abstract:

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, January 21, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Zoom information, if attending remotely: utah.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 828 5937 0639 | Passcode: 532587

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Spring 2027 - Deadline to apply for graduation

Friday, January 22, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 - Tuition payment due

Friday, January 22, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Term Length - Last day to add, drop, audit

Friday, January 22, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

2nd Year Seminars - Physical | AJ Kinsella-Johnson & Mia Muse

Monday, January 25, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, January 26, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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2nd Year Seminars - Biological | David Estes, Lillie Fedewa, Ben Jakubcz, Luis Lopez, Tanvir Uddin & Sophia Vo

Wednesday, January 27, 2027

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

A.I. in the Humanities

Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 4 – 6pm

Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI)
Room Name/Number: Ballroom A
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Name: John Boyack
Contact Phone: 801-587-7351
Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Tanner: Christine Rosen, author of "The Extinction of Experience"

Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 7 – 8pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Sterling McMurrin Lecture with Christine Rosen

Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 7 – 8pm

Cost: Free
Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, January 28, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Sasha Reed, USGS,

Thursday, January 28, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Dave Bowling

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, January 28, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Climate Solutions Hackathon

wilkescenter.utah.edu…
Friday, January 29 – Saturday, January 30, 2027

The Wilkes Center Climate Solutions Hackathon is an intensive, 24-hour team-based competition where university students rapidly develop innovative, scalable solutions to pressing climate challenges. No coding knowledge required, just creativity, teamwork, and passion to solve real-world problems. Open to undergraduate and graduate students of any major.

More info: wilkescenter.utah.edu…

Applications are now being accepted for the College of Humanities’ International and National Research Travel Program

Monday, February 1, 2027

Applications are now being accepted for the College of Humanities’ International and National Research Travel Program, which offers funding for College of Humanities tenure-line faculty and provides up to $2,000 to conduct research that requires national or international travel. All research travel is eligible that will occur within the next 12 months. The awards committee privileges all forms of primary source research that is foundational to a scholar’s research program. Applicants should submit a one-page narrative describing the research, how that research is significant to their overarching research program, and why travel to national or international locations is necessary for that work. They should include a specific budget for how the requested funds will be used (e.g., flights, housing, research materials). Applicants should upload their materials by February 1, 2027 by 5:00 pm MT to InfoReady: College of Humanities’ International and National Research Travel Program.

Campus Wide Event: No

Spring 2027 - Census deadline

Monday, February 1, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, February 2, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, February 3, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, February 4, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Abstract:

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Joseph Bondy- Denomy, UC San Francisco

Thursday, February 4, 2027, 4 – 5pm

"Bacteriophage-executed genome compartmentalization inside a bacterial host."

Host: Talia Karasov

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, February 4, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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2nd Year Seminars - Physical | Jaxon George & Naomi Rehberg

Monday, February 8, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, February 9, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Danzhou Yang, Purdue University

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

Biological Chemistry Seminar at the University of Utah
with Danzhou Yang, Purdue University

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Host: Cynthia Burrows

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Hinkley Lecture, Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 12 – 1pm

Alternate Location: TIME & LOCATION TBD
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Abstract:

Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 2 – 4pm

Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI)
Room Name/Number: Ballroom A
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Name: John Boyack
Contact Phone: 801-587-7351
Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Guest Writer Series: Levis and Scowcroft reading

Thursday, February 11, 2027, 7 – 8:30pm

Alternate Location: LOCATION TBD
Campus Wide Event: Yes

National Theatre Live, “Golden Boy”

Saturday, February 13, 2027, 12 – 3pm

Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.

1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to become and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.

Brought to life with a live string quartet and filmed live from the AlmeidaTheatre. Olivier Award–winner Sam Yates (Vanya) directs this propulsive drama exploring ambition, identity, and the high price of success.

Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema audiences the “best seat in the house.”
The Tanner Humanities Center began screening National Theatre Live in 2010, now hosted at Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Centre Cinemas.

Tickets are available from the Tanner Humanities Center.

Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway
Ticket URL: tanner.utah.edu…
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: tanner.utah.edu…

Holiday: Presidents Day

Monday, February 15, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, February 16, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Tanner: Paul Christensen, scholar of ancient Olympics

Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

External Review Site Visits

Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19, 2027

Campus Wide Event: Yes

Krisitin Koutmou, University of Michigan

Thursday, February 18, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

Biological Chemistry Seminar at the University of Utah
with Kristin Koutmou, University of Michigan

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Host: Aaron Fleming

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: www.koutmoulab.com

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, February 18, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Leonnora Bittleston, Boise State University

Thursday, February 18, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Peter Pellitier

Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, February 18, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Last day to withdraw from classes and elect CR/NC

Friday, February 19, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, February 23, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, February 24, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

2nd Year Seminars - Organic | Amy Kraft, Jacob Mead & Misato Okamoto

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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Abstract:

Guest Writer Series: Camille Dungy reading

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Campus Wide Event: Yes

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Matthew Rasband, Baylor University

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Nick Vierra

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, February 25, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Tanner: Hallyu Symposium: The Korean Wave in pop, drama, beauty, and food

Friday, February 26 – Saturday, February 27, 2027

Alternate Location: TIME & LOCATION TBD
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Last day to reverse CR/NC option

Friday, February 26, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Guest Writer Series: Camille Dungy Colloquium

Friday, February 26, 2027, 12 – 1pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Chia-en Chiang, University of California-Riverside

Monday, March 1, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Chemistry Seminar at the University of Utah
with Chia-en Chiang, University of California-Riverside

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Host: Jessica Swanson + Ming Lee Tang

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Classes end

Tuesday, March 2, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, March 2, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Spring 2027 Second Half Classes - Classes begin

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, March 3, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Organic Syntheses Lectureship | Robert R. Knowles, Princeton

Thursday, March 4, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, March 4, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jared E. Toettcher, Princeton University

Thursday, March 4, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Matt Rich

Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, March 4, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Spring 2027: Spring break

Saturday, March 6 – Sunday, March 14, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 First Half Classes - Grades due first half classes

Monday, March 8, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Second Half Classes - Last day to add, drop, audit

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Spring 2027 Second Half Classes - Last day to wait list

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

Event Categories: Academic & Holiday
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, March 10, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Vicki Wysocki, Georgia Tech

Monday, March 15, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Chemistry Seminar at the University of Utah
with Vicki Wysocki, Georgia Tech

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Host: Peter Armentrout + Gabe Nagy

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Thatcher Chemistry Building (TBBC)
Room Name/Number: TBBC 4630 (Thatcher 4th floor)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Tanner: Melissa Parks and Mariko O. Thomas, co-authors of "Storying Plant Communication"

Tuesday, March 16, 2027, 12 – 1pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
Room Name/Number: Jewel Box
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, March 16, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, March 17, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Poulter Lecture | Marty Bollinger, Penn State

Thursday, March 18, 2027, 10:45am – 12pm

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, March 18, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Joel Butterwick, Yale University

Thursday, March 18, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Sophie Caron

Event Categories: Seminars
Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, March 18, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, March 23, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No

Tanner: Vauhini Vara, author of "Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age"

Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 7 – 8pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Tanner Talk with Vauhini Vara

Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 7 – 8pm

Cost: Free
Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy Condensed Matter - - - - LSSB W4202

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30pm

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School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Brandon Weissbourd, MIT

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Host: Jillian Ulibarri

Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB)
Room Name/Number: 210
Contact Name: April Mills
Contact Phone: 8015875882
Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Physics & Astronomy High Energy/Astrophysics (HEAP) - - - - LSSB W0120

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Abstract:

Guest Writer Series: Gregory Pardlo reading

Thursday, March 25, 2027, 7 – 8:30pm

Alternate Location: LOCATION TBD
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Guest Writer Series: Gregory Pardlo Colloquium

Friday, March 26, 2027, 12 – 1pm

Alternate Location: LOCATION TBD
Campus Wide Event: Yes

Ted Eyring Lecture | Joaquín Rodríguez-López, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Monday, March 29, 2027, 4 – 5pm

Ted Eyring Lectureship Seminar at the University of Utah
with Joaquín Rodríguez-López, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

TBBC 4630
4th floor - Thatcher
In-person seminar

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

Host: Henry White

Campus Wide Event: Yes
More info: rodriguezlopez.chemistry.illinois.edu

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - - Imre Bartos - University of Florida - LSSB W0120

Tuesday, March 30, 2027, 4:10 – 5:10pm

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Imre Bartos
University of Florida
Hosted by Qi Feng

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Abstract:

Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Seminar -

Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 4:10 – 5pm

Event Categories: Lectures
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB)
Room Name/Number: 1230
Cost: free
Contact Name: Kay Argyle
Contact Phone: (801) 581-6386
Contact Email: kay.argyle@utah.edu
Campus Wide Event: No