Thursday, 13 Oct 2011
Performance: Skippyjon Jones
Youth Matinee Series Performance: Skippyjon Jones (Grades PreK - 3) Skippyjon Jones is a little kitten with big ears and even bigger dreams!
Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Seminar Series
"Maps, traffic and traffic lights: a cellular perspective" Ganesh Sriram, University of Maryland
Brown Bag Lecture
"Itching to Share 'Our Iowa' Pride," Jerry Wiebel, editor, "Our Iowa" magazine. 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.
Performance: Skippyjon Jones
Youth Matinee Series Performance: Skippyjon Jones (Grades PreK - 3) Skippyjon Jones is a little kitten with big ears and even bigger dreams!
Open forum: U.S. Food Systems and Global Hunger
An open forum discussion on the relationship of U.S. food systems to global hunger led by Michael Hamm, Michigan State University. Hamm, the 2011-12 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair in ISU's College of Human Sciences, is the C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and head of the Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU.
Computer science colloquia: Zhengyuan Zhu
Zhengyuan Zhu, associate professor of statistics, will present "Spatial Sampling Design and Wireless Networks."
Agronomy Seminar
Biochar: Why do people care? Presenter: Dr. Johannes Lehman
Knitting with Sarah Cady
Learn the basics of knitting.
Democracy Movements in the Middle East
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at both the Transnational Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, where she directs the New Internationalism Project. Bennis worked as a journalist at the UN for ten years and currently serves as a special adviser to several top-level UN officials on Middle East issues. World Affairs Series.
Physical Fitness and Mental Health
"Physical Fitness and Mental Health: Understanding Exercise and Sport Psychology through the Study of Brain Processes," Bradley Hatfield, kinesiology professor, University of Maryland. His program in exercise and sport psychology focuses broadly on exercise and its effects on mental health. He also studies performance-related aspects of humans and exercise. The 2011-12 Pease Family Scholar.
Roots: What Goes on Unseen
The collaborative artists' team BOKA, comprised of JoAnn Boehmer and April Katz along with Janette Thompson, professor in Natural Resource Ecology and Management, will discuss their research and creative relationship. The focus of this participatory discussion will be on the interpretations of roots, both representational and symbolic, as a way to explore physical and social environments.
SUB Film: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cyclone Cinema presents Transformers: Dark of the Moon!
Neanderthals and Us
Anthropologist David Frayer studies the relationship between Neanderthals and subsequent European populations. He has published on topics ranging from Neanderthal toothpick use to evidence for human massacres in the German Mesolithic to evidence for language origins. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Sigma Xi Lecture Series.
SUB Film: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Cyclone Cinema presents Transformers: Dark of the Moon!