You’re a student now, but what comes next? Come to Career Fest ‘21 and we’ll help you answer that question - it’s two-weeks of workshops and recruiting events designed to help you explore career options, hone your job search skills, build a network, and land that dream job or internship.
Join the Marriott Library, the League of Women Voters, and ASUU in a voter registration event! Stop by the east library plaza for help on how to register as well as receive a free cookie.
Community Read is a monthly reading & journaling group. For the September and October sessions, the series will explore two works by Harriet A. Washington, "Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent" (September 14 - October 5) and "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (October 12 - October 26).
Relax with the Women's Resource Center! We will be having inclusive yoga led by Ashley Finley.
Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean’s book review. The book to be reviewed will be, White by Law – 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race 2nd Edition by Ian Haney López. This book was selected in celebration of September being National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage month.
Join the Black Cultural Center for L.O.V.E. (Living Our Varied Experiences) — a research, discussion, community series on Black Womxn topics.
The Eccles Health Sciences Library joined forces with student advocates and received a campus SCIF grant from the Office of Sustainability to bring low-cost menstrual cups to the U campus! We’re incredibly excited to provide this sustainable and equitable menstrual product to the entire University of Utah community. Menstrual cups are an easier, reusable, sustainable alternative to tampons or pads that can be worn for up to 12 hours.
Living in a world full of distraction can leave us feeling disconnected—both yoga and art can help us come back to ourselves and remind us of our place in the universe. Discover unexpected connections between the visual arts and yoga through this virtual Art + Wellness program.
Join CESB on Thursdays for a space for BIPOC to share oral histories, cultural practices, passions, interests, and art as we explore healing through community.
This talk offers a comparative close reading of Disney's animated film Mulan (1998) and its 2020 eponymous live-action remake. Departing from the common perception that the live-action Mulan is simply an “Orientalist distortion” of the Chinese legend, the talk closely examines where the remake breaks free from and where it still embraces the animation’s cultural appropriation of China.
While typically discussed apart from one another, comparative, postcolonial, and decolonial work is joined by a shared commitment to speaking with and for the diverse and complex local histories, rhetorics, and identities of peoples in and across the world. How each field of study approaches varies, but most notably what brings them together is a […]
In this workshop, you will review the requirements for UROP and how to write an UROP proposal, including a section-by-section discussion with examples. Come ready to write your proposal or with a draft of your proposal ready.
Are you interested in learning about MEChA? Join us for a casual interest lunch where we will share about MEChA and where you can meet members. Registration required.
Join for a special session of Fab Fridays for LGBTQ History Month. This session will be a screening of "P.S. Burn this Letter, Please." Fab Fridays are only open to students.
Learn more about how to get started on undergraduate research.
Community Read is a monthly reading & journaling group. For the September and October sessions, the series will explore two works by Harriet A. Washington, "Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent" (September 14 - October 5) and "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (October 12 - October 26).
In this session, you will learn about how to write an effective research abstract. You will work on framing your research project concisely and accurately. You will leave ready to write your research abstract. This seminar is most useful for students currently needing to write an abstract. It is also useful for students developing how to think about their project.
The book Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry, chronicles the life of local civil rights advocate and community leader Alberta Henry. In this virtual discussion, author Colleen Whitley will discuss her work in authoring Henry’s biography. Dr. France Davis, retired Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Betsey Welland, Senior Archivist in Special Collections, will also participate in illuminating the important civil rights work of Alberta Henry
Stop by the J. Willard Marriot Library table on level 2 to grab some free treats from Latin America as well as look at our featured collection of Latinx books!
Community Conversations are biweekly campus dialogues open to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners. An opportunity to build community, strengthen relationships, share thoughts and feelings, and learn from each other.
Living in a world full of distraction can leave us feeling disconnected—both yoga and art can help us come back to ourselves and remind us of our place in the universe. Discover unexpected connections between the visual arts and yoga through this virtual Art + Wellness program.
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds Harriet A. Washington is a prolific science writer, editor and ethicist who is the author of the seminal Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black […]
Join CESB on Thursdays for a space for BIPOC to share oral histories, cultural practices, passions, interests, and art as we explore healing through community.
