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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.

ISCORE Keynote Speaker - NASA Mission Highlights - John Herrington
12:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Herrington was the first American Indian to fly in space when he flew on the shuttle Endeavour. Endeavour docked on the International Space Station on November 25, 2002, delivering a new crew and cargo. His mission included 3 spacewalks to repair and replace space station equipment. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics form the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, a masters in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and is an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation. All ISU students are encouraged to register for the free ISCORE conference. For information on the entire conference, go to: www.admissions.iastate/ISCORE

Institute on World Affairs - Israeli- Palestinian Dialogue: We Refuse to Be Enemies - Taleb Al- Harithi and Jessica Nevo
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Two peace activists from the Middle East, one Palestinian and one Israeli, are in the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship for Professionals. They will be speaking about their work in Israel and Palestine, about the ongoing Israeli and Palestinian peace movements and the impact of the occupation on Palestine and Israel. Their presentations will address the work of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists during the current intifada, and the necessity of building alliances. Dr.Taleb Al-Harithi is a founder of the Palestine Peace Society, and has worked with a variety of Israeli peace organizations, including Gush Shalom and Peace Now. He is a Geo-Environmentalist and part of the Environmental Quality Authority of Palestine. His home is in Edna, a village west of Hebron in the West Bank. He is currently a Humphrey Fellow at University of California, Davis. Jessica Nevo is sociologist, member of Women in Black and New Profile, and has been a human rights and feminist activist in Israel since 1984. She is a sociologist and educator. Her work has focused on issues of gender violence, domestic terror, and militarism. Her current research interests include the International Criminal Court and gender justice, and transitional justice in Palestine and Israel. She lives in Haifa, and is currently a Humphrey Fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and an intern in the International Center for Transitional Justice.

A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World: Stem Cells, Human Cloning and the Sanctity of Human Life - Wesley J. Smith
7:00 PM – 101 Carver - Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle, and an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He has filed amicus briefs opposing the legalization of assisted suicide and on other bioethical issues in federal and state courts, including in the United States Supreme Court. He has authored or co-authored eight books including Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder; Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America; Power Over Pain, a consumer's guide to obtaining good pain control; and A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World.