Monday, 14 Nov 2011
Multicultural Instrumentalist: Todd Green
Youth Matinee Series Performance: Multicultural Instrumentalist: Todd Green (Grades K-12)
Statistics
"Spatial Scan Statistics with Overdispersion," Tongling Zhang, Department of Statistics, Purdue U, W. Lafayette, Indiana
BIM: Integrated Architecture
Ute Poerschke, a national expert in Building Information Modeling and environmentally conscious design, will discuss different understandings of BIM in education and professional practice as part of the fall-semester Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series at Iowa State University. The event is free and open to the public.
The Health and Environmental Effects of Using Coal as Fuel
Dr. Maureen McCue is the Iowa Coordinator for Physicians for Social Responsibility and a lead author on the Iowa Coal Health Mapping Study. She is an adjunct professor of global health at the University of Iowa with a specialty in epidemiology. Live Green! Sustainability Series.
Christian Responses to Climate Change
Penny Greer is a minister and geologist. She earned a Master of Divinity from the Harvard Divinity School and has served as a church pastor for thirty years. Greer returned to school after a decade of ministry, driven by a concern about why the natural world was excluded from Western Christianity.
Osborn Club Lecture
"Deep Brain Stimulation using Magnetic Fields in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation," David Jiles, Distinguished Professor and chair, ISU electrical and computer engineering. The lecture is open to the public.
Multicultural Instrumentalist: Todd Green
Multicultural Instrumentalist: Todd Green (Public Concert)
Who Owns Your Genes?
Chris Hansen, senior staff counsel for the national American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was lead counsel in the ACLU's challenge of patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The 2009 lawsuit charged that the patents are illegal and restrict both scientific research and patients' access to medical care.