Monday, 02 Nov 2009
Horticulture Seminar
"Genetic Profile and Horticultural Potential of American Snowbell (Styrax americanus)", Olivia Lenahan, ISU horticulture graduate student.
Tuesday, 03 Nov 2009
Lecture: Global aerospace market
"Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Aerospace Market," Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing global services and support. He leads all aspects of the company's $8 billion business providing after-delivery support for military platforms and systems and a broad array of defense and government services.
Lecture: End 'Don't ask, don't tell'
"End Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Let Gays and Lesbians Serve Their Country Honorably," Lieutenant Dan Choi. One month after announcing he was gay on the Rachel Maddow Show, the Army announced it would initiate discharge proceedings him. Choi is fighting his discharge proceedings and is a founding member of the organization KNIGHTS OUT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender West Point Graduates.
Discussion: Bioregionalism
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate and one of the founders of the Bioregional Congress, will be reading from her book The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body.
Faculty forum: Global climate change
Gene Takle, ISU agronomy and geological and atmospheric sciences; John Miranowski, ISU economics; William Gutowski, ISU geological and atmospheric sciences; and Ray Arritt, ISU agronomy. ISU's Climate Science Initiative team was established in response to the public concern over global climate change and its impact on every segment of society.
Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009
Lecture: "Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust"
"Surviving the Rwandan Genocide: Immaculée's Story of Faith, Hope and Forgiveness," Immaculée Ilibagiza, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and author of Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. She and seven other women spent 91 days huddled together silently in the bathroom of a local pastor's house - a trauma from which she emerged half-starved and to find her entire family had been brutally murdered.
Thursday, 05 Nov 2009
Chemical & Biological Engineering Seminar
"Fully Hydrogenated, Styrene Based Block Copolymers: Designing Materials at the Nanometer Scale" by Steve Hahn, Dow Chemical Company
Lecture: "Death: The Personal and the Universal"
"Death: The Personal and the Universal." Death is something no one can escape. It follows life as surely as night follows day, winter follows autumn or old age follows youth. Join Cindy Gould, associate professor in Art and Design, and Jennifer Margrett, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies, as they explore different responses to death, both the personal and the universal.