Wednesday, 21 Mar 2018
Behind the Scenes: Conservatory & Greenhouses
Warm up in the Hughes Conservatory as you learn about the current display and tour the back-of-the-house greenhouse spaces that come alive with seedlings and activity.
Art Walk: Women Artists
March is Women's History Month so join us as we look at the contribution of women artists to the Art on Campus Collection. Come and join the University Museums as we explore Art on Campus created by local, national, and internationally recognized women artists. Meet in the first floor lobby by the south entrance of the Hixson-Lied Student Success Center.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Help Students Recall Information after Graduation
"Information Overload: Practical Ways to Help your Students Recall Information after Graduation." In this joint CELT/VET MED presentation, Alex Ramirez, ISU awardee for Early Achievement in Teaching, knows that professional practitioners often need an answer right now, because an animal's life is on the line. Presentation also available via webcast and Zoom.
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.
Gun Control Theatre - A ReACT Reading
Following the conclusion of the Thoughts and Prayers exhibition and leading up to the March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24th, Focal Theatre Lab in partnership with ReACT Gallery will present informal readings of plays addressing gun control from a variety of perspectives. The plays will be read outside Morrill Hall in the Anderson Sculpture Garden. You are invited to come and go as your schedule allows or stay for the entire performance.
Ivy Women in Business Awards
Three Ivy Women in Business Awards will be presented to celebrate women in business and their champions. The awards serve as an opportunity to inspire young women in college as they prepare for a bright future in business.
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival is Iowa State University's student comedy, improv group. Holding shows on some Wednesday nights, you can come and laugh to your hearts content at the Mojos, and with the Mojos.
Thursday, 22 Mar 2018
Caterpillar Club
Join us weekly this winter for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories and creative activities around a nature-based theme. Best for children five and under with an adult. No preregistration required.
Performance: How I Became a Pirate
This swashbuckling musical excursion navigates the finer points of pirate life and marks home and family as the spot to find real treasure.
Workshop: The Pedagogy of Canvas Quizzes
Participants will learn how to use Quizzes in Canvas. The workshop will focus on practical ways to customize Quiz Settings as well as create and administer Quizzes with a variety of question types to accommodate specific learning situations. Quiz Moderation and Analytics will be also explored.
Performance: How I Became a Pirate
This swashbuckling musical excursion navigates the finer points of pirate life and marks home and family as the spot to find real treasure.
Getting Started With Zotero
Zotero is a great free tool for managing citations and documents, ideal for tracking sources used in your research. This workshop will show you the basics so you can: collect and organize articles and citations, sync data, add references to Word documents and reformat citations to meet any journal's style, and share citations and documents through a Group Library. Preregistration required. Register through Learn@ISU. Keyword:LIB.
Campus Town Hall
Students are invited to ask senior administrators questions about important campus issues, before and during the town hall. Topics include: Campus climate/Principles of Community; enrollment/affordability (tuition and fees, differentials, enrollment size and the academic experience); student health and wellbeing; and open topics (time permitting). The event also will be livestreamed.
Lecture: Paranormalcy
Photographer Christopher Schneberger (Columbia College, Chicago) builds entire worlds in his art, creating narrative series filled with otherworldly characters. Using photographic technologies from the antiquated to the futuristic, he weaves together fact and fiction into immersive experiences. Bringing his traveling 3-D theater to the College of Design, Schneberger will show his work and discuss how he creates his complex illusions.
Stained Glass Class
Create a small panel using an array of beautifully colored glass.
Cyclone Cinema: Pitch Perfect 3
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the originally scheduled film, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," cannot be screened. "Pitch Perfect 3" will be shown instead.
Lecture: Science and Environmental Decision-making
Rosina Bierbaum is a professor and former dean at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. She will discuss her research and career working at the interface of environmental science and policy.
SUB Comedy Night with Zainab Johnson
The stand-up comedian and actress has appeared on HBO, MTV and more! Her comedy is based on her unique point-of-view of growing up with 12 siblings in a Muslim family. After getting her degree and becoming a teacher, she decided she had a different calling.
Friday, 23 Mar 2018
Add/Drop deadline
Last day to add/drop full-semester courses or withdraw without extenuating circumstances.
Designated repeat deadline
Last day to file a Designation of Repeated Course form for a full-semester or second half-semester course that is not an automatic designated repeat.
Graduate College: Deadline
Graduate College: Last day to submit your Request for Final Oral Exam form for Spring Graduation.
Graduate College: Deadline
Graduate College: Last day for graduate students to cancel graduation without being assessed a nonrefundable graduation fee.
Pass/Not Pass Deadline
Last day to change a full-semester course to or from Pass/Not Pass
Lecture: Literally Weaving
Marianne Fairbanks, an assistant professor in the design studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will outline the three distinct yet intersecting threads of her practice, including her solo work, her research into emerging textile technology and a community-based project.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Bubble Painting
Sort of like blowing bubbles when you were a kid, but we do it with a straw and paint. The popped bubbles become more vibrant during firing and make interesting patterns.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"A Plastic Formulation of Rate and State Dependent Friction: Emergence of Slip Transients and Earthquakes" by Dr. Luc Lavier, Univ of Texas, Austin, TA
Global Gala 2018
Global Gala is an annual celebration of the various cultures present on the Iowa State Campus. This platform allows several student organizations to showcase their cultural heritage through dance, music and fashion, in an effort to promote diversity and celebrate all cultures!
Planetarium Show: Our Solar System and Exoplanets
Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars!
Cyclone Cinema: Pitch Perfect 3
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the originally scheduled film, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," cannot be screened. "Pitch Perfect 3" will be shown instead.
22nd International Festival of Women Composers Concert
22nd International Festival of Women Composers Concert featuring 20th-21st century American composers: Meg Bowles, Jodi Goble, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen, Alma Mahler, and Florence B. Price. With poetry by Pulitzer prize winning Americans Rita Dove and Mary Oliver. Performed by vocalists Beth Deutmeyer, David Bowles Edwards, Chad Sonka, and Jodi Goble, piano, Sarah Reger, carillon, Lucas Yoakam, trumpet, Miriam Zach, organ.