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NewsFormer Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina to give Smith Chair lecture Nov. 17Carly Fiorina, former chair and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, will visit ISU on Monday, Nov. 17, as the Fall 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. She'll give a free, public talk titled "Tough Choices: Women, Leadership and Power," at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. MEDIA ADVISORY: President's Council on Financial Literacy to hold listening forum in Des Moines Nov. 11President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy will host a special listening forum with invited statewide leaders on Tuesday, Nov. 11 in Des Moines. Sponsored jointly by the ISU College of Business and College of Human Sciences, the Greater Iowa Credit Union and the Iowa Credit Union League, the session is being convened by ISU's Tahira Hira, who serves on President Bush's Advisory Council. Social expert to discuss media and diversity Nov. 10The creative and cultural advisor for Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer" and "Go, Diego, Go!," will lecture on how the media are shaping American perspectives on diversity. Carlos Cortes will discuss "How the Media Teach about Diversity" at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will immediately follow. Tyson Foods director to speak on corporate social responsibility at ISUTyson Foods community and public relations director Ed Nicholson will speak at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. His talk, "A Nation Hungry for Corporate Social Responsibility," will focus on Tyson Foods' efforts to fight hunger. It is free and open to the public. Turtles alter nesting dates due to temperature change says ISU researcherAn Iowa State researchers says turtles nesting along the Mississippi River and other areas are altering their nesting dates in response to rising temperatures. Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first CenturyAward-winning humanitarian advocate and former president of Doctors Without Borders, Dr. James Orbinski, will speak at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. Orbinski accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for the organization's pioneering approach to medical humanitarianism. His lecture is free and open to the public. Student rock band lives, plays together in Iowa State residence hallMembers of the rock band "Tempest Rose" are all living together, thanks to ISU rooming assignments, in an Eaton Hall suite. The four West Des Moines Valley High graduates recently won ISU's Homecoming 2008 "Battle of the Bands" on Oct. 23. Center for Study of Violence paper finds violent video game effects across culturesA new study, led by ISU Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson, shows effects of violent video games on aggression over a 3-6 month period in children from Japan as well as the United States. Anderson also led the effort to establish the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State last fall. Iowa State cell biology project awarded National Institutes of Health grantThe National Institutes of Health announced Thursday that "Meta!Blast," an interactive learning module for cell biology developed at Iowa State, will receive $771,500 as one of NIH's 16 Science Education Partnership Award recipients. 
Geoffroy ISU President Geoffroy will travel to Asia to recruit students, strengthen academic and alumni tiesPresident Gregory Geoffroy will travel to Asia next month, in an effort to recognize and strengthen ISU's recruiting and alumni links. He'll make stops in Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Republic of China (Taiwan). Iowa State crop genomics lab largest in nationThe largest cluster of plant databases in the nation has a new home, the Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service and Iowa State University facility. Agriculture and the arts joined at ISU through "Farmscape" play, campus groupISU Distinguished Professor of English Mary Swander has found similarities between agriculture and the arts and is leading an effort to join them together in a new play, "Farmscape," and related campus Agarts group. |
Alumni, working on the wild sideAlumni who work at top zoos and aquariums are featured in the latest edition of the ISU alumni magazine. In the newsViolent video games linked to child aggressionCNN.com/health In the new study, Distinguished Professor Craig Anderson and his colleagues looked at how children's and teens' video game habits at one time point related to their behavior three to six months later. Study links violent video games, hostilityThe Washington Post The U.S. research was the first in the nation to look at the effects of violent video games over time, said lead author Craig Anderson, a Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and director of its Center for the Study of Violence. Turn page at mid-age on activityThe Des Moines Register For many boomers, the biggest issue in staying active is mentally accepting that your body is aging and that it has its limits, said Warren Franke, a professor in the department of kinesiology at Iowa State University. That means dealing with physical issues such as low-back pain, bad knees, osteoporosis, arthritis and declining vision. |
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