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LAEP Speaker Series: Todd Johnson

Landscape Architecture’s Dimensions Speaker Bio: Todd Johnson was born in Willmar, Minnesota in 1952 into a family with two older brothers. His oldest brother Craig taught landscape architecture at USU for 42 years and suggested that Todd consider becoming a landscape architect. Todd received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning degree from USU in 1976. After working in Calgary Alberta for four years, he moved to Boston and received a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University. In 1984 Todd co-founded the firm Civitas with USU alum and classmates Mark Johnson and Ann Mullins. After ten years at Civitas Todd joined Design Workshop/Denver, becoming a partner, and practicing there until 2013. Teaching at Utah State has been Todd’s professional passion for the past ten years. Todd has two grown children Natalie and Sam, and a grandson named Raphael. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. FAV 150 Logan Campus. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

Aviation Week Day 1 - Helicopter Day

USU Aviation Technology will be starting off  Aviation Week with a helicopter landing on the northwest corner of the quad at 10:20am. Come and watch the landing, stay for questions, and then watch it take off at 1:30. Free to the public! Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Monday, April 1, 2024, 10:20 AM – 1:30 PM. USU Logan Campus Quad.

Aviation Week Annual Banquet and Silent Auction Fundraiser

Come celebrate the Flying Aggies at the annual Aviation Program Banquet at the Logan-Cache Airport. Join us for a big Flying Aggie Reunion Celebration where we will recognize our outstanding students and raise scholarship funds with any items you can donate for our silent auction. Three years ago we raised over $2,500 for our students with donated items such as airplane models, discovery flights, historical and aviation-themed items. Dinner is $15 for our students and faculty, $10 for youth under 16, and $25 for all others. All paid guests will receive the 2024 annual program coin! Dress is business casual (open-collar, nice pants, coat and tie are optional). We will have a guest speaker, celebrate our 85th Anniversary of Aviation degree at USU with a display, and have opportunities to fellowship with current students and alumni. We will be honoring our top students and present some financial student achievement awards. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/utah-state-aviation-program-annual-banquet-silent-auction-2024-tickets-817176505927?aff=oddtdtcreator. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Monday, April 1, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM. Logan/Cache Airport USU Large Hangar. For more info visit www.eventbrite.com.

Aviation Week Day 2: Career Day

USU Aviation Technology Career Day and Conference is being held to help current aviation, students or students interested in aviation, network with airline representatives and other industry professionals and glean information on how to enter the exciting world of aviation. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. USU Logan Campus - Sunburst and International Lounge at Taggart Student Center.

Aviation Week Day 3: Drone Day

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week continues with UAS (Drone) demonstrations on the east side of the Quad. Come see large drones, small drones, fast drones, and the skills USU UAS Students possess flying them. In case of inclement weather, they will move to the Sunburst Lounge in the Taggart Student Center. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM. USU Logan Campus - East side of the Quad (Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge as backup in case of inclement weather).

USU Ag Tech Club Meeting

Come join us to gain hands-on experience working with a variety of agricultural equipment! We also have several networking and social events throughout the semester. We meet every Wednesday from 5-7 pm in the ASTE shop. We look forward to seeing you! Audience: Students. Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Agricultural Systems Laboratory- ASTE 122, 1400 N 800 E, Logan, UT, 84321. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

Aviation Week Day 4: Maintenance and Sims

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week will be highlighting the program that started it all at USU 85 years ago: AVIATION MAINTENANCE! Tours of our aviation maintenance facility in the USU TECH Building including the only jet engine test cell based at a university in Utah and in the region.  In the Industrial Science Building we will have tours of our aircraft simulators students use to advance their training, and we'll have a drone simulator you can try as well. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Thursday, April 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM. USU Logan Campus - TECH Building Aviation Maintenance Lab and IS (Industrial Science) Building.

Aviation Week Day 5: Airport Open House

USU Aviation Technology Aviation Week will conclude at the Logan/Cache Airport with our Open House. You will tour USU Flight training facilities, hangars, and the fixed-wing and rotary aircraft we use for training. Students and staff will be available for any questions you may have. This event is open to the public. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Friday, April 5, 2024, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Logan/Cache Airport - USU Dispatch Building.

LAEP Speaker Series: Sarah Creachbaum

Distinguished Alumnus About the Lecture: My presentation will highlight three projects spanning my 30-year career in the National Park Service. Each project involves aspects of indigenous knowledge, science, and rational planning (endangered species management in Hawaii, river restoration at Olympic National Park, and subsistence management national parks in the Arctic region). I'll highlight the resulting exigent questions of policy and federal land management that are driven by our rapidly changing climate. I'll close with personal observations and lessons learned. Speaker Bio: M. Sarah Creachbaum currently serves as the regional director for the National Park Service Alaska Region in Anchorage, Alaska. Creachbaum has served as a national park superintendent since 2006, first at War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam, then at Haleakala National Park, and at Olympic National Park, where she led the Elwha River Restoration Project, the largest dam removal and river restoration in the Unit… Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. Please join by Zoom using the link. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

The Art of Fashion: Designs Inspired by NEHMA

The Art of Fashion: Designs Inspired by NEHMA is an exhibition of half-scale fashion created by USU students in FCSE 3040, Advanced Clothing Studies: Patternmaking. Each fashion design is inspired by a work of art on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. The designs will be on display from April 5-18 at NEHMA. A reception will be held April 6, 2024 from 4-5:30 pm. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Friday, April 5, 2024, 4:00 PM – Thursday, April 18, 2024, 5:30 PM. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 650 N 1100 E, Logan, UT 84321.

