Tuesday, 12 Apr 2022
The Future of Agriculture
Craig Hill, Iowa farmer and former president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, has been serving agriculture for several decades. He was elected president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation in December 2011, a position he held for a decade before retiring last December. Throughout Hillââ'¬â"¢s years in agricultural leadership, he served as the first chairman of the Iowa Ag State Group, which consisted of representatives from all sectors of Iowaââ'¬â"¢s...
Open Mic Night
ISU students - are you looking to impress your fellow Cyclones with your singing, comedy, chainsaw juggling, or other talents? Then don't miss Open Mic Night at the M-Shop! (No chainsaw juggling, please)
Wednesday, 13 Apr 2022
First Amendment Days: Depth and Dialogue sessions
Small sessions exploring First Amendment topics: "Think Like a Journalist," 10 a.m.; "Dare to Listen with Empathy," 11 a.m.; "Move Over Free Speech: Exercising Your Right to Protest," noon. First Amendment Days events.
Lecture: Exercising Your Right to Protest
Freedom of speech gets all the attention when it comes to the First Amendment, but we also have the right to object. In this session, explore the right of the people peaceably to assemble: what it means and how it works, especially when responding to provocative speakers on campus.
Course Design: Access & Inclusion with UDL
In this session, learn how to how to continue implementing the value of flexibility as a component of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Drop In Craft: String Art
Hammer nails into a board and use lines of thread to make geometric patterns, curves, and shapes. We have lots of designs to choose from or create your own!
Drop-In Craft: Painted Flowerpots
Simple, fun, and in-season, terra cotta pots are an easy surface to paint on. Choose from small pots to start an herb garden, to medium containers for indoor plants, and larger pots for outdoor flowers.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Spring Planters Week
Our pots are both charming and functional vessels for your indoor plants. From little pots for baby succulents to larger ones for more established plants, find a fun way to show off your greens.
Professional and Scientific Council seminar series
"What Not to Name Your Files," Megan O'Donnell, the data services librarian at the ISU Library. Get a brief overview of how file and folder names affect our ability to find things, tips for establishing logical and intuitive systems, and what to never ever name your files.
Tusubila Crafts Group Basket Sale
Baskets are made by women in Kamuli, Uganda, and sales support their families with food, school fees, and other needs. Sponsored by The Uganda Alliance Club.
Seminar: Shade avoidance in corn and other crops
By Clarence Swanton, University of Guelph
Cropping system diversification suppresses soybean disease caused by soil borne pathogen
Seminar by Leonor Leandro
Film screening: 5 Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
(ab)Terris, the landscape architecture graduate student organization, will sponsor a screening of the film "5 Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf" in the College of Design atrium. Snacks and beverages will be provided.
Dare to Speak, Dare to Listen: Protecting Free Speech on the Frontlines
WebEx Link: https://bit.ly/3pgM0nQ The guarantee of free speech is essential to any well-functioning democracy, and yet here in the United States free speech is losing its moorings on both the right and the left, with mounting encroachments on open discourse in schools, universities, the news, media and online. Suzanne Nossel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, the leading human rights and free expression...
Performance: Jazz Night
A performance by ISU jazz students.
Thursday, 14 Apr 2022
Caterpillar Club
Join us outdoors weekly for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories followed by nature exploration and activities. Best for children ages 2-5 with an adult.
First Amendment Days: Feast on the First
Free food, fun and festivities of the five freedoms. A carillon concert of freedom-themed music will be performed at 11:50 a.m. A First Amendment Days event.
Nature at Noon: Finding and Conserving the Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee in Central Iowa
Join us as we welcome David Stein, the Watersheds and Wildlife Program Coordinator at Prairie Rivers of Iowa, for an open talk about finding the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee and what it means to conserve that endangered species.
Drop In Craft: String Art
Hammer nails into a board and use lines of thread to make geometric patterns, curves, and shapes. We have lots of designs to choose from or create your own!
Drop-In Craft: Painted Flowerpots
Simple, fun, and in-season, terra cotta pots are an easy surface to paint on. Choose from small pots to start an herb garden, to medium containers for indoor plants, and larger pots for outdoor flowers.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Spring Planters Week
Our pots are both charming and functional vessels for your indoor plants. From little pots for baby succulents to larger ones for more established plants, find a fun way to show off your greens.
Tusubila Crafts Group Basket Sale
Baskets are made by women in Kamuli, Uganda, and sales support their families with food, school fees, and other needs. Sponsored by The Uganda Alliance Club.
Softball vs. Texas Tech
Iowa State vs. Texas Tech. Schedule updates and weather delays are available on the team social media accounts and the athletics website.
Lecture: First Amendment and Content Creation
"Attention All Content Creators: You Should Care About This First Amendment Session," Jeffrey Hunt, Parr Brown Gee and Loveless; and Julie Roosa, ISU adjunct assistant professor and First Amendment specialist. If you create content that is published online, in print, in audio, anywhere, a Supreme Court case called New York Times v. Sullivan affects you. A First Amendment Days event.
Charcuterie Workshop
Hands-on instruction led by Jennifer Behnke and the Culinary Food Science Club. Participants will learn food safety tips and take home a booklet with recipes, charcuterie board ideas, and templates. Each participant will make their own personalized charcuterie board. Registration required; seating is limited.
Reflections on Preservation from a Queer Public Historian
Franklin Vagnone, President of Twisted Preservation Cultural Consulting, will illustrate his experimental Public History work that often questions accepted professional best practices. Preservation, conservation, public history, sculpture, contemporary art happenings, and queer & marginal narratives all are a part of Twisted Preservation's Practice.
Cyclone Cinema: West Side Story
Cyclone Cinema is presented by the Student Union Board and showcases a variety of film genres, screening a different movie every weekend Thursday - Sunday during the semester. Sunday film screenings are in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as well, as long as the request is made to the staff prior to the movie starting.
Performance: Cyclone Voice
Cyclone Voice is ISU's premier, annual singing competition that highlights the vocal talents of Iowa State students. This year's main event host will be singer/songwriter and actor Jesse McCartney The multi-Platinum selling artist has dropped numerous albums to great acclaim and performed everywhere, from global headlining tours to Presidential performances for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Friday, 15 Apr 2022
Active Learning for Busy Skeptics
Active learning has consistently been shown to be more effective than traditional instruction for promoting learning, motivation and student retention. Despite this overwhelming research support, instructors have a number of significant concerns about adopting active learning techniques in their own classes. Common concerns include worries about preparation time, content coverage and student resistance to new teaching methods.
First Amendment Days Workshop
Five sessions designed to examine more deeply the challenges and opportunities provided by free expression. Led by First Amendment experts from the state, each 50-minute session uses current events to engage a dialogue with national scholars.