Monday, 28 Mar 2011
Urban Development through Shrinkage
"From Boom to Bust: How Smart Shrinkage Can Help Formerly Growing Places Manage Decline," Justin Hollander, assistant professor of urban and environmental policy and planning, Tufts University. He will present his research into the formerly booming cities of the Sunbelt and argue that urban development can actually be achieved through shrinkage.
Horticulture seminar
"Potassium-magnesium Antagonism in High Magnesium, High pH Soils in Upper Mississippi Valley Vineyards," Joe Hannan, ISU horticulture.
Tuesday, 29 Mar 2011
Lecture: Reiman Entrepreneurial Series
Guest speaker is ISU alum Becky Taylor, senior adviser of innovation and entrepreneursip in the U.S. Department of State's office of science and technology. Registration is free but required; seating is limited.
Documentary and Discussion: The Power of Our Convictions
A faculty forum with Freedom Rider Rip Patton will follow the 60-minute preview of Freedom Riders, a documentary premiering on PBS in May. The film chronicles the 1961 Freedom Rides, in which more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives to travel together on buses and trains through the Deep South in protest of racial segregation. Students and staff are welcome to attend. Registration is required. Lunch provided.
Agron 600C - Crop Production and Physiology Seminar
Theodore Gunter
Making Poverty History: Lessons from Farming Families in Mali
Scott Lacy moved to Mali in 1994 as a Peace Corps volunteer, returned in 2002 as a Fulbright scholar, and continues to work extensively in the West African country. His nonprofit, African Sky, has service programs in education, community health, food security and community arts in Mali, with a focus on sustainability living. Part of Poverty Awareness Week and the Live Green! Sustainability Series.
On Leadership
Gloria J. Gibson is executive vice president and provost at the University of Northern Iowa. Gibson was dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor in the Department of English, Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Arkansas State University.
Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
"Topics on Agricultural Development in Tropical Countries, Food Security, and Climate Change." Rattan Lal, Distinguished Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
Agron 600B - Soil Science Seminars
"Effects of Soil Habitat on Microbial Community Function" Elizabeth Bach
Fukushima: Timeline, Facts and Implications for Nuclear Power - Margaret Harding
Margaret Harding has thirty years of experience in the nuclear industry. She was Vice President of Engineering Quality at GE Nuclear Energy and is now a consultant to the nuclear power industry. She serves on Iowa State's Engineering College Industrial Advisory Council and has an undergraduate degree from Iowa State.
OMG Design: Can Style Move Us to Environmental Action?
Peter Danko is a furniture designer and owner of Peter Danko Designs. His designs, lectures and writing center on making the transition to living in harmony with nature. He believes the materials that best tell this story are those that can be seen by the casual observer to be green. His personal challenge is to make beautiful objects with materials that Obviously Manifest Green (OMG).
Thursday, 31 Mar 2011
Chemical & Biological Engineering Seminar
" 3D X-Ray Flow Visualization to Characterize Multiphase Flows" by Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University
Ramsey Lecture Series, College of Veterinary Medicine
Randall Moon, Ph.D, University of Washington School of Medicine, will present "Wnt Signaling as a Therapeutic Target." Moon's research focuses on the roles and mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction and development, and understanding how Wnt signaling is linked to diseases.
Agron 600A - Plant Breeding Seminars
"Association mapping for beta-glucan in North American elite oats" Franco Asoro
Silence of the Songbirds
Bridget Stutchbury studies the ecology and behavior of songbirds in North America and the New World tropics. Her 2007 book Silence of the Songbirds looks at the recent decline in migratory songbirds and the factors most threatening their extinction, from pesticides to habitat destruction and city lights to climate change. The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Symposium Keynote and part of the Women in STEM Series.
Lecture: Politics, Policy and the Reality of Leadership
Gwen Ifill is the Spring 2011 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. She serves as moderator and managing editor of PBS' Washington Week and co-anchor for PBS Newshour.
Sunday, 03 Apr 2011
Free Expression, the Arts and Federal Funding
As First Amendment Day approaches ask yourself, should museums be safe and welcoming for all, or places where challenging ideas are explored? The issue becomes more heated when museums receive Federal funding. Jeff Fleming, director of the Des Moines Arts Center, will discuss the nature of free expression in the visual arts, including a personal experience where he came under scrutiny for curating a controversial exhibit.
Monday, 04 Apr 2011
Horticulture seminar
"Mobile Videoconferencing Technology," Mark Hoffmann, ISU horticulture.
Hansen Lecture: Science and Children
"Science and Children: A Natural Fit," Karen Worth, instructor and project director at Wheelock College, Boston, Mass. She will discuss ways that teachers can tap children's natural curiosity to facilitate their science learning by doing it.
Jesus Christ as Seen through His Closest Relationships
"Who Do You Say I Am? Jesus Christ as Seen through His Closest Relationships," Anne Clifford, ISU philosophy and religious studies. Her talk explores Jesus Christ's most intimate relationships in response to one of the core questions he raised in the Gospels, "Who do you say I am?" The Msgr. James A. Supple Chair Lecture.
Science and Children: A Natural Fit
Karen Worth is a faculty member at Wheelock College, where she teaches early childhood and elementary education with a focus on science education. She worked for twenty-five years as a senior research scientist at the Education Development Center and has also served as an advisor to the PBS programs Curious George and The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That. The Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecture Series.
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
Chef Chris Young has earned a reputation for his ability to apply science and technology in the kitchen. He opened the experimental kitchen at The Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire, England, working under world-famous chef Heston Blumenthal. He is coauthor of the six-volume Modernist Cuisine and has written extensively on the science of food and cooking for The Fat Duck Cookbook and scholarly journals. National Affairs Series.