Monday, 11 Mar 2013
It's A Girl: Film & Discussion on Gendercide & Human Trafficking
This documentary reveals how in many parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. Teresa Downing Matibag, executive director of the Iowa-based Network Against Human Trafficking, will moderate a discussion on gendercide and its relation to human trafficking immediately following the 60-min film. International Women's Day Event and part of the World Affairs Series.
Osborn Club Lecture
Hongwei Xin, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering and animal science; ABE Associate Chair for Research; and director of the Egg Industry Center, will discuss "A Comprehensive Assessment of Aviary Laying-hen Housing System in the Midwest." The lecture is open to the public following the club member dinner.
Iowa State College in the 1890s: A Visual History
Douglas Biggs is a native of Ames and a graduate of Iowa State University. This talk, which includes a slide show of historic photographs, will highlight the Dinkey, a steam engine that ran between campus and downtown Ames from 1891 to 1907. A scale model of the Dinkey, complete with track, will be on display in the Parks Library until the end of May.
Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013
Film and discussion: Dying to be Thin
"Dying to be Thin" was broadcast on PBS' NOVA series and narrated by Susan Sarandon. It discusses the increasing prevalence of eating disorders, predominantly anorexia and bulimia. Dancers, fashion models, students and young women who suffered from an eating disorder speak and share their experiences. This film also shows advances in diagnosis and recovery treatments that are being made by eating disorder specialists.
Good without God
Greg M. Epstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and is the author of Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. National Affairs Series
Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013
Technological Entrepreneurship: A Key to World Peace and Prosperity - Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman, an Iowa State Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering and research scientist at Ames Laboratory, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The honor was awarded for his discovery of quasicrystals, crystalline materials with a periodic atomic structure deemed impossible in modern crystallography. He is also the Philip Tobias Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of...
Plant Breeding Seminar
*Danielle Dykema, Epistasis in flowering time genes in Arabidopsis
Soil Seminar
Carlos Tenesaca, "Corn cob bales and loose cobs storage in field effects on subsequent crop growth and soil health"
Designing Relationships
In conjunction with an exhibition of the firm's work in the College of Design's Gallery 181, Iowa State University architecture alumnus Jon Pickard, principal of Pickard Chilton, addresses how the relationships the firm builds with clients, consultants and construction professionals are translated into the design of its buildings and offers insights gleaned from working with a global and culturally diverse clientele.
Thursday, 14 Mar 2013
Brown Bag Lecture
"Your local CSA" presented by Sally Gran, Tabletop Farm, Nevada, Iowa. Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program.