July 16 | Unveiling Ceremony and Panel Discussion

Tom and Ruth Harkin Center 2800 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Join us in celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and our recently awarded “Gold” certification. Earlier this year, the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center became only the second building in the United States to achieve the Gold Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification. Learn more about the certification and its many benefits here. […]

July 30 | Digging Into Disability Data: Making DisabilityStatistics.org Work For You

Join The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement and the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at Cornell University for a webinar on using disability statistics in your work using DisabilityStatistics.org. DisabilityStatistics.org provides data from the U.S. Census Bureau, but instead of republishing huge tables of raw data, the site provides maps, charts, and […]

Our Water, Our Food: A Look at the Polk County Water Quality Report

Tom and Ruth Harkin Center 2800 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Join us for the first official presentation of findings from the Central Iowa Source Water Resource Assessment (CISWRA) report—a groundbreaking scientific study that provides the most comprehensive analysis of water quality in the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers to date. This historic event will feature a distinguished panel of scientists who were directly involved in creating this […]