Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009
Lecture: Engineers managing natural hazards
"The Role of Engineers in Managing Risks from Natural Hazards," Robert Gilbert, University of Texas, Austin. Topics will include establishing goals, mitigating consequences, considering system effects, including physical factors in statistical models, avoiding both too much and too little conservatism, maximizing the value of information, and communicating effectively to decision makers and the public.
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009
Sociology seminar series
"Training for Governance and Partnership Skills and Changes in Agricultural Producer Marketing Organizations in Uganda," Richard Miiro, visiting research scholar.
Lecture: "Trade and Food Policy Alternatives for Developing Countries"
"Trade and Food Policy Alternatives for Developing Countries," Will Martin, World Bank research manager for rural development.
Thursday, 15 Oct 2009
Lecture: The Seven Wonders of Computer Arithmetic
Earl Swartzlander, University of Texas, Austina, part of the ECpE distinguished lecture series.
Reading: Gina Ochsner
ISU alum Gina Ochsner is the author of People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, and her short stories have been featured in The New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her latest book, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, will be published in 2010.
Colloquia: Bayesian Learning of Bayesian Networks
Jin Tian, ISU computer Science.
Lecture: Animals and climate change
Conservation biologist Robert Rockwell is the director of animal research at La Pérouse Bay Tundra Biology Station, the primary research site of the collaborative Hudson Bay Project. Rockwell's work focuses on the long-term monitoring of snow geese in this coastal tundra ecosystem. His research is in population dynamics, community ecology, lifetime reproductive success, and the genetic structure and gene flow of migratory waterfowl such...
Lecture: Understanding war
Join in the conversation as Jean Pierre Taoutel, senior lecturer in World Languages and Cultures, guides us through the understanding of war and its impact on people around the world.
Lecture: "U.S. Leadership in the Global Fight Against Slavery"
Ambassador (and ISU alum) Luis CdeBaca has worked under three presidential administrations to combat human trafficking and modern-day forms of slavery. He was recently appointed by President Obama to direct the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the Department of State, which is dedicated to pressuring foreign governments to free persons forced to work, under threat of violence, for no pay beyond subsistence.
Friday, 16 Oct 2009
Colloquium: The Foreclosure Crisis
"The Foreclosure Crisis: Implications for Affordable Housing," Lynn Ross, National Housing Conference and Center for Housing Policy, Washington, DC.
Ramsey Lecture: "New Targets for Antimicrobials and Rational Design of Enzymatic Inhibitors of These Proteins"
Tom Ellenberger, Washington University in St. Louis school of Medicine. A research poster session will precede the seminar beginning at 11:15 a.m. in the west (Fish Tank) lobby at the college.
Monday, 19 Oct 2009
Lecture: Rural poor in Honduras
"From Honduras: A View from the Rural Poor," John Donaghy, associate director of the the local diocesan social development agency in Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras.
Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009
Lecture: In Depth at Reiman Gardens
"Fall Interest in the Garden."
Lecture: The future of American agriculture
"The Future of American Agriculture," Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture. As a staffer on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, she helped shape the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, which created national standards for organic foods and a federal program to accredit them. She also served as administrator of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, which oversees the agency's organic program.
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009
Workshop: Work/Life
"Finding Purpose and Direction in Your Life," Virginia Blackburn, ISU management. Her expertise is in business strategy, and she has expanded on these theories to develop a framework for helping people determine their unique life strategy. The short session is designed to be very interactive and entertaining.
Thursday, 22 Oct 2009
Lecture: Knowledge Representation meets Software Engineering and Databases: A two-way street?
Alexander Borgida, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Lecture: Art and science collaboration
"A Biorenewable Evolution of Soywax in Encaustic Painting," Barb Walton, ISU art and design; Toni Wang, ISU food science and human nutrition; Hui Wang, ISU postdoc; and Larry Johnson, ISU Center for Crops Utilization Research. They will explore the synchronicity and synergism of their individual research through collaboration; what they have learned from each other and what potential lies ahead.
Monday, 26 Oct 2009
Manatt Phelps Lecture in Political Science
Jorge Dezcallar, ambassador of Spain to the United States, joined the diplomatic corps in 1971. During his professional career, he has been posted in Spanish diplomatic representations in Poland, New York, Uruguay, Morocco and the Holy See.
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009
Stafford Lecture Series: Housing finance and public policy
"The Future of Housing Finance and the Public Policy Implications," Richard Swanson, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank, Des Moines. He will will explore the causes and effects of the recent changes in housing and housing finance and examine key principles that will need to be considered for future housing finance structures. A reception will be held at 10 a.m. in the Cox Dean's Suite, 2200 Gerdin Business Building.
Performance: "Farmscape"
Join Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander and a cast of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 'celebrities' for a special performance of "Farmscape." The student-written production documents our changing rural environment by recreating interviews with people involved in how we grow our food and live our lives in rural America.
Lecture: Preparing leaders for global challenges
"Preparing Leaders to Meet Future Global Challenges," Charles Manatt. The Iowa State alum has a distinguished career in law, business, and politics, holding such positions as chair of the Democratic National Committee in (1981), co-chair of the 1992 Clinton-Gore presidential campaign, and U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic under President Clinton.
Lecture: "The Environmental Significance of Biodiversity"
Shahid Naeem is professor and chair of Columbia University's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. He leads a research group studying the ecological consequences of biodiversity loss and has been actively involved in bringing the science of biodiversity to conservation, restoration and policy development.
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009
Lecture: U.S. politics and U.S. Latinos
"U.S. Politics and U.S. Latinos: A perspective from Latino/a Studies," Loreto Prieto, ISU Latino/a Studies director. Part of Latino Heritage Month.
Thursday, 29 Oct 2009
Chemical & Biological Engineering Seminar
"Corporate Research and Development in the Starch Industry" by Frank Barresi, Grain Processing Corporation.
Lecture: Rural Latino immigrants in the Midwest
"Rural Latino Immigrants in the Midwest of the U.S.: Inclusion and Exclusion: Marshalltown, Sioux County and Postville," Jan Flora, Neal Flora and Claudia M. Prado-Meza, ISU sociology. Part of Latino Heritage Month.
Friday, 30 Oct 2009
Works in Progress lecture series
"Music in the Missions: Early Opera and Indigenous Musical Culture in the Jesuit Missions of South America," Chad Gasta, ISU Spanish. All are welcome.