In This Issue:

It’s Summer Time How to Check In Map Important Dates Summer Fun Instructor Spotlights

May 2019

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Pack Your Bags — It’s Summer Time!

We are excited that May is finally here! Thank you to everyone who

registered and we will see your smiling faces soon. Graduation at

USU is happening this weekend and the town is going to be hopping.

Pay special attention to page 2 of this newsletter for in depth

instructions for check-in at the Summer Citizens Program office

once you arrive in Logan.

Major roads will be under construction this summer. Check out

the map on page 3 for detour information.

Look for signs on campus to direct you to the check-in location.

Park in Aggie Terrace located on 700 East and Gray 3 (see maps

on page 3 or look on Page 7 of the 2019 Program Book).

If you have ADA Parking, handicap parking is available in the Blue

Premium lot located by Building 43, see the map on page 3. Click HERE to view

classroom changes

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How to Check In: Welcome to Logan! We’re ecstatic to see all our friends and

welcome new faces!!

Check-in begins Thursday, May 16th for Snow Hall and Blue Square residents, May 20–24 for all other apartments/housing. Check-in is located in rooms 307 and 309 (3rd floor of the Eccles Conference Center). See map on pg. 7 of 2019 Program Book, identified as building #12. Operating hours for check-in are 9am-4pm Monday through Friday.

After May 28th the Summer Citizens office is open Monday - Friday from 8am-5pm, and is located in the basement of the Eccles Conference Center (pictured below). The office is closed May 27 for Memorial Day.

If you are a returning Summer Citizen bring your ID card to check-in!

At check in, you will receive a welcome packet, Summer Citizens Program Coupon Book, T-shirt if you registered before April 25th, and other important community and program information.

Bring personal electronic devices with you at check-in to register and connect to USU campus Wi-Fi. IT support will be on-site during check-in hours May 16-24.

Park in Aggie Parking Terrace located on 700 East (identified as #2) or Gray Parking (located around building #31). See the USU map on pg. 3 of this newsletter or pg. 7 in the 2019 Program Book.

Purchase a HPER or ARC pass at the ARC. The ARC is identified as #3, pg. 7 of 2019 Program Book or pg. 3 of this newsletter.

Important! Bring your ID card. A replacement card is $15. If this is your first year as a Summer Citizen, you will receive an ID card during check in.

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“The Summer Citizens Program is the perfect summer alternative to the heat of Arizona...and one learns so much in a fun atmosphere.” -Judith Novak

Check-In Begins! May 16 + 17 for Snow Hall and Blue Square ONLY. May 20-24 for all other

apartments/housing

Check-in Hours: 9 am to 4 pm

Welcome Orientation, Merchant Fair, and

Silent Auction: Thursday, May 30 at 2 pm

Taggart Student Center Ballroom * A valid ID card is required (card scanned at the door)

Mid-Summer Orientation & Merchant

Fair: Tuesday, July 2 at 2 pm

Taggart Student Center Ballroom

Summer Citizens

Sponsored Apartment Open House: Thursday, July 12

9 am to 3 pm

End of Summer Closing Social &Talent

Show: Thursday, July 25 at 12 pm

FREE for Registered Summer Citizens, RSVP required (Invitation Emailed Early July)

Visit the Announcements Page on

the Summer Citizens Website by

clicking HERE

We suggest checking the Announcement page

weekly during the summer so you don’t miss out

on important announcements.

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Dates for the Summer Citizens USU Library tours:

June 11th at 2:00pm June 14th at 10:00am

July 8th at 3:00pm July 11th at 10:00am

For questions regarding these tours contact

the USU Library: (435) 797-2678

No Sign up necessary! See building #30 on the map.

Talent Show!

Click on this link to perform in the Summer Citizens Talent Show.

The talent show will be during the End of Summer Closing Social on July 25th at noon.

Summer Fun

NEW Course Being

Offered:

Course 166 —Drone Camp 2019

Click HERE to learn more

information on this unique course

Only 10 spots left! If you want to add this class please call 1-800-538-2663

This Course will be taught by Shawn “BW” Barstow, adjunct instructor in the School of Applied Sciences, Technology, and Education.

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Danielle Ross was born and raised in southern California. She went to

Arizona State University and fell in love with Russian and Tatar history. She spent her senior year studying Tatar language at Kazan State University in Russia, where she met her future husband. After working in Kazakhstan on a Fulbright Scholarship, she completed her MA and Ph.D. in Central Asian history at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked briefly as a social media analyst and specialist in Russian and Central Asian in Tampa, FL before taking a job as a teacher of Islamic and Kazakhstani history at the newly-opened Nazarbayev University, an English-language university in Astana, Kazakhstan. In 2014, she returned to the US to take a job as an assistant professor of Asian history at Utah State University.

When not teaching courses on Islamic history, Dr. Ross returns to Russia and Kazakhstan regularly to research the history of Russia's Muslim minorities, Islamic law, Sufi poetry, and connections between Islamic communities in Central Asia and those in the Middle East. She had published a number of articles on those subjects and has two books forthcoming. In her spare time, Dr. Ross brews homemade beer and works in her vegetable garden with her husband and their daughter. Danielle will be teaching Course 132, Islam in the Modern world this summer.

Katherine Potter was born and raised in Durango,

Colorado, and received my B.S. in geology from Fort Lewis College. Her master’s degree, also in geology, is from Idaho State University, and she earned her Ph.D. in geology at Utah State University. Today, her research projects focus on understanding the rate of volcanism in the Snake River Plain, the origin of Snake River Plain magmas, how the composition of the underlying crust can influence the chemistry and eruptive characteristics of magma, and uplift and incision rates in rivers of the western Snake River Plain. Katherine’s industry experience includes work as an exploration geologist for a mining company in Nevada and Colorado, and work as an exploration geologist for a major oil company in Houston. When she is not teaching or looking at rocks, she enjoys floating down rivers, skiing down mountains, trail running, traveling, knitting, playing guitar, and eating delicious food. Katherine will be teaching Course 148, Rocky Mountain Geology Experience this summer.

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