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April 6, 2026 | 12 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101

Can’t find data? Can’t get the file to open properly? Or is your data so messy, it seems impossible to analyze? The first part of this workshop will review some common issues and how to fix them using simple, accessible tools. The second part will be an open clinic to help you with whatever symptoms you are encountering, so please bring your sick spreadsheets and painful error messages!

April 6, 2026 | 1 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101

Do you want to publish open access but aren’t sure where to start or how to protect your work? This workshop covers the basics and importance of open access publishing, different open access models, and how USU supports open access. We discuss how USU Researchers can access open access funding through the Library, including publisher agreements and the Library Open Access Fund. Finally, we cover copyright basics and share key authors’ rights resources to protect your research as it’s disseminated throughout the research ecosystem.

April 6, 2026 | 2:30 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101

This workshop will break down the basics of AI prompting. Content will cover prompt foundations, advanced AI workflows, and responsible Use of AI. Hosted by the USU Data Science and AI Center (DSAI Center).

April 6, 2026 | 4 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101

Agentic AI in Practice explores how emerging AI agents can meaningfully support workflows across disciplines at USU. This workshop will introduce practical strategies for integrating AI tools to enhance productivity, efficiency, and impact.

Monday, April 6 | 6 PM

Location icon Logan City Library, Community Room

Think you know Cinderella, Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty? Think again. For most Americans, these stories feel like Disney inventions, but their true origins are far older, stranger, and more fascinating. During this presentation, USU Researcher Claudia Schwabe will take the audience on a  journey back 200 years to discover the "original" fairy tales collected by two German brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. You'll learn that these tales were filled with sharp moral lessons, psychological terror, and bizarre magic. The Grimms’ world is a place where justice is brutal, the woods are truly terrifying, and “happily ever after” often comes with a dark price.

Monday, April 6, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Location icon Utah Theatre: 18 W Center St, Logan, UT 84321

Performed by USU Opera Theatre students with the USU Symphony Orchestra, and directed by USU's Dallas Aksoy. As one of only two of Mozart's Singspiele that are regularly performed (the other being The Magic Flute), this work combines his musical brilliance with light-hearted comedy delivered in spoken scenes in a style presaging modern musical theatre. Hosted at the Utah Theatre, on Logan's charming downtown Center Street.

Tuesday, April 7 | 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Wednesday, April 8 | 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Main Atrium

The Student Research Symposium is an annual celebration of student research at Utah State. This year's symposium features over 400 presenters and represents every college and department at USU. Presenters will share their work in the form of a poster, oral presentation accompanied by a slide deck, creative performance, or art exhibit. Students who participate in the event receive feedback from evaluators to improve their presentation and research skills.

Wednesday, April 8 | 6 PM

Location icon Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

Shark Tank Night will host several successful entrepreneurs (Kristyn Allred, Jacob McHargue, Amy Rees Anderson, and Nate Putnam) to judge 5 students and their pitch to win start-up money to grow their business. Aggie Ice Cream will be provided!

Thursday, April 9 | 1 - 3:30 PM

Location icon Statewide Campuses

Students across statewide campuses gather at their individual campuses to present their research and connect across campuses. Students will give short presentations online, followed by in-person poster sessions at some campuses.

Thursday, April 9 | 3 - 5 PM

Location icon Virtual

Join us for a special Research Summit during Research Week! Research Summits are dynamic events where faculty can converge to discuss critical topics. For this special Summit, the topic will be strategic proposal submission. During this time of external funding disruption, it is more important than ever to be strategic in planning proposal submissions. A panel of faculty and proposal development experts will provide suggestions on how to strategically approach proposal submissions in this new funding landscape.

Friday, April 10, 2026 | All Day

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, Main Atrium

A curated museum display of USU inventions and other innovations, located right in the library main atrium.

Friday, April 10, 2026 | 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location icon Merrill-Cazier Library, New Books Lounge

Come celebrate incredible USU innovations in this new multi-focus event. This year will feature USU patent award recognitions showcasing 2025 USU faculty inventions, and micro talks from some of USU's premiere innovators about making the most of your research efforts at USU.

Friday, April 10, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location icon Huntsman Hall, Room 130

Friday, April 10 | 4 PM

Location icon Fine Arts Visual Room 150

Nick Jabs is a Senior Associate at PORT, specializing in the design and implementation of public realm projects across the country. In this lecture, Jabs will draw from his own career to explore how design, research, and leadership intersect in shaping the public realm. His stories reveal how meaningful public spaces emerge not just from individual projects, but from the systems, communities, and institutions that sustain them.

Friday, April 10 | 7 PM

Location icon Eccles Science Learning Center 130

Inquiring minds of all ages are invited to Science Unwrapped, the public outreach program of USU's College of Arts and Sciences. Featured speaker is USU geophysicist Srisharan Shreedharan, assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences. Dr. Shreedharan leads USU's Rock Deformation and Earthquake Mechanics Laboratory, where he, his students, and colleagues conduct research on the mechanics of earthquakes using experimental, numerical and observational techniques. Hands-on learning activities and refreshments follow Dr. Shreedharan's talk. Admission is free and all are welcome!

Friday, April 10, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Location icon Morgan Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center

From USU's Theatre Company, enjoy this year's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory held during Research Week 2026. "The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory…but only to a lucky few. Young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka's world of pure imagination including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's army of curious Oompa-Loompas."