Monday, 14 Feb 2011
Coach Talk: Bill Fennelly
Cyclone head women's basketball coach Bill Fennelly will meet with fans and answer questions about the season. Bring your lunch and your questions! Door Prizes will be distributed!
GIS Seminar: Addressing Emergency Management Requirements
"Using GIS Capabilities to Address Emergency Management Requirements," LTC Jared L. Ware, Deputy Commander, Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Ware will describe the Rock Island District's GIS capabilities and services to support emergency situations. Part of the GIS Seminar Series.
Horticulture seminar
"Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets: What They Are, How They Differ, and Why We Should Care," Nita Lovejoy, interim director, ISU Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.
Osborn Club lecture
"AIDS Vaccine Development: Designing MPER's New Clothes," Michael Cho, ISU biomedical sciences. Open to the public.
Tuesday, 15 Feb 2011
Atmospheric Science Seminar
"Local Tools and Infrastructure for Managing Software" Daryl Herzmann, Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University
Reflections on the Greensboro Four
On Feb. 1, 1960, four African-American freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University had enough of continued segregation in the South and sat down at Greensboro's "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter. They returned everyday for five months until they were served and Woolworth agreed to integrate their lunch counters. Joseph McNeil, of the Greensboro Four who started it all, will the story.
Wednesday, 16 Feb 2011
Ramsey Lecture Series, College of Veterinary Medicine
Mark Lyte, Ph.D, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will present "Microbial Endocrinology: Why the Intersection of Microbiology, Endocrinology and Food Science Matters to Animal Health." Lyte is the founder of the field of microbial endocrinology, studying how neuroendocrine hormones can interact with microorganisms.
Agron 600B - Soil Science Seminars
"Inseason Nitrogen Rate Adjustment in Corn Using Remote Canopy Sensing" Daniel Barker
Thursday, 17 Feb 2011
Agron 600A - Plant Breeding Seminars
"An overview on the genetics behind self-incompatibility systems in plants" Andrea Arias
Atmospheric Science Seminar
"Regional Climate Model Projections of Warm-Season Precipitation in the Central US" Melissa S. Bukovsky, Ph.D., Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO