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Taking Control of Your Financial Future in Tough Times - Jeanne Hogarth
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jeanne Hogarth is a program manager for the Federal Reserve Board in Consumer Education and Research, specializing in consumer finance. She will discuss ways people can become more financially competent in today's financial markets, with a special focus on access and affordability of higher education and student loan debt loads. Hogarth has authored articles on electronic banking, patterns of financial behavior, and connections between knowledge and behavior in household financial management. She also prepares consumer information materials with a focus on information that is clear and understandable. Hogarth is on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She worked previously with the Cooperative Extension System and has taught at the university and high school levels. She holds a doctorate in family and consumer economics from The Ohio State University. The Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences Lecture.

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism - Richard Longworth
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Journalist Richard Longworth is the author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism. For twenty years Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and United Press International and was the Tribune's Chief European Correspondent. He is the author of Global Squeeze, one of the first books on globalization, as well as the MacArthur Foundation report "Global Chicago." Longworth is a two-time recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award for series on globalization and the UN and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and distinguished visiting scholar at DePaul University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Iowa in the Global Community and the Globalization, Technology, and Culture Series.

Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism - Rosalind Picard
1:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Rosalind Picard is the author of Affective Computing, a book instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She is teaching machines to sense and respond more intelligently to people's emotions and to behave in ways that make more expressive communication possible. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, codirector of the Things That Think Consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. She holds a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of the Women in Human Computer Interaction Series and the Women in STEM Series.

Failure Is Not An Option - Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
7:00 PM РStephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - doors open at 6 p.m. - Astronaut Fred Haise served as the lunar module pilot during the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 space mission. Soon after, he survived another harrowing ordeal: in 1973, he was burned over 65 percent of his body following an aircraft crash during filming of the Pearl Harbor epic, Tora! Tora! Tora! Haise went on to become one of the first astronauts to pilot the space shuttle in test missions. He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on October 4, 1997. Haise will use NASA footage of the Apollo 13 flight during his presentation. Join us for an autographing session in the Celebrity Caf̩ immediately following the lecture. Books will be available for purchase. Part of Engineers' Week 2009.

Global Hopscotch: The Borderless World and the Search for Home - Rekha Basu
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rekha Basu has been a columnist for the Des Moines Register since 1991, focusing on human rights, racial and gender issues and commenting on cultural trends. Born in India to United Nations parents, Basu grew up internationally. She has worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist at newspapers in Iowa, New York State and Florida. Basu's column appears three times a week on the Register's opinion pages and is syndicated by Gannett News Service. Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune and The Nation among other publications. Her many awards include the 2008 Women of Influence Award, the Iowa Interfaith Alliance Award, and the Iowa Farmers Union Media Award. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master's degree in political economy from Goddard Cambridge Graduate School. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Iowa in the Global Community.

Torture, Detention and the Rule of Law: A Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Clark Wolf is director of the Bioethics Program, and much of his published work is in political and legal philosophy, including a forthcoming project covering torture and human rights. He will lead a discussion with Alex Tuckness, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and Ben Stone, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa. The American Civil Liberties Union recently won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forcing the release of a report providing a detailed description of torture and abuse of detainees. A Constitution Day Event and part of the World Affair Series.

Stories of the First Nations - Dovie Thomason
4:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - Dovie Thomason is a storyteller, recording artist and author. As a child she grew up hearing stories and Indian legends from her Kiowa Apache and Lakota relatives, especially her Grandma Dovie and her dad. Her love of stories and her cultural heritage inspired her to use storytelling as a tool to educate people about the cultures of the First Nations of North America. She began sharing stories in public settings while teaching literature and writing at an urban high school in Cleveland. Thomason considers herself the product of mixed background - urban Chicago and rural Texas, the Internet and Native American elders, family teachings and university classrooms - and draws on those contrasts in her work. In cooperation with Story City's STORY! Celebrating the Art of Storytelling Festival, September 18-20, 2009.

Access to Education Denied: Are Iowa Public Universities Excluding Low-Income Students? Thomas Mortenson
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Thomas Mortenson is Senior Scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington DC and an independent higher education policy analyst living in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He is editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY, a monthly research letter devoted to analysis and reporting on the demographics, sociology, history, politics and economics of educational opportunity after high school. He provides consulting services on higher educational opportunity policy to state and national organizations and makes presentations on opportunity throughout the country.

Banned Book Jeopardy!
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join a Banned Book Week battle between two teams of literary mavens as they attempt to answer questions about banned books and their authors. Panelists include Ames Tribune editor Alexandra Hayne, Memorial Union Director Richard Reynolds, director of University Library Special Collections Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Greenlee School of Journalism faculty member Barbara Mack, Mary Greeley Medical Center physician Tim Leeds, and English assistant professor Ben Percy. Ames Tribune reviewer Steve Sullivan will emcee. Questions developed by Iowa State's very own $10,000 Pyramid winner, Fern Kupfer, associate professor of English. Banned books will be on display and available for purchase.

Live Webcast: The World Before Darwin - Everett Mendelsohn,
7:00 PM – E164 Lagomarcino - A live webcast of a lecture by Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University. A celebration of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "Origin of the Species."