Join the Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation and the Utah Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society for the annual Day of Remembrance and Black History Conference. Discovering, preserving, and presenting the stories of Blacks in Utah since 1822.
The 2021 Cowan Memorial Lecturer and Priscilla M. Mayden Endowed Lecturer is Harriet A. Washington, a prolific science writer, editor and ethicist who is the author of the seminal Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.
Join S.J. Quinney College of Law for this discussion on The Development of Indian Law within Utah and the United States.
Join the Black Cultural Center on the Second Friday of September, October, and November for a monthly series on topics of those that identify as Black men.
Shop for Native American art and jewelry at the Natural History Museum of Utah. NHMU's Indian Art Market is an annual show and sale featuring top regional Native American artists. Offering a wide variety of mediums—including pottery and sculpture, painting and photography, jewelry and kachinas, and more—the market brings the very best of Native American art to Salt Lake City for you to browse and shop.
View the full fall semester calendar on the University Registrar website: https://registrar.utah.edu/academic-calendars/fall2021.php
Gallery stroll featuring photographer Eugene Tapahe's The Jingle Dress Project. The goal of the project is to take the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress to the land, to travel, to dance, and capture a series of images to document the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, and to unite and give hope to the world through art, dance and culture to help us heal.
Join UEN and the AIRC for a film screening of "Skindigenous" at the University of Utah's A. Ray Olpin Union Theater. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with local tattoo artists.
This session will present findings and share actionable implications from a new study about judges’ behavior in lawyerless courts. The study compares judges’ behavior in three geographically, demographically, and politically varied jurisdictions that rank at the top, above the median, and near the median of the Justice Index. The data show how judges from different parts of the country use their discretion and responsibility as they manage civil litigation in live hearings, including whether and how they alter the traditional judicial role to assist or accommodate people without counsel.
This Transgender Health Seminar will discuss insurance advocacy and how to be your own advocate.
A Call to Action for University Faculty University Connected Learning has invited Dr. Amy Collier, Associate Provost for Digital Learning at Middlebury College, to lead a series of workshops on Inclusive Design & Design Justice for faculty across the U. Faculty, staff, and students of the U are invited to join us for a plenary […]
Join the Black Cultural Center and the LGBT Resource center for Queer Conversations: Where is Black in the Rainbow? A monthly series on Black queer topics aiming to amplify Black queer voices.
Community Read is a monthly reading & journaling group. For the September and October sessions, the series will explore two works by Harriet A. Washington, "Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent" (September 14 - October 5) and "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (October 12 - October 26).
Join the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, Unidos en Utah Chapter Meeting for their October meeting! Anyone interested in improving the health of Hispanic families is welcome to attend.
Community Conversations are biweekly campus dialogues open to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners. An opportunity to build community, strengthen relationships, share thoughts and feelings, and learn from each other.
n this session, you will learn how to conduct and construct a literature review. This will focus organizing and writing the review - constructing the story that you want to tell. As all students and researchers will have to sift through relevant literature at some point, this will be useful to all researchers.
Join CESB on Thursdays for a space for BIPOC to share oral histories, cultural practices, passions, interests, and art as we explore healing through community.
Interesting in making peer connections? CAL6 hosts campus centers and offices, supporting students to connect with people, spaces, and services in an informal and casual setting.
Native Americans are 19X more likely than white households to lack indoor plumbing. More than four in five Native American women and men have experienced violence in their lifetime. Despite the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, many Native Americans continue to be excluded from the democratic process and their right to vote suppressed. Each of these issues, and many others, continue to hinder Native Americans across the state. Join Herm Olsen and Heather Tanana as they discuss the challenges that Native Americans face and how Utah’s legal community can help.
Friday Forums is a commitment to the state and region in elevating national conversations and showcasing models of disrupting complicit racism. Each session welcomes national thought leaders to lead discussions and provide opportunities for participants to share ideas on actionable items towards a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
Fab Fridays are back, both online and in-person! Join the LGBT Resource Center for some good company, snacks, games, and conversation every Friday from 3-5pm MT.
