Wednesday, 10 Feb 2016
Reception and Lecture: The Future of Green Infrastructure: Jeffrey L. Bruce
Award-winning landscape architect Jeffrey L. Bruce will speak about emerging green design technologies beginning at 6 p.m. in the auditorium. A reception with pizza will precede the lecture at 5:20 p.m. in the Lightfoot Forum. Part of the ISU Landscape Architecture Lecture Series.
Landscape Lecture Series
"The Future of Green Infrastructure," Jeffrey Bruce, FASLA. A 5:20 p.m. pizza reception in the atrium precedes the event. Presented by the (Ab)Terris, graduate student landscape architecture club.
Thursday, 11 Feb 2016
Lecture: Social Justice, Public Service and the Search for a Life That Matters
Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote. Wes Moore is a combat veteran, Rhodes Scholar, White House fellow and the author of two books: "The Other Wes Moore" and "The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters."
Friday, 12 Feb 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Hydrologic Recovery with Prairie Reconstruction at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa" by Dr. Keith Schilling, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Lecture: Spherical Paintings and the Art of Optical Illusion
Artist Dick Termes will discuss his unique spherical paintings known as Termespheres and the interconnection between math, science and art. Donald Benson Memorial Lecture in Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Monday, 15 Feb 2016
Statistics Seminar
Bayesian sparse reduced rank multivariate regression, Gyuhyeong Goh, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan
Veritas Forum: Toleration and Justice in a Broken World
Alex Tuckness is a professor and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Lecture: Game Design and Why It Matters
James Portnow is perhaps best known for writing Extra Credits, a web series that explores topics in games and the gaming industry. He is a game designer and consultant known for his theories on socially positive design.
Tuesday, 16 Feb 2016
Women's and Gender Studies series
"Letting Gendered Spaces Go: Striving for Gender and Nature Balance Through Bonding in Disney's Frozen and Maleficent," Sarah Chase, ISU English. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
Wednesday, 17 Feb 2016
Lecture: Imagine a World without America
Dinesh D'Souza has had a 25-year career as a writer, scholar and public intellectual. He is a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.