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Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e84bee96f79a8d4cfa8263d158e056f73 Nadine Strossen is a Professor of Constitutional Law at New York Law School and the first woman national President of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she served from 1991 through 2008. A frequent speaker on constitutional and civil liberties issues, her media appearances include 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, and other news programs. First Amendment Days

Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e8d7ef7c6c9e775c73993867617d804cd Bonnie Siegler, voted one of the fifty most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA, founded and runs the award-winning design studio Eight and a Half. She is best known for her design work for Saturday Night Live, HBO, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Newsweek. Most recently, she was the creative director of the Trump parody autobiography You Can't Spell America Without Me by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen and created the main title sequence for Will & Grace. She has taught at the graduate level for many years at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. First Amendment Days

Emerging Issues in Global Markets and Trade
7:00 PM – See link below - Link to event: https://alumni.cals.iastate.edu/lectures/carl-and-marjory-hertz-lecture-on-emerging-issues-in-agriculture/ Dhamu Thamodaran, retired executive vice president, chief strategy officer and chief commodity hedging officer for Smithfield Foods, has been a respected global leader in the agricultural industry for more than 30 years. He joined Smithfield in 1995 as director of price risk management and advanced in the organization and was promoted to his current role in 2016. At the time of his retirement in December 2020, Thamodaran led strategy development for Smithfield Food’s vertically integrated business and managed the company’s commodity hedging activities and global economics commodities research and analysis group. During his time with the organization, Smithfield Foods grew to become the world’s largest swine producer and processor. Thamodaran’s expertise in understanding world agricultural markets, macroeconomics and the pork value chain make him a sought-after speaker nationally and globally at food and agricultural industry events. In 2019, Thamodaran joined the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group’s Agricultural Markets Advisory Council and was awarded the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Henry A. Wallace Award. During his time at Iowa State University, Thamodaran graduated summa cum laude in his doctorate program. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Gamma Sigma Delta honors societies. An advocate for education, Thamodaran regularly shares his knowledge in university classrooms across the nation. Prior to his time on campus Thamodaran graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture in 1978 from India’s Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and a master’s degree in agricultural economics and statistics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in 1980.

The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement: Our History, Our Present, Our Future
5:30 PM – See link below - YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xGAzq0ej_jA First Amendment Days Event Robert Bickel, professor emeritus of law at Stetson University College of Law, and Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment at the Freedom Forum, are authors of “The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement,” created with the support of Stetson University and the Freedom Forum. Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute and of the Institute’s First Amendment Center. A veteran multimedia journalist, he also writes, lectures, and is interviewed regularly on First Amendment issues. Policinski, a founding editor of USA Today, oversees all programs of the Freedom Forum Institute and also is a longtime proponent of diversity in journalism as an essential characteristic of a free press. He speaks and writes regularly on news gathering and reporting, newsroom diversity and on journalism ethics. Robert Bickel taught at Stetson for almost 40 years. His national awards include the American Bar Association's Harrison Tweed Award for Continuing Legal Education and the Florida Bar's Faculty Professionalism Award. In 1994, he was elected to the American Law Institute and he is a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Joining Stetson's faculty in 1978, Professor Bickel served as assistant dean and created the law school's first federal civil procedure course. Professor Bickel created and launched the National Conference on Law and Higher Education. This event is not available for attendance tracking for extra credit.

Self-Care for Activists in 2021 and Beyond
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5350e52dd0a633224c54454b4e4446c2 Aisha Moore is an entrepreneur with a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Ms. Moore has been providing self-care programs since 2014 to businesses, foundations, nonprofits and colleges, and has recently completed training in Health Coaching. Ms. Moore began a company called Self-care by Aisha where she maintains a blog, and organizes speaking events. Her work has also been featured in the book "The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout". Recording: There will be a recording available for this event through April 30; please check lectures.iastate.edu beginning April 9 for the recording link.

