Thursday, 12 Nov 2015
Brown Bag Lecture
"Holiday Decorating" presented by Sandy Gossman of the Ames Garden Club. Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program with a new topic presented by regional professionals and lecturers.
Women's and Gender Studies series
Q&A with Amy Slagell, Liberal Arts and Sciences associate dean, and Joanne Powell-Coffman, ISU genetics, development and cell biology. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Documentary & Discussion: What Matters?
"What Matters?"is a feature-length documentary about three friends, two idealistic Christians and one skeptic Atheist, attempting to live in extreme poverty - on $1.25 a day - across three continents (87 min). A discussion and Q&A will follow the film.
Lecture: Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics
"The Global Tide of Women Rising," - Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, for which she writes a nationally syndicated column twice weekly on politics and culture.
Friday, 13 Nov 2015
Interactive lecture: Building an Inclusive Environment
"The Role of Social Contextual Factors," Delia Saenz, professor of psychology, Arizona State University. Refreshments provided.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"N cycling in Palouse soils: Storage and loss pathways suggested by nitrate stable isotopes," Kent Keller, Washington State University, Pullman.
CANCELED: Wild School: Participation Post-Occupancy and the Problems of Assessment in Sustainable Design
Andrea Wheeler, assistant professor of architecture, will share results of a Big 12 Faculty Fellowship award at the University of Texas at Austin, during which she examined problems of assessment in the field of sustainable architecture. She takes a critical, feminist approach to exploring what it might mean to design a sustainable school environment while attending to ecological belonging. Part of the IDRO Friday Research Seminar Series.
Planetarium Show: Cosmic Recycling
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars!
Monday, 16 Nov 2015
Statistics Seminar
"Bayesian Screening for Group Differences in High-Throughput Data", Eric Lock, Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Lecture: Atheist Voter Initiative & the Patient's Right To Know Act
Amanda Knief is the acting Legal Counsel and Public Policy Advisor for the American Atheists. She will discuss the Patient's Right To Know Act, proposed legislation that would require health care providers to disclose to patients any treatments or services that are legally available but that the provider chooses not to provide because of religious or philosophical beliefs.
Lecture: Democracy at Work, A Cure for Capitalism
Richard Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the global economic crisis.
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2015
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecture: "Sticky or Slippery? Controls on Subduction megathrust behavior at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand," Laura Wallace, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin. A 3:30 p.m. reception precedes the seminar.
Wednesday, 18 Nov 2015
Lecture: Growing the Midwest Garden
"Giving the Garden Life: Perennials." Join Reiman Gardens' Director Ed Lyon for a six-week series that augments his book by the same title released this May. Each presentation addresses practical gardening applicable to novice and experienced gardeners alike.
Graphic Design Speaker Series: Thinking Wrong, Doing Right
Graphic designer, social advocate and entrepreneur John Bielenberg, founder of Project M and Future Partners and partner in mach49, will talk about using creativity and ingenuity to "design for good" and make a better world.
Thursday, 19 Nov 2015
Seminar: Nanovaccine Initiative and CBE
"Frontiers of Biomedical Materials," Jindrich Kopecek, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Kopecek will discuss the evolution of biomedical materials and the creation of a new paradigm in nanomedicine -- drug-free macromolecular therapeutics. A reception precedes the seminar (10:30 a.m., 2061 Sweeney Hall).