USU Ag Tech Club Meeting

Come join us to gain hands-on experience working with a variety of agricultural equipment! We also have several networking and social events throughout the semester. We meet every Wednesday from 5-7 pm in the ASTE shop. We look forward to seeing you! Audience: Students. Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Agricultural Systems Laboratory- ASTE 122, 1400 N 800 E, Logan, UT, 84321. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

ASTE Alumni Open House & Legacy Celebration

ASTE alumni open house and legacy celebration. We will be celebrating former Ag Systems faculty Mr. Keith Hatch. Audience: Students. Saturday, April 13, 2024, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. ASTE building.

Hangar Hop Dance

The USU Flight Team will be hosting the annual Hangar Hop on April 13, 2024 from 7pm-11pm at the large USU Hangar FL9. The aircraft hangar will be transformed into a 1940's USO style hangar with live band music, a large 60' parachute overhead, and vintage aircraft for photos. Cost is $15 per person. All proceeds go to support the USU Flight Team's participation in  regional competition. Light refreshments are provided. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hangar-hop-2024-utah-state-university-flying-aggies-flight-team-tickets-793819394177?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Saturday, April 13, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM. Logan/Cache Airport USU Hangar FL9. For more info visit www.eventbrite.com.

USU Ag Tech Club Meeting

Come join us to gain hands-on experience working with a variety of agricultural equipment! We also have several networking and social events throughout the semester. We meet every Wednesday from 5-7 pm in the ASTE shop. We look forward to seeing you! Audience: Students. Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Agricultural Systems Laboratory- ASTE 122, 1400 N 800 E, Logan, UT, 84321. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

Utahns’ Perceptions of the Challenges Facing Women and Girls

During the fall of 2023, Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) researchers conducted a statewide study to establish a baseline of public perceptions related to the awareness, understanding, and attitudes around challenges facing Utah women and girls. The 80-question survey provided baseline data needed by leaders of A Bolder Way Forward (BWF) and all Utahns interested in helping ensure that Utah girls and women better thrive. This webinar will highlight many of the results. The survey focused on the following areas: education (finance, higher education attainment, and K-12 initiatives); community engagement (political representation, boards and commissions, and civic engagement/ advocacy); safety and security (child sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty and homelessness, sexual assault, and sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination); health and wellbeing (health across the lifespan and home and family); and workplace (childcare/pre-K programs, entrepreneurship, gender pay gap, leadership developm… Venue Name: Online/Virtual. Program Area: Home, Family & Food. Registration Link: https://utahns-perceptions-of-the-challenges-facing-women-and-girls.eventbrite.com. Thursday, April 18, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Online/Virtual. For more info visit utahns-perceptions-of-the-challenges-facing-women-and-girls.eventbrite.com.

LAEP Speaker Series: Chris Creasey

Intersections of Practice: A Candid Conversation on Career Paths About the Lecture: What inspires you and drives your future career path? How does that inspired career intersect with your personal life? In this dialog, we’ll look at the differences between public and private sector practice in Landscape Architecture through a project-focused lens. Creasey will focus on providing transparent information and a wide variety of example projects to help new graduates make informed decisions about their future careers. Speaker Bio: Chris Creasey is a Landscape Architect with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District focused on large-scale interdisciplinary civil works and military projects throughout the Midwest and Mountain West. His practice includes work on tribal partnership lands bordering USACE managed waterways, interagency projects for NPS, Fish & Wildlife, and the Department of Energy, and stormwater management and master planning for seven military installations spanning five states. Chris… Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Friday, April 19, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. FAV 150 Logan Campus. For more info visit caas.usu.edu.

Utah Aeronautics Open House

Aviation and Aeronautics industry partners will be hosting the annual Aviation Open House at the Delta Airlines Hangar at the Salt Lake International Airport on Saturday April 27th. This event is for all ages but is geared specifically to allow youth and those interested to explore the many possibilities and offerings in the aviation industry. Activities, multiple aircraft static displays, information tables, and so much more make this an event not to be missed. USU Aviation will have an airplane and a helicopter there, as well as a drone cage, drone sims, and more! Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Saturday, April 27, 2024, 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM. Delta Airlines Hangar - Salt Lake International Airport. For more info visit www.facebook.com.

Utah Aeronautics Conference

Join USU Aviation at the third annual Utah Aeronautics Conference we we discuss the aviation community in Utah, the changes that affect the industry here, exciting upcoming systems to further aviation in Utah, and more! Seminars, guest speakers, exhibits, networking opportunities, and educational opportunities abound at this ever-growing conference. Registration Link: https://utahaero.com/. Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Monday, May 20, 2024 – Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Davis Conference Center, Layton, UT. For more info visit utahaero.com.

Bountiful Skypark Aviation Festival

USU Aviation Technology will make their annual appearance at the Bountiful SkyPark Aviation Festival. Join us as we mingle with the Utah Aviation Community and celebrate aviation! Static displays of several aircraft, demonstrations, and booths galore! A fun way to spend the day. This event will be held Saturday and Sunday this year. Come support USU Aviation and have some fun! Audience: Faculty. General Public. Students. Saturday, June 1, 2024 – Sunday, June 2, 2024. Bountiful Skypark Airport, UT. For more info visit www.skyparkutah.com.