Thursday, 04 Feb 2016
Lecture: Finding Your Path in the Shifting Scientific Workforce
Kendall Powell discusses the tough realities and statistics facing students and postdocs as they enter the scientific workforce and, specifically, the evolution of postdoctoral scholars in the United States.
Documentary & Discussion: Homeless Teens & the Struggle to Stay in School
Screening of "The Homestretch," which follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and make the crucial transition to independence when the structure of school vanishes.
Friday, 05 Feb 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The Detailed Structure of Tornadoes Observed during VORTEX2 and Oklahoma" by Dr. Roger Wakimoto, Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Geosciences
Planetarium Show: Solar System Astronomy
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, 08 Feb 2016
Statistics Seminar
Prediction and Inference with Missing Data in Patient Alert Systems, Curtis Storlie, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Osborn Club Lecture
Diane Birt, Distinguished Professor of food science and human nutrition, will present "Diet and Cancer: A Body of Research Leading to National Academy Membership." The lecture portion of the program is open to the public following the member social.
Lecture: My Holocaust Story
"A Message of Determination, Perseverance, Faith and Hope," Marion Blumenthal Lazan. Lazan provides a moving firsthand account of the Blumenthal family's life in Germany from the events preceding Kristallnacht to imprisonment in concentration camps, including Bergen-Belsen, to liberation in April 1945.
Tuesday, 09 Feb 2016
Veritas Forum: Mercy and Injustice in American Prisons
Alex Tuckness is a professor and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Lecture: The Art of Climate Change
"The Arctic Cycle: The Art of Climate Change," Chantal Bilodeau. Bilodeau is a playwright and the Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle, an organization created to support the writing, development and production of eight plays that examine the impact of climate change on the eight countries of the Arctic. Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series
Wednesday, 10 Feb 2016
Reception and Lecture: The Future of Green Infrastructure: Jeffrey L. Bruce
Award-winning landscape architect Jeffrey L. Bruce will speak about emerging green design technologies beginning at 6 p.m. in the auditorium. A reception with pizza will precede the lecture at 5:20 p.m. in the Lightfoot Forum. Part of the ISU Landscape Architecture Lecture Series.
Landscape Lecture Series
"The Future of Green Infrastructure," Jeffrey Bruce, FASLA. A 5:20 p.m. pizza reception in the atrium precedes the event. Presented by the (Ab)Terris, graduate student landscape architecture club.
Thursday, 11 Feb 2016
Lecture: Social Justice, Public Service and the Search for a Life That Matters
Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote. Wes Moore is a combat veteran, Rhodes Scholar, White House fellow and the author of two books: "The Other Wes Moore" and "The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters."