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The Greening of ISU - Peggy Barlett
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Peggy Barlett will lead a workshop discussion of ways to make ISU more sustainable and "green" using the Emory University Piedmont Project as a model. She is a professor of Anthropology at Emory and author of Agricultural Choice and Change and American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis.

The Center for Excellence in the Arts - A Multidisciplinary Conversation -- What's Nature Worth? - Scott Slovic
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Scott Slovic is director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada and a professor of literature and the environment. He was the founder and president (1992-95) of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and edits the organization's journal, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with guest Peggy Barlett, professor of anthropology at Emory University and activist for sustainable development, Art and Design professor Steve Herrnstadt, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering professor Ramesh Kanwar, Leopold Center director Fred Kirschenmann, and History professor Jay Taylor.

SUB Forums and Committee on Lectures - Ames City Council Candidate Forum
2:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - City Council candidates for At-Large and Fourth Ward will address issues of concern to Iowa State University students. For the first time in history, 4 Iowa State University students will be running city council seats. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics will moderate.

Presidential Caucus Series - Campaign 2004 - Carol Moseley Braun
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Moseley Braun was the first f African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, when she was elected in 1992. She served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand from 1999-2001. Since her return in 2001 from her ambassadorial posting, she has taught law and political science at Morris Brown College and DePaul University, along with a business law practice and business consultancy in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and her law degree from the University of Chicago. This series is designed to provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with an opportunity to question all presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses on January 19.

Hunger-Free World: The Final Milestone - M.S. Swaminathan
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - M.S. Swaminathan was a founding father of the Green Revolution in India and the first World Food Prize Laureate. He is co-coordinator of the United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force and heads the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in India which he founded. He has also been India's Secretary for Agriculture, Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, International Rice Research Institute, Independent Chairman of the FAO Council, and President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. He is a member of the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy and the Italian and Chinese Academies. His honours include the World Food Prize, UNEP's Sasakawa Award and the Tyler and Honda Prizes. He holds a doctorate in plant genetics from Cambridge University. Special Guest: Dr. Norman Borlaug. Annual Norman Borlaug Lecture

What Do Catholics Really Believe about Sin? - Edward Collins Vacek
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Edward Collins Vacek is a professor of Christian Ethics, the director of Masters of Theological Studies Program and chair of the Moral Theology Department at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Love, Human and Divine, and serves on the editorial board of Erosophia: A Journal for the Philosophy of Sex and Love and The Philosophy of Sex and Love. He also is on the board of the Society of Christian Ethics.

Women's Week 2003 - Why Family and Work Conflict and What We Can Do about It - Joan Williams
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Joan Williams is Professor and Director of the Program on Gender, Work, and Family American University Law School, and author of Unbending Gender; Why Family and Work Conflict and What We Can Do about It.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Keynote Address - The Next 25 Years: Changes in Design and Design Education - Susan Szenasy
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Szenasy is chief editor of Metropolis, a NYC-based magazine of architecture, culture and design. She also teaches design history and ethics at the Parsons School of Design, and is co-founder of R.Dot (Rebuild Downtown Our Town), a coalition of New Yorkers contributing their expertise to building the 21st century metropolis at the site of the former World Trade Center. Her publications include "The Home" and "Light." A frequent lecturer and panel moderator on broad-ranging design topics, she is the guiding light behind Metropolis's conferences, including Wonderbrands, Wonderbrands West and Net@Work, Business UnUsual, Teaching Green and Design Entrepreneurs the Next Generation. She has a master's degree in modern European history from Rutgers University and an honorary doctorate of arts from Kendall College of Art and Design.

The Commercial Closet
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Commercial Closet Association works to lessen social discrimination of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by encouraging corporations and ad agencies' to improve LGBT portrayals in - mainstream advertising. The project is not activist in nature, but educates the business world as a peer through journalism, public relations, public speaking, and an interactive virtual museum collection of over 1,200 ads from around the world since 1917. Veteran ad and media journalist Michael Wilke and a board of industry professionals carry out its mission.

Hispanic Heritage Month - An Iowa Mother Searches for Justice in Her Native Land - Denese Becker
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Denese Becker, adopted as a young child by Iowans, will discuss her discovery that she was the only one in her immediate family to survive government-sponsored massacres in Guatemala of hundreds of villagers in what was later termed "genocide" by the UN-sponsored Truth Commission. The documentary about her journey, "Discovering Domina" will be shown at 7 p.m. sponsored by Humanities Iowa, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Arts. At 8 p.m., ISU History and Latino Studies Professors Jerry Garcia and Patrick Barr-Melej will lead a discussion with Denese Becker and audience members.