Monday, 05 Oct 2009
Seminar: Financial literacy
"Asset Management and Risk Management," Adam Polacek, TIAA-CREF Asset Management. Space is limited; please register in advance to shobha@iastate.edu.
Seminar: student loans, financial aid and the FAFSA
This free financial literacy seminar will feature Adam Polacek, TIAA-CREF Asset Management, and is free and open to the entire Ames and ISU community. Register for the seminar by sending an email to shobha@iastate.edu.
Forum: Ames city council candidates
The Government of the Student Body will host a forum with Ames City Council candidates. Participants will address issues of concern to Iowa State University students and take questions from audience members.
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009
Keynote: Engineering Diversity Fair
Freeman Hrabowski has served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance.
Lecture: Sustainable Energy Innovation at ISU
"Sustainable Energy Innovation at Iowa State," Larry Johnson, ISU BioCentury Research Farm and the Center for Crops Utilization Research; Jim McCalley, ISU electrical engineering; and Victor Lin, ISU chemistry.
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009
Lecture: "Negotiating Identity, Performing Folklore"
Riki Saltzman has been the folklife coordinator for the Iowa Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, since 1995. She works with a variety of communities and individuals to provide assistance with multicultural and diversity issues, project development, event planning and the presentation of traditional arts and artists.
Lecture: Iowa Traditions in Transition
"Iowa Traditions in Transition: Negotiating Identity, Performing Folklore," part of the "Iowa in the Global Comm[unity]: Inside/Out" programming series.
Lecture: Technology and the Globalization of Opportunity
"Technology, Globalization & Culture Series." ISU alum Mary Jane Hagenson, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC.
Audiocast: Darwin celebration lecture series
"Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN Of SPECIES: Variation," author Jonathan Weiner. This lecture is the second of five lectures in the Fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. Join fellow listeners at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sociability. This is a live audio-only broadcast from Columbia University. A Q&A by e-mail will follow.
Thursday, 08 Oct 2009
Reiman Gardens: Brown bag lecture
"The Silence of the Bees," apiarist John Johnson.
Goldtrap Lecture: "Against Publication"
"The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities," Frank Donoghue, Ohio State University. He examines how the growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.
Lecture: "Following the Money"
"Following the Money: From Enron to Hedge Fund." Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2008, Bethany McLean was an editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, where she wrote an article in March 2001 that raised questions about the immense profitability of Enron, then a darling of the stock market.
Friday, 09 Oct 2009
Lecture: "Mobile Technologies for Children"
Allison Druin is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. Her work includes developing digital libraries for children, designing technologies for families, and creating collaborative storytelling technologies for the classroom.
Women in HCI Lecture: Allison Druin, University of Maryland
"Mobile Technology for Children." Druin is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. All are invited.
Geology Lecture
"Imaging Iowa's Surface with LiDAR" by Chris Kahle, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa City, Iowa