Join the Black Cultural Center on October 23rd at 2PM at The Shop for our professional mixer in partnership with the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce. This is not your ordinary networking event, dress up, come gain new perspectives, meet students and professionals, listen to some great music, eat and have some fun! It is also free!
Aligning with the platform of One U Thriving, the goal of these quarterly meetings is to draw connections between the colleges, units, and divisions' diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.
Community Read is a monthly reading & journaling group. For the September and October sessions, the series will explore two works by Harriet A. Washington, "Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent" (September 14 - October 5) and "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" (October 12 - October 26).
Taking Up Space focuses on building support and awareness to overcome and dismantle toxic messages aimed at and against women’s bodies.
Join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean’s book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell by Paul A. Lombardo. This book was selected in celebration of October being National Disabilities Awareness month.
Join the Black Cultural Center for L.O.V.E. (Living Our Varied Experiences) — a research, discussion, community series on Black Womxn topics.
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values.
Join CESB on Thursdays for a space for BIPOC to share oral histories, cultural practices, passions, interests, and art as we explore healing through community.
Please join Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Center for Equity and Student Belonging Open House. Reconnect with the office, learn about new initiatives, and celebrate their reimaged look.
Kick-off MEDiversity Week with Dr. Galea's keynote address and panel!
Fab Fridays are back, both online and in-person! Join us for some good company, snacks, games, and conversation every Friday from 3-5 pm MST.
The mission of MEDiversity Week is to highlight the equity, diversity, and inclusion work within U Health; while addressing health care disparities and offering solutions for the training of our current and future providers.
Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, MD is an author and surgeon, and the first member of the Navajo tribe to be board-certified in surgery.
This workshop is a community space for folks with marginalized identities to explore how self-compassion is critical for promoting justice. We will explore and practice strategies for responding authentically and intentionally to issues of marginalization, such as invisibility and impostor syndrome.
What Counts highlights the stories and experiences of a growing group of leaders who are taking critical steps to end health disparities among their patients. Spanning a diverse set of geographies and organizations, the film shows what’s possible when we reimagine what counts as healthcare.
Community Read is a regular reading & journaling group hosted by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; Office of the Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion; and partners across the University of Utah. For the November sessions, the series will explore Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord's “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing.”
Allyship is a key part of diversity and inclusion. Get ready for The Diversity and Inclusion Symposium by joining us for an online discussion with author and well-being educator, Nakeia Homer.
Taking Up Space focuses on building support and awareness to overcome and dismantle toxic messages aimed at and against women’s bodies.
Join Women in Health, Medicine, and Science (WiHMS) for a special MEDiversity Week edition of their monthly webinars.
Community Conversations are biweekly campus dialogues open to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners. An opportunity to build community, strengthen relationships, share thoughts and feelings, and learn from each other.
Reframing the Conversation brings together experts from across campus and the community to spark important conversations around racism, othering, and safety.
This event will gather scholars and practitioners who have been deeply engaged in this work to determine how law faculty might best prepare today’s law students through teaching racism and related inequities in the classroom. A few
Join us for a town hall with health equity, diversity, and inclusion leaders and deans from across campus; Dr. Michael Good; and Vice President Mary Ann Villarreal to share updates on initiatives and action being taken to address institutionalized racism on the U of U Health campus. Michael L. Good, MDCEO, University of Utah HealthDean, […]
Join CESB on Thursdays for a space for BIPOC to share oral histories, cultural practices, passions, interests, and art as we explore healing through community.
For the safety of the awardees and to align with COVID safety guidelines, this will be a closed event. We are hoping to make this an open, public event again in the future. Thank you for your understanding.
The Civic Leadership Conference is focused on exploring different pathways of civic leadership and engagement to gain an understanding of varying effective approaches to community change.
Fab Fridays are back, both online and in-person! Join the LGBT Resource Center for some good company, snacks, games, and conversation every Friday from 3-5 pm MT. In Fall 2021, every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month will be an in-person Fab Friday, and every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month will be a […]
The Civic Leadership Conference is focused on exploring different pathways of civic leadership and engagement to gain an understanding of varying effective approaches to community change.