Wednesday, 06 Sep 2017
Workshop: Social Security and Your Retirement
A secure, comfortable retirement requires careful financial planning to anticipate your income and needs in retirement. As part of a comprehensive financial plan, it is important to understand the basics and benefits of the Social Security program. Registration requested.
Lecture: When Christians First Met Muslims
Michael Penn is a professor of religious studies at Stanford University and specializes in the history of early Christianity with a focus on Middle Eastern Christians.
Thursday, 07 Sep 2017
SEMINAR: Sustainable intensification of crop production using perennial cover to enhance ecosystem services
Kenneth Moore, Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.
Lecture: The World's Most Resilient City
Architect and ISU College of Design Rome Program instructor Tom Rankin will discuss ways in which Rome has, over two millennia, provided examples of sustainable urban design practices, and will highlight innovative public space projects, experiments in urban agriculture, car-free neighborhoods and extreme water conditions to help make Rome's history relevant to designers today.
Friday, 08 Sep 2017
NREM Seminar
"From Kenya to Montana: an overview of cattle-wildlife coexistence in East Africa, and an update on a successful first summer at NREM's new Rod and Connie French Conservation Camp," Jennifer Schieltz, lecturer, French Conservation Camp director, ISU.
Lecture: MAD Works
Ma Yansong and ISU alumna Qun Dang, partners in Beijing-based design firm MAD Architects, will present the Charles E. "Chick" Herbert Lecture in Architecture as part of Premiere 17, the architecture department's annual celebration of the new academic year.
Planetarium Show: Eclipses & Solar System Astronomy
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars!