Monday, 28 Sep 2015
Seminar: Nanovaccine Initiative and Immunobiology Graduate Program
"Tissue Resident Memory CD8 T Cells: Location and Function," David Masopust, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Masopust will discuss the relationships among T cell location, function, differentiation and immunological protection, with particular emphasis on mucosal responses and vaccine applications. Refreshments will be provided.
Statistics Seminar
"Robust mixed-eects model for clustered failure time data: application to Huntington's disease event measures," Yanyuan Ma, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Lecture: 100 Voices Leading for Change
Iowa State graduate Onalie Ariyabandhu discusses the United Nations Population Fund's social change initiative to combat gender-based violence in Sri Lanka.
Tuesday, 29 Sep 2015
The Presidential Campaign: A Search for Meaning
"What Does It Take to Win the Iowa Presidential Caucuses?" - Juju Chang is an Emmy award-winning coanchor for ABC's Nightline and reports regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20.
Wednesday, 30 Sep 2015
Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
"Second-Generation Ethanol and Colombian Biofuels," Carlos Grateron and Luis Enrique Prado, USDA Foreign Ag Services Cochran Fellows.
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Velma McBride Murry
Attend the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. This series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Thursday, 01 Oct 2015
Lecture: Battling Ebola
"How Technology is Transforming the Response to Global Epidemics," Steven VanRoekel, former USAID chief innovation officer who was responsible for advising the agency on using technology and data in its response to the ebola epidemic. He is a graduate of Iowa State. World Affairs Series
Friday, 02 Oct 2015
Lecture & Reading: A New Chapter in the Living Legacy of George Washington Carver
Xavier Cavazos, a 2013 graduate of Iowa State's MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment, will read from his new book of poetry inspired by stories of the life and times of George Washington Carver.