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Shaping Environmental Policy to Improve Water Quality & Environmental Health - Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Two distinguished alumni of the Iowa State Department of Economics return to campus to discuss policy options and incentives to improve water quality and environmental health in Iowa and the upper Midwest. What incentives, disincentives, or environmental markets would encourage practices that reduce nutrient runoff and nonpoint source pollution and improve environmental health? Which strategies would maximize net benefits? Participants include James Shortle, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics at Pennsylvania State University, who studies economic incentives and policy design for water resource management, including nutrient pollution, and Sandy Hoffmann, Senior Economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service whose research focuses on assessing human health benefits from environmental quality and food safety programs. John Miranowski Emeritus Professor of Economics at Iowa State will moderate the discussion. Part of the Economics Forum

Linking Language and Well-being from a Myaamia Perspective - Daryl Baldwin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Daryl Baldwin, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is a linguist and scholar reviving the linguistic, cultural, and intellectual heritage of the Miami (Myaamia) nation. Using historical documentation, Baldwin taught himself the Miami language, which lost its last native speaker in the mid-20th century. His efforts to restore the language among scattered tribal members resulted in community-based education and preservation programs and, ultimately, the establishment of The Myaamia Center, a unique tribal-academic partnership between The Miami University of Ohio and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. As the center's director Baldwin continues his work using the reclamation of language as a tool to empower a healthy and sustainable Native community. Baldwin will be joined by Haley Strass, a graduate student in counseling psychology at Iowa State and a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, to discuss their joint project on learning within an indigenous knowledge system. No podcast will be available for this event.

Mental Health at Iowa State - A Conversation
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join us for a discussion designed to raise mental health awareness and learn how different entities at Iowa State are working to provide support and education. With 1 in 5 students living with a diagnosable mental health condition, it is important to openly address this often uncomfortable topic and work toward ending the stigma. Students and others on campus are invited to share personal experiences about living with mental illness, the misunderstandings they've encountered about their condition, and the importance of seeking assistance. Panelists for this discussion include the new director of Student Wellness Mark Rowe-Barth, professor of psychology David Vogel, and Student Counseling Services psychologist Kristen Sievert. Distinguished Professor of Psychology Gary Wells will facilitate the discussion

Technological Entrepreneurship: A Key to World Peace and Prosperity - Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman
5:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dan Shechtman, an Iowa State Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering and research scientist at Ames Laboratory, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The honor was awarded for his discovery of quasicrystals, crystalline materials with a periodic atomic structure deemed impossible in modern crystallography. He is also the Philip Tobias Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he has taught a course in technological entrepreneurship for nearly thirty years. He joined Iowa State and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory in 2004. His current research efforts center on developing strong and ductile magnesium alloys for a variety of applications, and deformation mechanisms in B2 intermetallics.

Good for Business, Good for the Planet - Rick Ridgeway
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Rick Ridgeway is Vice President of Public Engagement at Patagonia, a maker of high-performance outerwear whose mission to protect and preserve the environment is at the core of its business operations. This year Patagonia pledged to donate every cent of its Black Friday profits - a total of $10 million - to grassroots environmental organizations. Ridgeway, one of the world’s foremost mountaineers, has held numerous leadership roles at Patagonia during his long history with the company. He is responsible for many of its key sustainability initiatives, including the Footprint Chronicles, designed to bring transparency to the supply chain; Worn Wear, which encourages reduced consumption through its repair-and-recycle program; and the Responsible Economy Campaign. Murray Bacon Center for Business Ethics Lecture

The World is All Around Us: An Interactive Session on Diversity - Lee Mun Wah
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lee Mun Wah is a documentary filmmaker, author, educator and founder of Stirfry Seminars, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. His popular interactive session focuses on what it takes to create a truly multicultural community. He is best known for his documentary The Color of Fear, the subject of a Oprah Winfrey special. His latest film, If These Halls Could Talk, focuses on college students and their dialogue about race and racism, and other diversity issues in higher education. Lee Mun Wah was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District for more than 25 years prior to founding Stirfry Seminars.

A Deeper Black: Race in America - Ta-Nehisi Coates
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Doors open at 6:00 | No tickets Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic and wrote the magazine’s recent cover story “My President Was Black,” a history of the first African American White House. He is the author of the bestselling book Between the World and Me, which is written in the form of a letter to his teenage son about the challenges he will face growing up black in America. Coates’s June 2014 cover story on slavery and race, "The Case for Reparations," won the George Polk Award for Commentary, and in 2015 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is also the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote Autographed copies of his book will be available for sale in lieu of a book signing.

Rap, Race, Reality & Technology - Chuck D
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Chuck D is leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy and is known for creating politically charged and socially conscious hip hop music. As a rapper, producer, author, and social activist, Chuck D delivers a powerful message about race, rage and inequality. He is a national spokesperson for Rock the Vote, the National Urban League, and the National Alliance for African American Athletes. He is also co-author of Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality. Chuck D redefined rap music and hip hop culture with the release of Public Enemy's debut album, Yo Bum Rush The Show, in 1987. Public Enemy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

Exercise and the Brain - Daniel Corcos
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Daniel Corcos, a professor at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine, is a motor systems neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to understanding how different brain regions control movement. Dr. Corcos will address how both resistance exercise and endurance exercise are important for improving brain health, and how exercise affects brain volume as well as other measures of brain structure and function in health and disease. He is currently studying how progressive resistance exercise improves the motor and non-motor systems of people with Parkinson’s disease, and how endurance exercise changes disease severity in Parkinson’s disease. 2016-17 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series - Move for Life: The Health Benefits of Exercise Across the Lifespan

What Is Your Vocation? - A Panel Discussion
6:30 PM – 2019 Morrill Hall - Vo-ca-tion: A summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action. What is your vocation? How do you see yourself as an agent of goodness, truth, and beauty in the world, using your skills and passions for bringing about human flourishing? Join us for a panel discussion with three individuals who are working out their vocations for the common good: Ethan Brue, engineering professor and former R&D engineering leader for DuPont; Mark Osler, former federal prosecutor, legal scholar, and professor at St. Thomas Law School; and Jenny Jessup, mobilization specialist for English Language Institute-China.