Monday, 10 Mar 2014
Workshop for early career faculty: Mentoring graduate students
Graduate College associate dean William Graves and others will share their best advice on recruiting and mentoring graduate students.
Micro-Biblioteca Book Drive
Studio Andino, an interdisciplinary spring option studio taught by architecture associate professor Clare Cardinal-Pett, is collecting children's books appropriate for ages 3 to 12 in both Spanish and English, along with cash donations for the purchase of Spanish-language elementary school textbooks. The book drive is part of their project to build and supply a micro-library for the El Carmen neighborhood of Comas, a suburb of Lima, Peru.
Computer Science Colloquium
"In the Age of Big Data, What Role for Software Engineers?" Tim Menzies, West Virginia University. A reception precedes the talk.
Statistics Seminar
"Regularized Semiparametric Functional Linear Regression", Fang Yao, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada
Osborn Club Lecture
"Critical Materials: Past, Present and Future," Alexander King, Critical Materials Institute, U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Osborn Club lectures are open to the public, following the club members' dinner.
Leading in a Crisis: Real Stories Behind 'Scandal'
Judy Smith, a crisis manager and former White House deputy press secretary for President George H. W. Bush, is the real-life inspiration for Olivia Pope, the lead on ABC's "Scandal" - a show revolving around the life and work of a professional fixer. Book signing to follow.