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Wednesday, 06 Sep 2017

Workshop: Social Security and Your Retirement

Sep 06, 2017

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Gold Room, Memorial Union

free

University Lectures

A secure, comfortable retirement requires careful financial planning to anticipate your income and needs in retirement. As part of a comprehensive financial plan, it is important to understand the basics and benefits of the Social Security program. Registration requested.

Lecture: When Christians First Met Muslims

Sep 06, 2017

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

Michael Penn is a professor of religious studies at Stanford University and specializes in the history of early Christianity with a focus on Middle Eastern Christians.

Thursday, 07 Sep 2017

Lecture: The World's Most Resilient City

Sep 07, 2017

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

130 College of Design

free

College of Design Lectures

Architect and ISU College of Design Rome Program instructor Tom Rankin will discuss ways in which Rome has, over two millennia, provided examples of sustainable urban design practices, and will highlight innovative public space projects, experiments in urban agriculture, car-free neighborhoods and extreme water conditions to help make Rome's history relevant to designers today.

Friday, 08 Sep 2017

Lecture: MAD Works

Sep 08, 2017

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design

free

College of Design Lectures

Ma Yansong and ISU alumna Qun Dang, partners in Beijing-based design firm MAD Architects, will present the Charles E. "Chick" Herbert Lecture in Architecture as part of Premiere 17, the architecture department's annual celebration of the new academic year.

Planetarium Show: Eclipses & Solar System Astronomy

Sep 08, 2017

6:30 PM

ISU Planetarium, Physics Hall

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

Are you curious about space? Do you wonder about what you can see in the night sky? If so, bring your questions and come to the ISU Planetarium and join us for an evening under the stars!

Monday, 11 Sep 2017

Lecture: New Developments in China and Sino-US Relations

Sep 11, 2017

5:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

Hong Lei is the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago.

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series

Sep 11, 2017

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

"Severe 5%: Understanding the Criminal Justice System," Iowa State professor of sociology Matt DeLisi will draw on his research, clinical, and practitioner experiences working with pathological offenders to provide another framework for assessing the U.S. criminal justice system.

Tuesday, 12 Sep 2017

P&S Council Seminar

Sep 12, 2017

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pioneer, Memorial Union

free

Groups, governance Lectures Training, development

"Personal Leadership: Life Skills for Everyday Self-Care." Stephanie Downs, ISU WellBeing coordinator, will introduce the new Adventure2 online platform. Bring your own device, log in and explore with us!

Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences

Sep 12, 2017

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

2050 Agronomy

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

"Water Resource Stewardship in the US National Park Service" by Dr. Ed Harvey, 2017 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguighed Lecturer, Fort Collins, CO.

Lecture: Water Exploration in the Solar System

Sep 12, 2017

8:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures Live Green Student activities

"Water Exploration in the Solar System: The Restless Hunt for Life," Essam Heggy is a planetary scientist at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and a Rosetta co-investigator at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Wednesday, 13 Sep 2017

Lecture: Business CEO Speaker Series

Sep 13, 2017

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

1148 Gerdin Business Building

free

Ivy College of Business Lectures

"From Donut Salesman to CEO," Kenneth Sullivan, president and CEO of Smithfield Foods Inc., a $15 billion global food company. He oversees Smithfield's vast business empire, including all its operations in the United States, Poland, Romania, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Lecture: Understanding and Defeating Racism and Discrimination in America

Sep 13, 2017

7:00 PM

Stephens Auditorium - Doors open at 6:00pm

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

Tim Wise is a prominent antiracist writer and educator and author of the memoir "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son."

Thursday, 14 Sep 2017

President's Annual Address

Sep 14, 2017

6:30 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

University Lectures Special events

Interim President Benjamin Allen will welcome back faculty, staff and students for the academic year. Light refreshments will be served.

Friday, 15 Sep 2017

Gilman Lecture

Sep 15, 2017

1:10 PM

1352 Gilman

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

Dale Boger, chair of the chemistry department at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, will present "Redesign of Vancomycin for Resistant Bacteria."

Saturday, 16 Sep 2017

Lecture and recital: C-HOP Festival

Sep 16, 2017

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Tye Hall, Music Hall

$15, students free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arts, performances Lectures

"Terpsichore: Danses pour l'orgue et clavecin," Miriam Zach, organ and harpsichord faculty. C-HOP is a festival of dance music for carillon, harpsichord, organ and piano.

Lecture and recital: C-HOP Festival

Sep 16, 2017

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall

$15 (free for students)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arts, performances Lectures

"Structure and Symmetry in Bach's Goldberg Variations," Caroline Hong, guest pianist. C-HOP is a festival of dance music for carillon, harpsichord, organ and piano.

Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Lecture: The History of Experimentation on Black Americans

Sep 18, 2017

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

"Medical Apartheid," Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of the best-selling book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. She has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University.

Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017

Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences

Sep 19, 2017

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

2050 Agronomy

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

"Chasing ice through space and time - reconstructing polar ice sheets through the Cenozoic using the marine sediment record" by Dr. Howie Scher, 2017 Ocean Discovery Lecturer, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Mental Health Fair Keynote: Sara Benincasa

Sep 19, 2017

7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

"Help! You Need Somebody!" Sara Benincasa is a comedian, mental health advocate and author of "Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom."

Saturday, 23 Sep 2017

Lecture: Frontiers of Ag Opportunity

Sep 23, 2017

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

free

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Lectures

"Are We Ready? The Frontiers of Ag Opportunity," Jay Lehr, science director at the Heartland Institute think tank.

Monday, 25 Sep 2017

Lecture: Is There Evidence of God from Contemporary Science?

Sep 25, 2017

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture Series: Fr. Robert Spitzer served as president of Gonzaga University from 1998 to 2009. A Catholic priest and Jesuit, he is the author of eight books, including New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy, and appears weekly on EWTN in "Father Spitzer's Universe."

Tuesday, 26 Sep 2017

Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences

Sep 26, 2017

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

2050 Agronomy

free

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lectures

"The Interface of Deep Learning and Spatio-Temporal Statistics in the Geosciences" by Dr. Christopher Wikle, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Lecture: Why Intelligent Design is NOT Science

Sep 26, 2017

6:30 PM

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Diversity Lectures Student activities

The Atheist and Agnostic Society Fall Lecture. Hector Avalos is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State.

Branding: Who Are You?

Sep 26, 2017

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

362 College of Design

free

College of Design Lectures

ISU integrated studio arts alumnus Jonathan Castro is a ceramic designer who lives and works in New York City. He attributes many opportunities and successes to the skills and business acumen he developed at Iowa State. He'll talk about the importance and process of branding oneself in the marketplace. Castro is an artist-in-residence Sept. 25-29 in the College of Design.

Thursday, 28 Sep 2017

Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture: Vanishing Vaquitas

Sep 28, 2017

7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

free

Lecture Series Lectures Live Green Student activities

"Vanishing Vaquitas: Lessons from a Humble Porpoise" - Barbara Taylor is a conservation biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationââ'¬â"¢s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and involved with recent efforts to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoises.