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Providing the World's Energy: Problems and Solutions - Graham R. Fleming
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Graham R. Fleming is a professor of chemistry and Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been at the forefront of a major revolution in the biophysical sciences, leading investigations into ultrafast chemical and biological processes, in particular, the primary steps of photosynthesis. Fleming earned his Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Bristol and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of London. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1979. There, he rose through the academic ranks to become the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor. His ultimate goal is to develop artificial photosynthesis that would provide humanity with clean, efficient and sustainable energy. The 2008 Presidential Lecture in Chemistry.

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Man Killed by Pheasant - John Price
3:10 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Price is the author of Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands and recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He will be discussing his new book Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships. His essays have appeared in Orion, Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, The Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (Harper), In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton), Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Organization and Environment, and Healing: 20 Prominent Authors Write About Inspirational Moments of Achieving Health and Gaining Insight (Tarcher/Putnam). John Price is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.

Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Amy Sedaris is best known for her role as Jerri Blank in the television series and 2006 movie adaptation of Strangers with Candy, and, most recently, for sharing her domestic skills in the satirical guide to entertaining I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Sedaris has appeared in the movies Elf, School of Rock, Maid in Manhattan, the film version of Bewitched and on television in Rescue Me, Monk, Just Shoot Me! Sex and the City, and in My Name Is Earl. She also made a guest appearance on Sesame Street as a flustered Snow White who keeps losing her dwarves. With her brother, author and essayist David Sedaris, Amy has coauthored several plays. She also coauthored the text-and-picture novel Wigfield with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert, her coauthors for Strangers with Candy. Part of the National Affairs Series: Can Laughter Save America?

A Celebration of Women in the History of Iowa State University - Amy Bix
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Amy Bix is an associate professor of history at Iowa State and codirector of the History of Science and Technology Program. She has published on such topics as the history of women in the field of eugenics and the history of funding for breast cancer and AIDS. Her current project focuses on the history of engineering education for American women, examining how, when and why universities of science and technology, such as Iowa State, began admitting women to engineering programs. Bix received her Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 and coauthor of the recently released The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America since 1950. Part of the Women's History Month Celebration and Iowa State's 150th Anniversary Celebration.

Hillbillies and Beachcombers: The Impact of Geography on Hunter-Gatherer Organization - Lewis R. Binford
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lewis R. Binford, one of the most influential anthropological archaeologists of the twentieth century, is best known as the pioneer of "New Archaeology." He helped establish the field of ethnoarchaeology in the 1960s, arguing that an understanding of the archaeological record is only possible through an understanding of the process and cultural context under which it was formed. Binford has authored or edited nine books, including An Archeological Perspective, Bones: Ancient Men & Modern Myths, In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archeological Record, Working at Archeology, and, most recently, Constructing Frames of Reference. He is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Methodist University.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Myths and the Defense Department Response to WMD Events - Steven Bucci
6:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Steven Bucci is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. He oversees the policy issues involving the defense domains, National Guard operational issues, Domestic Counter Terrorism, and readiness exercises. He was the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and served through the 9/11 attack and the Global War on Terrorism. He led a team of twenty-five other colonels to Baghdad to directly assist the Coalition Provisional Authority leadership in the final six-month period leading to the transfer of sovereignty. Steven Bucci has earned the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in international relations. He retired from active duty in 2005.

Running Brave: An Olympic Champion Honors His Lakota Heritage - Billy Mills
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Billy Mills is the cofounder and national spokesperson for Running Strong for American Indian Youth. An Oglala Lakota (Sioux) who was raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he earned a track scholarship to the University of Kansas and later served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Billy Mills came from behind to win the gold medal in the 10k race at the 1964 Olympics, and he is still the only American ever to win a gold medal in that event. He was the inspiration for the movie Running Brave. The movie stars Robbie Benson and chronicles the story of Mills's life on the reservation and the many obstacles he overcame to become an Olympic champion. Mills is the coauthor of Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Understanding. ISCORE Keynote Address. For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, go to: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore...ation.html

The Simpsons Family Values - Mike Reiss
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mike Reiss, writer and producer of The Simpsons, has won four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for his work on the wacky animated series that has kept America laughing for more than a decade. The television show earned TIME Magazine's vote as "the greatest TV show of the twentieth century." During Reiss's fifteen years with the show, he penned a dozen scripts and produced over two hundred episodes. His talk takes the audience inside the lives of Springfield's first family - revealing how The Simpsons was almost canceled before it hit the air, secret trivia of the show, and dealings with network censors. Part of the National Affairs Series: Can Laughter Save America?

The Figure in Contemporary Ceramics - Lisa Clague
5:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design - Lisa Clague received her BFA from the Cleveland Art Institute, where she studied with Judith Salomon and Bill Brouillard. Her MFA degree is from the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she worked with Viola Frey, Art Nelson and Dennis Gallagher. Her first solo exhibition was in 1994 at the Udinotti Gallery in Scottsdale. Since that time she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the John Elder Gallery in New York City. Clague is currently represented by the John Natsoulous Gallery in California. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation recognized her achievements in ceramic sculpture, and she was recently invited to the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale in Korea.