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Global Prospects: The Next 50 Years - Henry Kendall
All Day – Memorial Union - Henry Kendall is J. A. Stratton Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the chairman of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and was a founding member of the organization. He along with two colleagues was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1990.

Issues of Global Livestock Production - E.R. Orskov
All Day – Memorial Union - E. R. Orskov is director of the International Feed Resources Unit at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Protein Nutrition in Ruinants.

150 Years After Seneca Falls: Bridging Race, Class and Gender - Panel: Valerie Grim, Dorothy Schwieder and Mary Kay Blakely
All Day – Memorial Union - Valerie Grim is visiting associate professor in history at ISU; Dorothy Schwieder is professor of history at ISU; and Mary Kay Blakely is associate professor at the University of Missouri school of Journalism. She is author of Wake Me When It's Over, Red, White and Blue and American Mom.

Let Them Eat Fluff: The Trivialization of Women in Magazines - Mary Kay Blakely
All Day – Memorial Union - Mary Kay Blakely is associate professor at the University of Missouri, School of Journalism. She is author of Wake Me When It's Over, Red, White and Blue, and American Mom.

Things Percieved as Real are Real in Their Consequences: Categories as Technology - Susan Leigh Star
All Day – Memorial Union - Susan Leigh Star is a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.

Galileo: Heretic or Hero? - David Lindberg
All Day – Memorial Union - David Lindberg is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the History of Science and the director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His books include Science in the Middle Ages, Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler and Studies in the History of Medieval Optics.

Phytochemicals in Our Diets: Health Protectants or Toxicants? - Patricia Murphy
All Day – Memorial Union - Patricia Murphy is professor at Iowa State in Food Science and Human Nutrition. She will be lecturing on phytochemicals, a class of nonnutrient constituents in plant foods which potentially protect humans from a variety of diseases.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Integrating Faith and Evolution - Jaime Vidal
All Day – Memorial Union - Jaime Vidal is the inaugural 1998 Msgr. Supple Scholar at Iowa State and associate professor and director of the Hispanic Ministry Program at Ponifical College Josephinum School of Theology.

Rational Egoism in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead - Andrew Bernstein
All Day – Memorial Union - Andrew Bernstein is adjunct professor of philosophy at Pace University and Staet University of New York.

Freedom, Democracy and the Spirit of Revolution - Herman Blake and Valerie Grim
All Day – Memorial Union - Herman Blake is director of the African American Studies Program and Valerie Grim is visiting professor of History. Following a 30-minute excerpt from the documentary ""Life an Times of Nat Turner,"" there will be an open discussion designd to create a dialogue concerning how we, today, think about power, justice, and freedom.