Monday, 01 Apr 2013
Drones: A Tipping Point of Technology
Missy Cummings landed F/A-18 fighter jets on aircraft carriers when she was a Navy pilot. Now she studies unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, as a professor at MIT. She was featured in NOVA's "Rise of the Drones." World Affairs Series and Women in STEM Series
Goldtrap Lecture: Crazy Brave
Author, poet and musician Joy Harjo is one of the leading Native American voices of our time. Her new memoir, "Crazy Brave," is a tale of a hardscrabble youth, teenage motherhood, and her journey to becoming an internationally recognized writer and performer. Her body of work includes seven books of poetry and four CDs. The 2013 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and the 2013 English Department Goldtrap Lecture.
Tuesday, 02 Apr 2013
What Makes a Family?
The son of two lesbian mothers, the 19-year-old University of Iowa engineering student had no idea that his heartfelt testimony before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee would have such an impact. Just two days later, a YouTube video of his testimony went viral.
Wednesday, 03 Apr 2013
Plant Breeding Seminar
Role of Genetic and Biochemical Interactions in Regulating Complex Phenotypes and Heterosis | Presenter: Dr. Eyal Fridman, The RH Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Public Housing in the United States: Neighborhood Renewal and the Poor
Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, is the final speaker in the 2012-2013 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series co-sponsored by the College of Design and Department of Community and Regional Planning.
Plant Breeding Seminar
Songlin Hu, Manipulation of plant architecture of maize for more biomass
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
Lulu Rodriguez,Details TBA
Soil Seminar
Javed Iqbal, TBA
Early Childhood Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Development in Young Children
Dr. Ross Thompson, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, will share ideas for building mental health resources for children and families as well as strategies for intervention. Thompson is known for his work on early childhood emotional development and its application to public policy concerns. Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecture Series
Switch: What Is the Future of Energy? Documentary & Discussion
Switch explores the way we use energy, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels. The film removes politics from the discussion, makes the technical accessible and documents our likely path of transition to new energy sources. A discussion will immediately follow the 98-min film.
Thursday, 04 Apr 2013
Computer Science: Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture
"Situation Awareness in Applications of Services and Cloud Computing," Alexander Zelikovsky, Stephen Yau, Arizona State University.
Forum: Are Corporations People?
Participants include MaryBeth Gardam, the Iowa Coordinator for MoveToAmend; Sonia Ashe, director of IPIRG, Iowa Public Interest Research Group; and Jorgen Rasmussen, Distinguished Political Science Professor Emeritus at Iowa State.
Pragmatic Optimism: How Behavioral Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
Yale economist Dean Karlan is coauthor of More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy. His work demonstrates how small changes in development initiatives can drastically improve the well being of the poor. Karlan is a development economist who uses insights from behavioral and experimental economics in his work.
Friday, 05 Apr 2013
The Art and Science of Rebuilding the Face: Facial Prosthetics and Applications of Advanced Technology in Biomedical Visualization
Suzanne Verma, assistant professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Baylor College of Dentistry, will talk about careers stemming from medical illustration and clinical examples of anaplastology (facial prosthetics), including advanced technologies in custom prototype design. A reception will follow in the College of Design's Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum.
Lecture: University Professor Peter Orazem
University Professor Peter Orazem will present "Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital: An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis," as part of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy brown bag lecture series.
Sunday, 07 Apr 2013
Changing Course in Global Agriculture
Hans Herren is president of the Millennium Institute, an international NGO that facilitates sustainable development. The 2013 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
Monday, 08 Apr 2013
Kinship of Rivers: Readings by Wang Ping & Rick Bass
Writer and poet Wang Ping grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. Her Kinship of Rivers project focuses on the destructive effects of China's globalization and modernization on natural and cultural landscapes. Rick Bass is the author of more than twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West. Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination Series
Osborn Club Lecture
"Messages from the History of Science," David Wilson, professor of history and mechanical engineering. The lecture is open to the public following the club member dinner.
Rhetoric and Science: Two Cultures or One?
David Zarefsky is a scholar of rhetoric. He will discuss how debates over policy can in fact resemble the scientific method. Rhetoric is often thought of as manipulative, partisan and self-interested, while scientific discourse is rational, dispassionate and fact-based. But are they truly opposites?
Caucus Cup Debate: ISU College Democrats v. College Republicans
The ISU College Democrats will debate the College Republicans on an issue of the day for the chance at the Caucus Cup. The winner claims the trophy for a year and will defend the Cup at the 2014 First Amendment Day celebration. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.
DUI: A Powerful Lesson
Mark Sterner helps students realize the choice they make to drink and drive can have a lasting impact on their friends, families and themselves. After a night of partying during spring break, he and his four best friends decided the least drunk would drive home. The next morning, three of the men were dead, and Mark lay in the hospital critically injured and facing three felony counts of DUI manslaughter.
Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013
The Frog and the Snake: Buddhism and Violence
Michael Jerryson is the author of Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand. He looks at the intersections between identity and violence and the ways in which we associate religious identities with peace and violence.
Zoobiquity: Connecting Health in Animals and Humans
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers coauthored Zoobiquity, a book that explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. Part of the College of Veterinary Medicine's One Health Lecture Series.
Dalit Art: Visual Imagery and Caste Identity in India
Iowa State emeritus professor Gary Tartakov taught art history in the Department of Art and Design for twenty-two years. He will discuss his new book, Dalit Art and Visual Imagery, a study of contemporary Indian culture as it has been expressed through the images of the people the caste system has long labeled Untouchables. The group is now referred to more broadly as Dalits, or "oppressed."
Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013
All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq
Miyoko Hikiji is the author of All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq.. It's an account of her 400 days deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom during the onset of the Global War on Terrorism and exposes the comradeship, intimacy, cowardice and humor of soldiers living in physical and emotional grit. It also pays tribute to the two soldiers in her unit that lost their lives.
Plant Breeding Seminar
Chantal Liepold, Identifying New Sources of Resistance to Brown Stem Rot in Soybean
9th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Research Symposium
Program begins with research poster session in South Ballroom at 2:10 PM. Keynote speaker follows.
Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
GPSA Research Symposium, details TBA
Aging, Physical Activity, and Well-Being - Edward McAuley
Edward McAuley is the Khan Professor in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. He will present an overview of findings from a systematic series of physical activity interventions designed to enhance multiple aspects of well-being in older adults, including physical function, quality of life, and cognitive function.
Soil Seminar
Matthew Streeter, "Assessment of Multiââ'¬ÂYear Variation of Corn Yields and Causes On the Des Moines Lobe of Iowa"