Monday, 09 Apr 2018
Predicting Chaos: Weather risk in agriculture
Eric Snodgrass is both the undergraduate advisor at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the principal atmospheric scientist at Agrible, Inc. The company is an agriculture company that provides real-time information and services. http://www.agrible.com/
Workshop: Supporting and Managing Staff
This session highlights ISU policies and procedures, and provides valuable resources to help faculty manage and support their research staffs, including post docs and graduate assistants. Register via Learn@ISU by April 6.
Workshop: Human Subjects Research Using IRBManager
Learn how to work with the new IRBManager system. Sessions are most useful for anyone who performs research with human subjects or who needs to sign off on IRB applications. Participants will learn how to submit IRB applications and access study information in the new system.
Entomology Seminar
"Mosquito surveillance in Iowa: A new nemesis and old foes," Ryan Smith.
Signatures of a 3D Quantum Liquid Crystal
Dr. David Hsieh, Caltech
Lecture: Cross-Border Citizens
Internationally renowned American architect and urbanist Teddy Cruz, a professor of public culture and urbanization at the University of California, San Diego, and a principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, will share his many initiatives related to the Tijuana/San Diego border and prior collaboration with the mayor of Bogota, Colombia.
Lecture: The Alchemy of Creativity
Chip Sullivan is a landscape architect, artist, draftsman and professor at the University of California, Berkley, whose work is devoted to exploring place and promoting landscape architecture as an art form.
ISU Flute and Clarinet Ensembles Concert
Sonja Giles, Director of Flute Gregory Oakes, Director of Clarinet
Fashion Week: Movie night
"Confessions of a Shopaholic," with popcorn, candy and F'reals shakes.
Lecture: Ritual Time
"Ritual Time: Escaping the Cult of Busy," Kimberly Belcher, assistant professor of liturgical studies, University of Notre Dame. Belcher will discuss ritual practice as a way of creating contemplative and healing time that buffers us from a culture that demands we overproduce. The Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture