Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Lecture: National Security and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
"National Security and the 2016 Presidential Campaign," Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State. Part of the Campaign 2016 Series, providing the university and community with opportunities to question candidates or their surrogates before the November election.
Digital Soil Mapping for Iowa
Bradley Miller, Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy.
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.
Friday, 21 Oct 2016
One and Many: The Ceramic Art of Terry Rothrock
Terry Rothrock will speak about his career creating large-scale artwork for the television, movie and decorator-designer industries.
Saturday, 22 Oct 2016
Lecture: Puerto Rican Student Association Cultural Night
Aurelio Curbelo, born and raised in Puerto Rico, is the director of the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he worked as the multicultural liaison officer and administrator of the George Washington Carver summer research program for the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Iowa State.
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