Tuesday, 02 Sep 2014
WHERE Am I Wearing?
Kelsey Timmerman's book Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle.
Thursday, 04 Sep 2014
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
"Why the Life Sciences Are Different," Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University.
Agronomy Seminar
Sustainable Intensification in the Corn Belt: Continuous Living Cover, Geodesign, and Anticipatory Governance Nick Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota
Keynote: Ethics, Integrity and Civility in Higher Education
"New Approaches to Foster a Culture of Trust," Neil Hamilton, founding director of the Thomas Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis.
Friday, 05 Sep 2014
NREM Graduate Seminar
"The role of environmental contamination in CWD transmission and spread," Tracy Nichols, Colorado National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins.
Monday, 08 Sep 2014
PhD Defense Seminar
PhD Defense Seminar Fumonisin B1 toxicity in swine: A comparative analysis of genetically engineered Bt corn and non-Bt corn by using quantitative dietary exposure assessment modeling and ecotoxicological investigations on earthworms Presenter: James Delgado, PhD graduate student, Toxicology
Osborn Club Lecture
"Carbocatalysts: A Bottom-up Approach to Catalyst Design," presented by Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Carol and Jack Johnson Faculty Fellow.
Tuesday, 09 Sep 2014
Aerospace engineering lecture
"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter," Paul Bevilaqua, Lockheed Martin.
Wednesday, 10 Sep 2014
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Labor in Agriculture: The Argentine Experience and the New Inquiries about the US Cornbelt Juan Manuel Villulla, Senior Wildlife Biologist, National Parks Service
Thursday, 11 Sep 2014
Lecture: Gardening Resources
"Digging through Cyberspace for Gardening Resources," Veronica Fowler, author of Gardening in Iowa, and The Iowa Gardener e-newsletter.
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Firm behavior and emissions under emission intensity regulation: Evidence from Alberta's Specified Gas Emitters Regulation," Deepak Rajagopal, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles.
Agronomy Seminar
Sustainability Trade-offs in Iowa Crop Systems: Is Diversity Always Good? Mike Castellano, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
Friday, 12 Sep 2014
Errington Lecture: NREM Graduate Seminar
"Twenty Years of Yellowstone Wolves: Reintroduction to Recovery," Doug Smith, National Park Service, Montana.
Monday, 15 Sep 2014
Snedecor Memorial Lecture
"Micro-Randomized Trials & mHealth," Susan A. Murphy, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Where Does the Bible Come From?
Rev. Charles Bobertz is a professor of New Testament Theology at Saint John's School of Theology Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Reconstructing German Culture: Stephen Brockmann
The keynote address for Transatlantic Institute for the Study of East German Art conference will be given by Stephen Brockmann, professor of German, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Going Out in Style: The Folk Art of Fantasy Coffins
Eric Adjetey Anang is Ghana's leading fantasy coffin artist and the grandson of Seth Kane Kwei, who helped found the folk art tradition.
Tuesday, 16 Sep 2014
Yes, Iowa, There Is a Future for Newspapers
Rick Green is publisher of the Des Moines Register. Chamberlin Lecture in Journalism
Wednesday, 17 Sep 2014
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
TBA Justin Huck, Iowa Youth Outreach Program Manager, League of Conservation Voters
Panel: The U.S. Supreme Court on Religious Liberty, Birth Control and Corporate Personhood
Panelists will discuss recent Supreme Court rulings as well as potential cases that may go before the court. Panelists include ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Ben Stone. Iowa State Bioethics Program Director Clark Wolf will moderate. Constitution Day Event
Thursday, 18 Sep 2014
Agronomy Seminar
State of the Department Kendall Lamkey, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin Blaser is director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University and author of "Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues." National Affairs Series.
Friday, 19 Sep 2014
MS Defense Seminar
MS Defense Seminar Efficacy of native allelic variation vs. a transgene to influence quantitative traits in maize Presenter: Julian Linares, MS in plant breeding distance student
High School Shootings, Bored Teens and Appropriated Space: What's a Landscape Architect to Do?
Ben Shirtcliff, assistant professor of landscape architecture, will present his research to date on human behavior and the built environment, focusing on the positive gains vulnerable populations achieve when they claim underutilized space for desired activities.
NREM Graduate Seminar
"Urban Ecosystems: Residential Yards and Homeowner Decisions -- Social Drivers of Plant Biodiversity and Nutrient Fluxes," Kristen Nelson, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.
Engineers' Week 2014 Lecture: Michio Kaku
"How Science Will Revolutionize Business, Medicine, Jobs and Life," Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, popularizer of science, and television personality.
Monday, 22 Sep 2014
Entomology Seminar
"Modification of the Bt toxin Cry4Aa for improved toxin processing in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum," Michael Rausch MSc defense.
Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014
MS Agronomy Defense Seminar
MS Agronomy Defense Seminar The Impact of Row Width and Plant Population Density on Soybean Yield, Seed Mass and Seed Size Variability Presenter: Josh Sevier
The Symbolism of the Sand Mandala
Monks from the the Drepung Loseling Monastery will create a mandala sand painting in the lobby of the Memorial Union Monday, September 22 through Thursday, September 25. The process consists of opening ceremony with chants, music and mantra recitation and ends with the dismantling of the mandala and dispersal of the sand. Millions of grains of sand are poured from traditional metal funnels called chakpur to create a finished mandala...
Wednesday, 24 Sep 2014
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Climate Change and Soils: The Role of Community and Gender Cornelia Flora, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University