Tuesday, 08 Feb 2022
Seminar: Tackling maize's contribution to climate change by learning from all plant genomic diversity
Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology department seminar to hear about research helping maize agriculture adapt to climate change and become a key element in carbon sequestration.
Pop Up Valentine Art Shop
Find one-of-a-kind gifts! For the eco-friendly, choose a succulent in pottery from The Workspace. Write an ode to your partner, paste photos, or draw a cute cartoon in a small accordion book or get a kit to make your own from scratch. Find the perfect little marbled dish, or choose from an array of delightful Valentine's Day cards created by Kristin Erdman. We can even help you out with gift wrapping before you go.
Drop-In Craft: Valentine Hearts
A hand-made valentine is the BEST and even better when it's something a little different. Paint or decoupage a flat wood heart cutout to show all the loves to your mate this year.
Workshop: Introduction to Patent Searching
Learn the basics of patent searching: the key components of patent documents that are useful for searching, types of patent search (and when you really do need a lawyer), free search tools, and basic strategies for finding relevant patents. Registration required.
Innovation 101: How to Use the Student Innovation Center
Explore the Heavy Metal Shop and Composite Fabrication opportunities in the Student Innovation Center. Registration (free) required.
Wednesday, 09 Feb 2022
Pop Up Valentine Art Shop
Find one-of-a-kind gifts! For the eco-friendly, choose a succulent in pottery from The Workspace. Write an ode to your partner, paste photos, or draw a cute cartoon in a small accordion book or get a kit to make your own from scratch. Find the perfect little marbled dish, or choose from an array of delightful Valentine's Day cards created by Kristin Erdman. We can even help you out with gift wrapping before you go.
Business, Industry and Technology Career Fair
This in-person career fair enables students to explore career opportunities, obtain employer information, and locate internships, co-ops and full-time positions. Employers have the opportunity to connect with promising candidates for job and internship openings as well as network with university personnel and other employers. Open to all majors and other job seekers.
People to People Career Fair
This in-person career fair offers employers and students a professional environment to connect and discuss internships and full-time employment opportunities in human/social services; health/wellness; event management; government; and hospitality. There also will be an opportunity for students to meet with representatives from professional health and law schools.
Drop-In Craft: Valentine Hearts
A hand-made valentine is the BEST and even better when it's something a little different. Paint or decoupage a flat wood heart cutout to show all the loves to your mate this year.
Wheel Pottery Class
An introduction to creating functional pottery on the wheel. Start with the building blocks of centering clay and pulling cylinders, and move on to make bowls, mugs, and other forms. Learn how to pull handles, glaze, and finishing techniques, and build the skills needed to continue on your own. Open to beginners as well as those with experience who would like to improve their skills.
Panel: Black Mental Health
The Multicultural Student Success office in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is hosting the panel.
Exhibition Reception: Vibrant Matter
Opening reception for artist Julie W. Chang's "Vibrant Matter" exhibition.
Town Hall for faculty and staff: 2022-31 Strategic Plan development
The planning committee will share drafts of "to be" statements and proposals for measuring success, for discussion and input.
Seed Sovereignty: Who Owns the Seeds of the World
Winona LaDuke is a Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, grandmother, and a two-time former Green Party Vice President candidate with Ralph Nader. LaDuke specializes in rural development, economic, food, and energy sovereignty and environmental justice. Living and working on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, she leads several organizations.
Grandma Mojo's Improv Comedy
Iowa State's premier student improv comedy troupe! They perform in the M-Shop on select Wednesday nights during the semester.
Thursday, 10 Feb 2022
Pop Up Valentine Art Shop
Find one-of-a-kind gifts! For the eco-friendly, choose a succulent in pottery from The Workspace. Write an ode to your partner, paste photos, or draw a cute cartoon in a small accordion book or get a kit to make your own from scratch. Find the perfect little marbled dish, or choose from an array of delightful Valentine's Day cards created by Kristin Erdman. We can even help you out with gift wrapping before you go.
Caterpillar Club
Join us outdoors* weekly for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories followed by nature exploration and activities.
Nature at Noon
"Are you a good neighbor? How to make your home a healthier place for all creatures," Beth Waage and Erica Place from Story County Conservation will talk about nature, conservation, and what it means to live as a neighbor with all creatures.
Drop-In Craft: Valentine Hearts
A hand-made valentine is the BEST and even better when it's something a little different. Paint or decoupage a flat wood heart cutout to show all the loves to your mate this year.
Royal Craft: History of the Roycroft
The history of the Roycroft Campus, one of the first Arts and Crafts communities in America, told through unique artifacts of the Gilded Age by Alan Nowicki, Roycroft Campus Program Director.
Cyclone Cinema: King Richard
Cyclone Cinema is presented by the Student Union Board and showcases a variety of film genres, screening a different movie every weekend Thursday - Sunday during the semester. Sunday film screenings are in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as well, as long as the request is made to the staff prior to the movie starting.
Friday, 11 Feb 2022
Track and Field
Iowa State Classic indoor track and field meet.
Pop Up Valentine Art Shop
Find one-of-a-kind gifts! For the eco-friendly, choose a succulent in pottery from The Workspace. Write an ode to your partner, paste photos, or draw a cute cartoon in a small accordion book or get a kit to make your own from scratch. Find the perfect little marbled dish, or choose from an array of delightful Valentine's Day cards created by Kristin Erdman. We can even help you out with gift wrapping before you go.
Flagship Friday Innovators Forum: Louis Carr
"The Waymaker Model," Louis Carr. President of Media Sales at BET, Carr has transformed multicultural space for some of the world's biggest brands, such as Unilever, McDonald's, GM, Facebook, and Apple. Carr's long-term commitment to young people and his community has led to the foundation of the Louis Carr Internship Foundation, which helps to promote diversity in corporate America through paid internships.
Drop-In Craft: Valentine Hearts
A hand-made valentine is the BEST and even better when it's something a little different. Paint or decoupage a flat wood heart cutout to show all the loves to your mate this year.
Seminar: Regulation of plasmodesmata during defense and development
Join this seminar to hear about research looking at the plasmodesmata pathway regulation in plant cells. The many techniques and tolls used to study these pathways will be discussed, as well as where the future research may go.
Cyclone Cinema: King Richard
Cyclone Cinema is presented by the Student Union Board and showcases a variety of film genres, screening a different movie every weekend Thursday - Sunday during the semester. Sunday film screenings are in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as well, as long as the request is made to the staff prior to the movie starting.
Performance: Dinosaur World Live
An interactive show for the whole family. Grab your compass and join our intrepid explorer across uncharted territories to discover a prehistoric world of astonishing and remarkably life-like dinosaurs. Meet a host of impressive creatures, including every child's favorite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus.
Performance: Lily DeTaeye
Lily DeTaeye is a Des Moines native, harmonica-wielding singer-songwriter signed to Station 1 Records. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she is a prolific writer with a captivating and powerful voice, seamlessly blending her musical influences of folk, indie-rock, blues, and jazz.
Saturday, 12 Feb 2022
Men's Basketball vs. Kansas State
Iowa State vs. Kansas State. Dates and times subject to change. Please visit the cyclones.com website for updates and information.