Monday, 10 Oct 2011
Osborn Club Lecture
"New Frontier of Biological Wastewater Nutrient Removal," Shihwu Sung, ISU environmental engineering. The lecture is open to the public.
Norman Borlaug Lecture
Pedro Sanchez was awarded the World Food Prize in 2002 for his pioneering use of agroforestry to restore fertility to some of the world's poorest and most degraded soils. He is Director of Tropical Agriculture at Columbia University's Earth Institute and an international leader in the fight against hunger, having co-led the United Nation's Millennium Project's Task Force on Hunger.
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2011
Lecture: New Worlds of Water
"New Worlds of Water," Margaret Catley-Carlson, chair of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on Water. Part of the World Food Prize fall seminar series, "Feeding the World: Are We Making Progress."
Seminar: Ron Follett
Ron Follett, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, Fort Collins, Colo., will speak about greenhouse gases and their relationship to crop and livestock production.
Floral Design Series
"Trash to Treasure" - Learn how to use flowers to create an arrangement in an unconventional container. Bring a container from home with a 4" or 6" opening.
Global Food Insecurity
Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor, is head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), an organization charged with disbursing farm subsidies, regulatory responsibility for farming and agriculture, as well as for food safety, food production and natural resources and conservation. Part of the World Affairs Series.
Seminar: Estate and retirement planning
"Provide and Protect: Planning Your Will and Trust," the 3rd annual estate and retirement planning seminar offered by the ISU Foundation. Preregistration requested; complimentary meal included.
Floral Design Series
"Trash to Treasure" - Learn how to use flowers to create an arrangement in an unconventional container. Bring a container from home with a 4" or 6" opening.
Constitution Cafe - Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips is the author of Socrates Cafe: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart, Six Questions of Socrates, Socrates in Love; and Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution. He draws on our nation's rebellious past to inspire meaningful change today. With Thomas Jefferson as a guide, he taps into a broad cross-section of Americans' timely and timeless concerns about the need to give our country's...
Wednesday, 12 Oct 2011
Inaugural One Health Lecture
"One Health: World Health Through Collaboration" will be presented by 2010 World Food Prize Laureate David Beckmann, in conjunction with this year's World Food Prize events.
Lecture: Food policy changes and opportunities
"Urgent and Emerging Food Policy Challenges and Opportunities," Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, Cornell University. Part of the World Food Prize fall seminar series, "Feeding the World: Are We Making Progress."
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Migrant/immigrant workers in Iowa. Presenter: 1) Carlos Rich, Center for New Community 2) Mario Sanchez, IA Workforce Dev. and New Iowan Center 3) Farmer that hires a lot of migrants workers
Thursday, 13 Oct 2011
Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Seminar Series
"Maps, traffic and traffic lights: a cellular perspective" Ganesh Sriram, University of Maryland
Brown Bag Lecture
"Itching to Share 'Our Iowa' Pride," Jerry Wiebel, editor, "Our Iowa" magazine. 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.
Open forum: U.S. Food Systems and Global Hunger
An open forum discussion on the relationship of U.S. food systems to global hunger led by Michael Hamm, Michigan State University. Hamm, the 2011-12 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair in ISU's College of Human Sciences, is the C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and head of the Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU.
Computer science colloquia: Zhengyuan Zhu
Zhengyuan Zhu, associate professor of statistics, will present "Spatial Sampling Design and Wireless Networks."
Agronomy Seminar
Biochar: Why do people care? Presenter: Dr. Johannes Lehman
Democracy Movements in the Middle East
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at both the Transnational Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, where she directs the New Internationalism Project. Bennis worked as a journalist at the UN for ten years and currently serves as a special adviser to several top-level UN officials on Middle East issues. World Affairs Series.
Physical Fitness and Mental Health
"Physical Fitness and Mental Health: Understanding Exercise and Sport Psychology through the Study of Brain Processes," Bradley Hatfield, kinesiology professor, University of Maryland. His program in exercise and sport psychology focuses broadly on exercise and its effects on mental health. He also studies performance-related aspects of humans and exercise. The 2011-12 Pease Family Scholar.
Neanderthals and Us
Anthropologist David Frayer studies the relationship between Neanderthals and subsequent European populations. He has published on topics ranging from Neanderthal toothpick use to evidence for human massacres in the German Mesolithic to evidence for language origins. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sigma Xi Lecture Series.
Friday, 14 Oct 2011
Disability Awareness Summit Keynote Address
Mark Leddy is Director of the Research in Disabilities Education Program at the National Science Foundation. The Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program makes resources available to increase the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers.
Slovenia and the European Union Financial Crisis
His Excellency Roman Kirn is Ambassador of Slovenia to the United States, a position he has held since May 2009. He will discuss how Slovenia, after twenty years of independence, has shaped its role in the European Union and the global economy.
Planetarium Show - "Backyard Astronomy"
Backyard Astronomy
Saturday, 15 Oct 2011
Latino Heritage Month Keynote Lecture Carlos Munoz
Carlos Munoz is a founder of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and a pioneer in the academic disciplines of Chicano/Latino & Ethnic Studies. After four decades of teaching in higher education, he has gained prominence as a political scientist, historian and public intellectual in the areas of racial politics, diversity, immigration, civil and human rights and affirmative action. His book Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement...