Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016
Homecoming: Food on Campus
Breakfast catered by Panera.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Using Case-Based Learning in your Classroom Harvard's "Winter Oak"
In this interactive session, Brad Shrader, Morrill Professor in Management, will model case-based learning by teaching a case (Harvard University's "Winter Oak"). This is the story of a young boy and his teacher as she comes to understand another way of learning and thinking. CELT has purchased copies of this case for participants, who will be asked to review the 5-6 page case before the session.
Seminar: Enable precision data for precision medicine
Jun Ye is co-founder, president and CEO of Sentieon, a bioinformatics company established in July 2014. Sentieon develops and supplies a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that process genomics data with high-computing efficiency, fast turnaround time, exceptional accuracy and 100 percent consistency.
Homecoming: Yell Like Hell
Skit competitions that promote school spirit with cheering, music and dancing.
The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution
Kristen Hawkes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a graduate of Iowa State.
Volleyball
Iowa State vs. Kansas State. Dates and times are subject to change.
Fine dining dinner: Midwest Steak
One of three themed dinners hosted this semester by students in hospitality management 487/587: Fine Dining Event Management. Reservations are required.
Lecture: Free Trade and Business at the Border
Tom Fullerton and Alberto Davila will discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA, including cross-border trade, the border economy, and its impact on labor markets and business. Both are graduates of the Iowa State Department of Economics.
Step Afrika!
Step Afrika! was founded in 1994 as the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. It now ranks as one of the top ten African American dance companies in the United States.
Hawthorne Heights w/ Convictions and In Her Own Words
While many of the participants in America's post-hardcore sweepstakes have toiled in the underground with a mere modicum of success (if any), Hawthorne Heights achieved much in their 12-year existence.