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Visual Thinking Process in Design From the Viewpoint of A Person with Autism - Temple Grandin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She teaches courses on livestock behaviour and facility design and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Temple Grandin is also autistic, and she describes the unique way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her autism and animal temperament in her book Thinking in Pictures. She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, and has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, and U.S. News and World Report.

Race, Medicine, and the "Discovery" of Sickle Cell Anemia - Todd L. Savitt
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Todd L. Savitt is an historian of medicine at The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University who has written or co-edited four books including Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia and Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.

Institute on National Affairs - Music and the World Outside of MTV - Lorraine Ali
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Lorraine Ali is music critic for Newsweek. She has covered everything from the Grammy Awards to the growing subculture of Christian rock and has interviewed everyone from rapper Eve to Johnny Cash. Prior to joining Newsweek, Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone, a music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle, as well as a regular contributor to GQ. Ali has also written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and US Magazine. She was voted 1997's Music Journalist of the Year. In 1996, she was Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.

Sigma Xi - Can Values Be Good for Science? - Helen Longino
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Helen Longino is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and a member of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been recognized by grants from the NSF and private foundations, and she has been widely published in a variety of journals. Her books include Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of Knowledge.

The Writer as Environmentalist and Activist - Barry Lopez
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Barry Lopez, nature writer, essayist, short-story writer and international traveler, is the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. Among his other nonfiction books are About This Life and Of Wolves and Men. Lopez examines in his nonfiction the relationship between physical landscape and human culture. He is also the author of several award-winning works of fiction, including Field Notes, Winter Count, and a novella-length fable, Crow and Weasel. In another arena of work, he recently collaborated with E. O. Wilson in the design of a university curriculum that will combine the sciences and humanities in a new undergraduate major.

Contaminants and Wildlife: Lessons from the Swamp - Louis J. Guillette
6:30 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Bldg. - Louis J. Guillette, Jr. is Distinguished Professor of Zoology and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. Dr. Guillette received his doctorate in Comparative Reproductive Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Internationally recognized for his work in the field of comparative reproductive biology and developmental endocrinology, he has advised many countries including New Zealand, Australia Mexico, and Botswana on the development of reproductive biology programs for endangered wildlife. Dr. Guillette also is recognized for his research examining environmental contaminants and reproductive/endocrine disruption in various wildlife species, and policy work in human public health. He has served as an expert witness to the US. Congress and as a science policy advisor to various governmental agencies regarding environmental contamination and health. His recent work examines the effect of pollutant pharmaceuticals on wildlife.

Presidential Caucus Series - Peace and Security through Diplomacy - Dennis J. Kucinich
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, is the leader of the Progressive Caucus with a commitment to public service, peace, human rights, workers rights, and the environment. He is an advocate of a Department of Peace, and supports nuclear disarmament, preservation of the ABM treaty, banning weapons in outer space, and a halt to the development of a 'Star Wars' - type missile defense technology. As chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest congressional caucus, he has promoted a national health care system, preservation of Social Security, increased unemployment insurance benefits, and the establishment of wholesales cost-based rates for electricity, natural gas and home heating oil. The Presidential Caucus Series is designed to provide students with an opportunity to hear all the potential candidates before the Iowa presidential caucuses January 19, 2004.

Celebrate Black History Month Goldtrap Lecture - The Poet as Prophet and Oracle - Ishmael Reed
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ishmael Reed has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and twice nominated for the National Book Award. He is the author of more then 20 books including The Free-Lance Pallbearers ; The Terrible Twos; Japanese by Spring; The TerribleThrees ; Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down ); Flight To Canada; Mumbo Jumbo;and The Last Days of Louisiana Red. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, and for twenty years he has been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley.

Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Title IX! - Current Perspectives: Title IX at ISU
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - ISU athletes discuss their personal experiences and the benefits of participation in athletics. Mary Cofield (Basketball); Lauren Sims (Soccer); Jummy Alowonle (Track); Arlene Samuel (Soccer); Kristan Gyiki (Tennis); Gina Curtis-Rickert (Track); Cindy Whitmore (Golf); Kim Chrun (Swimming).

Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Women and Men in the New Millennium - Michael Kimmel
8:00 PM – Curtiss Hall Auditorium - Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. His books include Changing Men, Men Confront Pornography, Men's Lives, Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990, The Politics of Manhood, Manhood: A Cultural History, and The Gendered Society. He edits Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, a book series on Men and Masculinity at the University of California Press, and the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities. He is the Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and lectures extensively on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.