Thursday, 14 Apr 2011
Team-Based Learning
A two-day workshop, led by team-based learning specialist Larry Michaelsen. The focus is on how to effectively engage large groups of students and how to improve teaching outcomes through team-based learning with a focus on the disciplines of social science, arts and humanities. Lunch is provided both days.
Lecture: Brown Bag
Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers.
Computer science distinguished lecture
"Computational Thinking in Language Design," Alfred Aho, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Designing and implementing a programming language is an exercise in computational thinking. This talk looks at how that pervades the process of designing and implementing programming languages. Having teams of students create and implement their own innovative language provides students with a wonderful opportunity to learn computational thinking.
Softball
Iowa State vs. Drake.
Agron 600A - Plant Breeding Seminars
"Linkage Disequilibrium: Summary and Implications for Breeding" Mark Newell
Staniforth Memorial Lecture
"Glyphosate Interactions Beyond Weed Control: Current State of Knowledge," Robert J. Kremer, USDA-ARS and the University of Missouri, Columbia. A reception will follow the lecture in the Agronomy Hall Commons. This is the 22nd annual David W. Staniforth Memorial Lecture.
Rock and Roll Testimony
"Rock and Roll Testimony: Finding the Sacred in Guitar, Bass and Drums," David Nantais, a freelance writer and religion book reviewer for Publishers Weekly. His work covers such topics as bioethics and the intersection of spirituality and popular culture. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture