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Science and Environmental Decision-making: From the Lab to the White House and Beyond - Rosina Bierbaum
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Rosina Bierbaum, a professor and former dean at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment who also holds the Roy F. Westin Chair in Natural Economics at the University of Maryland, will discuss her research and career working at the interface of environmental science and policy. Her work in both academia and the public sector has focused on climate change adaptation and mitigation. She served on President Obama's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, has been an Adaptation Fellow at the World Bank, ran the first Environment Division in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has served in multiple capacities at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and was a review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She currently chairs the Science and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility.Part of the National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in Conflict

The Dead Zone: Will Shrimp and Corn Chowder Survive? - Nancy N. Rabalais
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Nancy Rabalais has worked for more than 30 years to bring national attention to water quality and ecosystem concerns in the Gulf of Mexico. She leads Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium/Louisiana State University's annual survey of the Gulf hypoxic zone, tracking the impact that nutrient runoff from agriculture and developed lands in the Mississippi River watershed has had on coastal habitats. Also referred to as the “dead zone,” the hypoxic zone is a largely human-caused phenomenon where there's too little oxygen to support marine life. Rabalais’s work on coastal water quality has extended to recovery efforts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and restoration of coastal habitats following natural disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Harvey. The Ronald Lecture in Environmental Conservation

Wasted: A Story of Food Waste - Documentary & Discussion
6:45 PM – 1148 Gerdin Business Building - Grab some appetizers beginning at 6 p.m. before watching the movie Wasted: A Story of Food Waste at 6:45pm. The movie shows how influential chefs from around the world transform scraps of food into savory dishes. Following the movie, Lynn Pritchard, co-owner of Table 128 Bistro & Bar, will give a brief talk about how his restaurant handles food waste. 2017-18 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series

What's So Bad about Jesus? - Hector Avalos
6:00 PM – 0305 Carver - Hector Avalos, a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State, will speak on the topic of his book The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics. Even some atheists who do not believe in Jesus's divine nature agree his teachings emphasize love, nonviolence, and inclusion. Avalos will discuss how the teachings and actions of Jesus, as portrayed in the New Testament, would be antithetical to those enshrined in some of the most widely accepted codes of modern ethics. Such teachings involve family values, violence, and the treatment of animals. Atheist and Agnostic Society Spring Lecture

Why Leadership Equity and Diversity Matters - Iyabo Onipede
7:00 PM – Alliant-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Iyabo Onipede is a leadership development coach who works with corporate executives, academic professionals and social justice leaders to identify and develop leadership skills and reconnect with their core sense of values. She has worked across cultures, generations and socio-economic groups and draws on her personal experience as the daughter of a Yoruba father and an Irish-American mother. Onipede moved from Nigeria to New York at age 16. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law School and had a successful law practice for 20 years before becoming a life coach. She subsequently completed a graduate degree at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

Coding Design / Designing Code - Panel Discussion
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Coding, long an activity relegated to the software engineer, has become a ubiquitous creative and transformative force. Join researchers, scientists and designers for a discussion on both how code is designed and how code is used as a design tool. Participants include: Brett Renfer, creative director at Bluecadet, a digital agency that creates interactive installations and immersive environments in collaboration with museums, cultural institutions, universities, and nonprofit organizations; Stephen Ervin, Director of Computer Resources and Assistant Dean for Information Technology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is responsible for the school’s computer network infrastructure for CAD, GIS, image processing and animation software; Bradley Cantrell, a landscape architect and scholar whose work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design; Rodney Hoinkes, an entrepreneur in the marketing, health, education, and data science industries and director of data science consulting at Black Swan Data; and Taekyeom Lee, an interdisciplinary artist known for his unconventional typography and an assistant professor of graphic design at Appalachian State University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities Symposium

ISCORE Keynote Address - Susana Muñoz
12:00 PM РSun Room, Memorial Union - Susana Mu̱oz is an assistant professor of higher education in the School of Education at Colorado State University and codirector of their Higher Education Leadership Program. She was recently named by Diverse Issues in Higher Education Magazine as one of the 25 most influential women in higher education. Her first book, Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists, was published in 2015. Mu̱oz earned her undergraduate degree in political science and international studies from Iowa State and returned to Iowa State to earn a PhD in educational leadership and policy studies. The 2018 Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, ISCORE, Keynote Address Registration not required to attend the noon keynote, which is free and open to the public.

Physical Activity Promotion in Underserved Populations - Scherezade Mama
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Scherezade Mama is an assistant professor at Penn State University whose research focuses on physical activity and health promotion among underserved and vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, women, low-income populations, and rural residents. She is interested in understanding the mechanisms through which the social environment and psychosocial factors influence health risk behaviors, such as inactivity, that contribute to health disparities and inequities in these populations.

Stop Bullying Your Body - Jessica Setnick
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jessica Setnick is a pediatric dietitian and author of The Eating Disorders Clinical Pocket Guide. She has been recognized for her efforts at communicating nutrition messages in an understandable way and promoting a positive relationship with food as essential to a healthy and happy life. Setnick, who has recovered from her own eating disorder, currently trains professionals around the country at Eating Disorders Boot Camp and owns a private practice, Understanding Nutrition. She previously served as a dietitian for the eating disorders program at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness Week. Podcast unavailable for this event

The Age of Consequences - Documentary Film
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The Age of Consequences has been described as The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth. It investigates the impacts of climate change on resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of U.S. national security and global stability. The film features military leaders, veterans, and Pentagon insiders, who take us beyond the headlines of global conflict and humanitarian crises to document how climate change stressors - water and food shortages, drought, extreme weather, and sea-level rise function - create instability and function as a catalyst for conflict in volatile regions of the world. 80 minutes Part of the Symposium on Sustainability Series