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Colloquium in Sustainable Agriculture Series - Strengthening Linkages between Researchers, Extensionists, and Farmers: An Example from Western Kenya
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Cheryl Palm is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley , where she teaches a course in conservation and sustainable development in tropical Resources. She is co-writing the second edition of "Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics,"and was senior scientific officer in the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Program in Nairobi, Kenya, before joining the faculty at Berkeley. She has a doctorate in soil science from North Carolina State and a masters in zoology from the University of California, Davis.

Revolution in the United Nations: From World War II to Iraq - Brian Girvin
8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Brian Girvin is a professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, and visiting faculty in the Political Science Department at Iowa State. He co-edited Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland, edited The Transformation of Contemporary Conservatism, and authored Between Two Worlds: Politics and Economy in Independent Ireland and The Right in the Twentieth Century.

AMSISU Leadership Conference
9:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - "Networking for Success," Steve Kravinsky, Director of Career Services in the ISU College of Business - 10 a.m. "Personal Strategic Planning," Virginia Blackburn, Associate Professor of Management in the ISU College of Business - 11:30 a.m. "Business and Social Etiquette," Susan Lasilla, Director, Cross Cultural Resources - 2 p.m. "Succeeding in Corporate America," Choy Leow, Director of Visualization at Setter Leach and Lindstrom, a Minneapolis AEI firm - 3:30 p.m. Registration is free, limited spaces available. Register online at www.amsisu.iastate.edu/alc.htm

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.