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Wednesday, 02 Sep 2009

Lecture: "Land of The Harp and The Song"

Sep 02, 2009

1:00 PM

Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Building

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

A lecture on Irish music within the context of the historical evolution of the Irish race. This would include traditional music (vocal, dance, fiddle, harp, etc.), the Gaelic language, the impact of Christianity, and the Irish diaspora.

Thursday, 03 Sep 2009

Presentation: "What is RISE and What are They Doing Down Under?"

Sep 03, 2009

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

N221 Lagomarcino

free

College of Human Sciences Lectures

Presentation given by staff and students of the Research Institute for Studies in Education. Preceded by open house (1-2:30 p.m., E005, E006, E012 and E016 Lagomarcino)

Friday, 04 Sep 2009

Works in Progress lecture series

Sep 04, 2009

5:45 PM

Room 130 Design

free

College of Design Lectures

"Architectura Numismatica: Ancient Coins as Sources for Renaissance Architects," John Cunnally, ISU art history. All are welcome.

Wednesday, 09 Sep 2009

Lecture: Your Global Mortgage

Sep 09, 2009

6:00 PM

Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Your Global Mortgage," James Bernard Jr., general manager of MarketWatch.com. He is responsible for driving product development and innovation, design, operations, and general management of the web business. It is part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the digital arm of Dow Jones' consumer media division.

Thursday, 10 Sep 2009

Lecture: Brown Bag Lecture at Reiman Gardens

Sep 10, 2009

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Reiman Gardens

Free for CoHorts' members; price of admission for general public. Free for ISU students.

Reiman Gardens Lectures Special events

Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers.

Computer science colloquia

Sep 10, 2009

3:40 PM

B29 Atanasoff

Free

Groups, governance Lectures

Pawel Gorecki, Warsaw University, will present "Unrooted Reconciliation."

Faculty forum: Health Care Reform

Sep 10, 2009

8:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Iowa State faculty will share their research contributing to the current debate on health care reform. Participants include Liesl Eathington, economics; Mark Imerman, economics; Doug Walker, marketing; Dr. Michael Kitchell, McFarland Clinic; and Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.

Friday, 11 Sep 2009

Lecture: Numbers in the Court of Law

Sep 11, 2009

7:30 PM

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Numbers in the Court of Law," Susan Haack, University of Miami; Joseph Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University; and moderator Kevin de Laplante, ISU philosophy. Part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Monday, 14 Sep 2009

CESMEE seminar

Sep 14, 2009

2:10 PM - 3:00 PM

2030 Morrill

Free

Groups, governance Lectures

Mark Windschitl, University of Washington, will discuss developing outstanding science teachers at the first seminar this academic year for the Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering.

Horticulture seminar

Sep 14, 2009

4:10 PM - 5:10 PM

118 Horticulture Hall

No Charge

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Lectures

"Ethidium-bromide induced mutations from inflorescence cultures of Indiangrass," Loren Stephens, ISU horticulture.

Symposium with artist Bill Barnes

Sep 14, 2009

4:10 PM - 5:10 PM

3105 Snedecor Hall

Free

University Museums Arts, performances Lectures

All are invited to join in a symposium hosted by the Department of Statistics with special guest Bill Barnes co-artist of the new Snedecor mural installation "Inferences Drawn".

Seminar: credit card debt

Sep 14, 2009

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

101 Carver Hall

free

Ivy College of Business Lectures

This free financial literacy seminar will feature Tom Coates, Consumer Credit of Des Moines, and is free and open to the entire Ames and ISU community. Register for the seminar by sending an email to shobha@iastate.edu.

Seminar: Financial literacy

Sep 14, 2009

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

101 Carver Hall

free

Ivy College of Business Lectures Training, development

"Credit Card Debt," Tom Coates, Consumer Credit of Des Moines. Space is limited; please register in advance to shobha@iastate.edu.

Osborn Club seminar

Sep 14, 2009

7:00 PM

1420 Molecular Biology

Free

Groups, governance Lectures

Pat Schnable, Professor, department of agronomy, will be the guest speaker at the next Osborn Club seminar. His presentation is titled, "Analysis of the Maize Genome Reveals New Opportunities for Crop Improvement."

Lecture: "The Difficulty of Dating in a Hook-up Culture"

Sep 14, 2009

8:00 PM

Gallery, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"The Difficulty of Dating in a Hook-up Culture." Christine Whelan is a professor, journalist and author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women and Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love. She also writes a bi-weekly relationship advice column for BustedHalo.

Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009

Panel: "Making a Living while Making a Difference"

Sep 15, 2009

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Cardinal Room, Memorial Union

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures Student activities

Think you might want to work for a non-profit? A panel of five agency representatives will answer your questions and tell you what it's really like. No sign-up necessary.

