Thursday, 20 Apr 2017
Graduate College students: electronic thesis
Graduate College: last day to submit final electronic thesis/dissertation to ProQuest for Thesis Office review.
LMS Product Overviews: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas
CELT and ITS staff will provide scenario-based overviews of the two LMS product vendors selected to give on-campus presentations: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas. Each overview presentation will feature both products. These overviews are for faculty, staff and students at Iowa State University.
LMS Product Overviews: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas
CELT and ITS staff will provide scenario-based overviews of the two LMS product vendors selected to give on-campus presentations: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas. Each overview presentation will feature both products. These overviews are for faculty, staff and students at Iowa State University.
Youth Program: Caterpillar Club
Join us weekly this winter for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme. Materials are intended for children ages two to seven years old, and all children must be accompanied by an adult.
CANCELED: Virtual Reality Applications Center tour
This event has been canceled.
Observance: First Amendment Day
Enjoy free lunch and pick up a T-shirt at "Feast on the First."
LMS Product Overviews: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas
CELT and ITS staff will provide scenario-based overviews of the two LMS product vendors selected to give on-campus presentations: Desire 2 Learn and Instructure Canvas. Each overview presentation will feature both products. These overviews are for faculty, staff and students at Iowa State University.
Concert: Semi-Toned
Start spring in style with this all-male A Cappella group hailing form the University of Exeter. With their trademark musical wit and charisma, Semi-Toned has wowed audiences both in the UK and the USA. Praised for their creativity, uniqueness, vocal acrobatics and whimsical choreography, the group ensures there is something for everyone in all their shows!
Cyclone Cinema: Sing
The Student Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema! Showings are FREE in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there!
First Amendment Day Series Keynote: Glenn Smith
"Shining a light in darkness: The First Amendment and Community Journalism," Glenn Smith, special project editor at the Charleston, South Carolina, Post and Courier and a reporter on its Pulitzer Prize-winning series focused on domestic violence.
Performance: ISU Jazz Combo
Michael Giles is director of the ISU Jazz Combo.
Performance: The Tempest
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Friday, 21 Apr 2017
Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate Earth Day with ISU and the Ames community. Activities include bike and longboard tune-ups, food and sustainability-minded giveaways.
Workshop: Do You Know What They Know? STEM researcher shows how questions reveal student thinking
Using test answers to gauge student understanding of important concepts in undergraduate STEM courses can be misleading. How do you know your students really "got" what you were teaching? How can the format of your test questions reveal misunderstandings and teach you what the students know?
Workshop: Building National Institutes of Health Budgets
An introduction to NIH modular budgets, budget and personnel justifications, and other agency specific requirements. This session is intended for grant coordinators and beginning researchers who will be submitting NIH proposals.
Airfield Theater: Kite Picnic and Performance
Sixteen students in architecture Assistant Professor Firat Erdim's spring 2017 "AeroStudio" -- an advanced interdisciplinary option studio -- will fly kites they've designed and fabricated in class at this special event.
Retirement reception: Sharon Colletti
Sharon Colletti, Center for Crops Utilization Research, is retiring.
Retirement reception: Tom Rudolphi
Tom Rudolphi, professor of aerospace engineering, is retiring.
Tennis
Iowa State vs. Oklahoma. In the case of inclement weather, competition will be moved to Life Time Fitness, 11911 Hickman Rd., Urbandale. Check the Cyclone tennis website for location updates.
Recognition reception: Michael Bugeja
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will recognize Bugeja's 14 years of distinguished service as director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. A short program will begin at 3:50 p.m.
Reception: Biorenewables Art Competition
This 8th annual competition is a collaboration between the Bioeconomy Institute and the College of Design's integrated studio arts program. Award winners will be announced during a 4:15 p.m. program.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The low-level wind field of the tropical cyclone" by Dr. Daniel R. Chavas, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Walk-In Paint Your Own Pottery: Tiki Party
We've got luau party music and leis to welcome you to our space.
Lecture: MFA Program in Writing & the Environment Alumni Festival
"Home Voices," part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series. Participants include Lauren Alleyne, Lindsay Tigue, Melissa Sevigny, and Lucas Southworth.
Cyclone Cinema: Sing
The Student Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema! Showings are FREE in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there!
Fourth annual 'Trashion' Show
Hosted by students in AESHM 222, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving, to bring awareness to environmental issues hurting the planet. Students have created garments from recycled materials such as newspaper, plastic bottles, school supplies, fast food packaging and even parking tickets. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Concert: ISU Wind Ensemble
Under the direction of Michael Golemo, the 60-member Wind Ensemble performs works for smaller chamber ensembles to the full ensemble.
Performance: The Tempest
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
ISU AfterDark
ISU AfterDark is a student group that plans late night events throughout the semester. All activities are free for students and the public! Come enjoy the fun!
ISU AfterDark Crafts
ISU students are invited to the MU for free late-night activities held three times a semester.