Thursday, 01 Oct 2015
Lecture: Battling Ebola
"How Technology is Transforming the Response to Global Epidemics," Steven VanRoekel, former USAID chief innovation officer who was responsible for advising the agency on using technology and data in its response to the ebola epidemic. He is a graduate of Iowa State. World Affairs Series
Friday, 02 Oct 2015
NREM Seminar Series
Speaker is Muir Eaton, Drake University.
Astronomy Seminar
An Analysis of Spectral Absorption Line Asymmetries in HD 175156 (Cory Schrandt, Iowa State University)
Lecture & Reading: A New Chapter in the Living Legacy of George Washington Carver
Xavier Cavazos, a 2013 graduate of Iowa State's MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment, will read from his new book of poetry inspired by stories of the life and times of George Washington Carver.
Monday, 05 Oct 2015
Entomology Seminar
Two professors from Yunnan Agricultural University (Yunnan Province, China) will deliver special presentations for the Iowa-SE Asia Biodiversity Conference.
Lecture: U.S. Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz
"Wage Inequality: Why It Matters and What to Do About It." Heidi Shierholz is the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a graduate of Iowa State. Part of the Iowa State Economics Forum & National Affairs Series.
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2015
Genetics and Genomics Workshop
"Transkingdom RNAi in Plant-pathogen Interactions," Hailing Jin, professor, University of California, Riverside.
Lecture: The 11 Rival Regions of North America
"American Nations: A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America," journalist and author Colin Woodard. National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in Conflict.
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2015
Sustainable ag colloquium
"Temporal changes in soil fertility and the attempt to maintain land productivity under slash-and-burn cultivation," Takashi Inoue, Hokkiado University, Japan; and "How the Korea-US FTA has affected Korean agriculture," Yong-Kee Lee, Yeungnam University, South Korea.
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"The Feasibility, Costs and Environmental Implications of Large-scale Biomass Energy," Niven Winchester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lecture: How Baling Hay Prepared Me to Become the Coffee 'Bean Baron'
Danny O'Neill is the owner and founder of The Roasterie Coffee, Inc., and a graduate of Iowa State. The William K Deal Leadership Lecture and part of CALS Week.
Thursday, 08 Oct 2015
Brown Bag Lecture
"Intentional Prairie: Bringing Indigenous Plants Back to their Native Ecosystem," Barbara Haas, associate professor of English, and Cathleen Bascom, MFA student in creative writing and environment.
Lecture: Role of high-performance computing in understanding climate modeling
"HPC for Understanding Impacts of Climate Modeling and Climate Engineering," Gene Takle, ISU agronomy and ISU geological and atmospheric sciences.
Agronomy Seminar Series: Edward Buckler
Edward Buckler is a USDA-ARS research geneticist who leads the Buckler Lab for Maize Genetics and Diversity at Cornell University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Buckler uses genomics and statistical genetics to understand and dissect complex traits in maize, biofuel grasses, cassava and grapes.
Lecture: Stopping Child Slavery in Ghana
James Kofi Annan is a former child slave and leads West Africa's most prominent children's rights organization, Challenging Heights. World Affairs Series.
Friday, 09 Oct 2015
NREM Seminar Series
"Heterogeneous Responses to Infection in Songbirds: Recent Findings and Future Directions," James Adelman, ISU natural resource ecology and management.
Monday, 12 Oct 2015
Entomology Seminar
"Evolution of resistance to Bt corn by western corn rootworm: A tough management challenge," Ram Shrestha, ISU entomology.
Statistics Seminar
"A Fresh Look at Effect Aliasing and Interactions: Some New Wine in Old Bottle," Jeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Lecture: Learning with Migrant Youth
Leigh Patel is a sociologist, writer and educator based at Boston College. She is the author of "Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion." Part of Human Sciences Week.
Norman Borlaug Lecture: Empowering the Poor in the Fight against Hunger
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate and founder and chairperson of BRAC, the world's largest anti-poverty organization. Norman Borlaug Lecture and part of the World Affairs Series
Tuesday, 13 Oct 2015
Women's and Gender Studies series
"Beached White Male: Imperiled Masculinity in the Great Recession," Michael Goebel, ISU English, and women's and gender studies. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Lecture: Evolution of the Obesity Epidemic and Efforts to Contain It
Dr. William Dietz is the director of the Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health, where he is leading innovative strategies to expand wellness and the prevention of chronic diseases. A member of the prestigious National Institute of Medicine, he has a distinguished career that includes fifteen years as the director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical...
Snedecor Lecture II
"Statisticians at Work: Inspiration, Aspiration, Ambition", Jeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Watch Party & Discussion: Democratic Presidential Debate
Join your Iowa State friends and colleagues to watch Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee for 90 exciting minutes of political debate!
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Stephen Russell
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: Growing the Midwest Garden
"Acknowledging Your Roots: The Idiosyncrasies of the Midwest." Join Reiman Gardens' Director Ed Lyon for a 6-week series that augments his book by the same title released this May. Each presentation addresses practical gardening applicable to novice and experienced gardeners alike.
Thursday, 15 Oct 2015
Lecture: Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
"Hamburgers in Paradise" - Louise Fresco is president of Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands and a former director at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. She combines a long academic career with extensive involvement in policy and development.
Aerospace engineering seminar
"Opportunities and Roadblocks for the Development of Commercial Space Enterprises," Michael Griffin, former NASA administrator.
Panel: How We Can Achieve an International Agreement on Climate Change
"Iowa State's Challenge for Paris." Ryan Hobert is the Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the United Nations Foundation. He will join a panel discussion with Iowa State students working on research and policy issues related to climate change.
Friday, 16 Oct 2015
NREM Seminar Series
Speaker is Linda Prokopy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.