Monday, 03 Oct 2016
Lecture: Corn and Khrushchev
"A Brief History of Iowa Agriculture" - Liz Garst, granddaughter of the famous Iowa farmers and citizen diplomats Roswell and Elizabeth Garst, shares how it came to pass that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his family visited the Garst family farm in 1959.
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2016
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences William K. Deal Leadership Lecture
"Growth Comes When You Least Expect It" - Jim Collins is executive vice president at DuPont. He currently leads the company's agricultural segment and is managing DuPont's integration with Dow AgroSciences. Part of CALS Week
Thursday, 06 Oct 2016
Lecture: A Conversation with Black Alumni
"How We Got Here: Challenges & Achievements" - African American alums will have an honest discussion about the challenges they faced at Iowa State as well as describe the support they received and the sense of community they were able to develop that led to their achievements on campus and in their careers. Participants: Modupe Labode, Keecha Harris, Mohamed Omer.
Monday, 10 Oct 2016
A Conversation with the 2016 World Food Prize Laureates
"Leading the Fight against Malnutrition and Hidden Hunger," Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, Jan Low and Howarth Bouis discuss their work building bridges between agriculture and nutrition to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of undernourished people around the globe. Iowa State professor Clark Wolf will moderate the discussion. The 2016 Norman Borlaug Lecture.
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2016
Lecture: My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem is a feminist icon, social activist, writer, editor, and champion of women's rights since the late 1960s.
Thursday, 13 Oct 2016
Lecture: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
"From Muscatine to the World Bank" - Jim Yong Kim is the 12th President of the World Bank. Part of the College of Business CEO Series and World Affairs Series
Documentary & Discussion: A Voice for First-Generation Latinos between Two Worlds
First-time Latina filmmaker Denise Soler Cox draws on her personal struggles growing up between two cultures to chronicle the shared experiences of 16 million first-generation American-born Latinos, or Enyes (ñs). Latino Heritage Month
Monday, 17 Oct 2016
Lecture: Know Your Civil Rights
Andy Duffelmeyer and Rob Poggenklass, specialists at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, will provide information about how civil rights laws protect people from discrimination in everyday life.
Lecture: The Dynamics of ISIS
"The Dynamics of ISIS: Its Origins and Implications for the United States." Malcolm Nance is a counter-terrorism and intelligence adviser for the U.S. government's special operations, homeland security and intelligence agencies. The Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science.
Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Lecture: National Security and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
"National Security and the 2016 Presidential Campaign," Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State. Part of the Campaign 2016 Series, providing the university and community with opportunities to question candidates or their surrogates before the November election.
Zaffarano Lecture: The Physics of Invisibility
Sir John Pendry, the physicist who proposed the idea of an "invisibility cloak," is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College, London.
Saturday, 22 Oct 2016
Lecture: Puerto Rican Student Association Cultural Night
Aurelio Curbelo, born and raised in Puerto Rico, is the director of the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he worked as the multicultural liaison officer and administrator of the George Washington Carver summer research program for the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Iowa State.
Monday, 24 Oct 2016
Lecture: Global Health and Sustainable Development
Ambassador John E. Lange (Ret.) works in global health diplomacy for the United Nations Foundation. World Affairs Series
Lecture: The Geology and Geography of Floods
Jim Oââ'¬â"¢Connor is a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon, who studies landscape evolution related to rivers and floods.
Tuesday, 25 Oct 2016
Legislative Candidate Forum
Part of the Campaign 2016 Series, providing the university and community with opportunities to question candidates before the November election.
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016
The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution
Kristen Hawkes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a graduate of Iowa State.
Lecture: Free Trade and Business at the Border
Tom Fullerton and Alberto Davila will discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA, including cross-border trade, the border economy, and its impact on labor markets and business. Both are graduates of the Iowa State Department of Economics.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
Lecture: The Age of Internet Trolls
Joel Stein, author of the recent TIME magazine cover story "Why We're Losing the Internet to a Culture of Hate," will discuss how trolling on the Internet is infecting our real-life interactions, including politics. National Affairs Series