Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Stephen Russell
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: Growing the Midwest Garden
"Acknowledging Your Roots: The Idiosyncrasies of the Midwest." Join Reiman Gardens' Director Ed Lyon for a 6-week series that augments his book by the same title released this May. Each presentation addresses practical gardening applicable to novice and experienced gardeners alike.
Thursday, 15 Oct 2015
Lecture: Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
"Hamburgers in Paradise" - Louise Fresco is president of Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands and a former director at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. She combines a long academic career with extensive involvement in policy and development.
Panel: How We Can Achieve an International Agreement on Climate Change
"Iowa State's Challenge for Paris." Ryan Hobert is the Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the United Nations Foundation. He will join a panel discussion with Iowa State students working on research and policy issues related to climate change.
Monday, 19 Oct 2015
Statistics Seminar (Zyskind Memorial Lecture)
"Design and Analysis of Definitive Screening Experiments", Christopher J. Nachtsheim, Frank A. Donaldson Chair of Operations Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Lecture: Radiolab's Jad Abumrad
"Gut Churn" - Jad Abumrad is producer and co-host of Radiolab, heard weekly on NPR.
Tuesday, 20 Oct 2015
Lecture: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and author of the groundbreaking 2011 New York Times Magazine essay that revealed and chronicled his life as an undocumented immigrant. Vargas, who has worked with the Huffington Post and the Washington Post, was subsequently featured on the cover of TIME Magazine and testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform. He has written...
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"California's Innovative Policies to Fight Climate Change," Anthy Alexiades, California Environmental Protection Agency air resources board.
National Bioenergy Day
Exhibits and activities presented by more than 10 organizations will showcase research, educational, extracurricular and career opportunities related to bioenergy at Iowa State as well as the state of Iowa. Students who visit the exhibits can earn a free cup of coffee from the ABE's Harvest Café.
Lecture: Growing the Midwest Garden
"Overcoming Obstacles: Soils and Culture." Join Reiman Gardens' Director Ed Lyon for a six-week series that augments his book by the same title released this May. Each presentation addresses practical gardening applicable to novice and experienced gardeners alike.
Lecture: Are Pentagon Contractors Driving U.S. Foreign Policy?
"Governing Under the Influence" - Col. (Ret) Lawrence Wilkerson was Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005. World Affairs Series: Redefining Global Security