Monday, 01 Mar 2021
Online: Monday Monologues series
"Crushing It," poems by Jennifer Knox, associate teaching professor of English. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Granta, and five times in The Best American Poetry series. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Iowa Arts Council and the Milwaukee County Arts Fund. Along with teaching and writing, she is the proprietor of Saltlickers, a small spice-blend company.Â
Virtual Seminar: Technologies for NASA's Robotic Exploration Missions
"Advanced Energy Storage Technologies for NASA's Robotic Exploration Missions," William West, Group Supervisor of the Electrochemical Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology.
The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice
Robert D. Bullard is often described as the father of environmental justice. He is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University 2011-2016. Dr. Bullard will discuss the intersection of environmental action (or inaction) and racial disparities that plague minority communities. WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2db991e36755863ce6287d835574b292
Wednesday, 03 Mar 2021
Post-Election and Post-Impeachment: What's Next
WebEx Link:Ã' https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=edf3bf497120e26b1784beccddbe8946f ISU experts will discuss the political events since the November 6 election and talk about what to expect from the first months of the Biden Administration.
Thursday, 04 Mar 2021
Digital Surveillance: How Gen Z Gave Up Its Privacy to Corporations and the Government
This event will be streamed live to YouTube. Please click on the link to join the event on March 4:Ã' https://youtu.be/8b1eRrbi3rM The author of the memoir, Permanent Record, former CIA officer and National Security Agency (NSA) consultant Edward Snowden risked everything to expose the U.S. governmentââ'¬â"¢s system of mass surveillance. He is the subject of the Oscar-winning best documentary Citizenfour and the critically acclaimed Oliver...