Tuesday, 06 Mar 2012
STEM Education Collaboration Coffee
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
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
"Telomere biology and germ cell immortality in C. elegans," Shawn Ahmed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Seminar: Visualization
Divya Mistry, ISU BCB graduate student, will lead an analytical discussion on visualizing high dimension datasets.
Fighting Human Trafficking - Luis CdeBaca
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