All Lectures

Menopause: A "Peri" Important Transition Period in Women's Vascular and Brain Health

Tuesday, Dec 02, 2025
at
6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Wesley Lefferts
It Takes One: Leadership, Legacy, and the Power of Belief

Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025
at
4:30 pm

0127 Curtiss Hall

Speaker: Gretta Irwin
Save the Bees: Is Pesticide Regulation Actually Driven By Consumer Concern?

Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025
at
6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Katherine Dentzman
High Energy Visions of the Universe

Thursday, Dec 04, 2025
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Lynn Cominsky
Leadership Lessons from Mission Control: Making Real-Time Risk Tradeoff Decisions

Monday, Jan 26, 2026
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6:30 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Ginger Kerrick
More Than A Dream: Expanding the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington

Thursday, Jan 29, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Bettina Love
How Students Shape the Pro-Life Movement

Thursday, Jan 29, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Maggie DeWitte
George Washington Carver Day of Recognition

Monday, Feb 02, 2026
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5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Keynote: Amanda Williams
Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain

Tuesday, Feb 03, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Amanda Williams
A Panel Discussion on the State of the U.S. Economy

Thursday, Feb 05, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Panel: Katharine Abraham, Benjamin Malin, and Genevieve Signoret
We Need to Disagree: The Importance of Honesty and Debate in an Age of Political Tribalism

Monday, Feb 09, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Mark Vance
The Stars, The Sky, The Wilderness: Author & Environmental Activist Rick Bass

Monday, Feb 09, 2026
at
7:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Rick Bass
America @ 250 Presents: Our American Experiment — 250 Years On

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026
at
7:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Asma Khalid
Our State's Surprising Past: A New History of Iowa

Monday, Feb 16, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Jeff Bremer
Bitcoin Will Demonetize Agriculture: How Young People Could Own Farmland in the Future

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Vance Crowe
Shaping the Future: Graduate Leadership in Research, Technology, and Innovation

Friday, Feb 20, 2026
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12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Sun Room

Speakers: Dr. Farnaz Abdollahi and Benjamin Schmitt
Film Screening: 127 Hours

Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Carver 101

Film Screening: Free
127 Hours: How I Engineered My Own Survival in the Utah Desert

Monday, Feb 23, 2026
at
7:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Aron Ralston
WLC Language Educator Panel

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026
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5:00 pm

Pearson 2105

Panelists: Grant Sincox, Grace Arganbright, Emmeline Hallam, and Jaime Boeckman
Exploring the Second-Life Potential of Used Lithium-Ion Batteries

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Jayanth Ramamurthy
Not Buying It: How to Overcome Our Urge to Overconsume

Monday, Mar 02, 2026
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6:00 pm

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Ashlee Piper
America @ 250 Presents: Women in the American Founding

Tuesday, Mar 03, 2026
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6:00 pm

2630 Memorial Union

Speaker: Karen Kedrowski
America @ 250 Presents: Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

Wednesday, Mar 04, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: Elaine Weiss
Voting IRL: What Students Need to Know

Tuesday, Mar 10, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Speaker: Paul Pate
Iowa's Surprising 2020 Derecho: What Have Meteorologists Learned?

Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026
at
6:00 pm

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Speaker: William Gallus