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Grace, Peace, and Hope in Northern Ireland: Stories of Catholics and Protestants Behind the Peace - Ronald A. Wells
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Ronald A. Wells is Professor of History at Calvin College, and author of the forthcoming Peace and Reconciliation in Belfast: The Friendship of Ken Newell and Gerry Reynolds.

Pursuing Growth at John Deere Agricultural Division - Adel A. Zakaria
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Adel A. Zakaria, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Engineering and Manufacturing, Global Agricultural Tractor and Implement Sourcing, Deere & Company. Since 1995, Adel A. Zakaria has been responsible for leading and directing the Worldwide Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment Division for John Deere's agricultural equipment. A native of Cairo, Egypt, Zakaria joined Deere & Company as a staff engineer in 1976. Within Deere, Zakaria has held the positions of Vice President of Agricultural Equipment Division and Director of Engineering Diesel Engines and has developed a worldwide engineering group that adopted a common engine design across North America and Europe. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

Finding Relevance in Entrepreneurship: Applications and Aspirations - Michael Morris
9:00 AM – LeBaron Auditorium - Michael Morris is Professor, Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship, and Head, Department of Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. Dr. Michael Morris is internationally recognized for his writing and teaching on the topic of entrepreneurship. His most recent books include: Corporate Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Development Inside Organizations (with D. Kuratko) and Entrepreneurial Intensity: Sustainable Advantage for Individuals, Organizations, and Societies. His entrepreneurship program at Syracuse University has received several national awards and recognitions including the USASBE 2005 National Model Program in Entrepreneurship Award and the NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in 2004. Also, the program was ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as among the top 12 programs in the United States in 2005 and by the Princeton Review and Forbes Magazine as the 7th most highly ranked program.

Affirmative Action and Other Strategies to End Discrimination and Racism
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Iowa Civil Rights Commission Director Ralph Rosenberg; ISU Director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Carla Espinoza; and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Cornelia Flora, also Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, will discuss the controversial research of Roland Fryer. Mary Sawyer, ISU Religious Studies, will moderate. This is part of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., University Celebration Series.

Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense: U.S. History Through the Editorial Pages - Michael Gartner
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Michael Gartner has been a journalist for nearly 50 years. He has been Page One editor of The Wall Street Journal, editor and president of The Des Moines Register, editor of The Courier-Journal of Louisville, general news executive of Gannett Co. and USA TODAY, and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for the Ames (Iowa) Tribune, of which he was editor and co-owner. He also is a lawyer, owner of the Iowa Cubs baseball team, and president of the Board of Regents of the State of Iowa. A booksigning will follow. Part of the National Affairs Series: Defining Values in American Politics

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Musical groups and speakers celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Members of Shy of a Dozen and the Gospel Soul Innovators will perform. Speakers include Government of the Student Body President Angela Groh, Black Student Alliance President Jonnell Marion, and Historian Katherine Charron. President Geoffroy will present the first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing One Community Awards. Birthday cake graciously donated by the Campus Dining Services.Students are welcome to join a facilitated discussion in the Col. Pride Lounge following this event.

Research on the Intelligence of Bonobos at the Great Ape Trust - Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
8:00 PM – 1148 Gerdin Auditorium - Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is the first and only scientist doing language research with bonobos. She joined the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines following a 23-year association with Georgia State University's Language Research Center. There, she helped pioneer the use of a number of technologies for working with primates. Dr. Rumbaugh's work with Kanzi, the first ape to learn language in the same manner as children, as detailed in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1993) was selected by the "Millennium Project" as one of the top 100 most influential works in cognitive science in the 20th century by the University of Minnesota's Center for Cognitive Sciences. She earned her doctorate in psychology and her masters in biology from the University of Oklahoma.

The Paradox of Urban Environmentalism and the Values of/in Civic Design - James W. Sheppard
8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Building - James W. Sheppard, Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, teaches environmental ethics and policy, ethics, philosophy of religion, urban theory and policy, and pragmatism. His research centers on the project of developing an environmental ethic that is applicable to/for/in urban regions. He serves as a member and/or reviewer for various philosophical and environmental organizations.

The Kongo South: Roots of Black Dance, Gesture and Music - Robert Farris Thompson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Farris Thompson is the Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, and Master of Timothy Dwight College. He has taught African and African American Art at Yale since 1961, and has served as visiting curator at UCLA's Museum of Ethnic Arts and at the National Gallery of Art. He has organized several major exhibitions, including The Four Moments of the Sun (1981) and The Face of the Gods: Shrines and Altars of the Black Atlantic World (1985) at the National Gallery of Art. He has served on the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, as Chairman on the Humanities Committee of the African Studies Association, and in numerous capacities at Yale. He received his undergraduate degree, masters and doctorate from Yale University.

World AIDS Day 2005
7:00 PM – 127 Curtiss Auditorium - Hear the courageous story of an HIV+ Iowa State student and learn how you can make a difference. Check the lectures.iastate.edu web site for additional activities.