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Photo: Andrew Clawson/Iowa State Daily Candy Crowley, of CNN’s “State of the Union,” signs a note after Crowley’s postelection analysis lecture Tuesday in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Crowley moderated the Oct. 16 presidential debate.
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Lecture: Poet to unveil new translation of Hindu text Mani Rao, writer and poet from India, will present her translation of the ancient Hindu epic, Bhagavad-Gita, an ancient Hindu philosophical text, at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Great Hall of Memorial Union. Rao, author of eight books of poetry, is currently a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Duke University. Prior to her academic work, she worked internationally in advertising, radio and television in Hong Kong, India and New Zealand. — By Daily staff
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CNN anchors share experiences Candy Crowley was the first woman in two decades to moderate a nationally-broadcast presidential debate when she hosted Oct. 16. With her postelection analysis, Crowley spoke Tuesday night in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.
More than 500 people crowded in early, and the event staff rushed to set up more chairs for everyone in the crowd to hear to the CNN anchor speak. Zachary Bauer, sophomore in political science, explained why he came to hear Crowley speak. “I watched the debate that she moderated and I thought that was really interesting,” Bauer said. “I’m interested in the whole election
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By Madison.Martin @iowastatedaily.com The night saw two CNN anchors on campus, but many students and members of the public gathered in Howe Hall’s Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium to see Christine Romans’
lecture “American Job Prospects in a Globalized World.” In her lecture, Romans focused on U.S. jobs and how they have been and will be affected by globalization. “Globalization is 20, 30, 40 years in the making,” Romans said. Touching on issues regarding the “fiscal cliff” she explained why everyone should be interested in this issue. “The fiscal cliff is dominating
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Outreach creates interest in science Biotechnology program works A lab experiment for all ages ■■ 2. Soap and salt is added share 50 percent of to provide funds Bananas to the banana mixture. their DNA with humans. So By Eric.Debner @iowastatedaily.com
ISU Public Education Program in Biotechnology, plant seeds for science in middle school and high school classrooms across the state of Iowa by reaching out to students about science and engineering. For some Cyclones, the decision to attend Iowa State for their adventure may have been influenced by the germination of those seeds. This growth continues past K-12 school classrooms
one favorite experiment conducted in the Biotechnology Outreach Education Center labs is extracting banana DNA. Students from every age group, ranging from elementary to grad school level participate. ■■ 1. A banana is put into a blender and ground into mush.
■■ 3. The concoction is then filtrated to extract the DNA. ■■ 4. A small portion of the banana DNA is then dropped into cold ethanol, causing the DNA strands to form, which can now be seen by the naked eye.
and into college coursework. On Tuesday, an agricultural education preservice group of 24 ISU students attended a transformation lab in
ISU-based Biotechnology Outreach Education Center. Michael Zeller, coordinator for Biotechnology Outreach Education, directed
Photo: Megan Wolff/Iowa State Daily Amy Horras and Taylor Smith, seniors in agriculture education, perform a gene transformation experiment.
the lab activities. Zeller started the session with a 15-minute presentation to give a brief history on gene transformation. He
highlighted the discoveries and research that scientists have made in recent years
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