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Fall 2025 Full Term - Reading day

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, December 5, 2025.

PhD Proposal Defense - Chris Hirschi

A PhD DISSERTATION PROPOSAL Defense Entitled:  Design and Control of Robot Systems for Workplace Safety: An Exoskeleton Hip and Robotic Sanding  By: Chris Hirschi  Date: 5 December 2025  Time: 10:30am  Location: MEK 3350   Committee Members:  Mark Minor (Chair)   Alan Kuntz  Edoardo Battaglia  Kam Leang Sam Chesebrough    Defense Summary/ Abstract:  One focus of the field of robotics is to increase safety in the workplace, often to support loads for manual laborers. Some examples of injuries in occupations that require physical labor are momentary overloading, such as a back injury during a lift, and continued exposure to repetitious exertions or vibrations of a tool. This dissertation focuses on development of robotic systems that reduce health risks of manual workers exposed to such risks.   One purpose of many full-body industrial exoskeletons is to remove the strain of heavy lifts from workers’ bodies. Given the complexity of such robotic machines, targeted upgrades are attractive to improve performance… Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, December 5, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.

Fall 2025 Full Term - Final exam period (Dec 8 - Dec 12)

Academic Deadlines For more info: https://registrar.utah.edu/academic-calendars/index.php#exams. Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, December 8, 2025 – Friday, December 12, 2025.

PhD Dissertation Defense - Joseph McKay

A Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation Defense Entitled: Thermal emission and waveguiding via collective localized surface phonons in chains of polaritonic resonators By: Joseph McKay Date: 12/09/25 Time: 12:00 pm Location: MEK 3350 Committee Members: Prof. Mathieu Francoeur (Advisor) Prof. Bart Raeymaekers Prof. Tianli Feng Prof. Sameer Rao Prof. Keunhan (Kay) Park   Project Summary Spectral and directional thermal emission can be engineered by capitalizing on polaritonic dielectric particles of silicon carbide (SiC) and silicon dioxide (SiO2). These particles support localized surface phonons in the infrared, which can couple to form traveling collective localized surface phonons (cLSPhs), enabling spectrally and directionally selective thermal emission. Polaritonic dielectric particles act as resonators that serve as building blocks for thermally emitting dielectric metasurfaces and thermal infrared radiation waveguides. Ultrasound-directed self-assembly is a promising route for fabricating dielectric metas… Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Goldwater Scholarship Deadline

$7500 in undergraduate funding for outstanding STEM students interested in pursuing a research Ph.D and career in a STEM field Eligibility: 1) Be a sophomore or Junior 2) Be involved in STEM research 3) Demonstrate academic excellence\\ 4) Intend to pursue a research Ph.D in STEM 5) Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, December 12, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Holiday: Holiday Recess (Dec 13 - Jan 4)

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Saturday, December 13, 2025 – Sunday, January 4, 2026.

Executive Committee Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting For Dept. Chairs Only. Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB). Room Name/Number: 1650. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, December 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Fall 2025 - Grades due

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, December 22, 2025.

Spring 2026 - House Bill 60 registration

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, December 29, 2025.

Holiday: New Year’s Day

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, January 1, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Classes begin

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 5, 2026.

Spring 2026 Full Term - Classes begin

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 5, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 9, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Last day to wait list

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 9, 2026.

Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to add without a permission code

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 9, 2026.

Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to wait list

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 9, 2026.

Spring 2026 - Deadline to apply for graduation

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 16, 2026.

Spring 2026 - Tuition payment due

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 16, 2026.

Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 16, 2026.

Executive Committee Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting For Dept. Chairs Only. Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB). Room Name/Number: 1650. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 19, 2026.

Spring 2026 - Census Deadline

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 26, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Last day to withdraw from classes

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 30, 2026.

Summer 2026 - Class schedule available

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, February 2, 2026.

Summer 2026 - Registration dates available

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, February 9, 2026.

Holiday: Presidents Day

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, February 16, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Last day to reverse CR/NC option

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, February 20, 2026.

Executive Committee Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting For Dept. Chairs Only. Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB). Room Name/Number: 1650. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, February 20, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Spring 2026 First half - Classes end

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, February 24, 2026.

Spring 2026 Second half - Classes begin

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, February 25, 2026.

Spring 2026 First half - Grades due

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Sunday, March 1, 2026.

Spring 2026 Second half - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

Spring 2026 Second half - Last day to wait list

Academic Deadlines Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, March 3, 2026.