Monday, 01 Apr 2013
Drones: A Tipping Point of Technology
Missy Cummings landed F/A-18 fighter jets on aircraft carriers when she was a Navy pilot. Now she studies unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, as a professor at MIT. She was featured in NOVA's "Rise of the Drones." World Affairs Series and Women in STEM Series
Goldtrap Lecture: Crazy Brave
Author, poet and musician Joy Harjo is one of the leading Native American voices of our time. Her new memoir, "Crazy Brave," is a tale of a hardscrabble youth, teenage motherhood, and her journey to becoming an internationally recognized writer and performer. Her body of work includes seven books of poetry and four CDs. The 2013 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and the 2013 English Department Goldtrap Lecture.
Tuesday, 02 Apr 2013
What Makes a Family?
The son of two lesbian mothers, the 19-year-old University of Iowa engineering student had no idea that his heartfelt testimony before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee would have such an impact. Just two days later, a YouTube video of his testimony went viral.
Wednesday, 03 Apr 2013
Plant Breeding Seminar
Role of Genetic and Biochemical Interactions in Regulating Complex Phenotypes and Heterosis | Presenter: Dr. Eyal Fridman, The RH Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Public Housing in the United States: Neighborhood Renewal and the Poor
Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, is the final speaker in the 2012-2013 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series co-sponsored by the College of Design and Department of Community and Regional Planning.
Plant Breeding Seminar
Songlin Hu, Manipulation of plant architecture of maize for more biomass
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Lulu Rodriguez,Details TBA
Soil Seminar
Javed Iqbal, TBA
Early Childhood Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Development in Young Children
Dr. Ross Thompson, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, will share ideas for building mental health resources for children and families as well as strategies for intervention. Thompson is known for his work on early childhood emotional development and its application to public policy concerns. Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecture Series
Switch: What Is the Future of Energy? Documentary & Discussion
Switch explores the way we use energy, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels. The film removes politics from the discussion, makes the technical accessible and documents our likely path of transition to new energy sources. A discussion will immediately follow the 98-min film.
Thursday, 04 Apr 2013
Computer Science: Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture
"Situation Awareness in Applications of Services and Cloud Computing," Alexander Zelikovsky, Stephen Yau, Arizona State University.
Forum: Are Corporations People?
Participants include MaryBeth Gardam, the Iowa Coordinator for MoveToAmend; Sonia Ashe, director of IPIRG, Iowa Public Interest Research Group; and Jorgen Rasmussen, Distinguished Political Science Professor Emeritus at Iowa State.
Pragmatic Optimism: How Behavioral Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
Yale economist Dean Karlan is coauthor of More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy. His work demonstrates how small changes in development initiatives can drastically improve the well being of the poor. Karlan is a development economist who uses insights from behavioral and experimental economics in his work.
Friday, 05 Apr 2013
The Art and Science of Rebuilding the Face: Facial Prosthetics and Applications of Advanced Technology in Biomedical Visualization
Suzanne Verma, assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Baylor College of Dentistry, will talk about careers stemming from medical illustration and clinical examples of anaplastology (facial prosthetics), including advanced technologies in custom prototype design. A reception will follow in the College of Design's Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum.
Lecture: University Professor Peter Orazem
University Professor Peter Orazem will present "Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital: An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis," as part of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy brown bag lecture series.