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The Blue Revolution: Helping to End Hunger in Southeast Asia - Modadugu Vijay Gupta
2:00 PM – Lebaron Auditorium 1210 - Modadugu Vijay Gupta was the 2005 World Food Prize Laureate. He pioneered the development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming by the rural poor, providing farmers and their families with a nutritious food source they had not previously had. Dr. Gupta's pioneering breeding of carp and other pond fish adaptable to a variety of different environments in rural areas, from Bangladesh to the Mekong Basin countries, combined with his efforts to help millions of small-holder farmers gain access to innovative aquaculture techniques to produce a vital supply of nutritious food, brought a "Blue Revolution" to Southeast Asia and beyond.

Lessons Learned from the Terri Schiavo Case - Francis Degnin
4:10 PM – Physics 5 - Francis Degnin is a Philosopher and Clinical Bioethicist at the University of Northern Iowa. He has published a half dozen articles in philosophy and medical ethics, conducts educational seminars for physicians, nurses, social workers, and other care givers, and has taken part in over 200 clinical case consultations. He serves on the Ethics Committee of two local hospitals, the Institutional Review Board for the University, and he chairs the Ethics Planning Committee for the Northeast Iowa Ethics Conference.

The Desire to Speak and the Need to Say Nothing - Bernard MacLaverty
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty is the author of four novels including Lamb and Cal, which were produced as films. Grace Notes was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was followed by The Anatomy School.His short story collections are Secrets, A Time to Dance, The Great Profundo, Walking the Dog, and Matters of Life and Death and Other Stories.He has written many radio and television dramas, and is currently Visiting Writer at Liverpool's John Moores University and Visiting Professor at Glasgow's University of Strathclyde.

Why Medicine Needs Agriculture - Irwin Goldman
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Irwin Goldman is Associate Professor of Horticulture, Chair of the Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include vegetable breeding and genetics, the human health attributes of vegetable crops, and the history of plant breeding and genetics. He chairs the USDA RRoot and Bulb Crop Germplasm Committee and the Vegetable Breeding Working Group of the American Society for Horticultural Science. This is part of the Sigma Xi series.

Insect Horror Film Festival
6:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - This celebration of insect life hosted by the ISU Entomology Club includes activities for all ages: hissing cockroaches, giant millipedes, a butterfly tent, a honey bee display, insect displays, an insect tasting event with Cricket Cookies and Mealworm Muffins, and the film, "THEM". Doors open at 6 pm and film starts at 7:30 pm.

Global Justice and Human Rights - Panel of African Indigenous Women
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - World Affairs Series is hosting this panel discussion. MADRE's Executive Director Vivian Stromberg two Indigenous Maasai and Samburu women from Kenya will speak about the struggles of African Indigenous women at the local, national, and international level. Lucy Mulenkei is director of The Indigenous Information Network (IIN), and Rebecca Lolosoli is founder of Umoja Uaso Women's Group, As those primarily responsible for preserving their Peoples' natural resources and traditional knowledge, Indigenous women hold the keys to combating poverty and creating strategies for sustainable development, both in their communities and beyond.

Is Sustainable Transportation Possible? An Environmental Stewardship View - John H. Lumkes
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - John H. Lumkes is a professor of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering at Purdue University. He has spent the past 15 years doing research on hybrid vehicles, advanced models and control algorithms to improve driveline and engine efficiencies in vehicles and off-road machinery, and other conservation and renewable technologies. Fall Areopagus Lecture.

The Innocence Project: DNA and the Wrongly Convicted - Barry Scheck
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Barry C. Scheck is Professor of Law and Director of the Innocence Project Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Best known for his landmark litigation setting standards for forensic applications of DNA technology, he and Peter Neufeld coauthored with Jim Dwyer Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is a commissioner on New York's Forensic Science Review Board, first vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and serves on the board of the National Institute of Justice's Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. He has also represented such notable clients as Hedda Nussbaum, O. J. Simpson, Louise Woodward, and Abner Louima. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Advancing Women's Leadership - Roxanne Conlin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1977, Roxanne Conlin became one of the first two women ever to be a United States Attorney. In 1982, she was narrowly defeated in her effort to become Iowa's first woman governor. She was also the first woman president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a 60,000 member organization of consumer attorneys. She has her own law firm in Des Moines, where she exclusively represents people who have been harmed by others, whether by discrimination, products, doctors or vehicles. Most recently, she has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women lawyers in America, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and one of the top 10 litigators.

Why Are We So Obese? - Judith S. Stern
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The fall Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair is Judith S. Stern, a distinguished professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine in the Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of California, Davis. She is also the Co-Director of the Collaborative Obesity Research Evaluation Team. An expert on diet and nutrition, Stern has published extensively on nutrition, the effect of exercise on appetite and metabolism, and obesity. Stern has published over 250 research papers in professional journals and over 150 articles in popular magazines such as Redbook and is an Editorial Advisor to Prevention Magazine. Along with Dr. Richard L. Atkinson she is founder of The American Obesity Association, a lay advocacy organization dedicated to advancing understanding of the disease of obesity where she also serves as Vice President.