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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.

Why Try? Motivating Students with Challenges - Christian Moore
6:00 PM – MacKay Auditorium - Christian Moore is a licensed clinical social worker working with at-risk adolescents with conduct disorders and learning disabilities. He will share his personal struggle with learning disabilities and describe the Why Try Program, which he created to help motivate students. The "Why Try" program is a set of practical tools to teach children with learning differencies. It is now mandated in all schools in Nevada and Utah. Mr. Moore was an intern in the Clinton White House, and has an MSW from Birgham Young University.

Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair - Mass Customization: Efficiently Serving Customers Uniquely - Joe Pine
8:00 PM – Great Hall, 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. Summary of discussion: The paradigm of Mass Customization will be as significant to 21st Century business practices as Mass Production was to 20th Century management. In this session, Joe Pine will show why Mass Customization is the next step in the evolution of business competition beyond Mass Production and Continuous Improvement, and explain how it provides a means to progress from goods to services and from services to experiences. He will outline the essence of Mass Customization and key concepts such as modularity, design tools, and customer sacrifice. In addition, Pine will describe four types of Mass Customization and the circumstances in which each should be employed.

Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America - Motherhood in the Media: The Last 30 Years - Susan Douglas
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, and author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. She recently completed a book examining representations of motherhood in the media from the late 1960s to the present.