Schedule of Events

Town Hall Meeting on Iraq
Tue, 28 Aug 2007, 6:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Speakers include: Jeffrey Weiss, Peace Education Director with the Central Region of the American Friends Service Committee; Sue Dinsdale, who works for awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and to ensure healthcare and readjustment services for our soldiers; and Terri Jones, whose son SPC Jason Cooper took his life four months after returning home from a yearlong deployment to Baghdad. Jones represents Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace and the Iowa Peace Task Force. This Town Hall Meeting is sponsored by Time for Peace, a secular, nonpartisan effort by members of the Ames community to provide an alternative voice for peace and nonviolence.

Global Technology Sales: Lessons from the Field - Bob John
Tue, 28 Aug 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Bob John is Vice President of Technology Sales at TIAX LLC, a technology and innovation company. During a thirty-year career at IBM, he held positions as sales manager, general manager of an IBM subsidiary, Vice President in Technology Group, and Vice President of Channel Financing at IBM Global Financing. John graduated from Iowa State University in 1973 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. He also holds an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Globalization and Culture - James Waters
Wed, 29 Aug 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Waters is Vice President of Production Systems Division for Caterpillar, the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Waters has worked in the field of hydraulics systems in Italy, Japan, and England. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1981. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Arming Campus Police: A Town Hall Meeting
Wed, 05 Sep 2007, 12:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Members of the university community are asked to bring their questions and concerns to an open-mike discussion about whether firearms should be included as part of the equipment carried regularly by all certified and trained Iowa State University police officers. Warren Madden, Vice President for Business and Finance, and Jerry Stewart, Director of Public Safety, will discuss the recommendation to arm university police officers. Panelists include GSB President Brian Phillips and other student representatives.

The Impact of the Internet - Jeffrey Cole
Wed, 05 Sep 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Jeffrey Cole is director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and the founder and director of the World Internet Project. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

The Global Crises of Today: Peak Oil, Global Warming, and Resource Sustainability - Ethan Burke and Alan Palm of BioTour
Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 5:00 PM – Carver 101 - BioTour is a full-size converted school bus that runs on vegetable oil, biodiesel, and has solar panels on top to provide electricity inside the bus. Ethan Burke, Alan Palm and the staff of the BioTour bus offer educational, interactive presentations about energy consumption and climate change, putting those issues in a context relevant to the lives of every American. Activities will take place on central campus throughout the day and end with the 5 p.m. lecture in Carver 101.

Why Do I Need to Think Globally to Be Effective in My Job? - Kirk Thompson
Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Kirk Thompson is Global Product Development Leader for Dow Chemical Company. He leads teams developing new products for markets in Brazil, Singapore, China, England, Holland, and India. Thompson graduated with a PhD in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 1999. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Globalization and Sustainability - Barry Hughes
Wed, 12 Sep 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Barry Hughes is a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is interested in computer simulation models for economic, energy, food, population, environmental, and socio-political forecasting. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe - James Sheehan
Thu, 13 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Sheehan began teaching modern European history at Stanford in 1979 and is now Dickason Professor in the Humanities, a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and the Paul Davies Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He is the recipient of four teaching awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Humboldt Research Prize, and an NEH fellowship. Sheehan's books include Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (forthcoming), Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism, German History, 1770-1866, and German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century. President of the American Historical Association in 2005, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy in Berlin, a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture.

Restoring America's Standing in the World - Madeleine Albright
Fri, 14 Sep 2007, 3:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Madeleine Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Her distinguished career in government includes positions in the National Security Council, on Capitol Hill, and as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Part of the World Affairs Series and the 2008 Presidential Caucus Series.

Political Action Week - Foreign Affairs
Mon, 17 Sep 2007, 11:00 AM – Central Campus - Natalie Sugira from the ONE Campaign and James McCormick, professor and chair of Political Science, kick off Political Action Week with a discussion on foreign affairs. Topics include the Middle East, international and national security, trade policies, the crisis in Darfur, foreign aid, diplomacy, and the U.S. role in the world. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - $1 daily meals.

Guantanamo Bay: An Inside Look at a Constitutional Crisis - Tom Fleener
Mon, 17 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Tom Fleener is an attorney and former Guantanamo Bay military defense counsel and has been an outspoken critic and public commentator on the use of special military trials for terrorist suspects. He served as an Army JAG officer for eight years both prosecuting and defending soldiers around the world. A native Iowan and graduate of Ames High School, Fleener left the active Army in 2003 to take an appointment as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and was recalled to active duty in 2005 to represent alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen. During the two years in the Office of Military Commissions in Washington, D.C., he made several appearances before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, until ultimately convincing Congress to afford detainees choice of counsel. Constitution Day Lecture and part of the World Affairs Series.

