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Presidential University Lecture - From a Sow's Ear to a Silk Purse: The Promise of Genomics - Max Rothschild
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Presidential University Lecture Series highlights faculty excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement. ISU faculty present lectures from their own areas of expertise on topics of interest to the general public, designed to stimulate high-quality, intellectual discussion among faculty, staff, students, and community members. Max Rothschild is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture. He is an internationally recognized leader in animal genetics whose research has been directed towards identifying genes controlling traits of economic importance in the pig. He serves as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Pig Genome Mapping Coordinator and was the 2002 Iowa Inventor of the Year. He has also received two R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine, which honor the nation's top technological product innovations. He has presented invited papers in over 30 countries and has more than 195 referred publications, 450 other publications and 5 patents. He is co-director of the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, a new presidential initiative at Iowa State. Prior to the lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display in the South Ballroom from 7-8 p.m.

Latino/a Youth in the US Justice System: Fair and Equitable? - Francisco A. Villarruel
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Francisco A. Villarruel is a University Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University, a member of the Leadership Team and Research Associate of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, a Professor of Family and Child Ecology at Michigan State University, and a faculty affiliate of Julian Samora Research Institute, the only Hispanic research institute at a major Midwestern university that is committed to the generation, transmission, and application of knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest. He is the co-editor of Making Invisible Latino Youth Visible: A Critical Approach to Latino Diversity and Community Youth Development: Programs, Practices and Policies.He is also the chair of the National Hispanic Education Alliance.He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Family and Child Studies.

Sustainability and Changing the Way We Do Business - Sissel Waage
3:10 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - A Conversation with Sissel Waage, Ph.D., Director of the Sustainability Research Group for The Natural Step, San Francisco, California. The Natural Step provides a visionary blueprint for a sustainable world. Their upstream approach addresses problems at the source and turn them into opportunities for innovation. As an international advisory and research organization, the organization works with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, models and tools designed to accelerate global sustainability.

Institute on World Affairs - The War in Iraq: A View from Europe - Henning Lohse
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Henning Lohse is correspondent and head of the Paris bureau for a major German newspaper and magazine consortium Axel Springer. He previously worked as a journalist in Hungary and Austria, and for the US non-profit organization Central American Solidarity Association.

Institute on World Affairs - U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East - Janine Zacharia
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Janine Zacharia is the Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language daily newspaper, covering the Middle East from a US perspective. She also writes regularly on US Middle East policy for The New Republic magazine, and is a diplomatic analyst for MSNBC. She spent the month of March on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea as one of 600 reporters embedded with the US military. Prior to taking up her posting in Washington, Janine worked for five years in Israel as a journalist, first for the bi-weekly magazine, The Jerusalem Report, and then for the Reuters news agency.

A Slide Presentation - The Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains - Dave Cooper
7:00 PM – 236 Memorial Union - Dave Cooper works with Appalachian Voices of Boone, North Carolina. Before becoming an environmental activist, he graduated from Vanderbilt University and spent 20 years working in industry as a mechanical engineer. After seeing a mountaintop removal mine in operation, he became a full-time activist. Larry Gibson lives in the West Virginia coalfields, and has been interviewed about MTR by ABC Nightline, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Co., New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report and many other publications. Their website is www.appvoices.org.

Iowa Caucus Workshop - How to Participate in the Iowa Caucuses
3:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Secretary of State Chet Culver, providing an overview of the Iowa process, will lead a community-wide training session. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Gordon Fischer and Republican State Senator Mark Zieman will explain their parties' caucuses. The workshop will include practice exercises and a candidate information resource fair. Sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, ISU College Republicans, ISU Democrats, the Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB) and the League of Women Voters of Ames.

Institute on World Affairs - Outside Looking In - American Foreign Policy after 9/11 - John C. Hulsman
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John C. Hulsman is a Research Fellow with the Heritage Foundation Davis Institute for International Policy Studies where he examines European security and NATO affairs, the European Union, U.S.-European trade and economic relations, and the war on terror. He makes regular appearances on ABC, Fox News, CNN, CNNfn, MSNBC, PBS and the BBC. He was a fellow in European studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and taught world politics and U.S. foreign policy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His books include A Paradigm for the New World Order , The World Turned Rightside Up: A New Trading Agenda for the Age of Globalization," and he contributed a chapter to an upcoming volume critiquing the doctrine of humanitarian intervention. He earned a doctorate and master's degrees in modern history and international relations from the University of St. Andrews.

Institute on World Affairs Series - Outside Looking In - Panel: Writing from the Outside
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kim Young-Ha is from Seoul, South Korea and has written more than seven books as well as a significant number of essays and film reviews. He is also the host of a daily radio show on books and authors. He published his debut novel Nanen nareul pagiohal gweolliga itda (I Have a Right to Destroy Myself) in 1996, and in 1999 he won the Contemporary Literature Prize for his novel Dangsine Namu (Your Tree, 1999). Paddy Woodworth is the author of Dirty War Clean Hands which illuminates the complex struggle between Spain's democratic government and the Basque separatist group, the ETA. Paddy Woodworth has covered Spanish affairs for The Irish Times since 1978 and is now a freelance writer in Dublin. A distinguished journalist, he has contributed to numerous publications and media outlets including The Sunday Times, The BBC, and Spanish national television and radio.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum for Young Voters
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The first presidential debate focused on youth issues will be broadcast live on CNN. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, will provide opening comments and lead the follow-up discussion. Audience members will be able to participate electronically via the internet. For more information on the forum: http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_cnn.php http://www.rockthevote.com/pdf/RTV_CNNFORUM.pdf