Friday, 12 Feb 2021
Innovation Short Circuit: Innovate an Unfair Advantage
Lance LaDuke, assistant teaching professor in euphonium and music entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon. Learn what the experience of creativity and arts teaches us as innovators, influencers and professional contributors; why "impatience" is a key component for innovation; and how to set yourself up for success by diversifying your experiences and skillset.
Web talk, Teaching Critical Thinking and Information Literacy in Introductory STEM Courses
In this happy hour, we will consider the current research and practical implications surrounding undergraduate critical thinking skills. We will interrogate various solutions toward highly-trained graduates to evaluate and synthesize information, and collaborate to create solutions that are well-reasoned, innovative and interdisciplinary.
Saturday, 13 Feb 2021
Men's Basketball
Iowa State vs. Kansas. Date, time and attendance policies are subject to change due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Women's Basketball
Iowa State vs. TCU. Date, time and attendance policies are subject to change due to COVID-19 restrictions.
POSTPONED: Share the Love donation drive
Postponed due to weather. Share the Love. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Cross Disciplinary Students Programs is hosting a donation drive for the Mid Iowa Community Action food bank. Bring a nonperishable food item or feminine hygiene product to donate. Hot cocoa (bring your own mug) and cookies provided. Face coverings and physical distancing required.
Monday, 15 Feb 2021
Virtual Lecture: Zachary Christman
Zachary Christman is a geographer who studies the interactions between humans and our environments using geospatial technology. He will speak about "Integrating GIS and Virtual Field Observations to Assess the Built and Natural Environments." Register at the link in the description.
Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
Virtual workshop: Shameless self-promotion
Interested in increasing your research's impact? This workshop will cover various tools and tips to help you build and manage your online presence. The presenters will cover the differences between and best uses for different networking sites (Twitter, Research Gate, and Academia.edu) and show you how to make your work more visible for peers and potential employers.
Webinar, Best practices for engaging students online
Explore how-to initiate effective and meaningful faculty-to-student interactions while helping students engage in the construction of their learning. Brainstorm how to maintain and inspire student engagement for all learning environments (in-person, hybrid/blended, online).
Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
NSF Proposal Development
In this session you will learn about the recent changes to NSF Policies & Procedures along with NSF-specific requirements, tips, and tricks for proposal development. This training was created with Grant Coordinators in mind, but would also be useful for Investigators and Post-Docs who intend to seek NSF funding.
Webinar, What are we noticing? (Christa Jackson)
Join Christa Jackson, Associate Professor, School of Education, as she shares how she prepares preservice mathematics education teachers in becoming cognizant of their biases through recognizing what they attend to and how they relate classroom events to the broader principles of teaching and learning.
Webinar, What are we noticing? (Christa Jackson)
Join Christa Jackson, Associate Professor, School of Education, as she shares how she prepares preservice mathematics education teachers in becoming cognizant of their biases through recognizing what they attend to and how they relate classroom events to the broader principles of teaching and learning.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Web conferencing: polling and breakout rooms)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Gauge-invariant Trotterization via shear transformations
Jesse R. Stryker, University of Maryland
Seminar: Decision-Making on Multi-Trait Data for New Maize Haploid Inducers Development by Simultaneous Selection
By Yu-Ru Chen
Seminar: Status and Prospects of GWAS in Plants
By Laura Tibbs Cortes
Dark-sector searches at the Belle II experiment
Dr. Giacomo De Pietro, INFN, Sezione di Roma Tre
Seminar: Soil health and water quality in Iowa roadside ditches
by Matthew Streeter
Thursday, 18 Feb 2021
Online Workshop Series: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
APPQMR (Applying the Quality Matters Rubric) is a virtual offering of the Quality Matters flagship workshop on the underlying principles of the Quality Matters rubric, an instrument for assessing the quality of online courses. Learn how to use the QM rubric as you apply it to a demo online course and recommend practical course improvements.
Virtual meeting: Open Scholar Cafe
Open Scholar Cafés are new online monthly meetings for the ISU community to talk #OpenResearch. All experience levels are welcome, and each call will cover a new topic of interest to the community. Join us to learn, talk, and collaborate.
IRB Basics: Protecting Human Research Subjects
This is the second session of a three-part series that looks more indepth at components of the IRB submission process. Participants in this will discuss risk in human subjects research and approaches for minimizing or mitigating risk. We'll also examine confidentiality and data security measures to protect research subjects.
Web talk, Structural racism, institutional transformation, and diversifying the STEM faculty (SABER)
The small number of Black, Latinx/a/o, and Native American faculty in STEM has been increasingly identified as cause for concern, and multiple interventions have been proposed and implemented to increase representation. Decades of research suggest that interventions must go beyond focusing on "fixing" minoritized scientists, instead turning our attention to how campuses and STEM disciplines perpetuate racism and inequality.
Webinar, Team-Based Learning (TBL) Teaching and Learning Community
This topic-based teaching and learning community meets throughout the academic year. We work as teams to optimize application exercises, readiness assurance tests, peer evaluation, and other aspects of course design, and also invite speakers to facilitate discussions of TBL theory, research and classroom application.
Undergraduate Agronomy Club Meeting
6:30 pm - Social hour 7:00 pm - Business meeting and speaker Michael Ott, the CEO of Rantizo
Friday, 19 Feb 2021
Innovators Forum: James Waters
"Innovation in Manufacturing." A live, moderated conversation with James Waters, COO of Basin Holdings and former VP of Caterpillar. Registration required.
Award-Winning Seminar Series: Inspiring Disciplinary Curiosity Using Writing Assignments (Amanda Fales-Williams)
Are you looking for ways to inspire curiosity and foster self-motivated learning in freshman and sophomores? Do you wish there was a way for excited, engaged seniors who have "figured it out" to reflect on their learning and share their journey in meaningful ways with the next wave?
Innovation Short Circuit: How to Innovate Ethical Platforms
Anthony Sardella, founder and vice-chairman of evolve24. Learn how understanding your "why" defines business character and enhances risk tolerance; how young innovators will save us by driving societal change; and how to build an ethical platform that informs you innovator's journey.
Web talk, Transforming a research project into a research proposal
In this happy hour, Beth Beason Abmayr, Teaching Professor, Laboratory Coordinator & Safety Training Instructor (Rice University) will share how to transform a research project to a research proposal.
Saturday, 20 Feb 2021
Men's Basketball
Iowa State vs. Oklahoma. Date, time and attendance policies are subject to change due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Monday, 22 Feb 2021
Innovation Short Circuit: Global Innovation, From the Battlefield to Football Field
Feature speaker is Tilman Engel, ISU alum and former NFL executive.
Online: Monday Monologues series
"False Offering and Other Oddities," poems by Rita Mookerjee, assistant teaching professor of women and gender studies. Topics include junk, garbage, witches, weirdos, rocks, and water fowl.  Mookerjee's poetry is featured in Juked, Hobart Pulp, New Orleans Review, The Offing, and the Baltimore Review. She is the sex and poetry editor at Honey Literary, assistant poetry editor of Split Lip Magazine, and a poetry staff reader for [PANK].