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Beyond the Autism Diagnosis: How Professionals Can Help Parents - Marion O'Brien
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marion O'Brien directs the Family Research Center and is a professor in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She has conducted extensive research on children and families and is one of the investigators of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care & Youth Development. She is also an investigator for the STAR Project in Greensboro, NC, a longitudinal study of children's early social-emotional and cognitive skills and how they integrate to enhance early school success. O'Brien studies parenting practices and parental attitudes and their influence on parent-child relationships and child development. Her book for professionals who work with families of children with autism, Beyond the Autism Diagnosis, was published in 2006. Part of the Hansen Lecture Series.

The Future of Agriculture in Iowa - A Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Curtiss Hall Auditorium - Panelists will include Iowa Senator David Johnson; Director of the Leopold Center, Jerry DeWitt; Director of the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers, Aaron Putze; and Kevin Miskell, Vice President of the Iowa Farmers Union. Jerry Perkins, Des Moines Register Farm Editor, will moderate the discussion.

Unclaimed Legacy: Who Will Lead? Jeff Johnson
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jeff Johnson, originally known as "Cousin Jeff," has earned a reputation as the conscience voice of BET Networks. A journalist, social activist, and political commentator, he has a commitment to fostering broad-based communication about issues related to race, politics, pop culture, and socioeconomics. His new book Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am is a call to service for the post-Civil Rights generation. Johnson has worked as senior advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, as national director of the Youth & College Division of the NAACP, and as the vice president of Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Celebration.

Finding Solutions to End the Brain Drain - A Generation Iowa Forum
1:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Generation Iowa Commission will host an open forum for feedback on its recently published report identifying key challenges and potential solutions for keeping young people in the state after graduation. The commission, established in spring 2007, is charged with finding solutions to Iowa's brain drain. It has identified several challenges to retaining young people, including a lack of state marketing, lack of entertainment options for young people, a lack of diversity among the state's population, high student loan debt and lower wage jobs, and the declining populations of rural areas. The Commission is interested in engaging Iowans to further develop solutions to these issues and to identify other areas of improvement for the state.

Traitors I Have Known - Jim Olson
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Jim Olson is a senior lecturer and the CIA Officer in Residence at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1969 and served for thirty-one years, mostly overseas in clandestine operations, and is the author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. He held the positions of Deputy Chief of Station in Moscow and Chief of Station in Vienna and Mexico City. He also served as Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1969. Part of the World Affairs Series.

The Lost History of the Civil Rights Movement - Modupe Labode
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode is the Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Previously, she was chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, and she has taught in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Labode was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1988, the fourth student and first woman from ISU to receive the honor. She graduated from Iowa State in 1988 with a BS in history and received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Classroom Climate for Students and Faculty of Color at Iowa State - A Panel Discussion
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode, Iowa State alum and former faculty member, joins Iowa State Engineering Professor Derrick Rollins and students Jaymes Barnett and Jowelle Benson for a discussion about the experience of students and faculty of color on campus. Michael Whiteford, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will moderate the discussion. Audience member are encouraged to participate.

Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The 2008 Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza will feature the Restoration & Prayze Gospel Choir from Des Moines, the Gospel Soul Innovators, and the New Birth Baptist Church Children's Choir.

Immigration and Survival: An Alternative Perspective from Central America - John Donaghy
8:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - John Donaghy was Director of Campus Ministry and Coordinator of Charity, Justice, and Peace Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center at Iowa State University from 1983 to spring 2007. In June 2007 he began ministry in southwestern Honduras with the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan. In addition to his current work in Latin America, he has spent time in El Salvador as a leader of educational delegations and doing pastoral work in the parishes of Santa Lucia, Suchitoto, and San Roque, San Salvador. He was a volunteer with a program for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland sponsored by the Irish Fellowship of Reconciliation and has participated in Campus Ministry Across the Americas in Peru and Bolivia. Donaghy has a PhD in philosophy from Boston College. His scholarly interests are in agriculture and Catholic social teaching, the ethics of development, and nonviolence and nonviolent movements.

The Science, Technology, and Economics of Climate Change: A Forum on Global Warming Solutions
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This forum, led by distinguished Iowa State faculty, has been organized in coordination with over 1,400 institutions participating in "Focus the Nation," a nationwide teach-in on climate change. The panelists include Gene Takle, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences; John Miranowski, professor of agricultural economics; and Vikram Dalal, a professor of electrical engineering whose work in the field of energy includes groundbreaking research on solar cells. The event is being sponsored by the Students for Iowa PIRG (Public Interest Research Group).