Tuesday, 09 Mar 2021
Sexism, Media, and the Pursuit of Madame President
WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e545c32996a3483507e659599106ffa66 ISU Profession Dr. Kelly Winfrey will discuss her latest article about the sexism women have faced from 2012-2020 while running for U.S. President. Note: The presentation "Women in the Criminal Justice System from an FBI Victim Specialist's Perspective" with Karen P. Gale had to be canceled.
Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021
Carbon Removal Forum (virtual)
The Carbon Removal Forum is a campuswide event to harness knowledge and capacity toward developing an Iowa State University program in agriculturally based carbon removal that could contribute toward mitigating climate change. Featured speakers are Philip Robertson, Michigan State University, and Daniel Sanchez, University of California, Berkeley. Registration (free) is required.
Webinar, Making Art for Mindfulness Online Workshop
The term "mindfulness" conjures meditation, breathwork, and mantras, but many creative activities are also contemplative and intentional. Memorial Union Arts Coordinator Letitia Kenemer will guide online workshop participants through a series of three exercises to create visual reminders of mindful intentions and values. Instructors are welcome: these exercises can be used in learning environments.
Virtual Lecture: Youth Design Center: Designing for Equity
Quardean Lewis-Allen, founder and CEO of Youth Design Center in Brooklyn, New York, will share the center's work and the challenge for urban inhabitants to ground their narrative in and advocate for the places they are connected to. Part of the Spring 2021 College of Design Lecture Series.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Study Tools)
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.
Seminar: Out of sight, out of mind? Below ground response to environmental change and cultural transformations in the geosciences
by Erika Marin-Spiotta
P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture: Design [NOW!]
Kimberly Garza, founder of Atlas Lab Inc. -- a Sacramento, California-based landscape architecture, urban design and public art studio -- will discuss the role of tactical urbanism and urban prototyping in her practice and how it can be used as a tool to engage communities, create authentic experiences and empower designers to improve the built environment using low-cost, small-scale strategies.
Lecture: Severely Abused Latinas, Intimate Terrorism, and Killing to Survive
"No Way Out" will focus on Latinas' unique low rate of intimate partner homicide offending when compared to other racial/ethnic groups. We will explore how structural, institutional, and cultural factors shape their experiences of abuse and homicide. Latinas become entrapped within terroristic abusive relationships with limited options for assistance, escape, and survival, leaving them with no way out.
Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
Superconducting Order and Disorder
Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Lab
One Woman's Journey: From a Kenyan Village School to an American University
Dr. Ebby Luvaga was born and raised in rural Kenya. The presentation will walk the audience through Dr. Luvaga's journey from her small village in Western Kenya to becoming the only member of her family to earn a Ph.D. and to teach at an American University. Through that journey, Dr. Luvaga will share her perspective on gender.
Friday, 12 Mar 2021
Virtual Lecture: The Stadio Berta and Nervi's Rise to Global Acclaim
Thomas Leslie, Morrill Professor in Architecture, will present an online lecture in English as part of the initiative "Pier Luigi Nervi and the Architecture of the 20th Century in Florence." His talk will take as its starting point the famed Stadio Berta in Florence, Italy, showing how its two phases marked a decisive moment in the career of Pier Luigi Nervi.
Webinar, Tips, tricks & opportunities for grading in Canvas (ISU Online Learning Community)
Dr. Cristina Bonaccorsi, Associate Teaching Professor, Chemistry, and Dr. Amani Elobeid, Adjunct Associate Professor, Economics, will be joining ISU Online Learning Community to share their tips, tricks, and opportunities for grading in Canvas. Come to learn from and with Drs. Bonaccorsi and Elobeid, and see the demonstration of an updated grade submission process via the ISU AdminTools in Canvas.
Innovators Forum: Raed Hafez
A live, moderated conversation with Raed Hafez, ISU alum and CEO of elGrocer. Registration required.
Web talk, The Pen is mightier: Writing-to-learn in large-enrollment classes
Writing is a core skill of many STEM professions. Writing can also help students think through key concepts or ideas presented in a course. Although many instructors can appreciate the learning opportunities offered by written assignments, those of us who teach large undergraduate classes face practical barriers to incorporating writing in our curricula.
What Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence
Jackson Katz is an educator, author, and social theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race and violence. In 1993, Dr. Katz co-founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society.
Saturday, 13 Mar 2021
Concert: ISU Symphony Orchestra
The Iowa State University Orchestra will play Beethoven Symphony No.7 in a Major Op. 92.
Monday, 15 Mar 2021
Virtual Lecture: Is Green Gentrification Inevitable?
Hamil Pearsall, an associate professor and graduate chair of geography and urban studies at Temple University, will present "Is Green Gentrification Inevitable? Locating the Green Space Paradox with GIS" in this virtual lecture hosted by the Department of Community and Regional Planning.
QM Success Stories: Synchronous course design for the pandemic and beyond
Join Dr. Steven Crawford to explore the established frameworks for flipped and blended course design. During the webinar, participants will:
Tuesday, 16 Mar 2021
Webinar, CELT Teaching Talks: Advanced Tips for Teaching Online
In this virtual brown-bag lunch session, April Eisman (Associate Professor, Art & Visual Culture) will talk about her experiences teaching online. In particular, she will share some of the tricks and tips she has learned along the way for both synchronous and asynchronous courses -- from embedding questions in videos, to using Google docs, to regularly "touching base" with students, this session will cover a variety of ideas.
Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
Workshop: Preparing for a Successful P&T Review
For new tenure-eligible faculty. Associate provost for faculty Dawn Bratsch-Prince, associate provost for academic programs Ann Marie VanDerZanden and associate vice president for research Surya Mallapragada will present on what makes a successful P&T case.
Webinar, Effectively managing disruptive conduct in learning spaces
When disruptive conduct takes place, some Iowa State University instructors recommend addressing it immediately. Their advice: remain calm, assess the situation, listen to student concerns. Especially recommended: provide a clear, firm response that is consistent with what you've given other students.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Collaboration)
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.
Seminar: Digital Phenotyping for Soybean Breeding
By Matthew Carroll, Iowa State University
Seminar: Genetic Assessment of Maize Populations Selected for Drought Tolerance
By Tatenda Musimwa, Iowa State University
Seminar: Pedology, pedometrics, and soil health: leveraging novel data streams to enable soil conservation
by Jason Ackerson
Virtual Concert: Ireland with Michael
A celebration of Irish culture and music for the Irish American Heritage Month of March. Michael shares his own connection to songs and stories of his home county, his love of traditional music with the gorgeous 10-piece Harpist group Cláirsà Neamhaà with local fiddlers, pipers playing jigs and reels that are perfect to celebrate Irish heritage.
Thursday, 18 Mar 2021
Web talk, Systemic disadvantages for LGBTQ professionals in STEM (SABER)
Researchers have documented race and gender bias in STEM for decades, but there has been little parallel examination of LGBTQ status as an axis of inequality. How do LGBTQ-identifying STEM professionals fare in STEM? Drawing on the NSF-funded STEM Inclusion Study data of over 25,000 STEM workers, Dr. Cech will discuss her recent study of LGBTQ inequality among STEM professionals.
Undergraduate Agronomy Club Meeting
Meal at 6:30 pm Speaker at 7 pm Business meeting to follow
Friday, 19 Mar 2021
Innovators Forum: Louis Carr
A live, moderated conversation with Louis Carr, president of media sales, BET Network. Registration required.
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.