Wednesday, 06 Apr 2011
First Amendment Day kickoff breakfast
"Words Matter in Fact or Fiction," kickoff breakfast with novelist Ben Percy, ISU English. A First Amendment Day event.
IPERS financial help
An IPERS representative will be at ISU monthly for individual appointments at the Memorial Union. If you or your spouse/partner have IPERS, take advantage of this opportunity to see your personal income projection and better understand how IPERS will work for you in retirement.
Being Creative in the Classroom with PowerPoint
Learn how to plan, create and deliver classroom presentations using PowerPoint's visual tools. Topics include strategies for using PowerPoint to deliver content and manage classroom activities. Design slides using graphics, photos, multimedia, sounds and video clips. Basic PowerPoint Office 2007 skills required. Class uses Windows computers, but Mac users can learn new techniques as well.
Time management skills
Dr. Susan Johnson will present principles for organizing work and managing time, and describe a system for implemention. Includes methods to define/focus your current workload; efficiently handle e-mail, paper mail and other input; make lists that will enhance your ability to get things done; take action/deal directly with procrastination; and plan your week and day. Presented by the food science and human nutrition department and ISU ADVANCE.
VEISHEA: Button and Merch Sales
Get your $5 buttons to eat at campus bbq's free during VEISHEA week.
Workshop: NSF Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) Project
The goal of this workshop is to prepare STEM faculty members to work with an evaluator to plan and implement an effective evaluation of an education research or development project. This workshop is sponsored by Strengthening the Professoriate @ISU.
ArtWalk: Celebrate the First Amendment
Join University Museums on First Amendment Day for a tour of selections from the Art on Campus collection that touch on issues of free expression in public art, exploring all five freedoms covered by the First Amendment. Meet your guides outside the south entrance to Parks Library.
IPERS seminar
Find out how IPERS law changes (House file 2518) will affect your benefit. Find out when the changes take effect, what will change in the benefit calculation, what won't change, and see examples of how the law changes may or may not affect your IPERS benefit. Q&A to follow presentation. Please preregister, space is limited.
Women's Studies Brown Bag Series
"Imagining the Beautiful Nation: Ugly Betty on Russian Television," Olga Mesropova, ISU world languages and cultures.
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
"Strategies for Community Engagement on Issues of Sustainability." A gathering of researchers and practitioners
Agron 600B - Soil Science Seminars
"Heat, Water and Carbon Dioxide Transfer in Soil" Xinhua Xiao
IPERS seminar
Find out how IPERS law changes (House file 2518) will affect your benefit. Find out when the changes take effect, what will change in the benefit calculation, what won't change, and see examples of how the law changes may or may not affect your IPERS benefit. Q&A to follow presentation. Please preregister, space is limited.
Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision
Commissioned by the Janitors' Union and designed by Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City was a pioneering mixed-use development that foreshadowed the renaissance of Chicago's downtown. In "Marina City," authors Igor Marjanovic and Katerina Ruedi Ray draw upon primary archival sources in architectural, real estate and labor history with many images and documents published for the first time. Marjanovic will talk about their research and publication.
How to Cut Our Nation's Oil Dependence in Half
"Advanced Biofuels and Clean Cars: How to Cut Our Nation's Oil Dependence in Half," Jeremy Martin, senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Vehicles Program. He evaluates the impact of biofuels and fuel policy. Martin has researched and published on a range of topics, including biofuels lifecycle accounting, greenhouse gas emissions in biofuels production, semiconductor manufacturing and polymer physics.
Creative Collision
Creative Collision is a place to share, combine, collaborate, and learn from one another. Here you can learn and share just about any medium!
Film and discussion: Hybrid Pioneer
Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer is a documentary about Des Moines mixed media artist and musician Brent Houzenga. The film chronicles the enterprising spirit of do-it-yourself artistry and the struggle to carve and maintain a successful creative career. A discussion with Houzenga and filmmaker Kristian Day follows.
Leaks, Leakers and the Law
Jeffrey Hunt is a First Amendment attorney in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an Iowa State alumnus. He serves as local counsel for two national television networks and in 1992 founded the Utah Freedom of Information Hotline, which provides free legal assistance to the public and journalists. He was a copy editor for the Des Moines Register and a reporter for the Quad-City Times. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.
How Agricultural Innovation and Collaboration will Shape the Future of the World
"How Agricultural Innovation and Collaboration will Shape the Future of the World," Jim Borel. As executive vice president of DuPont, Borel is responsible for DuPont's production agriculture businesses, DuPont Crop Protection and Pioneer Hi-Bred. The Carl and Marjory Hertz Lecture on Emerging Issues in Agriculture.