Sunday, 10 Apr 2022
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
Night Against Procrastination
This drop-in event will offer activities to help students improve their study and wellness habits, a chance to snuggle a therapy dog -- and donuts for the first 100 people.
Cyclone Cinema: House of Gucci
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.
Monday, 11 Apr 2022
Monday Monologues series
ISU Opera Studio, co-directed by Chad Sonka and Jodi Goble, ISU music and theatre. The ISU Opera Studio presents beloved opera arias and ensembles from their spring program. Hear the excitng voices of Iowa State, and yes, high notes.Â
Retirement open house: Carol McDonald
Carol McDonald, director of information technology in IT Services, is retiring after 43 years of service.
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.
Workshop: Conducting a Lit Review
"Conducting a lit review: A Citation Here, a Citation There ... Pretty Soon You'll Have a Lit Review," the first of a two-part series that will help you conduct and write the literature review for your thesis or dissertation. Registration required.
Workshop: Tracking Down Your Research Impact
Learn the basics of cited reference and techniques for author name searching in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar and how to generate visualizations and reports from the results. Registration required.
Seminar: Soil in the Lab and on the Canvas
Join this seminar to hear Kirsten Kurtz, Manager at the Cornell Soil Health Laboratory and Research Support Specialist with Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, discuss measuring and quantifying soil health through the Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health (CASH). Gain a behind the scenes look at some unique apparatuses used in the Cornell Soil Health Laboratory and learn more about Kirstens research into soil degradation in agriculture practices.
Lecture: Seeking Justice for All
In 2018, Hon. Rosemarie Aquilina, a Michigan Circuit Court judge, gained worldwide attention when she allowed every victim in the sexual assault case against USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to speak in court before his sentencing. More than 150 women and girls shared their testimony. Hear Judge Aquilina's powerful story about the importance of speaking and listening as a form of healing. A First Amendment Days event.
Tuesday, 12 Apr 2022
Housing Fair
The Housing Fair is designed to help students or members of the Ames community find their home away from home. See options from the Department of Residence and others, learn about tenants' rights, and find other resources.
Agriculture Through Art: Museums as a Student Service
Join CALS Student Services and University Museums for a student focused tour of Curtiss Hall's public art and exploration of services available to all students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, followed by a viewing of the exhibition in the Christian Petersen Art Museum.
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.
How Cultural Diplomacy Breaks Political Barriers and Stereotypes
Cultural diplomacy is an intercultural sharing that appeals directly to the citizens of different nations through the work of musicians, dancers, artists, writers and filmmakers. Maria Lvova is the Program Officer for Education, Exchanges, & Community Building with the US Russia Foundation; she provides guidance to applicants and monitors and evaluates USRF programs in the areas of Russian and American Studies, and Civil Society.
Lecture: The Future of Agriculture: A Reflection and Discussion on Emerging Trends and Issues
Craig Hill, a farmer from Ackworth, Iowa and former president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, "The Future of Agriculture: A Reflection and Discussion on Emerging Trends and Issues."
Panel: Your Rights, Your Libraries
"The First Amendment and the Freedom to Read," Robin N Sinn, ISU director of collections and open strategies; Sheila Schofer, Ames Public Library director; State Library of Iowa Intellectual Freedom Committee; and moderator Julie Roosa, First Amendment specialist. A First Amendment Days event.
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...
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.