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Two Beginnings in Western Asia: From the First Humans Out of Africa to the Neolithic Revolution and Birth of Farming - Ofer Bar- Yosef
4:10 PM – 210 Bessey Hall - Ofer Bar-Yosef is MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and director of the Stone Age Laboratory housed in Harvard University's Peabody Museum. The lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Dr. Bar-Yosef was appointed Professor of Anthropology at Harvard and Curator of Paleolithic Archaeology in the Peabody Museum. He came to Harvard from Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology. He is a member of the National Academy of Science.

CUBA: - A Forum
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - A panel of faculty and students will discuss their recent trip to Cuba. Topics for discussion include the impact of the war, the recent arrests of dissidents, and the future of Cuba. Dr. Politics' Steffen Schmidt, Political Science, will moderate. The panel will include Fern Kupfer and Joe Geha, English. Other visitors to Cuba are invited to share their experiences. The Cuban students originally scheduled to speak, have denied visas at this time.

Imagining the Land: Visiting Writers Series - Sweet Scat and Jump Rope Hymns: A Reading - Tim Seibles
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Tim Seibles is the author of three poetry collections: Hurdy Gurdy , Kerosene and Body Moves . Seibles has been a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia where he teaching in Old Dominion's MFA Creative Writing Program.

Exploring Gender 101 - Debra Davis
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Debra Davis is the Executive Director of the Gender Education Center, a Minnesota-based advocacy and education organization working toward understanding, acceptance, and support for the GLBT communities. She is the first transgendered Minnesotan to receive the Human Rights Campaign Leadership Award.

Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair - Guiding Transformations: The Customer Is the Product - Joe Pine
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Joe Pine is the author of Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition, a faculty leader in the Penn State Executive Education Program, a member of the Executive Education faculty at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business, and frequent quest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, his alma mater. In this session, Joe Pine will outline Pine & Gilmore's "economic theory of everything" and describe how transformations are a distinct economic offering that should shape the way companies do business and interact with customers. With transformations, customers plea "Change me!", and companies must respond. In addition to sharing examples of transformation opportunities across a number of key industries -- including consulting, travel and tourism, financial services, and especially education -- Pine will outline a foundational model for successfully guiding the transformation of customers.

WAR with IRAQ - Panel
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Iowa State University will host a community discussion with panelists City Council member Riad Mahayni, Student Counseling Services staff psychologist Suzanne Zilber, and Religious Leaders Association representative Crystal Caruana Sullivan. Political Science Department Chair Jim McCormick will moderate the discussion. President Geoffroy will provide opening comments. All students, faculty, staff and members of the Ames community are invited to attend. A candlelight vigil immediately follows the event at 9:30 p.m.

Emerging Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases: A Public Health Problem for the 21st Century - Duane Gubler
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Health officials around the world are noticing increased incidents of Lyme disease, West Nile Fever, malaria and many other diseases that are transmitted to humans and other animals by insects. Duane Gubler advises the World Health Organization and many governments in Africa, Asia and South America, and is past president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He holds adjunct academic appointments in microbiology at Colorado State University and in international health at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. Gubler is the Director of the Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins. He has been instrumental in developing the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, and currently serves as the Chair, Board of Councilors of that organization.

What's the Matter with Marriage? Some Early Christian Answers - Elizabeth A. Clark
8:00 PM – Pioneer Rom, Memorial Union - Elizabeth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University and the author of several books, including The Origenist Controversy and Reading Renunciation. She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the North American Patristics Society. She is the coeditor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.

Four Golden Minutes: An Israeli Terrorism Response Team Volunteer Speaks of Suicide Bombings
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - ZAKA Rescue and Recovery was founded in Israel in 1995 to ensure that people who die unnatural deaths, either in terrorist attacks or other forms of tragedy, are identified and buried according to Jewish tradition. Still headquartered in Israel, ZAKA has offices worldwide and provide emergency first aid, assist in rescue efforts, recover and identify attack victims - regardless of race or creed - to ensure they receive a proper burial, and inform the victims' next of kin. Yaakov Uri developed the idea of putting paramedics on motorcycles, so these units can get to the suicide bombing scene within four minutes. ZAKA helped with the Columbia recovery, the September 11 recovery, and was named the Volunteer Organization of the year 2001 by the United Nations.

The Science and Policy Seminar Series - Food Safety: How Has Science Shaped the Development of HACCP Regulations and Policy?
3:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Catherine Wotecki, Dean of the College of Agriculture; James Dickson, Department of Microbiology; and Helen Jensen, Department of Economics; will discuss food safety policy.