Documentary and panel: "The Battle for Whiteclay"

Sep 15, 2009

7:00 PM

Cardinal Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures

This documentary is an inside look at an important contemporary conflict pitting American Indian rights against state and local governments in the United States. A panel discussion will follow the showing of this documentary with the director-producer Mark Vasina and Frank LaMere, one of the orchestrators of the movement and a member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska.

Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009

Banned Book Jeopardy!

Sep 16, 2009

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

A Banned Book Week battle between two teams of literary mavens as they attempt to answer questions about banned books and their authors. Panelists include Alexandra Hayne, Ames Tribune; Richard Reynolds, MU director; Barbara Mack, ISU journalism; Ben Percy, ISU English; Tanya Zanish-Belcher, ISU Library; Tim Leeds, physician; and emceed by Steve Sullivan, Ames Tribune.

Live Webcast: The World Before Darwin - Everett Mendelsohn,

Sep 16, 2009

7:00 PM

E164 Lagomarcino

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"The World Before Darwin," a live webcast of a lecture by Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University. A celebration of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "Origin of the Species." Refreshments and a social begin at 6:30 p.m.

Lecture: "Are Iowa Public Universities Excluding Low-Income Students?"

Sep 16, 2009

8:00 PM

Gallery, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Access to Education Denied: Are Iowa Public Universities Excluding Low-Income Students?" Thomas Mortenson, Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and higher education policy analyst, Oskaloosa, Iowa. He is editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY, a monthly research letter devoted to analysis and reporting on educational opportunity after high school.

Thursday, 17 Sep 2009

Lecture: Stories of the First Nations

Sep 17, 2009

4:00 PM

Gold Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Stories of the First Nations," Dovie Thomason, storyteller, recording artist and author. As a child, Thomason grew up hearing stories and Indian legends from her Kiowa Apache and Lakota relatives, especially her Grandma Dovie and her dad.

Panel: Torture, Detention and the Rule of Law

Sep 17, 2009

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Torture, Detention and the Rule of Law: A Panel Discussion," Clark Wolf, ISU bioethics; Alex Tuckness, ISU political science; and Ben Stone, American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. The American Civil Liberties Union recently won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forcing the release of a report providing a detailed description of torture and abuse of detainees.

Lecture: Global hopscotch

Sep 17, 2009

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Global Hopscotch: The Borderless World and the Search for Home," Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register columnist.

Friday, 18 Sep 2009

Tour: ISU's Virtual Reality Experience

Sep 18, 2009

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

auditorium, Howe Hall

free

College of Engineering Lectures Special events

Tour includes a 15-minute presentation and demos of various virtual reality software. These tours are open to the public, but online preregistration is required. Seating is limited to 260. Appropriate for elementary ages through adults.

Geology Lecture

Sep 18, 2009

4:00 PM

277 Science I

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic calendar Lectures

A Late Holocene Record of Climate Variability: Perspectives from a Mt. Logan Ice Core by Erich Osterberg, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Works in Progress lecture series

Sep 18, 2009

5:45 PM

Room 130 Design

free

College of Design Lectures

"Developing Art Nègre: 'Authenticity' and Photographs of Colonial Material Culture in Interwar France," John Monroe, ISU history. All are welcome.

Saturday, 19 Sep 2009

Lecture: "Failure Is Not An Option"

Sep 19, 2009

7:00 PM

Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - doors open at 6 p.m.

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Astronaut Fred Haise served as the lunar module pilot during the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 space mission. He survived another harrowing ordeal in 1973, following an aircraft crash during filming of the Pearl Harbor epic, Tora! Tora! Tora! Haise went on to become one of the first astronauts to pilot the space shuttle in test missions. He will use NASA footage of the Apollo 13 flight during his presentation.

Monday, 21 Sep 2009

Lecture: In Depth at Reiman Gardens

Sep 21, 2009

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Reiman Gardens

Free for CoHorts' members and volunteers; $10 for general public. Free for ISU students.

Reiman Gardens Lectures

"The Mission and Plants of the Town & Country Garden."

Ramsey Lecture

Sep 21, 2009

12:00 PM

2226 College of Veterinary Medicine

free

College of Veterinary Medicine Lectures

"The Blind Leading the Obese: The Molecular Biology of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome," Val Sheffield, University of Iowa. A research poster session will precede the seminar, beginning at 11:15 a.m. in the west (Fish Tank) lobby at the college.

Lecture: "Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism"

Sep 21, 2009

1:00 PM

Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Rosalind Picard is the author of Affective Computing, a book instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She is teaching machines to sense and respond more intelligently to people's emotions and to behave in ways that make more expressive communication possible.