Monday, 09 Mar 2015
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Land-use changes through 2050: highlights from a global agro-economic model comparison," Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Purdue University.
PhD Defense Seminar
MS Defense Seminar Sensible heat balance method to determine rates of soil freezing and thawing Presenter: Yuki Kojima, Soil Science and Environmental Science
Open forum: University Library dean finalist
Marilyn Moody, professor and dean of the University Library, Portland State University, is one of four finalists for Iowa State's library dean post.
Lecture: My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse, Associate Professor of Intermedia and Dean's Scholar at the University of Iowa, is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Goldtrap Lecture in English
Entomology Seminar
"Piecing together patterns of western corn rootworm movement," Joseph Spencer, Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute.
Imaging Nearby Planetary Systems with the Gemini Planet Imager and Beyond
Marshall Perrin Space Telescope Science Institute
Banquet: 25 Year Club
The 25 Year Club honors employees who have served the University for 25, 35, 45 or 50 consecutive years at this annual banquet. Social hour starts at 5:30 p.m.; dinner begins at 6:15 p.m. Reservations are required by Feb. 20.
Lecture: The State of the Promised Land
Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, activist, professor, and author who writes about the Middle East and the politics of the Holocaust.
Concert: Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter.