Wednesday, 17 Apr 2013
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Julia Olmstead,Details TBA
Plant Breeding Seminar
Jinliang Yang, Complementation of dominant and pseudo-overdominant loci detected by GWAS contribute to heterosis of yield component traits in maize
Soil Seminar
Chris Pelzer, "Greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon dynamics during the transition period from conventional to organic agriculture systems"
Architecture Advisory Council Lecture: Adam Yarinsky
Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, a principal with the Architecture Research Office in New York City, will speak about his firm's holistic approach to architecture in a lecture titled "Almost Nothing?" His talk, part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston is a technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the political blog "Jack and Jill Politics" and served as Director of Digital for The Onion before launching the comedy and technology startup Cultivated Wit. He writes the monthly back-page column for Fast Company, and his first book, How To Be Black, is a New York Times bestseller.