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Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials - Christine Romans
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christine Romans is CNN's chief business correspondent and a graduate of Iowa State. She anchors the weekday show Early Start on CNN. Romans joined the network in 1999, covering the opening bell at the New York Stock exchange, then anchoring Street Sweep on CNNfn. Before that, she covered markets, commodities and the economy for Reuters and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Romans is the author of three books: How to Speak Money and Smart Is the New Rich: If You Can't Afford It, Put It Down and, most recently, Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials. Part of the Technology, Globalization & Culture Series.

Blood Brother - World AIDS Awareness Week Documentary
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Blood Brother is a documentary feature that tells the story of Rocky Braat, a disillusioned college student whose impromptu trip to India one summer dramatically changed his understanding of love and family. While traveling, Rocky met a group of orphaned children at an AIDS hostel. Unlike others who had simply passed through these children's lives, Rocky did not abandon them. Instead, he moved to India to restart his life among the dispossessed. The children became his family, and he theirs, and for five years Rocky has dedicated himself to their health and wellbeing. Blood Brother is directed by Rocky's best friend, Steve Hoover. It won the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. 92 minutes. World AIDS Awareness Week Event

Health-Related Habits . . . Scientifically Speaking - Alison Phillips
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alison Phillips is an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State and directs the Healthy Habits Lab. She will discuss how we define, develop, and measure habits, particularly health-related habits like medication adherence and regular exercise. She will also discuss consumer habits, such as brand loyalty, and risky habits, such as smoking or gambling. Phillips earned her PhD in social psychology from Rutgers University and was an assistant professor at George Washington University before joining the faculty at Iowa State. She studies doctor-patient communication, patients' perceptions of chronic illness, patient self-management of chronic illness, and healthy habit development. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series

Town Hall Meeting with John Kasich - Presidential Caucus Series
1:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - No tickets required John Kasich is governor of Ohio and served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1983- 2001. Since first being elected governor in 2011, Kasich has closed an $8 billion budget shortfall without a tax increase and made Ohio one of the top job-creating states in the nation. He served six years as chair of the Budget Committee in Congress and led the effort to balance the federal budget for the first time in a generation. He also served eighteen years on the House Armed Services Committee, where he was a strong ally of President Reagan and his national security agenda. Governor Kasich has also had a successful career as an investment banker, New York Times best-selling author and at FOX News. Since 1987, the Presidential Caucus Series has provided students, faculty, and community members with an opportunity to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism - Richard Wolff
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor at the New School University in New York. His groundbreaking book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism inspired the creation of Democracy at Work, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showing how and why to make democratic workplaces real. Wolff's recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the global economic crisis. His other books include Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.

Atheist Voter Initiative & the Patient's Right To Know Act - Amanda Knief
7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Amanda Knief is the acting Legal Counsel and Public Policy Advisor for the American Atheists. She will discuss the Patient's Right To Know Act, proposed legislation that would require health care providers to disclose to patients any treatments or services that are legally available but that the provider chooses not to provide because of religious or philosophical beliefs. Knief helped draft the legislation and is working with groups across the country to get introduced in state legislatures. She will also speak about the Atheist voter initiative, encouraging atheists and the non-religious and to become active in the 2016 election. Knief is a graduate of Iowa State, a founding member of the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers, and author of The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Guide for Making Your Voice Heard in Government.

The Global Tide of Women Rising - Kathleen Parker
7:30 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center - Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, for which she writes a nationally syndicated column twice weekly on politics and culture. She is also a political analyst for MSNBC and a regular panelist on NBC's Meet the Press. A columnist since 1987, she has worked for five newspapers and has written for several magazines, including The Weekly Standard, TIME, Newsweek, and Fortune Small Business. Parker is currently the most widely syndicated columnist in the United States, appearing in more than 500 newspapers and with a readership of approximately 80 million people. She is also a contributor to the online magazine, The Daily Beast, and is the author of the book Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care. Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

What Matters? - Documentary & Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - What Matters? is a feature-length documentary about three friends, two idealistic Christians and one skeptic Atheist, attempting to live in extreme poverty, just $1.25 a day, across three continents. The adventure takes a devastating turn when two of them survive a deadly plane crash in Africa, and all three must fight to finish what they started. Through their film and Q & A, the filmmakers will make the case that this generation can have a profound impact on the issues that break their heart. Using personal stories, humor and technology, the audience is engaged with their mission to "connect those who need something to live for with those who just need something to live." A discussion and Q&A session will follow the 87-min film.

The Piracy of the Rich and Poor along the East Africa Coast: The Somali Case - Abdi Ismail Samatar
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Abdi Ismail Samatar is a distinguished Africanist scholar, an elected member of the African Academy of Sciences, and an Iowa State alumnus. He is currently chair of the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota and a research fellow at the University of Pretoria. Samatar's research focuses on the relationship between democracy and development in the Third World in general and Africa in particular. He is the coeditor of The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: The Poor versus the Rich and The African State: Reconsiderations. Samatar earned an MCRP in Community & Regional Planning from the Iowa State and completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Censorship and the New Puritans on Campus - David French
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney concentrating his practice in constitutional law and the law of armed conflict, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He will discuss the censorship of conservative voices on college campuses. French is the author or co-author of several books, including, most recently, Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom. He is also the past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), whose Guide to Religious Liberty on Campus he authored.