Thursday, 20 Sep 2012
Department of Agronomy Seminar Committee
Practical Farmers of Iowa - Sarah Carlson Research and Policy Director
Computer science colloquia
"Four Challenges in Engineering of Feature-rich Software Systems," Thein Than Tun, The Open University, United Kingdom.
Agron 600 Plant Breeding Seminar
Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS), a review of the characteristics of a novel high-throughput technology for analysis of species with diverse and large genomes, Pedro Gonzalez- Portilla
Lecture: As a Woman in Science
Professor Beate Schmittmann joined Iowa State as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in April. Prior to that she was a member of the physics faculty at Virginia Tech, serving as the department chair since 2006. As a leader of Virginia Tech's ADVANCE program, she was instrumental in effecting policy and climate change for all faculty, and especially for women in science and engineering.
The Changing Role of Leaders in a Bullish Farmland Market
Jim Farrell is president and CEO of Farmers National Company, the nation's largest farm and ranch management company. Farrell, who grew up on an Iowa farm, is a graduate of Iowa State. The William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture