Thursday, 01 Oct 2015
Lecture: Battling Ebola
"How Technology is Transforming the Response to Global Epidemics," Steven VanRoekel, former USAID chief innovation officer who was responsible for advising the agency on using technology and data in its response to the ebola epidemic. He is a graduate of Iowa State. World Affairs Series
Friday, 02 Oct 2015
Lecture & Reading: A New Chapter in the Living Legacy of George Washington Carver
Xavier Cavazos, a 2013 graduate of Iowa State's MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment, will read from his new book of poetry inspired by stories of the life and times of George Washington Carver.
Monday, 05 Oct 2015
Lecture: U.S. Department of Labor Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz
"Wage Inequality: Why It Matters and What to Do About It." Heidi Shierholz is the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a graduate of Iowa State. Part of the Iowa State Economics Forum & National Affairs Series.
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2015
Lecture: The 11 Rival Regions of North America
"American Nations: A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America," journalist and author Colin Woodard. National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in Conflict.
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2015
Lecture: How Baling Hay Prepared Me to Become the Coffee 'Bean Baron'
Danny O'Neill is the owner and founder of The Roasterie Coffee, Inc., and a graduate of Iowa State. The William K Deal Leadership Lecture and part of CALS Week.
Thursday, 08 Oct 2015
Agronomy Seminar Series: Edward Buckler
Edward Buckler is a USDA-ARS research geneticist who leads the Buckler Lab for Maize Genetics and Diversity at Cornell University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Buckler uses genomics and statistical genetics to understand and dissect complex traits in maize, biofuel grasses, cassava and grapes.
Lecture: Stopping Child Slavery in Ghana
James Kofi Annan is a former child slave and leads West Africa's most prominent children's rights organization, Challenging Heights. World Affairs Series.
Monday, 12 Oct 2015
Lecture: Learning with Migrant Youth
Leigh Patel is a sociologist, writer and educator based at Boston College. She is the author of "Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion." Part of Human Sciences Week.
Norman Borlaug Lecture: Empowering the Poor in the Fight against Hunger
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate and founder and chairperson of BRAC, the world's largest anti-poverty organization. Norman Borlaug Lecture and part of the World Affairs Series
Tuesday, 13 Oct 2015
Lecture: Evolution of the Obesity Epidemic and Efforts to Contain It
Dr. William Dietz is the director of the Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health, where he is leading innovative strategies to expand wellness and the prevention of chronic diseases. A member of the prestigious National Institute of Medicine, he has a distinguished career that includes fifteen years as the director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical...
Watch Party & Discussion: Democratic Presidential Debate
Join your Iowa State friends and colleagues to watch Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee for 90 exciting minutes of political debate!
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Stephen Russell
Attend the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. This series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Thursday, 15 Oct 2015
Lecture: Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
"Hamburgers in Paradise" - Louise Fresco is president of Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands and a former director at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. She combines a long academic career with extensive involvement in policy and development.
Panel: How We Can Achieve an International Agreement on Climate Change
"Iowa State's Challenge for Paris." Ryan Hobert is the Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the United Nations Foundation. He will join a panel discussion with Iowa State students working on research and policy issues related to climate change.
Monday, 19 Oct 2015
Lecture: Radiolab's Jad Abumrad
"Gut Churn" - Jad Abumrad is producer and co-host of Radiolab, heard weekly on NPR.
Tuesday, 20 Oct 2015
Lecture: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and author of the groundbreaking 2011 New York Times Magazine essay that revealed and chronicled his life as an undocumented immigrant. Vargas, who has worked with the Huffington Post and the Washington Post, was subsequently featured on the cover of TIME Magazine and testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform. He has written...
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015
Lecture: Are Pentagon Contractors Driving U.S. Foreign Policy?
"Governing Under the Influence" - Col. (Ret) Lawrence Wilkerson was Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2005. World Affairs Series: Redefining Global Security
Thursday, 22 Oct 2015
Lecture: The Evolution of Goodness, Justice and Empathy
Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at University of Louisville, where he studies the evolution of social behavior. Sigma Xi Lecture Series
Friday, 23 Oct 2015
Ames City Council Candidate Forum
This event will provide an opportunity for students and community members to learn about the Ames City Council candidates and their platforms. There will be also be questions from a moderator and from the audience.
Lecture: Puerto Rican Student Association Cultural Night
Before becoming the host of CNN Dinero at CNN En Espanol, Xavier Serbia was widely recognized in the 1980s as a member of the boy band Menudo and an actor in such films as Una Aventura Llamada Menudo. At the end of his entertainment career he lost all of his money due to poor financial decisions, and his career took an unexpected turn. He overcame his financial downfall to become a successful business professional. Serbia...
Spoken Word Performance: Intersections of Identity
Kai Davis is a writer and performer from Philadelphia whose work deals with race, gender and sexuality. A Queer Woman of Color, she explores how these concepts affect who we are and how we love.
Monday, 26 Oct 2015
Lecture: Engaging Art for Justice
Artist Rebecca Berru Davis discusses her work with Peruvian women artists who live in the shantytowns outside of Lima. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture Series
Lecture: Privacy and Confidentiality in an Era of Big Data
Presented by Stephen Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015
Lecture: "The Cove" Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos
Louie Psihoyos won an Academy Award for his documentary The Cove. His new documentary, Racing Extinction, premiered at Sundance in 2015. World Affairs Series
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Frank Furstenberg
Attend the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. This series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Watch Party & Discussion: Republican Presidential Debate
Join your Iowa State friends and colleagues to watch the Republican presidential candidates for 120 exciting minutes of political debate!
Thursday, 29 Oct 2015
Lecture: Parietal-Frontal Networks for Specific Actions in Primates
Dr. Jon Kaas is a Distinguished Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.