Thursday, 01 Dec 2016
Spatiotemporal variability of soil greenhouse gas emissions in Australian agroecosystems: Should we really be scalling from the chamber to the field?
Marshall McDaniel, Iowa State University, Agronomy Department
Lecture: Lynn Povich, Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics
Lynn Povich is an award-winning journalist and pioneer for women's equality in the workplace. She helped organize a landmark sex discrimination suit against Newsweek magazine in 1970 and five years later became the first female senior editor in the magazineââ'¬â"¢s history. Her 2012 book, The Good Girls Revolt, chronicles that lawsuit, its impact on the women involved, and what has - and hasn't - changed for women in business...
Friday, 02 Dec 2016
Planetarium Show: Galaxies and Beyond
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, 05 Dec 2016
Entomology Seminar
"TThe adaptive response of the serine protease superfamily of the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera to dietary protease inhibitors," Suyog Kuwar, Iowa State University, Department of Entomology.
Wednesday, 07 Dec 2016
Lunch talk series: Women's and Gender Studies
"Inviting Girls into the Lab: The Rise of Diversity Advocacy in STEM 1956-2016," Amy Bix, ISU history department. Bix explores when, how and why evolving ideas about gender roles, education and the nature of STEM opened up this transformational advocacy for diversity and outreach.
Thursday, 08 Dec 2016
400-bushel corn: Minimizing stress management practices to increase corn yields
Randy Dowdy, Grow Big Corn, Farmer and consultant, growbigcorn.com
Friday, 09 Dec 2016
Colloquium: Center for Communication Excellence
"Text Mining for Assessment of Writing and Social Positioning," Carolyn Penstein Rosé, associate professor, Language Technologies Institute and HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, 13 Dec 2016
Team debate championships
The top debaters from ISU's speech communication program will argue two topics: Dakota access pipeline and standardized testing in public schools.