Wednesday, 31 Jan 2018
Workshop: Assignments and Gradebook in Canvas
Assignments are a backbone of the course's Gradebook in Canvas. Participants will learn to create and manage Assignments and Assignment Groups as well as explore how the Gradebook is connected to the organization of Assignments. Participants will experience the power of SpeedGrader for efficient and effective grading.
Research Workshop: Submission software training
The Office for Responsible Research will transition to a new electronic system for submission, review, and maintenance of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) applications. The a-tune tick@lab system will go live in early 2018, integrating research, teaching and testing protocols, animal procurement and management, as well as veterinary medical records.
Seminar: Computational Feminism: Searching for Cyborgs
Computational design is a field within architecture that leverages computing, data and machines to advance the aesthetic and performative qualities of the built environment. As the field matures, architects must address an increasing number of cultural, political and ethical dimensions, particularly in technical roles. This presentation examines the gender gap in computational design and proposes an agenda to achieve gender equality in this area.
Lecture: Engineered Ecologies: Scaling Landscape Practice in Asia
Dorothy Tang, a landscape architect whose work engages with urban and rural communities in areas facing large-scale environmental upheaval, will focus on three environmental crises -- floods in Thailand, climate-change adaptation in the Pearl River Delta of China and anticipated deforestation in Myanmar -- and explore possible design responses to current ecological issues.
Lecture: On Architectural Sins, Epic Architecture and Everything In Between
Cristina Goberna Pesudo, an architect, educator, critic and co-founder of the architecture firm Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (FKAA), will share the firm's latest projects. Part of the ISU Department of Architecture's 2017-2018 Public Programs Series.
Belly Dance Class
Ditch the gym and get your steps in with Shiara at Belly Dance!
Macrame Necklace Walk-In Craft
This is KNOT your grandma's macramé! Learn the basic knots for macramé and complete a boho chic necklace.
Men's basketball
Iowa State vs. West Virginia.
Needle Felted Mittens Class
Upcycle a wool sweater into wearable art that's also better for the environment. Make a pair of mittens with a flannel or fleece lining, and decorate with felting needles and wool roving.
Thursday, 01 Feb 2018
30th Annual Organists of Iowa with Dr. Karen. Black
Accomplished organist DR. KAREN BLACK visits Martha Ellen Tye Auditorium to perform an organ recital. Black is the Rudi Inselmann Endowed Professor of Organ at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She teaches organ and church music, music theory and aural skills, serves as organist for weekday chapel and Sunday worship services, and conducts the St. Elizabeth Chorale.
Caterpillar Club
A weekly early childhood development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme.
Research Workshop: The Informed Consent Process
"Human Research Basics Series: The Informed Consent Process." A four-part series looks more closely at the various components of the IRB submission process. In this session you will learn about the informed consent process, which includes participant recruitment and the informed consent document. Discussion will include regulatory requirements and best practices for designing and administering informed consent.
Pop-up Exhibit: "Small Acts Big Impacts"
This exhibit will include trivia that begins at a table in the Parks Library Lobby, continues to 405 Parks Library and ends in the Green Dot exhibit in the ReACT Gallery, in the Reiman Gallery of the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Hands-on with Team Based Learning: Simple Activities to Engage Your Students (Lisa Orgler)
This interactive workshop showcases Lisa Orgler's (Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, recipient of Iowa State University's Award for Early Achievement in Teaching) unique method of teaching using teams and in-class activities. Lisa will share several activities to inspire ways for you to scaffold difficult concepts, engage learners, and invigorate your classroom.
Meeting: Professional and Scientific Council
The P&S Council is a representative body elected by, and responsible to, Professional and Scientific employees at Iowa State University. Meetings are open to the public.
College of Business: Building Our Community
Our goal is to strengthen our Ivy College of Business community of students, faculty and staff. This is an opportunity for us to learn from each other. Together, we can identify ways for us to meet our college goal of continuous improvement in the areas of diversity and inclusion.
Open forum: College of Veterinary Medicine dean finalist
Spencer Johnston is the James and Marjorie Waggoner Professor and department head (small medicine medicine and surgery) at the University of Georgia, Athens. He is the first of three finalists in the search for the next dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Wheel Pottery Class
Get your hands dirty and make beautiful things! Start with centering clay and pulling cylinders, the building blocks to throwing on the wheel.
Fine Jewelry Silver Class
Design your own fine silver necklace or earrings using Precious Metal Clay.
Cyclone Cinema: Only the Brave
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!
Performance: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Founded as a small radio orchestra in 1926, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra has grown to 100 musicians performing more that 60 concerts each year. Program includes Arvo Pârt's Fratres; Dvorak's Symphony No. 7; and noted violinist Triin Ruubel joins the orchestra to play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64.
Poet: Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson is one of the most successful poets in the spoken word field. She was the first women to ever win the World Poetry Slam.
Friday, 02 Feb 2018
Swimming and Diving
Iowa State vs. Kansas.
Lunch and learn: Bridging the Divide
Learn about a new interdisciplinary research grant program. The sessions are for bringing together interested faculty from across campus, providing some examples of such collaborative activities through lightning talks, and to answer any questions about the new program. Lightning talks by Annette O'Connor, veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, and Clark Wolf, philosophy and religious studies.
Research Workshop: Sponsored Funding Budgets
"Sponsored Funding Budget Basics." In this session you will learn about practical tools and strategies for developing your proposal budget according to agency requirements. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop if one is available, though it is not required to attend.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"When ice motion goes seismic: is glacier sliding similar to failure on earthquake faults?" by Dr. Slawomir Tulaczyk, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Gymnastics
Iowa State hosts a gymnastics quad meet at Hilton Coliseum that will also feature Northern Illinois, West Virginia and Yale.
Cyclone Cinema: Only the Brave
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!
Saturday, 03 Feb 2018
Swimming and Diving
Iowa State vs. Kansas.
Collegiately Creative Personal Branding Seminar
This conference is planned by college students for college students (faculty and staff also may attend). The conference will be a day full of inspiration, encouragement and motivation, featuring a variety of guest speakers and hands-on breakout sessions. This year's theme is personal branding and making your mark on the professional world.