We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Yang to speak with us. She does research on animal coloration and behavior with Neotropical poison frogs and Trinidadian guppies. If you want insight on how to start undergraduate research, here's your chance! --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1973187

fencing --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1974428

Practice for Men's Club Soccer team --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1974338

Free weekly tournament at the Esports Living Lab in the Rec Center (room 005).. . Space for warming up will open up at 6 pm every Tuesday, with the tournament starting at 7:30 and a side bracket starting at 6:30.. . The tournament is double elimination, best of 3, with best of 5 in top 8.. . If you are able, please bring a full setup (Switch, gamecube adapter) to help the tournament run faster. This is completely optional.. . Please bring your own controller. We do not provide them. If you do not own one, it's likely that you'll be able to borrow one, but it is strongly preferred that you bring your own. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1973813

Student led Bible study. Open to all grades. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1973866

We will be meeting weekly for 5 weeks on Tuesdays from 7:00pm-8:00pm to discuss The Joy Luck Club.. . There is no reading required for the first meeting.. . . . Reading schedule:. . Week 1: 1/28/2025 - Orientation meeting. . . . Week 2: 2/4/2025 - Discussion of Feathers from a Thousand Li Away (pg. 1-84 ). . . . Week 3: 2/11/2025 - Discussion of The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates (pg. 85-156). . . . Week 4: 2/18/2025 - Discussion of American Translation (pg. 157-235 ). . . . Week 5: 2/25/2025 - Discussion of Queen Mother of the Western Skies (pg. 236-329). . . . . . About the Book:. . Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.. . . . With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.. . . . “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1972793