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Are Teens Competent to Stand Trial as Adults? - Laurence Steinberg
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Laurence Steinberg is Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology at Temple University. He is also Director, of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Electromagnetic Fields and Health Hazards - a Physicist's Perspective - Aviva Brecher
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Aviva Brecher is a senior scientist (National Technical Expert) on transportation safety, health and environmental issues at DOT's national Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. Until recently she was a senior strategic planner and policy analyst supporting transportation research and development planning for DOT administrations and the NSTC Transportation subcommittees. At the Volpe Center Dr. Brecher worked on a wide range of projects requiring technical expertise in the physical sciences and risk assessment, including the environmental, health and safety effects of electromagnetic fields. She received her BS and MS in Physics from MIT in 1968, and a Ph.D.in Applied Physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1972.

Women's Week 2002 - "I'm Not Political, I'm Pregnant!" Generation X Confronts the Abortion Issue - Krista Jacob
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Krista Jacob is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality, and edited the recently published Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She has a long history of involvement in women's issues, from domestic violence and sexual assault to reproductive freedom. In addition to her writing, speaking and editing, she continues to work as a reproductive health counselor. She received her Master of Science in Women's Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and lives in the Midwest with her husband and their two-year-old son

Feeding a World of Ten Billion People: Our 21st Century Challenge - Norman Borlaug
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Norman E. Borlaug is the winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world. He developed new wheat varieties and improved crop management practices which transformed agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940's and 1950's and later in Asia and Latin America, creating what came to be known as the "Green Revolution." He is also the founder of the World Food Prize, an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. He has an undergraduate degree in forestry and a doctorate in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota. First Annual Norman Borlaug Lecture. A reception and display of students' world food issues posters will be held before Dr. Borlaug's lecture in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union from 7-8 p.m.

A Campus Forum - Candidates for Lieutenant Governor
11:30 AM – Sun Room , Memorial Union - Iowa Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson (Democrat) and candidate Debi Durham (Republican) will participate in this candidate forum.

CANCELLED! CANCELLED! CANCELLED! - The Foundations of Hindu-Muslim Unity: Raising Questions - Gail Omvedt
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Born in Minneapolis, Gail Omvedt has been a citizen of India since 1982, and a scholar- activist, working with new social movements, in particular women's groups and farmer's organizations. In recent years she has been working as a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development, for UNDP, NOVIB and other institutions. Her academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues, most notably: We shall Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India, Gender and Technology: Emerging Asian Visions, Dalits and The Democratic Revolution, Dalit Visions: The Anticaste Movement and Indian Culutural Identity. She has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

A FORUM - Iowa's Energy Policy
7:00 PM – 167-179 Scheman Building, Iowa State Center - Governor Vilsack, Democrat, Doug Gross, Republican, and Jay Robinson, Green Party, have all accepted invitations to attend. Each candidate will appear, one at a time, to discuss Iowa's energy policy.

The Future is Now - Bill Halamandaris
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Bill Halamandaris, President of The Heart of America®, started spreading his message in 1985 after 15 years of public service at the U.S. Senate as Counsel and Staff Director of a Congressional Committee charged with seeking solutions to the ills of society. "I did a 180 degree turn," Halamandaris says, "and began looking for what was good as opposed to what was bad, what was right as opposed to what was wrong, what works as opposed to what has failed." Since 1985, Halamandaris has co-founded five national non-profit organizations and published four books, including his most recent work, Be the Light: A Blueprint For A Happy and Successful Life.

Black, Red, and Lavendar: Bayard rustin, Civil Rights and American Homophobia - John D'Emilio
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John D'Emilio teaches in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Department of History at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America; The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy.

Women's Week 2002 - Ophelia's Family: Women and Families in 2002 - Mary Pipher
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mary Pipher is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska. She teaches part-time at the University of Nebraska and is also a commentator for Nebraska Public Radio. She authored Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls; Another Country : Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders; andThe Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families.