Wednesday, 17 Sep 2014
Panel: The U.S. Supreme Court on Religious Liberty, Birth Control and Corporate Personhood
Panelists will discuss recent Supreme Court rulings as well as potential cases that may go before the court. Panelists include ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Ben Stone. Iowa State Bioethics Program Director Clark Wolf will moderate. Constitution Day Event
Thursday, 18 Sep 2014
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin Blaser is director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University and author of "Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues." National Affairs Series.
Friday, 19 Sep 2014
High School Shootings, Bored Teens and Appropriated Space: What's a Landscape Architect to Do?
Ben Shirtcliff, assistant professor of landscape architecture, will present his research to date on human behavior and the built environment, focusing on the positive gains vulnerable populations achieve when they claim underutilized space for desired activities.
Engineers' Week 2014 Lecture: Michio Kaku
"How Science Will Revolutionize Business, Medicine, Jobs and Life," Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, popularizer of science, and television personality.
Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014
The Symbolism of the Sand Mandala
Monks from the the Drepung Loseling Monastery will create a mandala sand painting in the lobby of the Memorial Union Monday, September 22 through Thursday, September 25. The process consists of opening ceremony with chants, music and mantra recitation and ends with the dismantling of the mandala and dispersal of the sand. Millions of grains of sand are poured from traditional metal funnels called chakpur to create a finished mandala...