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Presidents' Day

University Observed Holidays Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, February 17, 2025.

Career Conversations with Marty Banks

Come join us for our third career talk with Marty Banks, an environmental lawyer. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and learn more about different professions in sustainability! Event Categories: Sustainability. Alternate Location: Zoom. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, February 20, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit utah.zoom.us.

Love Ur Community Saturday Service Project

Edible Campus Gardens Join students, staff, faculty, and community members in celebration of community care by volunteering with local organizations making positive change. Event Categories: Sustainability. Alternate Location: Sustainability Office. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Saturday, February 22, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM. For more info visit campusconnect.utah.edu.

Career Conversations with Teresa Wilhelmsen

Come join us for our fourth career talk with Teresa Wilhelmsen, a water engineer. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and learn more about different professions in sustainability! Event Categories: Sustainability. Alternate Location: Zoom. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit utah.zoom.us.

Tanner Talk with Ed Yong - "Becoming a Birder: Immersion in the True Reality"

Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. He has also been named a Guggenheim Fellow for science writing. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more. Tickets are required. Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1141138178009?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.

Service Corner Nites

Edible Campus Gardens Service Corner Nites are weekly events at Kahlert Village where volunteers gather to complete a service project that meets a specific community need. At this event we will be painting signs with the Edible Campus Gardens! Event Categories: Sustainability. Campus Locations: Kahlert Village. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, March 3, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. For more info visit campusconnect.utah.edu.

Career Conversations with Eric Albers

Come join us for our fifth career talk with Eric Albers, a sustainability policy analyst. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and learn more about different professions in sustainability! Event Categories: Sustainability. Alternate Location: Zoom. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit utah.zoom.us.

Career Conversations with April Furin

Come join us for our last career talk with April Furin, a sustainability manager. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and learn more about different professions in sustainability! Event Categories: Sustainability. Alternate Location: Zoom. Contact Email: sustainability@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, March 6, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit utah.zoom.us.

Walace Stegner Center 30th Annual Symposium Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions

The Stegner Center’s 30th annual symposium, Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions, will focus on one of Utah’s greatest challenges: air pollution. The symposium will consider air pollution’s environmental and human health tolls—including the unequal burdens air pollution places on disadvantaged communities. Despite gains in many places, air pollution remains a vexing problem across the nation. In Utah, winters bring inversions and particulate matter pollution, and summers deliver increased ground-level ozone pollution. The Wasatch Front regularly exceeds national ambient air quality standards, exacerbated by the region’s unique geography and meteorology. Finding solutions to these thorny problems becomes only more vital with each passing year. Emerging threats like dust from the shrinking Great Salt Lake and intensifying wildfire smoke further compound longstanding air pollution problems. Experts will share potential solutions, including those that have been successful in other parts of t… Event Categories: Sustainability. Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW). Alternate Location: Zoom. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, March 20, 2025 – Friday, March 21, 2025. For more info visit www.law.utah.edu.