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Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - Collateral Damage: Civilians and the Air War in Afghanistan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marc Herold has been gathering data on civilian casualities since October 7 by culling information from news agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts. Whenever possible, he has sought to cross-corroborate accounts of civilian casualties. He is associate professor of Economics, International Relations, and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire, and has a M.B.A. in International Business and a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bultena Lecture in Sociology - Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland - Sonya Salamon
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sonya Salamon is professor of Community Studies and director of Community and Rural Studies Concentration at the University of Illinois. Her publications include Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming and Community in the Midwest and the forthcoming Newcomers, Old Towns: Community Change in the Postagrarian Midwest. She received her doctorate from the University of Illinois, her masters in anthropology from University of California at Berkeley, and her B.F.A. in Painting & Design from Carnegie Institute of Technology,

Practice Makes Perfect: Buddhism's Four Noble Truths - Carol Anderson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Anderson is associate professor of Religious Studies at Kalamazoo College and author of Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in Theravada Buddhism. Theravada Buddhism is the form of Buddhism practiced by the majority of Buddhists living in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. It is a form not frequently encountered in American popular culture.

A Message of Hope and Triumph for Youth - Darrell Scott
7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Darrell Scott is the father of Rachel Joy Scott, one of the victims at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. His son, Craig, was in the library that day and watched as 10 of his classmates were gunned down. Two of his close friends died beside him, and his sister, Rachel was killed just outside the library door, a few yards away. When asked, "Do you believe in God?" she said "YES." Darrell is the co-author of the bestselling book, "Rachel's Tears" and author of his newest book, "Chain Reaction: A Call to Compassionate Revolution."

The Coming Extinction of the Human Race? Overpopulation and Global Population Control - Steven Mosher
8:00 PM – Molecular Biology Auditorium - Internationally known Steven Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and director of the Asian Studies Center of the Claremont Institute. In1979 he became the first American social scientist to live in rural China after their Communist revolution. His best selling, A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One- Child Policy , is one of several books written based on his firsthand observations of a government telling families how many children they should-or should not-have. His articles on such topics as population control and female infanticide have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Ladies Home Journal.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - Human Rights and the War on Terrorism
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Holly Burkhalter is the Advocacy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, a human rights organization that works to promote health by protecting human rights. Physicians for Human Rights coordinates the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL), a coalition of over 500 U.S. non-governmental organizations. Holly Burkhalter, who is based in the organization's Washington office, served as co-chair of the USCBL from 1998-1999 and coordinator from 1999-2000. Before that, she was affiliated with Human Rights Watch for fourteen years as that organization's Advocacy Director and director of its Washington office.

Grand Challenges in Science for the 21st Century - Leonard Krishtalka
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Krishtalka is Director of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Krishtalka is on the Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation and serves other national organizations. In the past five years, he has helped lead an international initiative for the knowledge networking of biodiversity information, and helped form the North American Biodiversity Information Network. He is the author of more than 130 research and popular articles as well as one book, Dinosaur Plots & Other Intrigues in Natural History, a collection of popular articles about science and nature.

Sigma Xi - You Are What You Eat: Decoding the Diets of Ancient Peoples - Henry P. Schwarcz
8:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Henry P. Schwarcz is University Professor Emeritus in the School of Geography and Geology and an associate member of the Anthropology Department at McMaster Univeristy in Ontario. A geochemist, he is interested in applications of scientific methods in archaeology and anthropology. His two principle areas of research are the dating of prehistoric sites and paleodiet. He is currently involved in dating prehistoric sites in Egypt, Spain and Israel. He has published extensively in scholarly journals and received his masters and doctorate in geology from California Institute of Technology.

The Meaning of the Life and Work of George Washington Carver in Today's World - Harold McNabb
3:20 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - ISU Professor Harold McNabb will moderate a discussion with scholars and officials including ISU alum Paxton Williams; William N. Jackson, superintendent of the Carver national Monument; Herman Blake, chair of the ISU African American Studies Program; George Jackson, assistant dean of the ISU Graduate College; ISU Herbarium curator Deborah Lewis, and Food Science and Human Nutrition associate professor Deland Myers. Exhibits related to Carver's career and life will be on display in the South Ballroom throughout the day. The forum is part of the events celebrating the presentation of the Iowa Award to George Washington Carver, Iowa State's first African American graduate and faculty member.

Listening to the Still Small Voice: The Story of George Washington Carver - Paxton Williams
2:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Iowa State University graduate Paxton Williams will perform his one-act play, "Listening to the Still Small Voice: The Story of George Washington Carver." Listening to the Still Small Voice: The Story of George Washington Carver is the story of one of the most inspiring and enigmatic figures of the 20th century. Using your imagination, you will travel from Civil War-Era Missouri, to the young State Agricultural College at Ames, to Carver's laboratory, and to the halls of the U.S. Congress, where Dr. Carver sought to speak truth to power. You will see the trials and tribulations, and ultimate triumph of the "Wizard of Tuskegee." Born in slavery, you will see how Dr. Carver affected and was affected by such historical figures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Booker T. Washington. Above all, you will see the story of simple man who did the best he could to serve humanity. Paxton J. Williams, 2000 Iowa State University graduate, is currently pursuing a Master's degree at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in Ann Arbor.