Thursday, 09 Oct 2014
Caterpillar Club
"Forests of Imagination."
Lecture: Feng Shui
"(Inner) Space Exploration using Feng Shui," Susan Radke and JoAnn Charlson. Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers.
Cy Buttons for Homecoming Week
Choose your favorite ISU logo--vintage or new--and make it into a button or magnet. Show your Cyclone Pride!
Library workshop: Scopus database
Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed journal articles, books, conference proceedings and patents. This is a hands-on workshop with enrollment limited to 48.
Agronomy Seminar
Evolution of Crop Insurance from Insurance to Social Welfare Program Bruce Babcock, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Futures Forum: Does Your Career Depend on Your Gender?
The Futures Forum will focus on the role of gender in the journalism, advertising and public relations industries; how it can impact students' future careers and how they can work around gender expectations.
Metalworking Class
Begin your exploration of metalsmithing by learning how to work with different types of metal, how to safely use tools, and techniques such as sawing, drilling, forming, chasing, annealing and riveting. Students will complete one or two projects depending on complexity. Pendants, earrings and bangle bracelets are just a few of the possibilities!
Wood Stack Table Class
Learn how stack laminate and make a small striped table or stool. The first night students will assemble various types of wood with glue and clamps. The second night sand and finish your piece. Leave class with a beautifully variegated functional object for your home.
Cyclone Cinema: 22 Jump Street
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!
How Technology Is Changing the Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
Arlen Chase will discuss his use of Airborne LiDAR laser-based remote sensing in his research of the ancient Maya civilization. Sigma Xi Series.
Faculty Recital: Julie Sturm, cello with Mei-Hsuan Huang, piano
Instructors in the music department
Concert: Stick Figure
The music of roots reggae/dub band Stick Figure has a unique style that creatively blends upbeat roots reggae with the reverberating echoes of dub. Innovative alt-rock-reggae artists Pacific Dub will support the show and up-and-coming female-fronted reggae rockers HIRIE will open.