Thursday, 19 Feb 2015
University Policies for Lecturers, Clinicians and Adjunct Faculty - Session 2
Workshop for lecturers, clinicians, and adjunct faculty - part 2
Webinar: The Power of Personal Vision: Linking Undergraduate Engineering Education and Professional Persistence
Education professor Bob Reason researches how individual student behaviors are encouraged and discouraged by classroom climates. Are you inadvertently telling your students that cheating is okay in your class? Dr. Reason shares current research on what drives students to cheat, best practices for preventing academic dishonesty in your classroom, and how you can address integrity with your students.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Creating Large-Lecture Community through Effective Questioning
Award-winning faculty member Kevin Schalinske shares how he creates a comfortable atmosphere in his ~100 student biochemistry/molecular biology-rich advanced nutrition and human metabolism classes.
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"The Challenge of Creating a Low-Carbon Economy in the Age of Natural Gas," Roger Aines, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. Please RSVP for lunch (noon-12:30 p.m.).
Art and Animals
This is the last week for the exhibition of animal sculptures by Gwynn Murrill in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. To give the Murrill animals a proper send off, educators from the Blank Park Zoo will be bringing a group of live animals, both wild and domestic, to the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Take this opportunity to see the exhibit one more time and pet an alligator while you are here.
Mesoscopic Physics on Surfaces
Christoph Tegenkamp Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Hannover
Class: Black Light Butterfly Roosting
Join Nathan Brockman, Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing Curator, for a special black light butterfly show. Learn the science behind the way many butterfly patterns fluoresce when exposed to black light, and view them in a new way as they clump together and begin roosting for the night.
Glass Beads Class
Learn to create colorful glass beads by heating and shaping glass with a torch. Build your skills with step-by-step instruction and take home your own handmade beads each week. Your beautiful beads can be used in jewelry or other artful objects.
Cyclone Cinema: Interstellar
Showings are FREE in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there!
Lecture: Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness Week
"Shattered Image" - Author Brian Cuban chronicles his firsthand experiences living with eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
Sewing Class
An introduction to the fundamentals of sewing. Bring a yard or two of quilting cotton, voile or linen fabric to the first class to make an infinity scarf. Discuss wool fabric choices for the poncho you will sew in the second class. Sewing machines provided but feel free to bring your own if you prefer.
SUB Comedy Night w/ Sara Schaefer
SUB Comedy Night with Sara Schaefer