Monday, 20 Feb 2017
Lecture: Understanding Climate Change through Interactive Simulations
Travis Franck, program director for the nonprofit Climate Interactive and an expert on international climate and energy issues, will share his organization's free climate change decision-support tools and talk about policy struggles and successes.
Lecture: Reflections on Race, Racism and Racial Violence
"In the Shadow of Charleston - Reflections on Race, Racism and Racial Violence," Keisha Blain is co-editor of "The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence," a newly published overview of race relations, racial violence, and civil rights activism in the United States and other parts of the world.
Wednesday, 22 Feb 2017
Lecture: It's the Economy
Adam Davidson is co-founder and host of NPR's "Planet Money" team, and recently joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer for business, technology and economics. Greater Iowa Credit Union Business Lecture
Thursday, 23 Feb 2017
Lecture: Addiction and Art
Paul Cooley is a fine artist based in New York City who recently had work acquired by Iowa State University Museumââ'¬â"¢s Art on Campus Collection. After battling drug addiction and homelessness from a young age, he found an avenue of self-expression through the art.
Friday, 24 Feb 2017
CANCELED: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences seminar
"Establishing Water Management Strategies for Slope Stability at Debswana Mines, Botswana" by Dr. Bob Sterrett, Itasca Consulting, Denver, CO
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Drivers of regional hydroclimate in the Indo-Pacific-from climate models to paleo proxy records" by Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutuion, Woods Hole, MA.