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Mobile Technologies for Children - Allison Druin
12:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Allison Druin is the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Her work includes developing digital libraries for children, designing technologies for families, and creating collaborative storytelling technologies for the classroom. Druin's most active research is the International Children's Digital Library (www.childrenslibrary.org), now the largest digital library in the world for children, which she and colleagues expanded to a nonprofit foundation. She is the author or editor of four books, including Mobile Technology for Children. Druin received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. Part of the Women in Human-Computer Interaction Series and the Women in STEM Series.

Following the Money: From Enron to Hedge Funds - Bethany McLean
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2008, Bethany McLean was an editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, where she wrote an article in March 2001 that raised questions about the immense profitability of Enron, then a darling of the stock market. Her article "Is Enron Overpriced?" was the first in a national publication to openly question the company's dealings. In 2003 she cowrote a book about the scandal that led to the energy company's collapse, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, which was developed into a documentary in 2005. McLean graduated from Williams College with a double major in math and English. She worked as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs until 1995, when she joined Fortune as a reporter. The 2009 Chamberlin Lecture.

Against Publication: Rethinking the Reward System within the New Corporate University - Frank Donoghue
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Frank Donoghue's The Last Professors examines how the growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor. In particular, he observes this trend through the lens of tenured professors in the arts and humanities, the value of whose work does not always lend itself to modes of cost benefit analysis. Donoghue is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University and the author of The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities and The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers. He earned his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University. The 2009 Goldtrap Lecture.

Audio-Only Broadcast - Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Variation - Jonathan Weiner
7:00 PM – 333 Science II - Live Audio Broadcast - Professor Jonathan Weiner, author of Beak of the Finch, will deliver the second lecture in the "150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species" Series hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook Project. This lecture is the second of five lectures in the Fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. Join fellow listeners at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sociability. This is a live audio-only broadcast from Columbia University. A Q&A by e-mail will follow.

Technology and the Globalization of Opportunity - Mary Jane Hagenson
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Mary Jane Hagenson is vice president of technology at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC. She previously served as vice president of specialty chemicals and specialty plastics for Phillips Petroleum Company, now ConocoPhillips. Hagenson holds seven U.S. patents and was nominated for Phillips' Inventor of the Year in 1991. She earned an MS and PhD in biomedical engineering from Iowa State University. Before joining Phillips, she had research assignments at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Iowa, and Iowa State University. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and the Women in STEM Series.

Iowa Traditions in Transition: Negotiating Identity, Performing Folklore - Riki Saltzman
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Riki Saltzman has been the Folklife Coordinator for the Iowa Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, since 1995. She works with a variety of communities and individuals to provide assistance with multicultural and diversity issues, project development, event planning and the presentation of traditional arts and artists. In collaboration with Iowa Public Radio, Saltzman produces "Iowa Roots," a radio series and website that explore the state's cultures and traditions. She has also researched and developed a website on place-based food in Iowa with funding from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Her most recent work is Iowa Folklife 2, an online multicultural folklife curriculum and a companion to Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Iowa in the Global Community.

Sustainable Energy Innovation at Iowa State
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Larry Johnson, Director of the BioCentury Research Farm and the Center for Crops Utilization Research, will provide a brief update on the work to be done at the new BioCentury Research Farm and moderate the discussion. Jim McCalley, Harpole Professor in Electrical Engineering, will discuss his ongoing study of the country's energy and transportation infrastructure and how new technologies can best be mixed with elements of the existing power system to produce cost-effective, sustainable energy and transportation systems. Victor Lin, professor of chemistry, director of the ISU Center for Catalysis and a program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, will describe how nanotechnology is being used to re-engineer how biodiesel is refined more cheaply and environmentally friendly. A reception and student poster display will precede the lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Oak Room, Memorial Union. Part of the Live Green! Sustainability Series.

Lessons Learned: Strategies for Success Among Underrepresented Minorities and Women in Undergraduate Engineering - Freeman Hrabowski
9:00 AM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Freeman Hrabowski has served as President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. Hrabowski is coauthor of Beating the Odds and Overcoming the Odds, both of which focus on parenting and high-achieving African American males and females in science. He was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 and is a recipient of the prestigious McGraw Prize in Education and the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. A child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Hrabowski was prominently featured in Spike Lee's 1997 documentary, Four Little Girls, on the racially motivated bombing in 1963 of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. College of Engineering Diversity Fair Keynote Speaker.

Ames City Council Candidate Forum
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Government of the Student Body will host a forum with Ames City Council candidates. Candidates will address issues of concern to Iowa State University students and take questions from audience members. Participants include Mayor Ann Campbell, at-large candidates Sheli Dougherty, Mike Miller and Peter Orazem; Ward 3 candidates Jeremy Davis, Ryan Doll and Brian McLain; and Ward 1 candidates Dan Rice and Tom Wacha. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, will moderate.

Global Warming and Public Policy: The Impact of President Obama's G–20 Address on Climate Change - Mark Bryden
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - President Obama addressed the G-20 Summit leaders and organizations of industrial and emerging-market countries on September 24, in Pittsburgh. The focus was securing a sustainable future for all countries, including progress on long-term issues such as climate change. Kenneth "Mark" Bryden, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State, will offer commentary and lead a discussion on Obama's address. He has an active research and teaching program in the areas of sustainable engineering, appropriate technology, decision science, and simulation based engineering science. Bryden is also the president of Engineers for Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities for Service (ETHOS), an international NGO focused on the issues of household energy in the developing world.