News Archive
Friday, November 5 2010
News
Chicago artist Frances Whitehead will discuss art and sustainability Nov. 17
Frances Whitehead, a professor, sculptor and proponent of
publicly engaged art projects that contribute to a sustainable
future will speak at Iowa State on Wednesday, Nov. 17.
"Climate Change : Culture Change," will be at 7 p.m.
in Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. Whitehead is a
professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where
she founded the Knowledge Lab and SAIC4 -- The Chicago Center
for Climate and Culture, a research center for the study of the
cultural dimension of sustainable urbanism. Her talk is free
and open to the public.
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Newt Gingrich will speak about his new book Nov. 16
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich
will discuss his new, historical novel during a talk at Iowa
State on Tuesday, Nov. 16. "Valley Forge: A Story of
Endurance and Transformation" will be at 6:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Union Great Hall. Published this month, "Valley
Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory," is
the eighth novel from the writing team of Gingrich and William
Forstchen. Gingrich's talk is free and open to the
public.
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Iowa State, Ames Laboratory scientists advance the understanding of the big getting bigger
Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientists are studying a process called coarsening, a branch of surface chemistry that examines how objects of different sizes transform into fewer objects with larger average sizes. James Evans and Patricia Thiel say a better understanding of the process could improve the stability of nanoscale technologies. They describe the emerging field of study in the Oct. 29 issue of the journal Science.
Iowa State will honor fallen soldiers in Gold Star Hall ceremony Nov. 11
The walls of the Gold Star Hall -- the "memorial" in Iowa State University's Memorial Union -- are engraved with the names of former students who died while on active duty in the U.S. Armed Services. Four former Iowa State students will be honored during the annual Veterans Day Gold Star Hall ceremony at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. The four being honored are from each major conflict of the 20th century, their deaths spanning 48 years, from 1918 to 1966. They come from Ames, Sioux City, Manson and Hamburg.
Iowa State researchers team up with NFL PLAY 60 campaign to provide tools, analysis
Iowa Hall of Pride exhibit memorializes Jack Shelley
The Iowa Hall of Pride has created an exhibit dedicated to Iowa broadcasting icon and ISU Professor Emeritus Jack Shelley, who died Sept. 14 at age 98. The exhibit, which features highlights of Shelley's career and a video produced by the Archives of Iowa Broadcasting, will remain on display through 2010. The Hall of Pride is located in HyVee Hall at the Iowa Events Center, 330 Park St., Des Moines. All Iowa K-12 students are admitted free; adults pay $5. The Iowa Hall of Pride is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
ISU Hilton Chair Steven Blair to discuss whether weight or activity is more important to health
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NASAs Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
NASA's Kepler Mission is changing how Iowa State
University's Steve Kawaler and his fellow astronomers study
stars. Kepler, launched in March 2009, is returning data the
astronomers say is amazing for its quantity and quality.
Kepler, Kawaler said, is "a discovery machine."
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Author of new biography on Grant Wood will speak at Iowa State Nov. 7
The author of the first new biography of artist Grant Wood in
nearly 70 years will speak about his book, "Grant Wood: A
Life," at Iowa State. R. Tripp Evans will discuss and read
from his groundbreaking book at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, in the
Morrill Hall Auditorium, Room 2019. Published this month by
Alfred A. Knopf, Evans' book uncovers the Iowa-born
artist's personal life and the many ways it contradicted
his public image.
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Chief negotiator of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty will speak Nov. 10
Rose Gottemoeller, the assistant secretary of state for the
Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, was the
chief negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(New START) with the Russian Federation. She will speak on
"Nuclear Arms Control for the 21st Century" at noon
Wednesday, Nov 10, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. Under the
treaty's terms, the U.S. and Russia will be limited to
significantly fewer strategic arms within seven years from the
date it enters into force. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
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Retired Xerox chair, CEO Mulcahy to give Smith Chair lecture Nov. 17
In the news
A new Indonesian university will train students to solve national problems
Are texting and Facebook worse for teens than TV?
Doug Gentile, a child psychologist and associate professor at Iowa State, who studies the effects of media on children, says texting, Facebook and video games are not inherently bad.
The top 100 people in bioenergy
Biofuels Digest
Biofuels Digest included Iowa State University's Robert C. Brown - an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering and the Iowa Farm Bureau director of Iowa State's Bioeconomy Institute - on its list of "The Top 100 People in Bioenergy." Brown is No. 61.