Tuesday, 01 Mar 2016
Documentary Film: Racing Extinction
Racing Extinction is the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and reveals the black-market trade in endangered species. Part of the University Symposium on Sustainability
Wednesday, 02 Mar 2016
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Transition Costs for Cellulosic Biofuels: Overcoming the Mountain of Despair," Nathan Parker, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Kathryn Edin
Attend the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. This series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Lecture: Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen
"How Kickstarter Is Redefining Success" - Perry Chen is creator and chairman of Kickstarter, the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.
Thursday, 03 Mar 2016
Designers panel: The Fashionable Side of STEM
Guest panelists will discuss how multidisciplinary aspects of textile and apparel design and production incorporate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Lecture: What Americans Are Eating and a Strategy for Change
Cindy Goody is Senior Director of the Menu Innovation Team at McDonald's USA and a graduate of Iowa State. National Affairs Series
Friday, 04 Mar 2016
ISCORE Keynote Address: Barbara Love
Barbara Love is Professor Emerti of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and speaks widely on how institutions deal with multicultural organizational development and social change.
Planetarium Show: Cosmic Recycling
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars!
Monday, 07 Mar 2016
Statistics Seminar
Population causal inference: from local efficiency to global efficiency without resorting to direct approximation, Gary Chan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle
Lecture: Redefining Global Security
The Honorable Mary Robinson was the first woman elected president of Ireland and just completed her term as the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change. World Affairs Series
Thursday, 10 Mar 2016
Nanovaccine Initiative Seminar: CBE Balloun Lecture
"Innovative Systems for Effective Delivery of Therapeutics," Samir Mitragotri, department of chemical engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. Mitragotri will present an overview of some the targeting strategies for the treatment of breast cancer and vascular bleeding after trauma. A reception precedes his seminar at 10:30 a.m. in 2061 Sweeney Hall.
Friday, 11 Mar 2016
Art and Activism: Agents of Change
Join three artists, including Austin Stewart, ISU assistant professor of art and visual culture, for a live-streamed discussion of how their work relates to environmental, agricultural and biological activism. The event is part of the Trinity College Dublin Students' Union Activism Festival and will be live-streamed from Dublin.
Bachelor of Design Designer-in-Residence Workshop: Line + Grid + Repetition
Join artist Kathranne Knight for an intensive workshop investigating line, grid and repetition and how they are integral to both the graphic and fine arts. Participate in a dialogue on their versatility, utility and function in the history of pictorial language. Produce a set of ink drawings and learn to generate a strong studio practice through their use. To register for the workshop, email zarecor@iastate.edu.
Monday, 21 Mar 2016
Statistics Seminar
Functional and imaging data in precision medicine: Towards optimal treatment selection, Todd Ogden, Professor of Biostatistics (Psychiatry), Columbia University, New York City
Lecture: The Diversity and Evolution of the World's Languages
Linguist Asya Pereltsvaig studies how languages evolve, their commonalities, differences, and what they can tell us about our human past. The Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics
Tuesday, 22 Mar 2016
Women's and Gender Studies series
"Fembodyment of Conscious Learning," Christiana Langenberg, ISU English. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Lecture: Perspectives from Space
"Perspectives from Space," astronaut Sandra Magnus. She served 16 years in the NASA Astronaut Corps, flew two shuttle missions to the International Space Station and served on the ISS as a member of Expedition 18 for 4.5 months. Her talk will include stories, experiences and perspectives gained over her years as an astronaut.
Wednesday, 23 Mar 2016
BIG: Hot to Cold
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, a partner with international design firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), will present the 2016 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture. He also will serve as a guest juror for the Richard F. Hansen Prize student design competition; winners will be announced at the start of the lecture.
Performance & Discussion: Body of Water
Part of the 10th Annual Iowa Water Conference. "Body of Water" uses video, music and dance to tell the story of water usage and quality within our Iowa's watersheds and communities. A facilitated dialogue will follow the 1-hour performance.
Thursday, 24 Mar 2016
Analyzing Seriously Delinquent Mortgages in Asian Census Tracts in the United States
Katrin Anacker, associate professor of public policy at George Mason University, will present the spring 2016 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture, cosponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning and the College of Design.
Lecture: How People Learn and the Creativity Of Science
Karen Kashmanian Oates is a professor of biochemistry and the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sigma Xi Lecture Series
Friday, 25 Mar 2016
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Hotelling Under Pressure," Soren Anderson, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The hothouse climate of the dinosaur age: Fossil and chemical evidence and predictions for the future" by Dr. Brian Huber, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
Monday, 28 Mar 2016
Statistics Seminar
General Glivenko-Cantelli Theorems, Professor Krishna Athreya, Iowa State University, Ames
Lecture: Movement BE - Tell Your Story
Nate Howard founded Movement BE, a non-profit organization that creates curriculum to help young people discover themselves and challenge the status quo through poetry.
Lecture: The Illusion of Free Will and Its Impact on Moral Responsibility
Atheist activist August Berkshire will discuss the ramifications of a natural universe without gods or free will, in which evolution shapes our thoughts and actions.
Tuesday, 29 Mar 2016
Lecture: Exploring Agriculture through Performance Art
"Hands to Earth" - Cherie Sampson is a visual artist and dancer who creates multi-media videos and installations focusing on ecology and agriculture.
Lecture: Designing the Future
"Technology in 2025: Designing the Future." Technological futurist Brian David Johnson talks about what technology, and its intersection with multiple areas of work and society, could mean for the future. National Affairs Series.
Wednesday, 30 Mar 2016
Avant-garde in the Cornfields: Modern Architecture, Landscape and Preservation in New Harmony
Architect and historian Michelangelo Sabatino will talk about a new book he co-edited on the community of New Harmony, Indiana, which since its founding in 1814 has been the epicenter of experiments in communal living, education, religion and science.
Town Hall: What's the Future of the American Dream?
Join futurist Brian David Johnson for a conversation about the future of the American dream, a year-long project timed to overlap with the 2016 presidential campaign. National Affairs Series