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Issues in Agriculture - Changing Americans' Risky Diets - Catherine Woteki
7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Catherine Woteki is dean of the Iowa State University College of Agriculture.

Inaugural Kentner Fritz Lecture - Studies of Career-Related and Social Self-Efficacy Expectations - Nancy E. Betz
4:00 PM – 1204 Kildee - Nancy E. Betz has authored two books: Career Psychology of Women with Louise Fitzgerald and Tests and Assessment with Bruce Walsh. She served as Editor of the Journal of Vocational Behavior from 1984 to 1990. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Journal of Career Assessment, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. She is a Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University with research interests in applications of self-efficacy theory to career development and vocational behavior, the career development of women, and barriers to careers in the sciences and engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1976.

Institute on World Affairs Series - Terror in the Name of God - Jessica Stern
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jessica Stern is a U.S. expert on terrorism and author of TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD: Why Religious Militants Kill, named one of the Notable Books of 2003 by the New York Times. She served as Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was the director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council. She is also the author of The Ultimate Terrorists and of numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She is currently a lecturer at Harvard University. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master's of science degree from MIT, and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard. This is part of a series on "Israel's Quest for Peace; Past, Present and Future," planned by the Ames Coalition for Peace. Steffen Schmidt, professor of Political Science at ISU, will moderate.

Human Rights in Colombia - Floro Tunubala
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, MU - Floro Tunubala is the first indigenous leader ever to hold a post of Governor in Colombia. He worked to develop proposals for manual eradication of coca and plans for alternative social and economic development with 6 governors in southern Colombiawhose departments were targeted for aerial fumigation inthe US government-funded Plan Colombia. He will speak on economic development issues and about communities organizing to resist involvement in armed conflict. Ludivia Giraldo Diaz, a community social psychologist from Cali, Colombia, is actively engaged in human rights work addressing the phenomenon of displacement. She is knowledgeable on women's and environmental dimensions of citizen participation in urban and rural areas. From 1993 to 2000 she worked with MINGA:Association for Alternative Social Development, a Bogota-based human rights organization with strong regional presence.

VEISHEA Keynote Address - Patty Judge
12:00 PM – Central Campus - Patty Judge is the Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Iowa.

Attacks on the Press - Not Just Abroad - Terry Anderson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Terry Anderson was a correspondent in Lebanon when he taken hostage by Shiite militants and held for seven years. He and his wife, Madeleine Bassil, wrote the national best seller "Den of Lions" about his experience. He also wrote and narrated the prize-winning CNN and PBS documentary "Return to the Den of Lions" about his return to Lebanon and that country's recovery from its 16-year civil war. He taught journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism. He is honorary Co-Chairman with Walter Cronkite of the Committee to Protect Journalists and has received numerous awards for journalism and charitable work, including the first Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum. Ann Cooper is executive director of Committee to Protect Journalists. She previously worked as a reporter in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Washington, D.C. Appointed as NPR's first Moscow bureau chief in 1987, Cooper spent five years covering the tumultuous events of the times, including the failed coup attempt in Moscow. She co-edited a book of first-person accounts of that siege, Russia at the Barricades. She also covered Beijing and the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where her coverage won NPR an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in broadcast journalism. She has taught radio and international reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is herself a journalism graduate of Iowa State University. Larry Heinzerling has worked for the Associated Press for 35 years as a reporter, editor, chief of bureau, corporate executive and currently as deputy international editor for World Services. In the 1980s he took on a secret role for almost three years as journalist-diplomat in AP's behind-the-scenes efforts to free Terry Anderson from captivity as a hostage in Beirut.

Spring 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics - Carol Moseley Braun
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Moseley Braun's public service career has included a number of historical "firsts." She was the first and only African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, serving from 1992-1998, and the first woman U.S. Senator from Illinois. In 2003-2004, she campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, setting a new record for women presidential candidates by making it onto the primary ballot in 20 states.

Monsignor James A. Supple Chair of Catholic Studies Lecture - Priestly Celibacy in the Catholic Church: Origins, History, and Future - David Hunter
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David G. Hunter, Professor of Religious Studies, holds the Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Dr. Hunter received a doctorate in theology from the University of Notre Dame. For fifteen years Hunter taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has published numerous scholarly articles and several books including Marriage in the Early Church,

Unions 101 - Ryan Downing
6:30 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Ryan Downing, UE - COGS, University of Iowa, will explain the concept of unions for graduate students and his experiences with graduate student unions at other universities. This presentation is sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Students Senate, Student Union Board/Forums, and Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).

Superconductivity: History and Modern State - Alexei Abrikosov
4:10 PM – Room 5 Physics - Alexei Abrikosov shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics and is with the Argonne National Laboratory.