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Science in Film: When the Idiosynchratic Becomes the Norm - Carolyn C. Porco
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ccarolyn C. Porco is leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission to Saturn, a professor of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, and a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Voyager Imaging Team, leading the Rings Working Group during the Voyager's encounters with Neptune. She was an advisor on the movie Contact starring Jodie foster, and recently participated in a series of panel discussions a the American Film Institute in Hollywood entitled, Portraying Real Science and Technology in the Movies. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Changing Structure of U. S. Agriculture: Any Room for Ethics - Bernard Evans
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bernard Evans holds the Vifgil Michel Ecunemical Chair in Rural Social Ministries at St. John's Universityy School of Theology.

Lessons Learned from the Past: Visions for the Future - Dorothy Cotton
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dorothy Cotton worked closely with Dr. King as the only female member of his Executive Staff designin and conducting training programs which developed local leadership in the South and promoted social change using non-violent strategies. She was the Director of Student Activities at Cornell University until 1991.

Birthday Party and Musical Extravaganza
12:15 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

Love Train
11:45 AM – Design Building & Lagomarcino Hall - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

The Decline of Civic Culture in America - Robert Putnam
1:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Putnam is the Dillion Professor of International Affairs and director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard. He was dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and his books include Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy and Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?

Domestic Politics of an Effective U.S. Foreign Policy - Kevin Phillips
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kevin Phillips is a forecaster of economic and political trends and the author of The Politics of Poor and Rich, Boiling Point, and Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics. His newsletter The American Political Report is widely read and his commentaries are heard on NPR and CBS-TV. He earned a first class certificate in economics from the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?

Post-Soviet Shock: A Country and a People in Search of a New Identity - Natalia B. Ivanova
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Natalia B. Ivanova if deputy editor-in-chief of Znamia, a Moscow literary monthly, and a leading literaty critic and scholar. She has published over 200 articles and essays, 6 monographs, and 2 collections of essays. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?

Old Perils, New Perils: Emerging Infections in the 21st Century - Joel Breman
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Joel Breman is the deputy director of the Division of International Training and research at the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and has worked for the CDC, WHO, and other international and domestic organizations. As an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, he was a key player in stopping the first recorded Ebola outbreak at Yambuku, Zaire in 1976. In a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, he wrote of the global potential for "biologic terrorism" and proposed that we destroy stockpiles of certain viruses. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?

The Human Face of HIV/AIDS: Visions of Today, Realities of Tomorrow - Emily Moore
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Emily Moore holds joint appointments in educational leadership and policy studies and health and human performance in the ISU College of Education. She serves on the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Health Education and Leadership Program work group on HIV/AIDS prevention education. She received the 1997 Belle Ringer Award from Bennett College for her exhibit "Women and Children in Zimbabwe, A Photo Essay of Dichotomy: The Devastation of HIV/AIDS." Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?