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Automobile- The Unwanted Child - James Wren
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - James Wren is the manager of the patent department of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association. He is author of Motor Trucks of America and Automobiles of America. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Agricultural and Rural Technologies in Developing Countries - V.E. Sabarathmam
4:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Dr. Sabarathmam is Associate Professor of Research Systems and Policies at the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management in Hyderabad, India. From the University Lectures Program.

You Are Not Forgotten: POW/MIA in Southeast Asia - Betsy Cox
8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Besty Cox is Director of Public Affairs for the National League of Families. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Forest Development and Coservation - Gerargo Budowski
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gerardo Budowski is Director of the natural Resource program, University for Peace in Costa Rica. He was instrumental in developing the Man and Biosphere program at UNESCO and later became director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature before heading the Centre for Tropical Agriculture and Forestry in Turrialba, Costa Rica. He received his doctorate from Yale University in forest ecology and has published over 180 articles. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

The Problems of Economic Development and the Environment - Ricardo Melendes Ortiz
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Ricardo melendez Ortiz is an advisor to the Minister of Economic Development in columbia and President of the International Affairs Chapter of the Colegia Verde de Villa de Leyva. He is an economist who received his undergraduate degree from Harvard. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Democracy and the Environment - Robert Waller
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Robert Waller is a management consultant who helped develop Interpretive Structural Modeling a methodology for dealing with complex problem-solving. He is a professor of management and was dean of the School of Business at the University of Northern Iowa. he is author of Making Sense of Complexity: Structural Modeling for Decisions Policy and Living and a collection of essays on the environment, Just Beyond the Firelight. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

The Impact of Agricultural Technology on the Environment - James Baker, Bill Crumpton and John Miranowski
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Baker, ISU Agricultural Engineering Department, is a faculty member of the Water Resources Graduate Program (WRGP) and Bill Crumpton, ISU Botany Department, is a faculty member of the WRGP and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program. John Miranowski is director of the Resources and Technology Division of the USDA Economic Research Service and was an associate professor of economics at ISU. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Reading and Talk - Carol Spindel
4:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Carol Spindel's book In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove describes life in a remote, tribal village in West Africa where she learned the customs, potting techniques and language of the Ivory Coast women. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Film: Environment Under Fire
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Central American activists and officials and US environmentalists describe the links between war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. This award-winning film by the Environmental Project on Central America demonstrates the desperate ecological and political plight of Central America. Part of the World Affairs Series

ISU's Role in the Global Environment - David Glenn-Lewin and Eugene Takle
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Glenn-Lewin, professor and chair of the ISU Botany Department, is a member of the newly formed Council on Global Change. Eugene Takle, ISU Agronomy Department and Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Department, is chair of the Council. Gary Atchinson, coordinator of the ISU Environmental Studies Program and professor of Animal Ecology, will moderate. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis