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Monday, 05 Oct 2009

Seminar: Financial literacy

Oct 05, 2009

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

101 Carver Hall

free

Ivy College of Business Lectures Training, development

"Asset Management and Risk Management," Adam Polacek, TIAA-CREF Asset Management. Space is limited; please register in advance to shobha@iastate.edu.

Seminar: student loans, financial aid and the FAFSA

Oct 05, 2009

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

101 Carver Hall

free

Ivy College of Business Lectures

This free financial literacy seminar will feature Adam Polacek, TIAA-CREF Asset Management, and is free and open to the entire Ames and ISU community. Register for the seminar by sending an email to shobha@iastate.edu.

Forum: Ames city council candidates

Oct 05, 2009

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

The Government of the Student Body will host a forum with Ames City Council candidates. Participants will address issues of concern to Iowa State University students and take questions from audience members.

Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009

Keynote: Engineering Diversity Fair

Oct 06, 2009

9:00 AM

Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Freeman Hrabowski has served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance.

Lecture: Sustainable Energy Innovation at ISU

Oct 06, 2009

8:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Sustainable Energy Innovation at Iowa State," Larry Johnson, ISU BioCentury Research Farm and the Center for Crops Utilization Research; Jim McCalley, ISU electrical engineering; and Victor Lin, ISU chemistry.

Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009

Lecture: "Negotiating Identity, Performing Folklore"

Oct 07, 2009

1:00 PM

Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Riki Saltzman has been the folklife coordinator for the Iowa Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, since 1995. She works with a variety of communities and individuals to provide assistance with multicultural and diversity issues, project development, event planning and the presentation of traditional arts and artists.

Lecture: Iowa Traditions in Transition

Oct 07, 2009

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

free

Groups, governance Lectures

"Iowa Traditions in Transition: Negotiating Identity, Performing Folklore," part of the "Iowa in the Global Comm[unity]: Inside/Out" programming series.

Lecture: Technology and the Globalization of Opportunity

Oct 07, 2009

6:00 PM

Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Technology, Globalization & Culture Series." ISU alum Mary Jane Hagenson, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC.

Audiocast: Darwin celebration lecture series

Oct 07, 2009

7:00 PM

333 Science II - Live Audio Broadcast

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN Of SPECIES: Variation," author Jonathan Weiner. This lecture is the second of five lectures in the Fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. Join fellow listeners at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sociability. This is a live audio-only broadcast from Columbia University. A Q&A by e-mail will follow.

Thursday, 08 Oct 2009

Reiman Gardens: Brown bag lecture

Oct 08, 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

"The Silence of the Bees," apiarist John Johnson.

Goldtrap Lecture: "Against Publication"

Oct 08, 2009

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities," Frank Donoghue, Ohio State University. He examines how the growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.

Lecture: "Following the Money"

Oct 08, 2009

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

"Following the Money: From Enron to Hedge Fund." Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2008, Bethany McLean was an editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, where she wrote an article in March 2001 that raised questions about the immense profitability of Enron, then a darling of the stock market.

Friday, 09 Oct 2009

Lecture: "Mobile Technologies for Children"

Oct 09, 2009

12:00 PM

Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Allison Druin is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. Her work includes developing digital libraries for children, designing technologies for families, and creating collaborative storytelling technologies for the classroom.

Women in HCI Lecture: Allison Druin, University of Maryland

Oct 09, 2009

12:00 PM

Alliant Energy- Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

free

College of Engineering Diversity Lectures

"Mobile Technology for Children." Druin is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. All are invited.

Geology Lecture

Oct 09, 2009

4:00 PM

277 Science I

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Diversity Lectures

"Imaging Iowa's Surface with LiDAR" by Chris Kahle, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa City, Iowa