Thursday, 11 Apr 2019
Nature at Noon: Volunteering at Reiman Gardens
Volunteer coordinator Taylor Woodcock will talk about some of the projects and opportunities volunteers engage with. As a nonprofit organization, Reiman Gardens depends on the generosity and dedication of hundreds of volunteers contributing thousands of hours to bring beautiful planting displays and butterflies to the public. No registration required.
(d)innovation symposium Lunch Series: Joe Benesh + Entrepreneur Panel
Joe Benesh (BArch 1999 Architecture) is the president and CEO of the Ingenuity Company, a strategic planning, organizational development and design thinking firm based in Des Moines. His lunchtime lecture is part of the College of Design's (d)innovation symposium co-sponsored by the interdisciplinary design program, ISG + StruXture Architects and Nimaroh Design Studios.
Robert Stafford Lecture on Banking
Robert DeYoung, Koch Foundation Distinguished Professor in Business Economics and Harold Otto Chair in Economics at the University of Kansas School of Business, will present "Unpacking the U.S. Economy."
Campaign Series: Presidential Candidate Eric Swalwell
Congressman Eric Swalwell is serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's North Silicon Valley 15th Congressional District. He was born in Iowa and spent his early years in Algona, where his father served as the police chief. His talk is part of the Campaign Series in 2019, providing the university community with opportunities to question candidates before the Iowa Caucuses.
Lecture: Vans, Empowering Youth Culture
The Fashion Show 2019 is proud to host Vans as its Guest Company Designer. Since 1966, the Vans brand has created action-focused footwear, apparel and accessories for skateboarders, surfers, BMX riders and snowboarders across the world with a goal of promoting creative expression and inspiring youth culture.
Friday, 12 Apr 2019
Friday Research Seminar: Wellness Design Evaluation Tool for Users' Experience in Healthcare Settings
Yongyeon Cho, a new assistant professor of interior design, will explore an Excel-based real-time assessment tool to evaluate users' interior design experience in healthcare settings and provide focus on wellness design elements in visual and narrative form. Part of the IDRO Friday Research Seminar Series.
Monday, 15 Apr 2019
Readings: Heal the Divide on Campus
Heal the Divide on Campus is a reading of new student-written plays. Students in Charissa Menefee's playwriting class participated in a workshop conducted by Protest Plays Project founder Tiffany Antone and created their own Heal the Divide on Campus plays. Readings also will done by other students from ISU and different campuses.
Sketching: The Mental Camera Roll
Sketching is a form of design notation and communication, a way in which ideas from the mental camera roll develop into forms and spaces and eventually built space. Richard Alomar, Rutgers University associate professor of landscape architecture, will talk about sketchbooks and journals as mediums for data collection, present sketching exercise examples and share ways students can develop a practice of sketching to record their experience.
Lecture: Countries of Conflict
Members of the International Student Council's Humanitarian Awareness Committee will share stories and facts about people in nations facing humanitarian crises. The nations include Palestine, Libya, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen.
Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019
Workshop: Faculty with Multiple Identities as Strategic Agents to Institutional Change
Nancy "Rusty" Barceló, special assistant for diversity, equity and inclusion to the chancellor of the University of Illinois and an expert on institutional change, will share her professional journey as a Chicana administrator and change agent at the highest levels of academia. This workshop will be repeated today, 1-2:30 p.m. Registration requested.
Lecture: Understanding Second Language Speakers: What Really Matters?
The Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics - Tracey Derwing, a Professor Emeritus of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, has extensively researched second language fluency and pronunciation, especially the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accent.
Wednesday, 17 Apr 2019
Architecture Research Exchange Spring 2019 Mini-Series
Associate professors of architecture Dan Naegele and Doug Spencer will share their recent work in this third Architecture Research Exchange event. All are welcome.
*CANCELED* Lecture: Indigenous Food Systems and the Honorable Harvest
This event has been canceled due to travel complications. The poster session is being rescheduled. "Renewing Reciprocity: Indigenous Food Systems and the Honorable Harvest." Robin Wall Kimmerer, keynote speaker for the 2019 Sustainable Agriculture Symposium, is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at SUNY and the author of "Braiding Sweetgrass."
Thursday, 18 Apr 2019
Lecture: Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox
"Building Bridges or Walls: Where Do the U.S. and Mexico Go from Here?" - Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox is a leading voice on North American trade policy and the challenges of immigration.
Friday, 19 Apr 2019
Analogue Participatory Graphics with Undocumented Immigrants
Fernando Burga, assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota, will show how graphic representation techniques can capture undocumented immigrants' experiences and inform the development of planning goals and objectives. Lecture co-sponsored by the sustainable environments graduate program and Department of Community and Regional Planning.
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Ocean Discovery Lecture Series - "Climate Change and ecosystem transformation: plant wax evidence from Indian Ocean Drilling" by Sarah Feakins, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Monday, 22 Apr 2019
Monday Monologues series
"Spring, Shakespeare and the Pursuit of Gappiness," Linda Shenk, associate professor of English. In his plays, Shakespeare strategically leaves "gaps" allowing each production, each reader, to fill those spaces with their own experiences, values and questions. Gaps keep the Bard's works relevant to modern audiences.
Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019
Lecture: Empowering the Next Generation of Engineers
Ashraf Habibullah is a structural engineer who helped develop the technology and software engineers use to design earthquake-resistant buildings and bridges. He will discuss the future of engineering as a profession, especially the need for todayââ'¬â"¢s engineering students to be exposed to more than just technology.
Lecture: Diversity, Leadership, Donald Trump, and the Future of America
"Stay Woke: Diversity, Leadership, Donald Trump, and the Future of America," Kevin Powell, activist and book author. He also has written for the Huffington Post, British GQ and Vibe Magazine. In a world where violence, fear, division and hate have become the norm, Kevin offers hope and a new and different way to view ourselves, to view each other. Powell will sign copies of his book prior to the lecture (7 p.m.).
Generative Design in the Architecture of Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Tracy Miller is an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches the history of arts and architecture in Asia, with a special emphasis on the ritual and garden architecture of Imperial China and Japan. Her research focuses on the impact of belief in divinity on the production of art, architecture, and spaces for spiritual encounters.Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture
Lecture & performance: A Musical Celebration of the First Amendment
"Shut Up and Dance" is an engaging and irreverent concert celebrating free speech through music.
Wednesday, 24 Apr 2019
Lecture: Gendered Media Coverage of Women Presidential Candidates
But Is She 'Likable?' Dianne Bystrom is director emerita of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State. She will discuss the how the media has covered women running for office differently than men, and what that might mean for the 2020 presidential election, for which there is an unprecedented number of women candidates.
Thursday, 25 Apr 2019
Lecture: The Art of Writing, with author Margot Livesey
Join student and faculty in the Creative Writing Program for this informal moderated craft talk. Writers will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear author Margot Livesey discuss her writing process.
ISU Retirees: Social and program
"The National Centers for Animal Health: Historical and Present Contributions to Animal Agriculture," Dr. Marcus Kehrli Jr., director of the National Animal Disease Center. Program begins at 3 p.m. Refreshments provided by Vintage Cooperative, Ames.
Lecture: Reading & Conversation: Margot Livesey, author
Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of ten books, including a collection of stories, Learning by Heart, and eight acclaimed novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House on Fortune Street, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and Mercury.
Friday, 26 Apr 2019
Psychology Colloquium
"In pursuit of principles that are practical: Lessons learned navigating the interplay between theory and interventions to promote healthy behavior," Alexander Rothman, University of Minnesota. Hosted by the graduate students in social psychology.