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Monday, 04 Nov 2024

Climate, Communities, & Collaborative Action: Taking a Page from Shakespeare's Playbook

Date Nov 04, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location Great Hall, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

LAS Dean's Lecture The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Lecture Series highlights faculty excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement in Iowa State’s most academically diverse college. Each semester, the dean invites LAS faculty of distinction to present lectures from their areas of expertise on topics of interest to the general public, designed to stimulate high-quality, intellectual discussion among faculty,...

Extractive Industry, Historic Disinvestment, and the Future of Rural Communities

Date Nov 04, 2024

Time 7:30 PM

Location Sun Room, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

Presenting her book, Pushed Out, this presentation focuses on what happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses and new money comes in. This presentation offers Dover, Idaho, as a case study of transformation from a “thriving timber mill town†to an “economically depressed small town†to a “trendy second-home location†and discusses how Dover embodies the story and challenges of many other rural...

Tuesday, 05 Nov 2024

Seminar: Cell division in plant development and environmental response

Date Nov 05, 2024

Time 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Location 1414 Molecular Biology

Cost free

Channel Research Lectures

Join the Genetics, Development and Cell Biology department to hear Dr. Arif Ashraf, Howard University assistant professor in biology, discuss research into asymmetrical cell division in plant models that led to the discovery of a 'pause and play' mechanism during environmental stress and stress recovery conditions.

Wednesday, 06 Nov 2024

Bridging Borders: Career Journeys at Bayer, From Germany to the USA

Date Nov 06, 2024

Time 3:30 PM

Location 1226 Howe Hall

Channel Lecture Series Lectures Live Green

Dr. Anita Kuepper and Dr. Lucas McKinnon will share their career experiences at Bayer Global. This lecture will provide info about international opportunities in the crop sciences and more generally about German-American industry partnerships.

Thursday, 07 Nov 2024

9th Annual Three-Minute Thesis Final Competition

Date Nov 07, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location South Ballroom, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) celebrates research being conducted by current ISU graduate students. Developed by the University of Queensland, the competition is an opportunity for students to describe their research, in three minutes, in a relatable and relevant way to a non-specialist audience.Â

UFOs and UAPs: The Latest Tech to Detect What’s in Our Skies

Date Nov 07, 2024

Time 7:00 PM

Location Sun Room, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) have captured the world’s imagination for decades. Renewed attention came in 2021 when the U.S. Intelligence community released its first public UFO report. Despite stating that there is no credible evidence for alien-originating craft, the U.S. government admitted there are objects unknown to us in the atmosphereâ€"foreign government spy balloons, unregistered drones, and other earth-based...

Monday, 11 Nov 2024

No Fashion Without Disability: Embracing Disability as Knowledge and Access as an Aesthetic

Date Nov 11, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location Sun Room, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

There has been a rise in clothing and accessories designed for disabled people under the moniker of adaptive fashion. Accompanied by increased representations of disabled models in fashion media and the introduction of disabled mannequins in fashion exhibitions, adaptive fashion is often celebrated as evidence of the industry's commitment to diversity. However, my lecture challenges this assumed inclusivity strategy. I propose a new...

Tuesday, 12 Nov 2024

Seminar: The dual role of CAND1 in regulating cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases

Date Nov 12, 2024

Time 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Location 1414 Molecular Biology

Cost free

Channel Research Lectures

Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology seminar to hear Dr. Xing Liu, associate professor in biochemistry at Purdue University, discuss research using biochemical, biophysical, and cell biological approaches to study the dynamic assembly and disassembly of cullin-RING ligase complexes.

Under the Influence... of Stress

Date Nov 12, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location Great Hall, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

As Bill Daniels Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies at the University of Denver, Corey Ciocchetti is one of the University’s most popular and highest-rated professors. Corey joined DU after graduating with a law degree from Duke University School of Law, a master's degree in Religious Studies, and two bachelor's degrees in Finance and Economicsâ€"summa cum laudeâ€"from the University of Denver. Corey is a talented speaker...

Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024

Gold Star Hall Ceremony

Date Nov 13, 2024

Time 4:15 PM

Location Great Hall, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

Gold Star Hall is the "memorial" in the Memorial Union. In World War I, when a family had a son or daughter in the service, they displayed a card with a simple blue star in their window. When life was lost, the card with the blue star was changed to one with a gold star - hence the name Gold Star Hall. The blue/gold star tradition continues, with military families still displaying these symbols. When the Memorial Union opened in 1928,...

Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports

Date Nov 13, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

For the past several yearsâ€"and during the summer Olympicsâ€"the issue of trans athletes’ participation in sports has never been far from the headlines. State legislatures, sports’ governing bodies, celebrities, and political leaders have all gotten involvedâ€"particularly when the topic is about who can compete in girls’ and women’s sports. This panel will discuss the current issues about trans athletes participating in...

Thursday, 14 Nov 2024

Visiting Artist Talk: Jennifer Scheuer

Date Nov 14, 2024

Time 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Location 0011 Design (Printmaking Studio)

Cost free

Channel College of Design Arts, performances Lectures

Artist Jennifer Scheuer will present on their scholarship and work as a contemporary fine arts printmaker and book artist. . Students will have the opportunity to see their fine art prints in person. Scheuer's work will be on display in the College of Design's Gallery 181 from Nov. 18-Dec. 6.

Friday, 15 Nov 2024

Lecture: Glad Tidings to the Strangers

Date Nov 15, 2024

Time 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Location 2155 Marston

Channel Lecture Series Lectures

with Shaykh Oosman Mustoofa, an instructor at the Miftaah Institute, Warren, Michigan.

Monday, 18 Nov 2024

Native American Cuisine, Foods, and the Way of Life

Date Nov 18, 2024

Time 6:00 PM

Location Great Hall, Memorial Union

Channel Lecture Series Lectures Live Green

Chef Freddie Bitsoie (bit-sue-ee) will discuss the cultural progression of foods in the western hemisphere, and how native foods of the western hemisphere have been claimed, misused, appropriated and overlooked for centuries. Chef Bitsoie will discuss how these foods survived through migration, colonization, and cuisine culture. Initially pursuing cultural anthropology at the University of New Mexico, a conversation...

Tuesday, 19 Nov 2024

Seminar: Deciphering the brain lipidome: From fats to functions

Date Nov 19, 2024

Time 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Location 1414 Molecular Biology

Cost free

Channel Research Lectures

Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology seminar to hear Dr. John Vaughen, Sandler Fellow and assistant professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco, discuss research that combines genetics, lipidomics, microscopy, behavior and biophysical modeling to prove the developing brain lipidome. This research aims to identify the enzymes and signaling cascades that generate appropriate brain lipidomes and more!

Visiting Artist Talk: Nick Phan

Date Nov 19, 2024

Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location 0011 Design (Printmaking Studio)

Channel College of Design Lectures

Nick Phan, a Vietnamese-American printmaker born in Kansas City Missouri, will host an artist talk from 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, in Design 0011 (Printmaking Studio). Phan's artwork has been nationally and internationally exhibited. He primarily works with relief prints and book arts, and often finds ways to combine the two into his work. Phan uses his artwork as a means to enhance his life and to connect to those around him. His pieces often po

Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

Visiting Artist Talk: Thomas Wharton

Date Nov 21, 2024

Time 3:00 PM

Location 0011 Design (Printmaking Studio)

Cost free

Channel College of Design Lectures

Thomas Wharton, a painter, sculptor, and artist, will lead an artist talk from 2:10-3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in Design 0011 (Printmaking Studio). His artwork explores how light and shadow define physical space, create illusions, reflections, and moods. To that end, he sculpts wooden "spindles," which he uses as dimmer switches for modernly inspired luminaires to create sets for still-life images.