A Vaccinologist's Tale: A Journey from Jenner, Pasteur, and Salk to Nanomedicines and Beyond
12:10 PM – See WebEx Link - WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb33549d993b0d37343affc4cf9b5058d Michael J. Wannemuehler, PhD., received his undergraduate training in microbiology at Purdue University. He worked on induction host immune responses to Salmonella while earning his M.S. at Idaho State University. During his PhD training, he worked on a vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhea at the University of Louisville. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he studied the induction and regulation of mucosal tolerance. He joined the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine here at Iowa State University in the Fall of 1983, rose to the rank of Professor and has served as the Chair of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine. Since joining ISU, his laboratory has contributed to the development an effective vaccine against swine dysentery and, along with collaborators in the Nanovaccine Institute, has worked on vaccines for tetanus, streptococcal pneumonia, pneumonic plague, anthrax, influenza, and COVID19. His research also addresses the interaction between the resident microbiota of the GI tract and host mucosal responses to colitic insults. These studies have taken advantage of the gnotobiotic mouse colonies he has maintained at ISU. More recently, his research interests have included the interactions of microbial metabolism on the host response to vaccine administration.

The Conservative Case for Economic Nationalism
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e149426bf0f127060cf65265526ce82ff Pedro Gonzalez is a senior writer at American Greatness.

Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - Dr. Dave A. M. Peterson, Lucken Professor of Political Science, discusses how White Americans' perceptions and attitudes about Latinos shape the way they think about politics. Based on his book, Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos, Dr. Peterson will present the history of how institutional discrimination targeting Latinos has resulted in White’s negative stereotypes and how these views influence the ways in which Whites think about elections, politics, and public policy. WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?

Stem Cells and Bioengineering for Brain Repair Strategies
6:00 PM – Online - Event Link: http://events.las.iastate.edu/deans-lecture In our nervous system, the death of neurons is often a devastating consequence of neurodegenerative diseases or severe injury. A significant problem with developing useful therapies for treating neural disorders is developing effective methods that prevent further loss of nerve cells and facilitate recovery of function. As such, repair strategies often must comprise a multi-factorial approach addressing several issues, including optimization of survival and function of remaining neural tissue, the modulation of trophic influences to promote repair, and perhaps possible replacement of lost cells. In his presentation, Dr. Donald Sakaguchi, Director of Biology and Genetics Undergraduate Program and Morrill Professor, will discuss his highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research program that merges stem cell biology and bioengineering to develop experimental brain and tissue repair strategies. When combined, these enabling technologies cancontribute to the development ofnovel therapeutic interventions withbiomedical applications.His laboratory's educational goal is to effectively integrate research with educational activities and train undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in interdisciplinary studies to produce next-generation biologists and bioengineers. Spring 2021 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture

Food Fight: The 14-Year Rebellion Against Food Service at Iowa Agricultural College
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - Dr. Doug Biggs will cover a contentious period of ISU's early history: when students bucked requirements to get their food from campus. The battle of wills between the administration and the student body lasted 14 years! Come learn what the issues and the solution were. Dr. Biggs was born in Ames, Iowa, where his father taught Geology and Earth Science at Iowa State University for his entire career. Dr. Biggs holds a BA and an MA in History from Iowa State University and a Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about the political culture of late medieval England, specifically the reigns of Richard II (1377-99) and Henry IV (1399-1413). He regularly presents his research at International Conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. He is also the Managing Series Editor for Late Medieval Europe, a monograph series for Brill Academic Publishers in the Netherlands. In late 2009 Dr. Biggs became interested in the local history of his home town and also his undergraduate alma mater. This has led to several publications, a book, and public lectures on historical subjects in Ames about Ames and Iowa State University. In Fall 2017 Dr. Biggs received the prestigious Pratt-Heins Foundation Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to the UNK Community in the Area of Research/Scholarship. WebEx Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e68c7ff7ef80b142cb1f2b9d52f7ecafc