Join us in celebrating your admission with a program designed for accepted students. During your visit, you'll have the opportunity to attend a class, interact with current students and sit in on sessions to help prepare you for your life as a Coyote. Admitted Students Day runs from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. (check in begins at 8 a.m.) and includes lunch.

The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival's annual fundraiser to support our 2019 season. Guests will enjoy wine and hors d'oeuvre pairings, live entertainment and a silent auction. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased online.

The USD piano faculty and students welcome pre-college competitors to this annual event. For more information visit https://www.usd.edu/fine-arts/music/truran-piano-competition .

Faculty & graduate students, leave distractions at home and join us for Shut Up and Write, where you can work in silence, surrounded by like-minded writers working on their projects. Bring your laptop, writing utensils, paper, notes and whatever else you need to write. Free coffee and hot water for tea, hot chocolate and cider will be available. We meet from 1 to 5 p.m. every Saturday in I. D. Weeks Library room 112. Questions? Email Lisa Ann Robertson at lisaann.robertson@usd.edu or Michelle Rogge Gannon at mrogge@usd.edu. Sponsored by the USD Writing Center and the Department of English.

Brazilian pianist Ney Fialkow, D.M.A., gave his first recital at the age of ten. Winner of several piano competitions, he was awarded best pianist in 1993 in the much coveted Eldorado Music Prize, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He pursued graduate studies at the New England Conservatory, with Patricia Zander, and at the Peabody Conservatory with Ann Schein, with whom he served as teaching assistant. Fialkow will be working with USD student pianists at this event, open to the public at no charge.

Sopranos Bailey Quade and Mikayla Trenhaile present their junior recital, open to the public at no charge.

Jason Hausback presents a bass trombone recital, open to the public at no charge. Hausback has been active in many musical spheres. Prior to his arrival at Missouri State University, Jason was the Adjunct Professor of Low Brass at Eastfield College (Mesquite, Texas) and Brookhaven College (Farmer's Branch, Texas). He was also a teaching fellow in both the trombone studio and the jazz studies department at the University of North Texas. Under his direction, the U-Tubes won the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition, and issued their first CD entitled "The U-Tubes" in the spring of 2011. For more information about Dr. Hausback, visithttps://www.missouristate.edu/music/jhausback.aspx.

USD's Dr. David Holdhusen and Dr. Timothy Campbell present their USD choral ensembles in an afternoon of music and beauty. Please come to hear the USD Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Men's & Women's Chorus sing for you. This event is open to the public at no charge.

Please join African Night, hosted by the African Student Association (ASA) in the MUC Ballroom. ASA is excited to celebrate its legacy event at USD for another year.

Motivation Mondays are a great way to get into the swing of the week. Each week, the Student Services team partners with a student organization, campus or community partner to promote upcoming events, or healthy student habits.

Rubrics are a means of communicating expectations for an assignment, providing focused feedback on works in progress and grading final products. This interactive workshop will provide participants the opportunity to build a rubric using the built-in rubric feature of D2L. This workshop will also explain the user progress feature of D2L including student statistics for discussions, rubrics, dropboxes, quiz analytics and content. This workshop is part of the Teaching with Technology Statement of Achievement. Please bring your ID as we track attendance electronically. If you are unable to join us, you can join us remotely.

It's a Coyote Tradition! Every Tuesday from 3-4 p.m. join Student Services and rotating student organizations for FREE Rootbeer Floats.

Department of Chemistry Seminar: "Magnetic Interactions in Molecules and Clusters from DFT Methods: Non-collinear Magnetization and Self-interaction" by Juan E. Peralta, Central Michigan University.

Veteran CBS Sportscaster Lesley Visser will discuss highlights from her long career covering sports and take questions from the audience. Visser is the 2018 winner of the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media. Gene Policinski, COO of The Freedom Forum Institute, will moderate.

Amy Laursen and Todd Cranson, USD Music faculty members, invite you to join them for an evening's recital. They will be joined by collaborative pianist Diane VanDenOever. This event is open to the public at no charge.

This day-long conference for students from regional colleges and university will feature morning and afternoon sessions of undergraduate and graduate papers in local, American, European and world history. The Department of History and the Zeta Mu chapter of Phi Alpha Theta host.

Master of Fine Arts Students present and discuss their work to the Faculty and Students.

Entering Mentoring is a facilitator-guided workshop that teaches the principles and best practices of being a mentor of undergraduate and graduate students. The curriculum is based on the Entering Mentoring textbook produced by the National Research Mentoring Network.The workshop is open to faculty, staff and graduate students. Participants must attend 8 of 10 sessions to receive the Statement of Achievement in Mentoring. Bring your USD ID.

Join us to celebrate our campus and community website, ICAREVermillion.com. There will be cake, brochures, giveaways and virtual tours of this great tool.

From a very young age Bruce Babad knew he would be a musician. He attended Central Washington University, where he backed such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Joe Williams. He later moved to San Diego and freelanced as a performer and educator. He performed with blues legend Little Milton, The Four Tops, the Temptations, the Platters, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole and Bobby Caldwell, having become one of the most in-demand saxophone players in San Diego. Next he moved to Long Beach and earned a master's degree in Jazz Studies at California State University. Currently, Bruce can be heard with the Bill Holman Band, Luther Hughes' Cannonball/Coltrane Project and the Bruce Babad Quartet. Babad is the Director of Jazz Studies at Fullerton College (Fullerton, CA) and can be heard on over seventy-five commercial recordings, numerous jingles, television and movie soundtracks. This event is open to the public at no charge.