Monday, 04 Feb 2013
Symposium: Social Science, Presidential Campaigns and Political Reporting
The Harkin Institute of Public Policy will bring together scholars and journalists for this day-long symposium focused on the 2012 elections. Why did the elections go the way they did and what do they mean for public policy in the future.
Experiments in Messaging: Insights from Psychology - Joanne Miller
Joanne Miller, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota and expert on survey methodology with the Humphrey Institute
What We Don't Know about Campaign Mobilization - Scott McClurg
Scott McClurg, an associate professor of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Part of the Social Science, Presidential Campaigns and Political Reporting Symposium.
Did the 2012 Ground Game Matter? - Seth Masket
Seth Masket, an associate professor of political science at the University of Denver, author of No Middle Ground, and a regular political blogger.
Did Obama's Campaign Win Him the Election? John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
John Sides is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University and blogger at The Monkey Cage. Lynn Vavreck is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and author of The Message Matters. Part of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy's Symposium on Social Science, Presidential Campaigns, and Political Reporting.
How New Campaign Styles Win Elections
Ryan Lizza is The New Yorker magazine's Washington correspondent and a CNN contributor. Sasha Issenberg is a political journalist for Slate.com and author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. Part of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy's Symposium on Social Science, Presidential Campaigns, and Political Reporting.
Tuesday, 05 Feb 2013
Post-Pop Redux: Material Based Art by Andy Magee Artist Reception
By popular demand, Magee's Post-Pop Redux exhibition has been extended through the spring semester. Join artist Andy Magee for a public reception in the Christian Petersen Art Museum. Enjoy live music and light refreshments.
Wednesday, 06 Feb 2013
PhD Dissertation Seminar
Bharath Kumar T N, "Candidate gene based association study for nitrogen use efficiency and associated traits in maize"
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
"Farming in Burundi and Tanzania | Presenter: Firmin Amos, Refugee Farmer
Soil Seminar
Martin Shipitalo, "Conservation Tillage, Watersheds, Macropores,and Earthworms"
Thursday, 07 Feb 2013
Ambassadors: Fifty Years of French-German Friendship
Francois M. Delattre is the ambassador of France to the United States and Peter Ammon the ambassador of Germany to the United States. The 2013 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science; part of the World Affairs Series.
Friday, 08 Feb 2013
POSTPONED: SCIS Eminent Scholar Series
This lecture will be rescheduled.
Monday, 11 Feb 2013
W.H. Pierre Soil Science Lecture
Biophysical Processes Shaping Bacterial Life in Soils - An Unexplored Universe Under Our Feet | Presenter: Dr. Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Osborn Club Lecture
"Companion Animals as Spontaneous Models for Human Cancers," Krysta Deitz, ISU Veterinary Clinical Sciences. The lecture portion of Osborn Club meetings is open to the public.
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013
Solving the Energy and Climate Change Challenge
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is a distinguished scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. As Secretary of Energy, he is charged with helping implement President Obama's agenda to invest in clean energy, reduce dependence on foreign oil and address the global climate crisis.
Climate Suffering: Responding to the Human Experience
Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics at the American University. He is the author of Living Through the End of Nature and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics. The 2012-13 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences.
Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013
Plant Breeding Seminar
Rishi Sumit, TBA
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Mark Westgate, Details TBA
Soil Seminar
Ian van Wesenbeeck, "The Role of Soil in Environmental Quality - From Lithosphere to Troposphere"
The Architect's Shadow: David Leatherbarrow
David Leatherbarrow, professor and interim chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, will address the subject of "presence" by considering the work of a single figure--Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn (1924-2009), winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. The 2013 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture.
Thursday, 14 Feb 2013
Brown Bag Lecture
"The Pop-Up Garden: Creating Space in Your Home Landscape," presented by Lisa Orgler, ISU Lecturer, Department of Horticulture
Sunday, 17 Feb 2013
Lecture: Veritas Forum
"The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life," Dr. Os Guinness. Guinness is an author, social critic and former senior fellow of the EastWest Instititute in New York City.
Monday, 18 Feb 2013
Panel: Women Pursuing Professional Careers
Three panelists share how they have handled the pressures and problems of balancing a career and family. Part of the Women in STEM Series
It Takes a Family to Raise a Village
Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage, and Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
CakeLove: Find Your Passion, Follow Your Calling
Warren Brown, former host of the Food Network's Sugar Rush, is the owner of CakeLove and the Love Café and author of three cookbooks. Brown left his job as an attorney for the federal government to start his bakery in 2002. He speaks about business development and finding one's passion.
Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013
Plant Breeding Seminar
MarÃÂa B. Mantilla Pérez, Association Mapping for Grain Quality in a Diverse Sorghum Collection
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Max Viatori,"Fisheries in Latin American."
Soil Seminar
Robert Ewing,"Infinity in a grain of sand"
Thursday, 21 Feb 2013
CANCELED: Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
Canceled due to inclement weather. "The Semantic Web, or There and Back Again," Tim Finn, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Friday, 22 Feb 2013
Computationally Engineered Plant Seminar Series
Crop Growth and Development Modeling: Framework and Applications to Breeding for Drought Tolerance, Dr. Charlie Messina