Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
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.
J/Psi Production and Polarization
Quarkonia Production and Polarization, Nels Hotvedt, Iowa State University
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.
Seminar: Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar. Emma Goldberg, Univeristy of Minnesota Reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Macroevolution of Plant Reproductive Systems
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.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"The FUture of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space", Dr. Bridget Scanlon, University of Texas, Austin.
The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space
Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation. Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Friday, 22 Apr 2016
Voorhees Supply Chain Management Conference
"Infrastructure, Policy, and Relational Considerations for 2016 and Beyond," featuring top speakers in the field of logistics, operations and supply chain management. A welcome reception will be held Thursday, April 21 (7-9 p.m.), in the Jack Trice Club.
Live Green! Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate Earth Day with ISU and the Ames community. Bike tune-ups, food, and sustainability-minded giveaways!!
Campus Beautiful Cleanup
Iowa State University is known for its beautiful campus which includes the largest collection of campus public art in the country. Join University Museums staff as we celebrate Earth Day by picking up litter around exterior campus sculptures while sharing the inspiration behind the art. Do your part for the environment and meet in the Anderson Sculpture Garden, south side of Morrill Hall. The earth without art is just eh.
Tennis
Iowa State vs. Texas Tech. In the case of inclement weather, competition will be moved to the Ames Racquet and Fitness, 320 S. 17th Street, Ames.
Workshop: Wealthy and Wise: Strategies for Workplace Success
Presented as part of Money Smart Week, this event begins with a keynote presentation and includes breakouts sessions and a networking dinner at 5:15 p.m. Registration is required.
Reception: Biorenewables Art Competition
This 7th annual competition is a collaboration between the Bioeconomy Institute and the College of Design's integrated studio arts program. Award winners will be announced during a 4:15 p.m. program.
Astronomy Seminar
Outbursts in pulsating DA white dwarfs - a new kind of variable revealed by Kepler and K2 (Cory Schrandt, Iowa State University)
Friday Night PYOP: Flower Pots & Yard Art
We will show you the basics of Paint Your Own Pottery, and then we will fire it within a week for you to come pick up.
Lecture: An Earth Day Reading
"All the Land to Hold Us" Part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series.
Performance: Ron White
Comedian Ron "Tater Salad" White first rose to fame as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour phenomenon, but now as a chart-topping Grammy-nominated comedian and afeature film actor, Ron White has established himself as a star in his own right.