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The Impossible Takes A Little Longer: Reflections on Teaching Science as a Liberal Art - Dudley R. Herschbach
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dudley R. Herschbach is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard and recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research on the crossed molecular beam technique is one of the most important advances within the field of reaction dynamics and has allowed scientists to better understand how chemical reactions take place. Herschbach has authored more than four hundred scientific papers, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and has been honored with numerous awards. He received his Ph.D. in chemical physics at Harvard. He is currently engaged in several efforts to improve K-12 science education and the public's understanding of science. The 2009 President's Lecture in Chemistry.

Does Darwinian Evolution Challenge Catholic Theology of the Human Person? Anne Clifford
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Anne Clifford is the Msgr. James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Iowa State University. She is the author of Introducing Feminist Theology, co-editor of Christology: Memory, Inquiry, Practice and a contributing editor of the revised New Catholic Encyclopedia. She has participated in conferences on theology and science sponsored by the Vatican. Her doctorate in theology is from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Controversy has swirled around Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection since On the Origin of Species was first published nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. Does Darwinian evolution put the teaching shared by Jews and Christians that humans were created in the image of God at risk of being a meaningless symbol of a by-gone age? This lecture will respond to this question with attention to Catholic perspectives on Darwinian evolution and the species known as homo sapiens sapiens. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture.

A Campus Conversation on the Arts as Synergy: Faculty from English and Art
11:00 AM – Christian Petersen Art Museum, Morrill Hall - Faculty from both Art and Design and the English Department will come together to present their work and discuss their creative process. The presenters are Mary Swander, Jim Coppoc, Paula Curan, and Ingrid Lilligren. Vida Cross will moderate this event.

Renewable Energy Alternatives and Their Economics - Robert C. Brown and Vikram L. Dalal
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Robert Brown is the Iowa Farm Bureau director of the Bioeconomy Institute at Iowa State and Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering. He has published the textbook Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture and helped establish the first graduate program in the United States to offer degrees in biorenewable resources at Iowa State. Vikram Dalal is the director of the Microelectronics Research Center at Iowa State and the Thomas M. Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include photovoltaic energy conversion and new devices for energy conversion. The discussion will be moderated by Steffen Schmidt, University Professor of Political Science at Iowa State. Part of the Engineering Thematic Year on Energy and Sustainability.

Metaphysics of the Blues - Calvin Forbes
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Calvin Forbes is Chair of the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his books of poetry include The Shine Poems, From the Book of Shine,and Blue Monday. His poems have appeared in many journals and can be found in anthologies such as A Century in Two Decades: A Burning Deck Anthology, 1961-81 and New Black Voices.

Latinos in Higher Education: ISU Research Perspectives - A Panel Discussion
12:00 PM – Multicultural Center, Memorial Union - Laura Rendón, chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, will moderate a discussion about research at Iowa State on Latinos in Iowa. Panel members include David Ernesto Romero, Student Coordinator of the Science Bound Program, and Philip Vasquez, a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

White Buffalo Woman's Granddaughter: Carrier of Traditional Knowledge - Henrietta Mann
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Henrietta Mann, a member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is a distinguished scholar whose work focuses on themes of education, traditional indigenous knowledge and western perspectives on the environment. Mann has served as the Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs and as National Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Coalition. She taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Montana, Missoula, and was the first to hold the Endowed Chair of Native American Studies at Montana State University. Mann was inaugurated this spring as the first president of the newly established Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, located on the campus of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She has been a consultant and interviewee for several television and movie productions, including Last of the Dogmen, the Discovery Channel's How the West Was Lost and PBS’s The West. The 2009 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture.

Race, Gender and the Future of Leadership in America - Michele Norris
4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michele Norris hosts National Public Radio's newsmagazine All Things Considered, NPR's longest-running national program. Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News. A four-time Pulitzer Prize entrant, she has received numerous awards for her work including both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her contribution to ABC News' coverage of 9/11. Norris attended the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she studied journalism. For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, go to: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore...ation.html ISCORE 10th Anniversary Keynote Speaker and the Carrie Chapman Catt Center's Mary Louise Smith Spring Chair. An audio file of this event will not be available for download or through the Lectures Program podcast.

Global Competitiveness - John Israelsson
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - John Israelsson is president of Sandvik Coromant USA, the world's leading manufacturer of cutting tools for the metalworking industry, with more than 25,000 products produced in 60 countries around the world. Sandvik Coromant spends a great deal of time training customers to reduce manufacturing costs by improving the process in factories. Manufacturing companies all over the world face the same problem – the widening gap between what the market is willing to pay and the cost of production. Bridging this gap is the only way to stay competitive and – ultimately – to stay in business.

Script Writing: From Proposal to Production - Andrew Robinson
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Andrew Robinson is currently promoting his second film April Showers, based on the events that occurred during the Columbine shootings.  He attended Columbine High School and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and has worked as an art director for various entertainment design firms. In 2005 Robinson directed his first feature, Shimmer. He will discuss such topics as writing and promoting a script and the challenges and misconceptions of working in the film industry.