Monday, 24 Oct 2016
Lecture: Global Health and Sustainable Development
Ambassador John E. Lange (Ret.) works in global health diplomacy for the United Nations Foundation. World Affairs Series
Lecture: The Geology and Geography of Floods
Jim Oââ'¬â"¢Connor is a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon, who studies landscape evolution related to rivers and floods.
Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"1000 Dams Down and Counting/The Great Missoula Floods of the Last Ice Age" by Dr. James O'Connor, USGS, Portland, OR.
David W. Staniforth Memorial Lecture
"Managing the Evolution of Weed Adaptations," Marie Jasieniuk, professor and plant biologist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California-Davis. A reception in the Agronomy Hall commons will follow the lecture.
Legislative Candidate Forum
Part of the Campaign 2016 Series, providing the university and community with opportunities to question candidates before the November election.
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016
Seminar: Enable precision data for precision medicine
Jun Ye is co-founder, president and CEO of Sentieon, a bioinformatics company established in July 2014. Sentieon develops and supplies a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that process genomics data with high-computing efficiency, fast turnaround time, exceptional accuracy and 100 percent consistency.
The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution
Kristen Hawkes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a graduate of Iowa State.
Lecture: Free Trade and Business at the Border
Tom Fullerton and Alberto Davila will discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA, including cross-border trade, the border economy, and its impact on labor markets and business. Both are graduates of the Iowa State Department of Economics.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
Understanding and Adapting Soybean to Global Changes
Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Plant Biology Department.
Lecture: The Age of Internet Trolls
Joel Stein, author of the recent TIME magazine cover story "Why We're Losing the Internet to a Culture of Hate," will discuss how trolling on the Internet is infecting our real-life interactions, including politics. National Affairs Series