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The Holocaust Remembered: A Survivor's Story - Peter Pintus
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Peter Pintus will discuss growing up in Nazi Germany and surviving a slave labor camp.

Jazz Improvisation - Mark Colby
3:00 PM – Music Hall, Recital Hall - Mark Colby is a jazz faculty member at DePaul University and currently performs as a guest soloist and clinician/adjudicator at high schools and colleges. He has recorded six albums and was the featured soloist on seven other recordings. Concert at 7:30 pm, Music Hall, Recital Hall

The Leopold Legacy: Fifty Years After the Death of Aldo Leopold - Curt Meine
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Curt Meine is the action plan coordinator for the International Crane Foundation and a consulting conservation biologist for biological diversity in Bulgaria. He is the author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work.

Ukraine: Present and Future - Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Yuri Shcherbak is the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States.

The Vatican and the Holocaust - Ruth David and John Donaghy
12:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - A dialogue on the Vatican statement: “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah” Ruth David, a member of the Ames Jewish Congregation and John Donaghy, a campus minister with St. Thomas Aquinas Church.

A Football Legend Remembering ISU - Johnny Majors
5:00 PM – Central Campus - Johnny Majors coached the Iowa State football team from 1968-72, leading the Cyclones to the first two bowl games in school history. One of his assistant coaches was Jimmy Johnson, now coach of the Miami Dolphins. He went on to coach Tennessee and Pittsburgh to national championships. VEISHEA

Minorities and Science in Higher Education - Walter Massey
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Walter Massey is president of Morehouse College, the only historically black, all-male school. He was director of the National Science Foundation. George Washington Carver Scholar

Risk and Resilience in Children: Linking Research to Practice and Policy - Martha Erickson
8:00 PM – Molecular Biology Auditorium - Martha Erickson is director of the Children, Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota, a national resource to link research, practice and policy for the well-being of children and families. She is the developer of the award-winning STEEP program, a preventive intervention program for high-risk parents and infants that is based on attachment theory and research.

The Transuranium People - the Inside Story - Darleane Hoffman
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Darleane Hoffman is a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She was chosen by President Clinton to receive the National Medal of Science and is a graduate of Iowa State.

The Uses and Abuses of Science: Controversy Over the Lasting Impacts of the Exxon Valdex Oil Spill - Dee Boersma
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dee Boersma is professor of Zoology and Women Studies at the University of Washington and president-elect of the Society of Conservation Biology.