Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012
SusAg Colloquium
Farm Women and farm Sustainability: The Long View , Presenter: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Evaluating Student Writing and Speaking: Can Linguistics Help?
As a professor in Language Education at the University of British Columbia, Bernard Mohan worked extensively with immigrant learners in Vancouver's schools. He is a functional linguist well known for his pioneering work on language learning and content learning. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics
A Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Mani Rao will present her translation of the "Bhagavad Gita," an ancient philosophical text central to modern Hinduism. The author of eight books of poetry, Mani Rao has twice been a visiting fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program and was the 2006 University of Iowa International Program's writer-in-residence.
Osborn Club Lecture
"Measuring the elusive: All you need to know about catching neutrinos in the Midwest," Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. The lecture portion of Osborn Club meetings is open to the public.
Investing for All or Investing for Some: Should We Try to Develop All of Africa at Once?
Peter Orazem is University Professor of Economics at Iowa State. He recently authored four of the top fifteen strategies to improve education in the developing world cited by a panel of leading economists at the global Copenhagen Consensus 2012. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.