Thursday, 28 Sep 2017
Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture: Vanishing Vaquitas
"Vanishing Vaquitas: Lessons from a Humble Porpoise" - Barbara Taylor is a conservation biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationââ'¬â"¢s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and involved with recent efforts to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoises.
Tuesday, 03 Oct 2017
Retirement Workshop: Investment Planning
Provides an overview of the various types of investment instruments so that you can determine which investment strategies will be suit your needs. Registration requested.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Reconstructing hydrological changes over the past century in Central Africa using freshwater bivalve shells" by Dr. David P. Gillikin, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Wednesday, 04 Oct 2017
Lecture: Urban Design, the Landscape Way
Jean Trottier, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Manitoba and a member of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, will share his thoughts on a landscape-centric urbanism through five themes: scale shifting, time warping, dynamic tectonics, the in-between and the situated imaginary. Part of the Master of Urban Design/Master of Design in Sustainable Environments Lecture Series.
Lecture: How Demographic Change and Economic Inequality Are Reshaping Society
"Portrait of America" - John Iceland, Professor of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University, is the George M. Beal Distinguished Lecture in Rural Sociology. Iceland is the author of the new book "Race and Ethnicity in America."
Thursday, 05 Oct 2017
William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture
"Suddenly, suddenly, then all of a sudden: A tale of resiliency, entrepreneurship and the value of mentors" - Joe Kerns of Ames-based Kerns and Associates has been a consultant in agricultural operations and the animal production industry for more than 25 years.
Lecture: The Social Justice Origins and Future of Latinx Studies
Latino/a Heritage Month speaker Ginetta Candelario is professor of sociology and Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Smith College, where her teaching focuses on race and ethnicity in the Americas and Latina/o communities in the United States and Latin American.