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Comedy! Steve Byrne Live
11:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - After winning TBS's Myspace Standup or Sitdown Comedy Challenge, Steve Byrne was hurled into a brilliant television and film career. Luckily his Korean-Irish ancestry provides him with a wealth of comedic material. His success landed him on the History Channel's The History of the Joke, the Discovery Channel's The Science of Laughter and as a series regular on NBC's The Real Wedding Crashers. His film credits include The Dilemma and Couples Retreat, both starring Vince Vaughn. His most recent one-hour special, The Byrne Identity, premiered last year on Comedy Central.

Beyond Spotted Owls and Logging: Forest and Ecosystem Management Today - Jerry Franklin
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jerry Franklin is one of the country's leading authorities on sustainable forest management. He is known for his participation on President Clinton's Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT), established during the spotted owl controversy in the American Northwest. Environmentalists and timber companies alike now embrace his once-unconventional strategy for logging. Franklin is a professor of ecosystem analysis at the University of Washington. He is currently part of a team planning the National Ecological Observatory Network, a continental-scale observatory designed to gather and provide ecological data on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. The 2012 Paul L. Errington Lecture.

Just Another Arab Jewish Potluck: A Conversation with Writers Fern Kupfer & Joe Geha
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Fern Kupfer will talk about her new memoir, Leaving Long Island. She has published hundreds of articles and columns in newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Parents Magazine. Her books include the memoir Before and After Zachariah as well as the novels No Regrets; Love Lies and Surviving the Seasons, a Jewish Book Award nominee. Her husband, writer Joe Geha, was born in Lebanon and raised in the United States. He is the author of the short story collection Through and Through: Toledo Stories, inspired by his experiences growing up in an immigrant Arab American community, and a new novel, Lebanese Blonde. Geha's fiction has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and was chosen for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Arab-American Archive. Both Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha are retired from the Iowa State Creative Writing Program faculty.

Strategic Mentoring: Leveraging Mentor Selection Every Step of Your Career - Mary Jo Gonzales
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - In this interactive session participants will assess their desired career path and previous mentoring experiences and develop an individualized Mentor Selection Plan for the next two career steps. Mary Jo Gonzales highlights the critical differences between early-, mid-, and late-career mentor selection. Mary Jo Gonzales is the Associate Dean of Students and directs the Academic Success Center at Iowa State. Part of the Women's Leadership Series.

Sun Come Up - Documentary and Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sun Come Up is an Academy Award-nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. It follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean that is threatened by rising sea levels. The film documents a group of young islanders as they leave their ancestral home. Sun Come Up provokes discussion about climate change, displacement, and the rights of vulnerable communities around the globe. Nationwide screenings of the film are being sponsored by the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. A discussion about climate change and the questions it raises for communities around the world will immediately follow the 38-minute film. Iowa State faculty participants include Clark Wolf, director of the Bioethics Program and Cinzia Cervato, professor of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences. Anne Clifford, the Msgr. James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies, will moderate. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture Series.

You Can Change the World - Bill Nye "The Science Guy"
7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Doors Open at 6:15 - Admission Free - Bill Nye combines his love of science with his flare for comedy as Bill Nye the Science Guy. He is best known for making science entertaining and accessible for school-age children and adults as the host of a weekly Disney Channel series and guesting on Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, Late Night with David Letterman, and a range of television and radio shows. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and worked previously as an engineer at Boeing. Engineers Week 2012. No Tickets Required

The Changing Role of Leaders in a Bullish Farmland Market - Jim Farrell
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jim Farrell is president and CEO of Farmers National Company, the nation's largest farm and ranch management company. Farrell, who grew up on an Iowa farm, is a graduate of Iowa State and began his career with Farmers National in 1986. Today, the company is responsible for 2.5 million acres of farmland in twenty-five states, its success driven in part by the demographics of aging farm owners and investor interest in U.S. farmland. Farrell has served in numerous professional and civic leadership roles, including as board chairman of the Omaha Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture.

As a Woman in Science: Living a National Challenge and a Personal Story - Beate Schmittmann
5:30 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Professor Beate Schmittmann joined Iowa State as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in April. Prior to that she was a member of the physics faculty at Virginia Tech, serving as the department chair since 2006. As a leader of Virginia Tech's ADVANCE program, she was instrumental in effecting policy and climate change for all faculty, and especially for women in science and engineering. Schmittmann is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a winner of the 2010 Jesse W. Beams Award. Her research interests focus on statistical and biological physics.

Planet Money LIVE - Adam Davidson & Alex Blumberg
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The charismatic team of National Public Radio's Adam Davidson and This American Life's Alex Blumberg explain money in human terms, delivering an informative and entertaining live stage show. It's like "Car Talk" for your wallet. Adapted from one of NPR's most popular podcasts and most-listened-to segments on This American Life, "Planet Money LIVE" is a witty and humorous approach to some of the most complex economic issues of our times and their relevance in our lives. Davidson and Blumberg have also jointly produced a one-hour documentary on the subprime mortgage crisis, The Giant Pool of Money, which won Peabody, duPont-Columbia and George Polk awards. Greater Iowa Credit Union Business Lecture Series.

An Evening with Jacobo Morales
7:00 PM РCentral Campus (South of the Campanile) - Jacobo Morales is consider one of the most influential film directors in Puerto Rico's history. He has had an eclectic career as an actor, playright, poet, writer and filmmaker. His first film, Dios los Cr̩a (1980), was selected as one of the twenty-five most significant films of Latin America, and his third film, Lo que le paso a Santiago, was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film in 1989. His Hollywood credits include Woody Allen's Bananas and Up the Sandbox with Barbra Streisand. Jacobo Morales's presentation is part of the Puerto Rican Student Association's Cultural Night, which runs from 7:00-9:00 p.m. and includes traditional food and dancing. Lecture rain location: South Ballroom, Memorial Union