2025 CSBS Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Augustino Ting Mayai
International Affairs & Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
College of Social and Behavioral Science Presents
2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Augustino Ting Mayai, Resilience, Education, and Service: Insights from My Personal Journey
October 29, 2025 | 1:30pm
Gardner Commons 2950
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Dr. Augustino Ting Mayai currently serves as Statistician General of the National Bureau of Statistics, Government of South Sudan. He has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Change-Maker Distinguished Alumni Award.
"Having experienced conflict and displacement as a child soldier and refugee, I faced significant hardship and adversity from an early age. When I was resettled in the US as a young adult, I prioritized formal education, earning a BS Sociology from the University of Utah (2008) and a PhD in Demography from the University of Wisconsin (2015).
As an educator, researcher, and now government official for South Sudan, I have dedicated my professional career to supporting vulnerable communities, - by fostering hope for the people of South Sudan through formal…
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM.
Part 2 on the Lessons Learned from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
International Affairs & Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
Part 2 on the Lessons Learned from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, ACNSL Global Health Committee
Zoom meeting on 30 October @1900 EDT
Guest Speakers:
Kenneth H. Merten, former Ambassador to Haiti
& P.K. “Ken” Keen, LTG, US Army, Ret.
Objective:
Create a Crisis Response Case Study focused on Health Effects of Disasters & Disaster
Response Considerations. This is part of ACNSL’s efforts to prepare the next generation of National
Security Leaders and will be shared with our partnering universities.
Background:
ACNSL fellow Robin Akin, BG, US Army, Ret. presented the Global Health Committee with a “boots-onthe-
ground perspective of early US military response to this catastrophe.
Goal of this Session: To participate in a strategic overview of the US response from the perspective of the
State Department and the Department of Defense.
Zoom Link for the Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/95536204605?pwd=UQnyqpaLvAFXZjrVmUpafjX9XEHPfZ.1.
Campus Locations: Zoom. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit zoom.us. Liberal Arts and Sciences Synergizing Opportunities Seminar Series
International Affairs & Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
The formation of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides an opportunity to catalyze connections among faculty who previously might have been siloed in their respective colleges. LASSO offers a way to address this enduring challenge. LASSO will bring together center directors in CSBS, Humanities, and Science in a series of conversations that will stimulate dialogue, foster new networks of collaboration, and lay the groundwork for interdisciplinary projects.
Centers are hubs of intellectual collaboration and outreach. The new LAS structure offers an opportunity for Center Directors to begin to learn about our respective programs, research, and outreach as a first step in developing new collaborative projects, sharing research, and making our scholarly work more fully accessible to the LAS community. We will begin with brown bag discussions about the centers in the three colleges, then in the spring move to conversations that will focus on topical issues that have cross-cutting LAS stakeholders.
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Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
National Family Caregivers Month - "Caregiving" Film Screening
International Affairs & Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
National Family Caregivers Month
November 3, 2025 | 6:00PM-8:00PM
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
410 Campus Center Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, FREE EVENT & PARKING
Did you know there are over 450,000 adults in Utah providing unpaid caregiving services to their family and friends? Celebrated every November, National Family Caregivers Month, is a time to recognize and honor our family caregivers. Come see and discuss the new PBS documentary by Executive Producer Bradley Cooper called “Caregiving”
RSVP FOR THE EVENT.
Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, November 3, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Day After Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
Liberal Arts and Sciences Synergizing Opportunities Seminar Series
International Affairs & Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
The formation of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides an opportunity to catalyze connections among faculty who previously might have been siloed in their respective colleges. LASSO offers a way to address this enduring challenge. LASSO will bring together center directors in CSBS, Humanities, and Science in a series of conversations that will stimulate dialogue, foster new networks of collaboration, and lay the groundwork for interdisciplinary projects.
Centers are hubs of intellectual collaboration and outreach. The new LAS structure offers an opportunity for Center Directors to begin to learn about our respective programs, research, and outreach as a first step in developing new collaborative projects, sharing research, and making our scholarly work more fully accessible to the LAS community. We will begin with brown bag discussions about the centers in the three colleges, then in the spring move to conversations that will focus on topical issues that have cross-cutting LAS stakeholders.
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Campus Locations: Sutton Building - Frederick Albert (FASB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
Christmas Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 26, 2025.
New Year's Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 19, 2026.