Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
SVPP - Strategies for Obtaining Tenure
A panel of senior faculty and department chairs from various colleges share their recommendations on how to plan and prepare for a successful promotion and tenure review.
BBQ: Student Alumni Association
Renew or sign up for a 2016-17 Student Alumni Association membership and get a free lunch.
Arbor Day planting: Witchhazel Walk
The Graduate Student Horticulture Society is leading a planting day, including over 75 shrubs and trees along the sidewalk between Horticulture Hall and Osborn Drive. In addition to members of GSHS, volunteers from the undergraduate Horticulture Club and students in the Landscape Architecture program will participate.
P&S Council Seminar Series
"It Matters What Staff Say, Too," Denise Williams-Klotz, multicultural student affairs; and Katie Davidson, College of Veterinary Medicine. The seminar will be webcast live and archived for later viewing.
Softball
Iowa State vs. South Dakota.
Meeting: Faculty Senate
The Faculty Senate represents the general faculty of Iowa State University and participates in shared governance of the University with the administration. Senate meetings are open to the public.
Softball
Iowa State vs. South Dakota.
Floral Design Series Workshop
Topic: "Off-White Crescents" - Give a nod to those emerging bulbs with springtime crescents that can welcome the change in season!
Documentary Screening: The Competition: An Angel Borrego Cubero Film
The first film documenting the tense developments that characterize architectural contests, "The Competition" is an account of how some of the best architects in the world struggled to beat the competition to design the National Museum of Art of Andorra.
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Deb Cassidy
Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Performance: Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group is best known for their wildly popular theatrical shows and concerts which combine music, comedy and multimedia theatrics to produce a totally unique form of entertainment.
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
Registration ends: Summer 2016, Fall 2016
Last day of assigned registration start dates for Summer 2016 and Fall 2016 registration.
Behind the Scenes
Topic: "Production Greenhouses" - After a long Iowa winter, see these back-of-the-house spaces come alive with seedlings and activity, and get inspired for your spring gardens.
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Ross Parke
The final lecture of the Future of Healthy Families series features Hilton Endowed Chair Ross Parke. He will be joined by the series speakers via live web feeds. A reception and HDFS graduate student poster session immediately follows the lecture, 4-5:30 p.m.
Open House
Celebrating 50 years of Iowa State's Intensive English and Orientation Program. A short program will begin at 3:15 p.m. Enjoy refreshments and displays.
POSTPONED: Softball
The Iowa State vs. Iowa (Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series) softball game has been postponed to April 27, due to weather. Game time is 3 p.m.
Lucky Penny Necklace
Finals, graduation and spring weddings are coming up soon! Stamp LUCK into a penny and make it into a pendant or keychain.
Artist Lecture: Gary Bowling with a Gallery Walk
One of the preeminent Midwestern landscape painters, Gary Bowling is well known for his expansive and expressive visions of the fields and vistas within and surrounding Iowa. He will discuss his art, history, and passion for this genre of painting. Please join University Museums in celebrating one of our most popular and wonderful artists and his solo exhibition on campus.
Lecture: Food Regimes, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
Eric Holt-Gimenez is the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. The organization was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappe and promotes access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. Holt-Gimenez worked for more than two decades with small-scale farmers in Mexico and Central America and prior to joining Food First served as the Latin...
ISU Jazz Ensembles I & II
Jazz 2.0, with Michael Giles gripping the reigns, presents the famous "Far East Suite" penned by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. A work that was released in 1966 features several pieces that were all influenced from the Ellington Orchestra's international tours for the State Department. Different images, poetic works, and musical musings all combined to inform these compositions. The band is featured throughout both collectively and soloi
Performance: Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group - enemy of monotony, remedy for boredom, promoter of overjoy and elation. DARE TO LIVE IN FULL COLOR
Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
James Gelvin is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire."
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival is Iowa State University's student comedy, improv group. Holding shows on some Wednesday nights, you can come and laugh to your hearts content at the Mojos, and with the Mojos.
Thursday, 21 Apr 2016
Graduate College students: electronic thesis
Graduate College: last day to upload final electronic thesis/dissertation to ProQuest for Thesis Office review.
Open house: Power Plant's 125th
Nine years after Thomas Edison pioneered cogeneration -- a very efficient process of generating both power and heat -- Iowa State incorporated it into its first power plant (1891). The university has been cogenerating ever since. Stop by the open house to celebrate this 125-year milestone. Refreshments, tours and a 2 p.m. presentation are planned.
Growing with Grown-Ups Series: Trees
Kids, bring an adult with you to Reiman Gardens each month and learn a wide variety of gardening and growing techniques.
Lecture: The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign
Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy.
ISU Jazz Combos
The leading small jazz groups on campus commence again to feature profile concerts about some of their favorite artists. Learn about who these people are and hear the young musicians delve deeply into tunes that are either written or made famous by these iconic jazzers. This concert also serves as the swan song for two of the more talented jazz saxophonists to grace the stage in over a dozen years - Ian Abbott on tenor and Nick Doss on alto.
Performance: Tedeschi Trucks Band
On January 29, 2016 Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by the husband-and-wife team of singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, capped an extraordinary and transformative year with the release of Let Me Get By, their third full-length LP and debut for Fantasy Records.