Tuesday, 21 Apr 2015
Graduate College students: electronic thesis
Graduate College: last day to submit signed Submission Request Form for electronic thesis or dissertation.
Graduate College students: graduation approval
Graduate College last day for final submission of graduate student graduation approval slip.
Used Magazine Sale
All magazines are just 25 cents! Stop in to help us reduce, reuse, and recycle during Earth Week.
Meeting: Faculty Senate
The Faculty Senate represents the general faculty of Iowa State University and participates in shared governance of the University with the administration. Senate meetings are open to the public.
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts" Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University.
Class: Beginner Photography
This is a 4 week course on Tuesdays beginning April 7, April 14, April 21, & April 28 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. This 4-part workshop covers the basics of photography including equipment & how to use it, depth of field, aperture, light, composition, finding your subject & tips & tricks. Each class is broken into 3 parts: classroom discussion, hands-on practice taking pictures by the students & review. Bring your DSLR camera & tripod to each class.
Workshop: Perfume Blending Intensive
This is a 6 week course on Tuesdays April 7, April 14, April 21, April 28, May 5, & May 12 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Those who complete this 6-week intensive workshop will leave with their own uniquely developed fragrance, 1 kit of 10 essences, & a Certificate of Perfume Blending from Amanda Feeley, natural perfumer & owner of Esscentual Alchemy. Amanda will teach you the background, skills, & preparation you'll need to become a natural perfumer.
Caucus Cup Debate
The ISU College Democrats will debate the College Republicans on an issue of the day. First Amendment Day Celebration
Piano Studio Recital
Piano students of Mei-Hsuan Huang
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2015
Used Magazine Sale
All magazines are just 25 cents! Stop in to help us reduce, reuse, and recycle during Earth Week.
Training: Youth Program Leaders
Offered by the offices of Risk Management, Extension and Outreach, and Conference Planning and Management to provide youth program leaders and student organization officers with information about youth-related policies, procedures and forms for conducting youth programs at ISU. Preregistration is required.
Live Green! Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate Earth Day with ISU and the Ames community. Bike tune-ups, food, and sustainability-minded giveaways!!
Agroecology, farmer livelihoods and ecosystem services in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
The Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture presents the 11th Annual Research Symposium. Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist and Professor at the University of Vermont, will give a keynote presentation on agroecology, farmer livelihoods and ecosystem services in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A reception and poster session will follow featuring current research from GPSA students and faculty. Join us and enjoy locally sourced refreshments!
Reception: Biorenewables Art Competition
This 6th annual competition is a collaboration between the Bioeconomy Institute and the Integrated Studio Arts program in the College of Design. Award winners will be announced during a short 4:15 p.m. program.
Softball
Iowa State vs. Nebraska-Omaha.
Class: Low Budget Photo Tricks
This is a 4 week course on Wednesdays beginning April 8, April 15, April 22, and April 29 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Imagine capturing stunning shots and imaginative effects without a studio filled with expensive equipment and large flash units.
Class: Vegetable Gardening Best Practices
Celebrate Earth Day by getting a head start on your own summer vegetable garden, with a discussion on best practices by Reiman Gardens' own expert vegetable gardener, Horticulturist, Sharon Rink.
Lecture: Climate Urgency
"Climate Urgency & How Iowa Farmers and Businesses Can Take the Lead" - Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who directs the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.
The Changing Iowa Landscape
This Earth Day, learn about some of the factors that have contributed to the changing Iowa landscape over the past 100 year. Please join Drs. Mark Hanna and Amy Kaleita, faculty in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, as they discuss the evolution of hay and forage production and harvest, the changing land, and soil and water conservation practices. These issues have impacted Iowa hay and forage production over the past 50 to 100 years.
Thursday, 23 Apr 2015
Graduate College students: electronic thesis
Graduate College: last day to upload final electronic thesis/dissertation copy for Thesis Office review.
Used Magazine Sale
All magazines are just 25 cents! Stop in to help us reduce, reuse, and recycle during Earth Week.
Webinar: "Mastering Academic Time Management"
This webinar is hosted by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity and facilitated by Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Register online with your ISU-sponsored membership.
Finding Funding: Using Campus Resources
What resources are available to faculty, grad students and post docs to find funding for research? How do you find non-governmental organizations that generously fund education and research projects in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences?
Film: Farmland
An intimate look at the lives of farmers and ranchers in their twenties, hosted by the Iowa State University Corn Growers Association. A panel of farmers will join the audience for a discussion immediately following the 77-minute film.
Sentinel Plant Network First Detector Training
Reiman Gardens' staff will take you through the steps to become a certified First Detector, in the ever-increasing effort to detect and diagnose "high-consequence" pests and pathogens, such as the emerald ash borer and the Asian long-horned beetle.
Workshop: Recycled Bookmaking
Learn about historical bookbinding techniques and make your own unique handmade books from recycled papers, using variations of the Coptic stitch. Leave class with two or more books and the know-how to keep cutting, folding and stitching more. A perfect use for that handmade paper from our Papermaking Workshop.
Panel Discussion: Creating Healthy Relationships
Find out the lessons ten Iowa State students learned as they experienced 30 days in a relationship with a complete stranger.
Panel Discussion: Clean Energy, A New Age of Abundance
Speakers include Jim Kennedy, CEO of Th-REE Consulting, and John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance.
Lecture: What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Timothy Rowe is a paleontologist and a leader in developing digital technologies to analyze and visualize fossil remains. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Concert: Esme Patterson
Hailing from Boulder, Colorado, Esme Patterson is a singer/songwriter. In 2006, she and her sister, along with another pair of siblings, formed a folk group in Denver known as Paper Bird. In 2012, Patterson decided to become a solo artist working on her first album, All Princes, I. After her first album, Patterson worked on and released Woman to Woman in 2013.