Join TV personality, chef, food writer, teacher, and three-time James Beard Award-winner Andrew Zimmern is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. 

As the creator and host of Travel Channel’s multiple Bizarre Foods series, Zimmern travels the globe, exploring food and its terroir.  Join Zimmern for a fascinating interpretation of the way we live our lives through food, and how we might better understand what and how we eat to make better choices for our futures. 

This event will be held on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall. 

THE U’S TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH SANDRA CISNEROSTickets available nowArtSaltLake.org or 801-355-ARTS (2787)

The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents “An Evening with Sandra Cisneros” hosted by KUER’s Doug Fabrizio, producer and host of RadioWest, at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public but tickets are required. 

Tickets were made available Monday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. at ArtSaltLake.org or 801-355-ARTS (2787).  Limit is two per person.  Cisneros will discuss the Chicana literary movement, her writing and the influence of her heritage on her work.  She will read excerpts from her books, including her recent memoir “A House of My Own: Stories From My Life.” 

SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES – BLACK.FLESH: A LITANY FOR RESISTANCETuesday, March 21, 2017 | 6-8 p.m.East Ballroom, Olpin University Union Building

“black.flesh: a litany for resistance” is a meditation on isolation, abjection, and Black rage.  This performance piece delves into the idiosyncrasies of movement, gesture, and form to construct a narrative of black queer subjectivity under the duress of this heightened historical moment.  The main question to be raised by Yasin “Ya-Ya” Fairley: “When does truth-telling become politicized?”  This piece will move through various emotive states to give shape to a complex rendering of identity (race, gender, sexuality).  Sound, text, costume, and props will help create an environment that gestures to what Ya-Ya calls, “an erotics of racism” (borrowed from Dr. Sharon P. Holland). 

This event is free and open to the public.  CEUs are available for $10, payable by cash or check at the event. 

INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR SERIES ON AGING: BRAIN HEALTHThursday, March 23, 2017 | 12-1:15 p.m.Okazaki Community Meeting Room (155-B), College of Social Work

One of the greatest concerns expressed by older adults is fear of losing their cognitive abilities.  Memory loss and functional changes related to dementia are a common concern among middle-aged and older adults as they face the aging process.  Kevin Duff will discuss ways to enhance brain health and to assure that risks of memory changes are reduced. 

Pollinated crops feed millions of people by providing the world its fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and oils.  But pollinators, such as bees, have been dying off at an unprecedented rate.  In our delicate food ecosystem, this loss can have devastating effects.  An expert on honey bees, bumble bees, blue orchard bees, and alfalfa leaf-cutting bees, Dr. Diana Cox-Foster has pioneered research on pollinators and their vital role in our food system. 

Join Cox-Foster, research leader and research entomologist at Utah State University, as she illuminates the work being done to understand and solve pollination management issues in the United States and around the world. 

CRMRI SYMPOSIUM: CURRENT TRENDS IN RESEARCHFriday, March 24, 2017 | Registration deadlineFriday, March 31, 2017 | Event from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.Okazaki Community Meeting Room (155-A), College of Social Work

The new Center for Research on Migration & Refugee Integration (CRMRI) is pleased to host their first research symposium!  Keynote speaker Dr. Gary Lichtenstein will present “Practice of Research: Research of Practice.”  University of Utah scholars and community partners will present on their current research projects, to be followed by poster presentations by U students.  Breakout networking sessions will focus on migration and human trafficking; integration; health and mental health access; and the Institutional Review Board.  Endnote speaker Dr. Ed Redd will present “Working with Refugee Populations in Northern Utah.” 

The Friends of the Marriott Library
Spring 2017 Sunday Books and Authors Series
Speaker: Cihan Bilginsoy

Why did the housing and mortgage-backed securities markets collapse in 2007?  Did dot-com companies of the 1990s and English railway companies of the 1840s have anything in common that explains the boom and crash of their share prices?  What menace scared the Bank of England in 1720, J.P. Morgan in 1907, and the Federal Reserve in 1929?  Which was the better course of action for the government: saving Bear-Stearns or letting Lehman Brothers fail?  How do supposedly rational investors so frequently succumb to euphoria and despair?  Asset price bubbles and bank-runs have been an endemic feature of the capitalist system for centuries.  The historical record offers a treasure trove of experience that may shed light on how and why financial crises happen. 

LIVE MUSEUM THEATERThrough April 15, 2017Natural History Museum of Utah

Don’t miss live theater performances delighting museum audiences almost daily.  Current productions include “Poison Live!” –  the true story of how murder helped bring about the science of toxicology, and “The Extreme Plants Traveling Sideshow,” a fun look at how exotic plants in the rainforest develop life-saving defenses. 

Shows are included with regular museum admission. 

“Poison Live!”  is a 12-minute theatrical and multimedia show that tells a dramatic story about the beginnings of toxicology.  Check here for scheduled days and times. 

Extreme plants traveling show: Step right up and see the world’s most daring, elegant, exotic and mysterious plants.  Experience this high-energy, 20-minute theatrical performance that will entertain and enlighten one and all.  Meet the plants and bear witness to their highly evolved defense mechanisms.  Seeing is believing folks.  Check here for scheduled days and times. 

THE POWER OF POISONThrough April 16, 2017Natural History Museum of Utah

Mystery and intrigue are afoot at NHMU’s new “Power of Poison” exhibit.  Learn more about the role of poison for good and ill in nature, history, myths and legends and real life.  Complete with live animals, technical wonders and a touch of live theater, there is something to fascinate the explorer in everyone. 

NHMU is the only stop on “The Power of Poison” tour that displays live animals.  When visitors step into “Poison in Nature,” they enter the Chocó forest of Columbia where live golden poison arrow frogs peer up from their tanks.  These brightly-colored amphibians can fit into your shirt pocket, but they would be a deadly accessory; their skin secretes a substance so toxic that the poison from one frog can kill 10 grown humans. 

Our in-house Fitness Instructor Training (FIT) course is your first step to teaching group fitness classes for Campus Recreation Services and inspiring active, healthy living.  This course is a combination of lectures on ACE fundamentals and practical applications that will cover the basics of group exercise instruction including format options, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, injury prevention, cueing and more. 

THE SEARCH FOR LINCOLN: AVARD FAIRBANKS AND THE WORK OF A LIFETIMEOngoing through Friday, May 5, 2017Marriott Library, Level 1

The class of 1965-66 gifted the Marriott Library with one of Avard Fairbank’s famous sculptures of Abraham Lincoln.  Titled “Young Lincoln,” it stands in the gallery on the first floor.  Last year, his son, Eugene Fairbanks donated his father’s manuscripts and photo collections to the library.  The collection includes photos, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and research that are enough to cover the entire first floor gallery with the story of the Lincoln statue.