Monday, 03 Oct 2016
Lecture: Corn and Khrushchev
"A Brief History of Iowa Agriculture" - Liz Garst, granddaughter of the famous Iowa farmers and citizen diplomats Roswell and Elizabeth Garst, shares how it came to pass that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his family visited the Garst family farm in 1959.
Monday, 10 Oct 2016
A Conversation with the 2016 World Food Prize Laureates
"Leading the Fight against Malnutrition and Hidden Hunger," Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, Jan Low and Howarth Bouis discuss their work building bridges between agriculture and nutrition to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of undernourished people around the globe. Iowa State professor Clark Wolf will moderate the discussion. The 2016 Norman Borlaug Lecture.
Thursday, 13 Oct 2016
Lecture: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
"From Muscatine to the World Bank" - Jim Yong Kim is the 12th President of the World Bank. Part of the College of Business CEO Series and World Affairs Series
Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Zaffarano Lecture: The Physics of Invisibility
Sir John Pendry, the physicist who proposed the idea of an "invisibility cloak," is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College, London.
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.