Monday, 31 Mar 2014
Faculty panel discussion: Balancing work and private life
This discussion is designed with new faculty in mind but open to all faculty.
Spring Open House: Alumni Center
For event planners and administrative professionals. Tour the building and learn about catering options at the center.
CELT Morrill Professor Panel and Teaching Poster Symposium
Beginning at 4:00 p.m., a panel session, featuring Morrill Professors Gail Nonnecke and Leo Timms, will share their perspectives on the importance of effective teaching in higher education. The symposium will feature efforts of the CELT Teaching Partners Program which pairs junior faculty with senior faculty mentors, as well as showcasing examples of teaching techniques, teaching strategies and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Language, Poetry and Resilience - Natalie Diaz
Join us for a moderated conversation with poet Natalie Diaz about the process of writing poems, about the place of myth in writing, and about the language revitalization program she directs at Fort Mojave, where she works and teaches with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language. Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a...
Statisitcs Seminar
"Bayesian Variable Selection in the Presence of Multicollinearity", Joyee Ghosh, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa - Iowa City
Cyclone Idol Prelims
Are you ready for VEISHEA 2014's Cyclone Idol? Cyclone Idol is ISU's version of American Idol. This competition showcases ISU's student singers.
Zendoodle Workshop
Do you scribble patterns on notepads or junk mail? Does it relax you to doodle during class or in meetings? If so, you are already on your way to creating artful meditation.
Battle Ground Road Drummers & Meskwaki Nation Dancers
The Battle Ground Road drum group and Meskwaki Nation Dancers will share traditional and contemporary songs and dances.
In the Light of Justice - Walter Echo-Hawk
The Battle Ground Road drum group and Meskwaki Nation Dancers will perform at 6:30 pm, preceding the 7:00 pm talk. Walter Echo-Hawk is a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar and activist. The 2014 Thompson Memorial Lecture
Interior Mythologies: Literary Readings & Discussion
Literary Readings and discussion with K. L. Cook, author of three books of fiction and teaches in Iowa State's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment. Poet Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and author of the poetry collection "When My Brother Was an Aztec." Part of the Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination Series