Tuesday, 02 Oct 2018
William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture
"Unlocking Your Inner Entrepreneur: How one of the luckiest days of my life was when I got fired from a job I loved," ISU alumna Sara Wyant is president of Agri-Pulse Communications, with offices in Washington DC and Camdenton, Missouri.
Wednesday, 03 Oct 2018
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Candidate Debate
The Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium will host candidates for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture in advance of the upcoming November 6 elections. Participants include Democratic candidate Tim Gannon and Libertarian candidate Rick Stewart.
Panel Discussion: Controversy and the U.S. Supreme Court
Constitution Day Event - Join a discussion on recent Supreme Court rulings and a possible shift in the balance of the court following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Thursday, 04 Oct 2018
Lecture: Soil Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation
"Soil Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation: What We Can Expect," William Schlesinger, member of the NAS and former director of the Cary Institute and former Dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Improved soil management is increasingly pursued to ensure food security for the world's rising global population, with the ancillary benefit of storing carbon in soils to lower the threat of climate change.
Lecture: Making T-Shirts Out of Pop Bottles
Mike Draper is the owner of RAYGUN, the Des Moines-based T-shirt company known for its Iowa-themed apparel with its own quirky and unique sense of humor.
Friday, 05 Oct 2018
Lecture: Elizabeth Smart
"From Adversity to Empowerment" - Elizabeth Smart has transformed from kidnapping and sexual assault victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire, and foster change.
Monday, 08 Oct 2018
Beyond Legacy: Archive and History
"Beyond Legacy: Archives and History" Dr. Meredith Evans is a trained archivist, a professional librarian, and a published scholar, with specialties in development of exhibition and record-keeping programs, records management and digital library program initiatives, and reference services in libraries and archives.
Lecture: Watergate 45 years later: What Have We Learned?
Panelists will discuss lessons learned from Watergate and their applicability today.
Tuesday, 09 Oct 2018
A Hollywood Career in Costume Design - Black Panther's Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter is the Oscar-nominated costume designer for Marvel's Black Panther, for which she conceptualized and created more than 1,000 costumes for the world of Wakanda. She has worked in the industry for more than three decades and is credited with over forty films.
Wednesday, 10 Oct 2018
Panel: Educational and Socialization Experiences of Latinx Youth
Panelists will discuss the process of socialization and education of Latinx youth and their families.
George M. Beal Distinguished Lecture in Rural Sociology
Phil Howard is an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University whose research is focused on consolidation in food systems. He is also widely recognized for pictorial representations of food and agricultural data.
Thursday, 11 Oct 2018
Divide and Conquer: Stopping Cancer One Cell at a Time - Robbyn Anand
Personalized medicine may be the key to curing cancer, and Iowa State Assistant Professor of Chemistry Robbyn Anand is helping pave the way. Advanced technologies can now discriminate minute differences between cancer cells in a patient, allowing physicians to determine the best therapy or combined therapies to eradicate all the various types of cancer cells present. Unfortunately, the high cost of the required instrumentation remains a...
Monday, 15 Oct 2018
Norman Borlaug Lecture
Join a conversation with the 2018 World Food Prize Laureates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro about their work promoting child and maternal nutrition in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen will moderate the conversation.
Tuesday, 16 Oct 2018
Lecture: How Archaeology Killed Biblical History - Hector Avalos
Hector Avalos is Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University. He will discuss how archaeology has been used to refute the claim that the Bible is historically accurate in depicting creation, the Exodus, the reign of Solomon and many other events.
Lecture: Where Are All the Black People? Ericka Hart
Ericka Hart is an activist, cancer survivor and sexuality educator, and is currently an adjunct at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
Monday, 22 Oct 2018
Lecture: Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire with the Science of the Human Past
Michael McCormick is the Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University, Director in Cambridge of the Max Planck, Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, and the founding chair of Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018
Lecture: Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States on Immigration - Anne Clifford
Anne Clifford is the Msgr. James A. Supple Chair in Catholic Studies at Iowa State.
Thursday, 25 Oct 2018
Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science: U.S. Senator Ben Sasse
"If Not Us, Who? Human Dignity in the 21st Century." Senator Ben Sasse is a fifth-generation Nebraskan and is serving his first term in the U.S. Senate.
Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018
Documentary and discussion: How Millennials Can Save America and the World
"The Revolution Generation: How Millennials Can Save the World (Before It's Too Late)" is a new film - and book - from Sundance Award-winning filmmaker Josh Tickell. The film explores the challenges millennials and other young people face in solving current environmental, economic, and social crisis. The film features interviews with Corbin Bleu, Senator Bernie Sanders, Rosario Dawson, and Xiutezcatl Martinez.