Wednesday, 09 Nov 2011
Author reading: Michael Martone
Michael Martone, longtime friend of Iowa State's English Department and its Creative Writing program, will read from his latest book, "Four for a Quarter."
Film: Piled Higher & Deeper: The PhD Movie
The PhD Movie, a film adaptation of the popular online comic strip PILED HIGHER & DEEPER by Jorge Cham, introduces audiences to the unique and funny culture of academia. Filmed on location at the California Institute of Technology, it follows four graduate students as they struggle to find balance between research, teaching and their personal lives.
Understanding the Fossil Record of Evolution: From Darwin to Today
Gene Hunt is a distinguished lecturer with the Paleontological Society. His research focuses on how short-term ecological and evolutionary changes translate into the long-term patterns that paleontologists can see in the fossil record. Hunt is the curator of Ostracoda at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.