Monday, 11 Nov 2013
Osborn Club Lecture
V.V. Raman, Emeritus Professor of physics and humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology, will present "The Human-centered Universe: Some Speculations in Current Cosmology." The lecture portion of Osborn Club meetings is open to the public.
Public Ideologies and the Future of Immigration Reform
For more than thirty years sociologist Alejandro Portes has helped shape the study of immigration and urbanization. He is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University.
Tuesday, 12 Nov 2013
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"How does the Permanent Record (Paleomagnetic Data) of Crustal Vertical Axis Rotations in the Western US Compare with the Growing (but Short) Geodetic Record?" by John Geissman, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Wednesday, 13 Nov 2013
Lunch series: Women and Gender Studies
"Grandmothers' Care Work and Paid Work: Implications for Older Women's Income," Ana Prokos, ISU sociology.
Thursday, 14 Nov 2013
Agronomy Departmental Seminar
The 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment and U.S. Food Security in a Changing Climate Dr. Gene Takle, Iowa State
Stafford Lecture: Banking crisis
"Banking: An Industry in Crisis -- Is it Over Yet?" Suku Radia, CEO and president, Bankers Trust. In addition to lessons from the recession, Radia will talk about what is needed to fully heal the financial system in this country.
Friday, 15 Nov 2013
Dr. Detmar Straub, SCIS Visiting Scholar, Research Presentation
Dr. Detmar Straub, Regents Professor of the University System of Georgia and J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, Georgia State University