Thursday, 08 Mar 2012
Chemical & Biological Engineering Department
Data Driven Approaches for Effective Process Monitoring, by Qinghua He, Professor Tuskegee University
Brown Bag Lecture
Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers.
Workshop: Funding grant proposals
"Secrets to Targeting the Right Funding Source for Your Grant Proposal," with ISU librarians Rebecca Jackson and Sarah Passonneau. This workshop will focus primarily on using grants.gov and the Foundation Center Directory Online Professional, the two most comprehensive tools for finding funding sources.Registration is required through AccessPlus. All faculty, staff and grad students are welcome to attend.
CANCELED: The Impact of Women's and Gender Studies in Academia and Beyond
Canceled due to a family emergency. Jill Bystydzienski will discuss the variety of women's and gender studies programs in higher education today as well as international collaborations in this area. Her broad range of work has addressed such topics as women, gender and politics in a global perspective and building cross-cultural coalitions. Part of the Women's & Gender Studies Program 35th-Anniversary Celebration.
The Impact of Retrotransposons on Human Genome Evolution
Mark Batzer is the System Boyd Professor and Dr. Mary Lou Applewhite Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on understanding the genetic diversity of humans, in particular the study of mobile DNA elements. He was recently part of an international consortium of scientists who decoded the orangutan genome. Sigma Xi Lecture.