Thursday, 26 Jan 2017
Poster Sale
Hundreds of choices from art prints and movies to music and pop culture. Proceeds from the sale support art programs at the Memorial Union.
Youth Program: Caterpillar Club
Join us weekly this winter for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme. Materials are intended for children ages two to seven years old, and all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Tour: Virtual Reality Applications Center (CANCELED)
The VRAC Experience public tour offers participants a chance to learn about the unique research facilities at VRAC and HCI and how we use them as research tools. The presentation also explains how 3D virtual reality (VR) works and how graphics technology has evolved over the past decade. Several 3D enabled demonstrations will show how VR is being used to conduct research. RSVP free online.
Workshop Series: The Research-Based Flipped Classroom: Team-Based Learning
** This Team-Based Learning Workshop Series (TBL) meets once weekly for five consecutive weeks on Thursdays for Spring 2017: January 26, February 2, 9, 16 and 23 from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.** "The research-based flipped classroom and team-based learning (TBL)," an increasingly-popular form of flipped-classroom where small-group learning that can be implemented effectively in small or large classes.
Panel: Planning, Engineering, and Native Communities
"Planning, Engineering, and Native Communities: Things to Know and Respect," with panelists David Gradwohl, emeritus professor of anthropology; Lance Foster, tribal historic preservation officer, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; and Richie Meyers, tribal relations director and AIS program coordinator, South Dakota State University, Brookings.
Mat Cutting Workshop
A simple neutral-colored mat will finish your artwork and look as clean and classic in twenty years as it does now.
Panel Discussion: What Is Your Vocation?
Vocation: A summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action. What is your vocation? How do you see yourself as an agent of goodness, truth, and beauty in the world, using your skills and passions for bringing about human flourishing? Join us for a panel discussion with three individuals who are working out their vocations for the common good.
Cyclone Cinema: Hacksaw Ridge
The Student Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema! Showings are FREE in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there!
Lecture: Exercise and the Brain
Daniel Corcos is a motor systems neuroscientist and a professor at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine. His talk is part of the 2016-17 Helen LeBaron Hilton Lecture Series.
Lecture: Rap, Race, Reality & Technology
Chuck D, the leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, delivers a powerful message about race, rage and inequality.