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Institute of Science and Society Lecture - Media Violence: How it affects us and what we can do about it?" - Craig Anderson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Craig Anderson is the chair of the department of psychology at Iowa State University, Ames, and a leading authority on aggression -- especially on how aggression and violence in video games influence children and young adults. He has given expert witness testimony in numerous settings, including the U.S. Senate, on the negative impact of media violence, and has been quoted internationally on the topic. He played a major role in a recent U.S. Surgeon General Committee on media violence, and was the lead author of the most recent comprehensive review of the media violence research literature. Many of his recent studies have focused on the topic of violence in video games and their effects on children and adolescents. He also has published extensively in several other areas of social, personality, and abnormal psychology, including depression, attribution theory, and human decision making.

An Ecological Ethic of Care - Kathleen Dean Moore
7:00 PM – 1148 Gerdin Auditorium - Kathleen Dean Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and founding director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University. Her current work is in the areas of environmental ethics, philosophy and nature, where she has published three award-winning books of essays: The Pine Island Paradox, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, and Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water. She is co-editor of a forthcoming collection of articles about Rachel Carson's legacy and challenge, and is currently co-editing How It is: A Native American Philosophy, the collected papers of the late Viola Cordova. Sponsored by Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and ISU Bioethics Program, and the ISU Committee on Lectures

Women in the Biological Sciences Symposium - Women in Biology: Progress (Much) and Peril (Little) - Marvalee Wake
3:00 PM – Molecular Biology Building Auditorium - Marvalee Wake is Professor Emerita in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research emphasizes morphology, development, and reproductive biology in vertebrates with the goal of understanding evolutionary patterns and processes. Marvalee has published extensively. She has also served as the president of the numerous professional societies and was a member of the Smithsonian Institution Science Commission. Other accolades include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as membership in the California Academy of Sciences.

2005 American Indian Symposium - Confluence of Cultures - POW WOW
1:00 PM – Forker Gym - ISU Campus - Grand entries are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Women in the Biological Sciences Symposium - The Life of a Woman Scientist - Patty Gowaty
9:00 AM – Molecular Biology Building Auditorium - Patty Gowaty is the Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her current research focuses on natural selection and variation in mating systems, sex allocation, and sex differentiated behavior. Patty has published widely from ornithological literature to an edited volume Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Gowaty is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Graduate Women in Science, and the American Society of Naturalists among many others. Additionally, she has served on the editorial board of several journals and was President of the Animal Behavior Society.

American Indian Symposium - The Corps of Discovery Meets the Gros Ventre Nation - Darrell Martin
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Darrell Martin is the National Park Service American Indian Liaision for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. He is also president of the Gros Ventre, or A'aninin, are a tribe located in North Central Montana. They share the Fort Belknap Reservation with the Nakoda People, or Assiniboine tribe.

2005 American Indian Symposium - Lewis and Clark Confluence of Time and Courage - Jack Gladstone
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Jack Gladstone narrates the official Lewis and Clark Expedition film. Jack Gladstone is a singer, songwriter and storyteller who grew up immersed in the rich oral tradition of the American West. Many of the stories Jack shares were related to him by his Blackfeet grandmother. She recounted the stories of her life and the mythology of their Blackfeet Indian people. His great, great grandfather Red Crow, chief of the Blood Tribe, was a great warrior and orator. Another grandfather, William Gladstone, was a carpenter who helped build Montana's Fort Benton and Alberta's Fort Whoop Up.

U.S. Foreign Policy in - the Second Bush Administration - A Second Look
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A Panel Discussion with: Jim McCormick is author of American Foreign Policy and Process, co-editor of Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy; and chair of the ISU Political Science Department. Eric M. McGlinchey is an expert on political Islam in central Asia, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, and assistant professor in the ISU Political Science Department. Richard Mansbach is the author and coauthor of a number of books including The Global Puzzle: Issues and Actors in World Politics; Polities: Authority, Identities and Change; and The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of Internationall Relations, and professor in the ISU Political Science Department. Steffen Schmidt, University Professor in Political Science and director of the LAS College International Studies Program at ISU, co-author of American Government and Politics Today, and host of "The Dr. Politics Show" on public radio.

American Indian Symposium - Performance: Music and Storytelling - Jack Gladstone
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Jack Gladstone is a singer, songwriter and storyteller who grew up immersed in the rich oral tradition of the American West. Many of the stories Jack shares were related to him by his Blackfeet grandmother. She recounted the stories of her life and the mythology of their Blackfeet Indian people. His great, great grandfather Red Crow, chief of the Blood Tribe, was a great warrior and orator. Another grandfather, William Gladstone, was a carpenter who helped build Montana's Fort Benton and Alberta's Fort Whoop Up.

Following the Food Chain: The High Cost of Cheap Food - Michael Pollan
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the author of three books: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World; A Place of My Own; and Second Nature: A Gardener's Education. Many of his works examine the intersections between science and culture, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Best American Essays and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Originally from Long Island, he earned his college degrees at Bennington College, Oxford University (Mansfield College), and Columbia University, where he received a masters in English in 1981. He served for many years as executive editor for Harper's Magazine and writes a column on architecture for House & Garden. This is the Donald Benson Lecture on Literature, Science and the Arts.