Past Events

RPC Colloquium: Rosário Durão

Rosário Durão, visiting scholar from the University of Lisbon. International perspectives on visual information design in professional communication.

Bill McKibben Lecture: "Sustaining Life on a Tough New Planet"

Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben will deliver lecture from new book in Great Hall, Memorial Union.

"The Story of Music, Stories from Home," Performance by Gary Holthaus and Lauren Pelon

"The Story of Music, Stories from Home" is a unique new work, created by musician, Lauren Pelon, & agricultural writer, Gary Holthaus, which combines music, stories and poems to explore our sense of place, home and community.

Moodle Workshop on Grading

This workshop will address the following questions: How can I grade my students' papers in Moodle? How can I set up a gradebook in Moodle? How can I use a gradebook if I have one Moodle course for two sections? How can I back up a gradebook in Moodle? What is the Outcome function and how can I use it?

RPC Colloquium: Michael Mendelson

Michael Mendelson lecturing on Teaching the Humanities: "If the Humanities hope to be better understood and more highly valued, the 90% (who do not major in our disciplines) will have to have a better idea of what we do and what such knowledge can do for them." Reception to follow at Olde Main Brewing Company, 316 Main

English Department Staff Meeting

STC Career Paths Panel Event

The STC-Iowa State Chapter is teaming up with the STC-Central Iowa Chapter to hold a Career Paths Panel. Professional communicators will be presenting and answering questions about what it is like to work in the technical communications field. This is a great opportunity to see what a career in professional communication will be like after graduation. Anyone is welcome to come!

Ying Zhang—Visiting Professor From China

"The Acceptance and Research of American Young Adult Literature in China."

Travel Writer, Pico Iyer, to deliver World Affairs Lecture

Sarah Brown Wessling, National Teacher of the Year, Presentation

National Teacher of the Year and ISU Alum, Sarah Brown Wessling will give brief presentation to faculty, followed by a reception.

Department of English Meeting

Our first departmental meeting will take place the afternoon of August 27th at 2pm in the Memorial Union South Ballroom. We should finish with the business part of the meeting about 3:30; then we'll turn our attention to a weather-proof social event in the Ballroom.