If you regularly attend general body meetings and are looking to take your improv to the next level - now is your chance.  The 2025-26 Competition Team will be our primary performance team, which historically participates in premier showcases, competitions, and travel events. No need to prepare anything in advance - just bring an open mind, positive attitude, and a willingness to say “yes!” While auditioning does not guarantee a spot on the team, everyone will be thoughtfully considered. You only need to attend one audition, so please pick the date that works best for you. Good luck, friends!

If you regularly attend general body meetings and are looking to take your improv to the next level - now is your chance.  The 2025-26 Competition Team will be our primary performance team, which historically participates in premier showcases, competitions, and travel events. No need to prepare anything in advance - just bring an open mind, positive attitude, and a willingness to say “yes!” While auditioning does not guarantee a spot on the team, everyone will be thoughtfully considered. You only need to attend one audition, so please pick the date that works best for you. Good luck, friends!

The First Annual Improv Club World Cup Championship Series Final Grand Prix 500 Bowl is our first live performance of the semester! Are you in favor of the Blue Team or Green Team? Come and support the improv-ers, give suggestions, and enjoy this comedy sports showdown!

Join us for the The Leadership Experience’s Open House showing our brand new expanded space and Leadership living room. This event is an opportunity to build community, be creative and explore what our department has to offer. Explore our new space, through interactive activities with staff, games, music and share your ideas to help us to continue to build and improve. Whether you’re curious about leadership or just looking for somewhere to hang out, this is your opportunity to connect, relax and learn how you can Lead Forward.

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Joel Ying in place of Kim Weitkamp, who is unable to make it. “Every struggle carries a story, and every story holds the power to heal” In this workshop, we’ll explore how to transform hard experiences into sources of strength, resilience, and deeper connection. Through guided storytelling and reflection, participants will discover how to use their own narratives, their voice, to support mental and relational well-being.  Whether you’re looking to strengthen your own mental well-being or to deepen your connection with others, this workshop will help you harness the transformative power of storytelling to move forward with courage and clarity. Kim Weitkamp’s VOICES workshop has been used by communities nationwide to help people turn painful experiences into tools for healing and growth. Most notably, she worked with survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting, guiding them in using their stories to heal, find strength and resilience. She is a National Speaker/Storyteller, Coach/Consultant, Performance Artist, and Workshop Facilitator. kimweitkamp.com fgcustorytelling.com

Provost’s Seminar Series is hosting Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy Research and Innovation Office, University of Minnesota. Dr. Osterholm will lead the “The Big One Is Still Coming: Lessons We Should Have Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic” talk on Friday, December 5, 2025, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m., in Seidler Hall, Room 114. More about the speaker: Dr. Osterholm is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. In November 2020, Dr. Osterholm was appointed to President-elect Joe Biden's 13-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. From June 2018 through May 2019, he served as a Science Envoy for Health Security on behalf of the US Department of State. He is also on the Board of Regents at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling 2017 book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, in which he not only details the most pressing infectious disease threats of our day but lays out a nine-point strategy on how to address them, with preventing a global flu pandemic at the top of the list. Link to his comprehensive bio.