Thursday, 26 Sep 2013
Agronomy Departmental Seminar
State of the Department Dr. Kendall Lamkey, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State
Me the People: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the Constitution
Kevin Bleyer, Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, hopes to end the constant bickering about the Constitution by simply rewriting it. With humor and wit, he drags our nation's founding document into the 21st century in his book "Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America." Constitution Day Speaker
Friday, 27 Sep 2013
The Political Status of Puerto Rico: Independence or Statehood?
Juan Manuel Dalmau Ramirez is a leader in Puerto Rico's independence movement and the Puerto Rican Independent Party (PIP). He was the PIP's candidate for governor and has served as secretary general and commissioner of the party.
Seminar: Zinc Finger Consortium
"Genome Editing using Zinc Finger, TALE and CRISPR-Cas9 Nucleases," Jeffry Sander, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Saturday, 28 Sep 2013
The Puerto Rican Independence Movement in the 21st Century
Juan Manuel Dalmau Ramerez is a leader in Puerto Rico's independence movement and the Puerto Rican Independent Party (PIP). He was the PIP's candidate for governor and has served as secretary general and commissioner of the party. An attorney, Dalmau worked as a legistlative assistant under Senator Ruben Berrios, as a legal officer for Puerto Rican Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Andreu Garcia, and as an advisesr to Senator Manuel...
Monday, 30 Sep 2013
Statistics Seminar
"Functional Principal Component Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Point Processes with Applications in Disease Surveillance", Yehua Li, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames
Is Technology Gendered in Africa? A View from Namibia
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus is a professor in the Department of Software Engineering at the Polytechnic of Namibia.
The Strange Saga of Academic Freedom and the Law
Matthew W. Finkin is the author of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom and the The Case for Tenure. He is on the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he is the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law, and director of the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy.