Friday, 21 Feb 2020
Performance: Concert of Soloists
The ISU Symphony Orchestra will showcase some of the best student musicians on campus during its annual Concert of Soloists.
Saturday, 22 Feb 2020
Potting Party: Succulent Stars
New this season! Join Indoor Horticulturist Jessie Liebenguth for this exclusive hour of making of trendy, modern, and Insta-worthy plant projects.
Men's Basketball
Iowa State vs. Texas Tech.
Cyclone Cinema: Zombieland - Double Tap
On the way to Graceland, zombie slayers encounter post-apocalyptic warriors and a group of survivors who find refuge in a commune. Their battle against smarter, faster and seemingly indestructible zombie takes all of their wits and weapons.
Sunday, 23 Feb 2020
Floating World: Karen LaMonte's Kimono Sculptures
Join Alice Hammond, who represents Karen LaMonte at Gerald Peters Contemporary, as she discusses the ways in which Japanese culture and artwork is reflected in LaMonte's Floating World body of work.
Women's Basketball
Iowa State vs. Texas Tech.
ISU Concert Band and Campus Band
ISU students play music from new composers and old favorites.
Cyclone Cinema: Zombieland - Double Tap
On the way to Graceland, zombie slayers encounter post-apocalyptic warriors and a group of survivors who find refuge in a commune. Their battle against smarter, faster and seemingly indestructible zombie takes all of their wits and weapons.
Monday, 24 Feb 2020
Monday Monologues series
"The Creative Process of Poetry & Prose," readings by Kartika Budhwar, MFA candidate in the creative writing and environment. She writes about porous borderlands where myth meets history, where the colonizer and colonized come together, where languages spar and fuse, where gender and sexuality collapse upon themselves, and where the supernatural and the organic have equal claim.
CCE Seminar: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
"Compiling the CV/Resume." Learn valuable tips on how to create different application materials for your job packet. You'll be ready for the job market in no time. Seating is limited; register in advance.
Wheel Pottery Class
Get your hands dirty and make beautiful things! Start with centering clay and pulling cylinders, the building blocks to throwing on the wheel. Move on to forming bowls, mugs, vases and plates, and learn handle-pulling, glazing and finishing techniques. Open to beginners as well as those with experience who would like to improve their skills.
Woodshop Orientation
Learn the fundamentals of woodworking equipment while creating a tool carrier. Leave class with knowledge of proper machinery use, and, most importantly, woodshop safety. Students may purchase the toolbox for $6 after class or we will use them for our Art Mart fundraiser. The orientation is required in order to use the woodshop on your own.
Symposium on Sustainability: Poster, Tabling and Sustainable Art Reception
Displays and presentations that highlight sustainability work, accomplishments and commitment in areas of operations, academics and the overall student experience.
cancelled -Jazz @ the Maintenance Shop
James Bovinette is director.
Lecture: Erin Brockovich, 'The Power of One'
In 1996, as a result of the largest direct action lawsuit of its kind, spearheaded by Erin and Ed Masry, the utility giant was forced to pay out the largest toxic tort injury settlement in US history: $333 million in damages to more than 600 Hinkley residents. Now, Erin consults on numerous environmental projects all over the world and encourages people to believe in their personal power to affect change. 2020 Symposium on Sustainability...
Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020
Gallery Chat with Dr. Michele Schaal
In conjunction with the exhibition Creating Global Understanding, members of the World Languages and Culture faculty will lead informal discussions of the works of art they researched and interpreted.
CCE Seminar: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
"Enhancing your Networking Skills." Learn valuable tips on how to create different application materials for your job packet. You'll be ready for the job market in no time. Seating is limited; register in advance.
Kick Start your Early Career with Non-Governmental Funding
This seminar will provide you with an overview of early career awards, with a focus on awards offered by private foundations and other non-governmental entities. The ISU Foundation will explain how they can help you pursue this funding. Finally, a panel of ISU faculty awardees will share their grant finding experience, and how the awards helped shaped their careers.
Sustainapalooza: Picture Yourself in a Sustainable World
Join us for an evening celebrating all things sustainability at ISU. Food, connections, clothing swap and greening!
Men's Basketball
Iowa State vs. TCU.
Wednesday, 26 Feb 2020
NIH Proposal Development
In this session you will learn about NIH-specific requirements including budgets and the different types of budget justifications. We'll touch on salary caps, just-in-time requests, standard due dates and start dates, and proposal scoring. You'll walk away with some tips, tricks and common issues with proposal development, and you'll have some useful resources to help you through the proposal development process.
Retirement reception: Judy Strand
Judy Strand, a program coordinator in the Graduate College office, is retiring from the university. A program will begin at 3:30 p.m.
CCE Seminar: Developing Successful Job Application Materials
"Drafting your Diversity Statement." Learn valuable tips on how to create different application materials for your job packet. You'll be ready for the job market in no time. Seating is limited; register in advance.
Seminar series: Water Research Past, Present and Future
"History of Water Quality Research with the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment," Dan Jaynes, retired soil scientist, USDA Agriculture Research Service. The series is presented by the Iowa Nutrient Research Center.
SUB Member Meeting
Come hang out with Student Union Board and learn more about their upcoming events, and how you can get involved, at their bi-weekly general meetings! FREE and open to ALL ISU students!
Design and the Green New Deal
Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow with Data for Progress, will present the 2020 Richard F. Hansen Lecture in Architecture. He will focus on the ways in which a national climate plan like the Green New Deal will be understood by most people through the buildings, landscapes, infrastructures and public works agenda it inspires.
Lecture: Indigenous Peoples in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Dr. Debbie Reese is an independent scholar of Indigenous childrenâEUR(TM)s literature and the teaching of Indigenous peoples and history in K-12, editor of American Indians in ChildrenâEUR(TM)s Literature. In this lecture, Dr. Reese will examine depictions of Native peoples in children's books, past and present, and provide suggestions for how to become more skilled in selecting and presenting information about Indigenous peoples to children.
Jazz Night
Professor Michael Giles directs the jazz ensembles
Lecture: My 300-Pound Journey Up Kilimanjaro
Kara's message of body acceptance, body love and health at every size are a vital message for everyone. Her life story with her eating disorder is one many people connect to emotional eating; using food as a way to escape daily stressors; hiding food behaviors and ashamed of the person whom they have become. Hearing her process up the mountain and finding herself is awe inspiring. Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week Speaker
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe
This group is great for those who love the improv comedy humor of their fellow college students and can't get enough of location, occupation, means of death.