Thursday, 16 Oct 2014
The Strategies of a Successful Transposable Element
Part of the Women in STEM series. Susan Wessler is President's Chair and Distinguished Professor of Genetics, University of California, Riverside. A reception will precede the lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the MU Sun Room.
Nanovaccine Initiative Seminar
"Sialic Acids as Determinants of Self," James Paulson, acting President and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Paulson researches the roles of glycan binding proteins in the modulation of immune cell signaling, and the receptor specificity of influenza viruses. A reception precedes his seminar at 3:45 pm.
The Battle between Church and State
Dan Barker is co-president of the nationally known advocacy organization Freedom From Religion Foundation. He is author of many books articles, including Maybe Yes, Maybe no: A Guide For Young Skeptics, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, and Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists. He is a former preacher of both Quaker and Assembly of God congregations.
The LGBT Athletes and Moments That Changed the Sports World Forever
Cyd Zeigler is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT sports issues, a cofounder of Outsports.com, and coauthor of The Outsports Revolution: Truth & Myth in the World of Gay Sports. Part of Coming Out Week.
Friday, 17 Oct 2014
Setting the Table for a Hotter, Flatter, More Crowded Earth
"Setting the Table for a Hotter, Flatter, More Crowded Earth," Sonny Ramaswamy, USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture. A listening session will follow the lecture.
Take It to the Farmer
Indian agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan is often recognized as the father of the Green Revolution in India.
Monday, 20 Oct 2014
Research workshop: Emerging opportunities and competitive NSF grant proposals
Mary Galvin-Donoghue, Division Director of Materials Research in the Directorate of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the NSF will explain the agency's culture, review process and suggestions on how to submit a successful grant proposal to NSF. She will highlight specific programs and talk about emerging opportunities in the area of mathematical and physical sciences.
Statistics Seminar
"Spectral analytic comparisons for data augmentation and my other research interests," Vivek Roy, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames
Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014
Lecture: Active Social Architecture, Kigali, Rwanda
Spanish architect Nerea Amoros Elorduy is a cofounder of Active Social Architecture (ASA), a design firm in Kigali, Rwanda. ASA works in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team across continents to improve livelihoods and strengthen and empower communities and their sense of identity, through innovative, community-based designs and a holistic approach to architecture. Elorduy will share her work in this public presentation.
Panel: Open access and the land-grant mission
Harrison Inefuku, Digital Repository coordinator, and Emma Molls, scholarly communications and social sciences and humanities librarian, will join ISU faculty and researchers for a panel discussion on open access and research sharing, including using Digital Repository at Iowa State University to further the land-grant ideal that higher education should be accessible to all.
Operation Beautiful - Caitlin Boyle
Caitlin Boyle launched Operation Beautiful in 2009 in an effort to curb the negative self-images she so often discovered among young women and men. She began leaving messages on the mirrors of public restrooms to encourage others to think positively about their body. She scribbles down whatever comes to mind - You are beautiful! A smile is your best accessory. Love yourself first. Today, Operation Beautiful is at work on school lockers,...
Wednesday, 22 Oct 2014
Lecture: "Eye-Con"
Thomas Kelley is a Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a visiting assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Being a Good Person in a Morally Complicated World
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is a spiritual leader, well-known scholar of Jewish history and ethics.
Lecture: United Nations Call to Action on Climate Change - Patricia Beneke
Patricia Beneke is director and regional representative of the United Nations Environment Programme's Regional Office for North America and a graduate of Iowa State. World Affairs Series.
Thursday, 23 Oct 2014
Lecture: A Day in "The Pit"
Why is a popular market in downtown Lima, Peru, often condemned as a vile and dangerous place? Daniella Gandolfo, associate professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, will recount a day's activities at El Hueco (the Pit) in the context of Marx and Engels' "lumpenproletariat" and Hernando de Soto's "informality" to answer this question.
A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Cargill, an assistant professor of Classics and religious studies at the University of Iowa, will discuss how recent advances in the fields of archaeology and the digital humanities have enabled scholars to create digital reconstructions of archaeological remains at Qumran, the site associated with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Planet Money Live!
David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein are correspondents with NPR's Planet Money team and explain the economy with humor and insight. Greater Iowa Credit Union Business Lecture Series