Thursday, 22 Jan 2015
Study Abroad Fair
Students will have direct contact with program directors overseeing the Iowa State study abroad options.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Many Modes of Effective Teaching: Engaging Students with Traditional Lecture
Teaching award winning chemistry professor Pat Thiel draws students to her class from majors as diverse as sociology and agronomy. Why are these students so excited about quantum mechanics? Learn how to engage students, connect their evolving understandings to the basic concepts hiding under complex equations, and build personal connections even in classes with increasing enrollment pressure.
Open forum: HDFS department chair candidate
Carl Weems, professor of psychology at the University of New Orleans, is a finalist for the department chair post in the human development and family studies department.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Convocation
"One Vision, Many Voices; Join In, Speak Out!" Keynote speaker is James Bailey, CEO of the southeast division of Operation HOPE. The Advancing One Community Awards will be presented.
Felted Wool Accessories Class
Upcycle an old wool sweater into functional art that's good for the environment. Choose from making a pair of mittens or a case for your IPod, Kindle or other small electronics. Learn how to decorate your piece using felting needles and wool roving. Wool will be felted in advance but instructions on how to do it yourself will be provided.
Lecture: Zoologies - On Animals and the Human Spirit
Writer and poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on her new collection of essays about the loss of animals and its meaning for human imagination and existence.
Performance: Anything Goes
Cole Porter's first-class comedy follows the S.S. American out to sea, where etiquette and convention are tossed out the portholes as two unlikely couples journey to true love.
SUB Comedy Night
SUB Comedy Night with Kevin Iso & Whitmer Thomas