Thursday, 10 Nov 2016
Lecture: Enduring Vietnam
"Reflections on a War and Those Who Served." James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, author of "Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them." National Affairs Series
Monday, 14 Nov 2016
Osborn Club Lecture
Zlatan Krizan, associate professor in psychology, will present "How Sleep Shapes Social Behavior (and Vice Versa)" at the next Osborn Club lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Climate controls on shale weathering" by Dr. Ashlee Dere, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha, NE.
Wednesday, 16 Nov 2016
Lecture: Architecture with a Detour
Carlos Bedoya, founding partner of Mexico City-based architecture firm Productora, will present "Architecture with a Detour" as part of the 2016-17 ISU Department of Architecture Lecture Series. He will look at Productora's work "through a set of architectural variables as a means to tease out the practice's engagement not with solving problems per se, but with engaging the inherent 'difficulty' of architecture as a productive element of design."
Thursday, 17 Nov 2016
Webcast: OA (Open Access publishing system) Beyond APCs
Participants from around the world will discuss the possibilities of an OA system of publishing that is low/no cost to researchers or readers. The webcast is sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries along with SPARC, the Open Access Network and Allen Press. The webcast is part of a two-day international symposium at the University of Kansas. All faculty are invited to attend.
Sustainable Agroecosystems: An analysis across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Johan Six, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, Sustainable Agroecosystems Chair, Department of Environmental Systems Science.
Lecture: Find a Way, or Make One: Ben Barry
Graphic designer Ben Barry most recently was a communication designer for Facebook and co-founder of the Facebook Analog Research Laboratory. He will present a lecture and workshop Nov. 17-18 at the College of Design.
Lecture: The Science of Running
"Linking Biomechanics and Energy Cost," Rodger Kram, Pease Family Scholar in Kinesiology and associate professor of integrative physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder.