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The Search & Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors - Meave Leakey
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1989 Meave Leakey has been head of the Division of Paleoanthropology at the National Museums of Kenya where she continued his investigation of the newly discovered site at Koobi Fora on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. Meave Leakey obtained her B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Wales in Zoology and Marine Zoology. From the Lectures Program archive.

Women and Power in the Global City - Saskia Sassen
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Guests and Aliens, Globalization and It's Discontents, and Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. She continues work on two projects, "Citites and Their Crossborder Networks," sponsored by the United Nations University, and "Governance and Accountability in a Global Economy." She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Part of the World Affairs Series: Globalization - Prospects For Democracy and Freedom.

An Evening of Spoken Word - Henry Rollins
8:00 PM – Stephen's Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - Henry Rollins is best known as the Grammy-award-winning lead singer of the Rollins Band. He was also lead singer of Black Flag, and a Grammy-award-winner for his spoken word performance which has been described as part storytelling, part social commentary, part spontaneous cranial combustion.

Frank D. Gunstone
8:00 AM – 1010 LeBaron Auditorium - Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding the Multitude: Where is Tomorrow's Equivalent of the Five Loaves and Two Fishes?

Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding The Favoured: Tailor-Made Fats - Frank D. Gunstone
8:00 AM – Stephen's Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding The Favoured: Tailor-Made Fats

Racism is Not the Problem - Dinesh D'Souza
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dinesh D' Souza is the Olin Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is the author of The End of Racism, Illiberal Education, and Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. He was former editor of the Dartmouth Review and senior policy analyst at the White House during the Reagan administration.

NASA, the Space Program and Everyday Life - Mae Jemison
7:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison made world and U.S. history as the first woman of color to go into space when she flew as a mission specialist astronaut abroad the Space Shuttle Endeavor. From the Lectures Program archive.

Performance: Classical Indian Music - Ronu Mojumdar
7:00 AM – Fisher Theater, ISU Center - Flutist Ronu Mojumdar will be accompanied by percussionist Vijay Ghate who is a tabla player. From the Lectures Program archive.

Paul Lasley, Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University; Nan Bonfils, farmer and Program Assistant, Practical Farmers of Iowa; Kathleen Delate, Ass
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Farm Crisis Series

1999 Frank K.. Ramsey Lecture in Veterinary Medicine - Walter Plowright
10:00 AM – 1226Veterinary Medicine - Dr. Walter Plowright is the recipient of the 1999 World Food Prize Laureate. From the Lectures Program archive.