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