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Let Freedom Ring - Carillon Concert
11:50 AM – Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.

A Forum for Students
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Iowa State University President Steven Leath, Senior Vice President and Provost Jonathan Wickert and other administrators will answer questions from students.

The Future of the Iowa Caucuses - Panel Discussion
7:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Participants include Terry Nelson, a former staffer for Tim Pawlenty, who for a time managed John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, and JoDee Winterhof, former political director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 Iowa Caucus campaign. Both are Iowa natives. They will be joined by David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. Previously, Yepsen had a thirty-four-year career with the Des Moines Register, serving as the paper's chief political writer, political editor and political columnist. Harkin Institute of Public Policy Lecture Series.

The Daily Show Live - Indecision Tour 2012
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - doors open at 7 p.m. - It's a hilarious evening of comedy, politics and the news, featuring two correspondents and a writer-producer from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. John Hodgman, Al Madrigal and J. R. Havlan offer side-splitting post-election coverage as well as an inside look at how the show is produced, from comedy and the news to the creative process. They'll even take questions from the audience. John Hodgman is the show's resident expert and was the bumbling PC in Apple's long-running "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC" ad campaign. J.R. Havlan is an Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show, and Al Madrigal co-starred in the sitcom Gary Unmarried with Jay Mohr, and has appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson shows. The Daily Show Indecision 2012 Tour is sponsored by Comedy Central and The Daily Show. No tickets required.

Exercise for Success in School and Career - Adele Diamond
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - A leader in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, Adele Diamond studies the part of our brain that controls core mental processes important for problem solving, negotiation, and reasoning. She will discuss the social, emotional and cognitive aspects of physical activity and their importance to professional success. Diamond and her research team were the first to demonstrate a strong link between early cognitive development and brain function in infants. She has led discoveries contributing to improved medical treatment for phenylketonuria (PKU) and the understanding of the dopamine system in our brains. Her CV includes a doctoral degree from Harvard, a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale, and teaching positions at MIT, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and, as of 2004, the University of British Columbia. The 2012 Pease Family Scholar and part of the Women in STEM Series.

What Matters to Me and Why
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - We want to know what matters to YOU- the voice of our generation - and why. Students of all ages and majors are invited to express and reflect on their values, beliefs and motivations to better understand the lives and inspirations of those who make up Iowa State University and their community. Student leaders and members of the university community will talk about choices made, difficulties encountered, and commitments solidified. Presenters include Meaghan Nelson, All-American student-athlete in track and field; Ethan Subra, Cadet Major in the Army ROTC Program; Moses Bomett, founder of Hope 4 Africa.; Onalie Ariyabandhu, survivor of 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami; Katie Brown, vice president of the Government of the Student Body and ISU band member; Dave Arends, co-director of the 2013 ISU Dance Marathon; Augustine Villa, cancer survivor and undergraduate researcher; Merry Rankin, director of Iowa State's Office of Sustainability.

The AIDS Epidemic: An Inside Perspective from Sub-Saharan East Africa - Dorothy Masinde
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Dorothy Masinde is a lecturer in the Global Resource Systems Program and an internship coordinator for Africa for those majors. She was previously associate director for field operations in Kamuli District, Uganda. She also serves as a co-leader in the school garden programs, working with Iowa State and Makerere University students and faculty in Uganda. World AIDS Awareness Week Event

How to Survive a Plague - Documentary & Discussion
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - How to Survive a Plague is the story of how activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. It follows a group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, who infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. Filmmaker David France incorporates never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and 90s, placing the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs. A discussion will follow the 120-minute film. World AIDS Awareness Week Event

Investing for All or Investing for Some: Should We Try to Develop All of Africa at Once? - Peter Orazem
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - University Professor of economics Peter Orazem has researched topics ranging from the health consequences of child labor in Brazil to economic growth rates in university communities in the American Midwest to how technology has increased income inequality in Taiwan. Most recently he authored four of the top fifteen strategies to improve education in the developing world cited by a panel of leading economists at the global Copenhagen Consensus 2012. Orazem joined the Iowa State faculty in 1982. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and on the team for the 2007 World Development Report. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.

A Translation of the Bhagavad Gita - Mani Rao
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mani Rao will present her translation of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient philosophical text central to modern Hinduism. The author of eight books of poetry, Mani Rao's work has appeared in various journals internationally as well as in such anthologies as Harper Collins Anthology of Poetry by Indians and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. She worked in television and advertising in India, Hong Kong and New Zealand for twenty years before turning to literary and scholarly interests full time. She was a visiting fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program in 2005 and 2009, and the 2006 University of Iowa International Program's writer-in-residence. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is currently a PhD student in religious studies at Duke University. Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita is published by Autumn Hill Books.