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Sunday, 04 Mar 2012

Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Our Health

Mar 04, 2012

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures Live Green

Sandra Steingraber is a biologist as well as a cancer survivor. Her latest book is "Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis," in which she speaks as both a scientist and a mother about the joys of bringing up her son while searching for ways to shield him - and all children - in a world facing climate change and increased environmental pollution. The 2012 Shivvers Memorial Lecture.

Monday, 05 Mar 2012

Film: Miss Representation

Mar 05, 2012

6:00 PM

South Ballroom, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures

The 2011 Sundance documentary "Miss Representation" exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. It features stories from teenage girls and interviews with such prominent women as Condoleezza Rice, Katie Couric, Margaret Cho and Gloria Steinem. A discussion will follow the 80-min film.

Setting the Global Table: Strategies for Feeding and Fueling a Growing World

Mar 05, 2012

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures Live Green

Joe Taets is Senior Vice President at Archer Daniels Midland Company and an Iowa State alum. He leads ADM's Agricultural Services business unit and is also part of the company's Strategic Planning Committee. The Carl and Marjory Hertz Lecture on Emerging Issues in Agriculture

Tuesday, 06 Mar 2012

STEM Education Collaboration Coffee

Mar 06, 2012

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

N047 Lagomarcino Hall

Free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

The Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education (CESMEE) presents "Establishing Successful Project Evaluation for NFS-funded Programs" with Mack Shelley, professor of statistics and political science, and Mari Kemis, assistant director of the Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE). RSVP to Stacy Renfro, srenfro@iastate.edu.

Workshop: Achieving Success in Broader Impacts

Mar 06, 2012

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Gallery, Memorial Union

free

Research Lectures

Are you writing an NSF CAREER grant proposal? Are you writing NSF and other agency grant proposals that include activities to benefit society beyond the research impact? Strengthening the Professoriate (SP@ISU) will host a discussion featuring faculty members who have been successful in obtaining grant funding and have strong areas of Broader Impacts. Faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students are welcome. Lunch provided; please RSVP.

Workshop: Interdepartmental genetics

Mar 06, 2012

4:10 PM

1414 Moleculary Biology

free

Graduate College Lectures

"Telomere biology and germ cell immortality in C. elegans," Shawn Ahmed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Seminar: Visualization

Mar 06, 2012

5:00 PM

1102 Molecular Biology Building

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

Divya Mistry, ISU BCB graduate student, will lead an analytical discussion on visualizing high dimension datasets.

Fighting Human Trafficking - Luis CdeBaca

Mar 06, 2012

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Luis CdeBaca is Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. He has worked under three presidential administrations to combat human trafficking and modern-day forms of slavery. He is a graduate of Iowa State University. World Affairs Series

Wednesday, 07 Mar 2012

The War between Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon

Mar 07, 2012

8:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for SLATE magazine and the author of "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society." His recent article "The Great Tech War Of 2012" outlines how these companies are competing with each other - and other companies - in markets for mobile phones, apps, social networking, retailing, advertising, finance and much more. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Nation in Transition.

Thursday, 08 Mar 2012

Chemical & Biological Engineering Department

Mar 08, 2012

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

171 Durham

College of Engineering Lectures

Data Driven Approaches for Effective Process Monitoring, by Qinghua He, Professor Tuskegee University

Brown Bag Lecture

Mar 08, 2012

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Reiman Gardens

Free for CoHorts' members; price of admission for general public. Free for ISU students.

Reiman Gardens Lectures Special events

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.

Workshop: Funding grant proposals

Mar 08, 2012

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Parks Library

free

University Library Lectures Training, development

"Secrets to Targeting the Right Funding Source for Your Grant Proposal," with ISU librarians Rebecca Jackson and Sarah Passonneau. This workshop will focus primarily on using grants.gov and the Foundation Center Directory Online Professional, the two most comprehensive tools for finding funding sources.Registration is required through AccessPlus. All faculty, staff and grad students are welcome to attend.

CANCELED: The Impact of Women's and Gender Studies in Academia and Beyond

Mar 08, 2012

7:00 PM

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures

Canceled due to a family emergency. Jill Bystydzienski will discuss the variety of women's and gender studies programs in higher education today as well as international collaborations in this area. Her broad range of work has addressed such topics as women, gender and politics in a global perspective and building cross-cultural coalitions. Part of the Women's & Gender Studies Program 35th-Anniversary Celebration.

The Impact of Retrotransposons on Human Genome Evolution

Mar 08, 2012

8:00 PM

Gallery, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures

Mark Batzer is the System Boyd Professor and Dr. Mary Lou Applewhite Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on understanding the genetic diversity of humans, in particular the study of mobile DNA elements. He was recently part of an international consortium of scientists who decoded the orangutan genome. Sigma Xi Lecture.