Thursday, 27 Sep 2012
Agronomy Seminars
ISU Agronomy Research Farm Report, Mark Honeyman
Class: Floral Design Series
Garden Style - This design features a variety of flowers that look just-picked from the garden. It's sure to please the nature lover or avid gardener. Learn the basics of floral design while creating beautiful arrangements to take home. Updated with new classes! Learn the tips and skills used by professionals and create your own one-of-a-kind floral designs.
Retirement reception: Warren Ahrens
Ahrens is a supervisor in plant services for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.
Computer science colloquia: Yan-bin Jia
Yan-bin Jia, associate professor of computer science, will present "Simultaneous Three-Dimensional Impacts with Friction and Compliance."
Concepts, Context, and Duality
Join artist Andy Magee as he discusses his exhibition of found-material sculptural art. Magee uses a variety of found objects that viewers have a personal connection with and generates a completely new meaning by interlacing them with contemporary issues including politics, religion, money, and sex.
Humor, Heroes, and Healing: An Expressive Writing Workshop
This creative writing short course effectively helps writers develop their skills of self-expression. Writers improve their ability to reflect upon and share their unique life histories, which leads to greater self-awareness. We use fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to encourage writers to explore the works of other authors.
Class: Floral Design Series
Garden Style - This design features a variety of flowers that look just-picked from the garden. It's sure to please the nature lover or avid gardener. Learn the basics of floral design while creating beautiful arrangements to take home. Updated with new classes! Learn the tips and skills used by professionals and create your own one-of-a-kind floral designs.
Gallery Talk with Chris Martin and Barbara Walton
Encaustic paintings by Barbara Walton and fine-art furniture by Chris Martin, associate professors of integrated studio arts, are on display Sept. 24- Oct. 5 in Gallery 181-1, first floor, College of Design. Martin and Walton will present a gallery talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the gallery. The work of both faculty members was funded by Iowa Arts Council Major Grants.
Just Another Arab Jewish Potluck
Join Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha to discuss their new books: "Leaving Long Island" and "Lebanese Blonde."
Reception: Post-Pop Redux Exhibition
Join University Museums as we celebrate artist Andy Magee and the current exhibition Post-Pop Redux: Material Based Art by Andy Magee.
SUB Film: Rock of Ages
Comfortable seating with awesome sound and projection.Movies show every week, all semester at 7 & 10pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Concessions are for sale. Sponsored by Student Union Board, GSB and IRHA.
Beyond Spotted Owls and Logging: Forest and Ecosystem Management Today
Jerry Franklin is one of the country's leading authorities on sustainable forest management. He is widely known for his participation on President Clinton's Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT), established during the spotted owl controversy in the American Northwest. He is a professor of ecosystem analysis at the University of Washington. The 2012 Paul L. Errington Lecture.
SUB Music: Correo Ae'reo
Correo Aereo (Air Mail) is an award-winning, acoustic, multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World Music Duo. Nationally and internationally touring for the past twenty years, they have performed and recorded the traditional music of Latin America: especially of Venezuela, Argentina & Mexico, as well as their own original music deeply rooted in tradition on stage, in feature films and on TV and radio broadcast.