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...
Monday, 29 Sep 2014
Statistics Seminar
"How ISU Became World Data Mining Champs," Data Mining Cup Team*, Department of Statistics.
Closets are for Clothes: Being LGBT in Black America
Juan Battle heads the Social Justice Sexuality Initiative, a project exploring the lived experiences of Black, Latina/o, and Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Film screening: "Symphony of the Soil"
An artistic exploration of soil, and its complex relationships with water, the atmosphere, plants, animals, and human beings. 103 min.
Tuesday, 30 Sep 2014
Nanovaccine Initiative Seminar
"Auranofin as a Lead Candidate for Treatment of Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis) and Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)," Judy Sakanari, parasitologist at the Center for Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Francisco. Her lab works on a number of parasitic diseases. A reception precedes her seminar at 1:30 pm.
Telling Our Story: The Future of Iowa's Farm Families
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey kicks off CALS Week. The 2014 William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture.
Pesek-Pierre Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture
"Communicating Science through Stories in Film: A Dialogue about Agricultural Sustainability and Soil," with filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia and Kate Scow, professor of soil science at the University of California, Davis.