Monday, 04 Mar 2024
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
Sarah Lohman's talk explores how American food is united by Eight Flavors: black pepper, vanilla, curry powder, chili powder, soy sauce, garlic, MSG, and sriracha. Lohman explains how these influential ingredients made their way to the American table. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food over a woodburning stove. She moved to New York in 2006 and now works with...
Tuesday, 05 Mar 2024
A History of Activism Through Cookbooks
Sarah Lohman will explore the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War; unpack suffrage cookbooks from the turn of the 20th century; share the earliest LGBTQ cooking pamphlets from the 1960s; and talk about how food is still used to connect and advocate for causes today. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food...
Thursday, 07 Mar 2024
Native American Cropping Practices, Pre-Contact to Today
Join Natural Resource Ecology and Management PhD candidate Derrick Kapayou for a conversation on the evolution of Native American agricultural traditions and delve into current research on the topic.
Monday, 18 Mar 2024
Seminar: Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA stability: a central element during hematopoietic development and disease
Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology department seminar as we host Dr. Luis Batista, associate professor in the Division of Hematology at John T. Miliken Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Batista will discuss research into better understanding bone marrow failure patients with mutant telomerase and improving their treatment options.
Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024
The Foundation of Modern Medicine Is at Risk!
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine during World War 2 and have served as the foundation of almost every modern pillar of medicine that we take for granted, including organ transplantation, premature birth, chemotherapy, and infectious disease. However, the pipeline of new antibiotic discovery has essentially stopped, and the rate of resistance development threatens the utility of these drugs in maintaining the health of...
Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024
Online series: Start Something
"Beyond the Business Plan: Entrepreneurial Health and Well-Being," MichaelLerman, assistant professor of entrepreneurship. This discussion will describe the meaning of founders' health and well-being, review related literature pertaining to these underlying tensions of the entrepreneurial experience, and present tangible suggestions for facilitating greater health and well-being as an entrepreneur. Registration required for link.
Friday, 22 Mar 2024
Innovation Lunch Club
Lisa Shimkat, state director for America's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Iowa, will illustrate how SBDC Iowa explores partnerships with rural connectors and economic developers to propel innovation and serve lowa's business owners.
Tuesday, 26 Mar 2024
Seminar: The Plot Thickens: navigating the complexity of pectin development in plant growth and development
Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology department seminar as we host Dr. Charles Anderson, the Pennsylvania State University professor and associate head of research and faculty success in the Department of Biology, Sustainability Council Chair and co-director for the Center for Biorenewables, to discuss research into how pectins influence plant cell, tissue, and organ morphogenesis in complex ways.
Lecture: Out-Sharking the Sharks
"Out-Sharking the Sharks," with Cactus Jack and Brandon Adams. Cactus Jack appeared on ABC's Shark Tank and is an entrepreneur, inventor, salesman, and CEO (that's chief excitement officer) at Cactus Jack's Marketing, a product sourcing and promotion firm based in Ames. He holds more than a dozen patents, and has been featured in several national publications. Registration (free) required. A reception will follow.
How Stigma Derails the Help-Seeking Process
Mental health concerns affect 13% of the global population and will cost the world economy approximately $6 trillion by 2030 â€" more than the projected costs of cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease combined. Further, the rates of mental health problems have increased in recent years and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, less than 10% of those experiencing mental health concerns seek therapy each year, and...
Integrating Gender Equity in International Agriculture Research-for-Development
International Women in Agriculture Day Dr. Christie will share her experience integrating gender in international agricultural research-for-development projects. Drawing on her work with small farmers in East and West Africa, as well as Southeast and South Asia, she will describe her approach using participatory methods to understand how gender relations are key to innovation in agriculture and development. Highlighting the importance of...
Wednesday, 27 Mar 2024
Despite Advanced Technology, We Are Still Very Disaster-Prone!
This presentation uses a variety of examples of different types of disasters to point out how vulnerable American society is despite our advances in prediction, warning, and communications technologies. Much of our vulnerability arises from population growth, urban sprawl, urbanization, and expansion into disaster-prone areas. Unfortunately, some lessons that could have been learned from disasters in one part of the country have not been...
Protecting Plant Surfaces in a Changing Climate: Understanding synthesis, form and function of the plant cuticle using corn silks as a model system
To develop solutions for the agricultural sector to maintain or increase crop yields amidst extreme weather conditions often seen with climate change, it is important to understand mechanisms by which plants combat stresses in the environment. One such mechanism is the plant cuticle, which is a hydrophobic barrier that provides a first line of defense by which plants protect themselves from stresses, including extremes of temperature,...
Online series: Start Something
"Beyond the Business Plan: Leveraging your Socioeconomic Background as a Strength," Kristie Moergen, assistant professor of management, and Katie Milligan, Heartland Forward. Understand the unique strengths (and obstacles) derived from your socioeconomic background and how to leverage them (or persist) in entrepreneurship. Registration required for link.
Socially Responsible Innovation
2023-2024 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science Two-term former Ohio Governor John Kasich is a politician, a New York Times best-selling author, and a contributor for MSNBC and NBC News who believes that unity is the answer to our most common problems. He is known as a leading voice in promoting bipartisan solutions to health care reform, immigration and international trade, and has been one of the few Republicans to advocate...