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Women, Leadership and the Future - Claudia Kennedy
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Claudia Kennedy retired as a Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army, the first and only woman to achieve the rank of three-star general. She was Deputy Chief of Staff for Army Intelligence where she oversaw policies and operations affecting 45,000 people stationed world wide with a budget of nearly $1 billion. She has received many honors and awards including the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and the Army Distinguished Service Medal, as well as being named to the list of "Best Women Role Models." She is author of Generally Speaking.Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Mary Louise Smith Scholar

Barbarians, Terrorists, Europeans: - On the Follies, Fables and Faces of Counterterrorism - Joseba Zulaika
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial - Dr. Zulaika's talk will address international terrorism from the perspective of the recent bombings in Madrid, their impact around Europe, and their affect on the United States. Joseba Zulaika is an authority on Basque culture and politics as well as a specialist on the international discourse of terrorism. He is the author of a dozen books including Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism with Douglass and Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament. He has provided commentary on Basque society and politics and international terrorism on National Public Radio and the BBC, and in Newsweek, and The Nation Magazine, and many other international newspapers and magazines.

Sigma Xi - Detectability of Flaws in Aircraft Engines - R. Bruce Thompson
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - R. Bruce Thompson is the director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and Distinguished Professor in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University.

Institute on World Affairs - Cultivating Democracy - Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib - Seymour M. Hersh
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Seymour M. Hersh is the award-winning investigative reporter who broke the story of the Iraqui prison scandal inThe New Yorker and covered in his book Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. He has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. He is the author of six books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and America's Foreign Policy,The Dark Side of Camelot, and Against All Enemies.

History of Science Series - Let's Sell the Space Station - Alex Roland
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alex Roland spent eight years (1973-1981) as a historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has written extensively on this topic. He has been honored with the Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History, Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College; a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the Dr. Leo Shifrin Professor of Naval-Military HIstory, U.S. Naval Academy. He is the author of The Military-industrial Complex and edited Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. He is a professor of history at Duke University, where he received his doctorate.

A Symposium - Coexistence of Genetically Modified and Organic Crops - Brad Brummond
2:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - 2-5:30 p.m. - Brad Brummond is a North Dakota State University Extension Service agent who is well-known for his work with coexistence issues involving GM and organic crops. His lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with: Don Duvick, former vice president of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a plant breeder, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and currently affiliated with the Agronomy Department at ISU; Laura Krouse, organic producer who grows and sell seed and teaches at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon; Manjit Misra, director of the Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products, director of Seed Science Center, and professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at ISU; and Ricardo Salvador, of the Agronomy Department and member of the sustainable agriculture faculty at ISU.

Institute on World Affairs - Cultivating Democracy - A Democratic Approach to Saving the Environment. - David Hulse
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Unioin - David Hulse is the Conservation and Sustainable Development Program Officer with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where he is responsible for coordinating grantmaking in Asia and the Pacific. Before joining the Foundation, David worked with World Wildlife Federation International as the South Pacific Regional Representative, managing community-based marine and forest conservation projects in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Cook Islands. He has degrees in Earth Science and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University and in Public Policy from Harvard University. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. They are best known for their "genius" grants.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities - Race, Gender, and Spirit: Reclaiming Lost Histories through Art - Alison Saar
7:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, Design College - Alison Saar is a visual artist working in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Her work addresses issues of race, gender, and spirit. After receiving her MFA at Otis Art Institute, she moved to New York, where she lived and worked for fourteen years. She currently resides in Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Flintridge Foundation Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Her work is featured in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Explaining the Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
8:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom - Brian Greene is the author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory andThe Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. He also hosted a three-part NOVA special, "The Elegant Universe," on PBS. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Institute on World Affairs - Cultivating Democracy - Military Justice in a Democracy - Patrick Reinert
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Colonel Patrick Reinert is a Military Judge assigned in the U.S. Army Reserves to the 150th JAG Detachment with duty in the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Germany and elsewhere. He previously served as the Article 32 officer in the court- martial of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, accused of a grenade attack on soldiers in the 101st Airborne on the eve of war in Iraq. He also served as the Article 32 Officer in the court-martial of Spc. Ryan Anderson, a Washington National Guard soldier on active duty accused of attempting to aid a terrorist organization. His civilian job is Deputy Criminal Chief for Drugs and Violent Crime in the US Attorney's office for the Northern District of Iowa.