Globalization: Looking Back and Looking Forward - George Strawn
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - George Strawn is the Chief Information Officer at the National Science Foundation. He has served NSF in numerous roles, notably, as NSFNET Program Director during the time it became the first national DS-3 Internet network. Prior to working at NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he also held several administrative positions. He received a PhD in mathematics from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Political Action Week: Social Issues, Agriculture and the Environment
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 11:00 AM – Central Campus - Topics for the Wednesday event will focus on current social issues, including separation of church and state, gay rights, racial equity and affirmative action, and women's rights. Agricultural and environmental issues, such as sustainable agriculture, global warming, and energy policy, will be discussed as well. Presidential candidate Karl Krueger will open at 11:00 am, followed by State Representative Lisa Heddens at 11:30 am. Former gubernatorial candidate Ed Fallon will speak at 12:10 pm, and Iowa State graduate student Basil Mahayni will lead the discussion. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - $1 daily meals.

Vegetable Oil: Changing Source of Food, Fuel and Chemicals - Thomas Binder
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 4:00 PM – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Rm 1210 - Thomas Binder is President of Archer Daniels Midlands Research Division. He joined ADM in 1986 as a research scientist and has held various management positions in process development and fermentation research. He is author or coauthor of eleven patents and eight peer-reviewed publications. He currently serves on the Federal Advisory Committee for Biomass Research. Binder received his PhD in biochemistry from Iowa State University. Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Popular Culture and Globalization in the Arab World - Christian Sinclair
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christian Sinclair is the director of Middle Eastern Studies at the School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad, a division of World Learning. Sinclair is responsible for the development and management of educational programs in the Middle East and North Africa. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Richard Florida, Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences Fall Lecturer, is one of the world's leading public intellectuals on economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation. He is professor of business economics and the Academic Director of the newly established Centre for Jurisdictional Advantage and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Scientist with the Gallup Organization. Florida is the author of the 2002 bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class and he more recent The Flight of the Creative Class, an examination of the global competition for creative talent. Florida's ideas on the "creative class," commercial innovation, and regional development have been featured in major ad campaigns from BMW and Apple, and are being used globally to change the way regions and nations do business and transform their economies. The Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences Fall Lecture and part of a community-wide celebration of Iowa State's sesquicentennial.

Political Action Week: Student and Local Issues - Secretary of State Michael Mauro and Elected City Officials
Thu, 20 Sep 2007, 11:00 AM – Central Campus - Ames mayor Ann Campbell and city council members Ryan Doll and Dan Rice will initiate the day's discussion on student and local issues. Topics include funding for higher education, campus policies, affordable rental housing, minimum age for bar admittance, Ames Police party patrol, tuition increases, housing-residents ordinance, and campus safety. Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro will speak at 12:10, followed by comments from Government of the Student Body respresentatives and other Iowa State students. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - $1 daily meals.

The Catastrophic Drowning of the Black Sea and the Science behind Early Flood Legends - William B. F. Ryan
Thu, 20 Sep 2007, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - William B. F. Ryan is the Doherty Senior Scholar at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an adjunct professor of earth and environmental science at Columbia University. He is the coauthor, with Walter Pitman, of Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History. Together these geologists gathered scientific evidence that could help explain the story of Noah and the great flood. Ryan and Pitman hypothesize that about 7,500 years ago the global warming that followed the last Ice Age caused seas to rise. When sea levels rose beyond a critical point, the Mediterranean Sea overflowed, deluging the Black Sea basin with salty water and destroying the fertile plains around the once-shallow freshwater lake.

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood - Marie Arana
Thu, 20 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marie Arana, editor of Washington Post Book World, was born in Peru of a Peruvian father and an American mother. She is the author of American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, which was a finalist for the PEN-Memoir Award and the National Book Award. She is also the author of a collection of columns, The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work, and a new novel Cellophane. Arana will speak about her experience as a hybrid American - an "American Chica" - and how she came to terms with this split cultural identity. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.

Political Action Week: Domestic Policy Day
Fri, 21 Sep 2007, 11:00 AM – Central Campus - Topics of dicussion will include civil liberties, the economy, poverty and welfare reform, immigration, campaign finance and lobbying reform, gun control, homeland security, the Patriot Act, wire tapping, habeas corpus, and the use of torture. The discussion will be led by State Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - $1 daily meals.

A Conversation on the Importance of Political Activism with Barack Obama
Fri, 21 Sep 2007, 12:00 PM – Central Campus - Illinois Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work as a community organizer. In 1991 he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream and Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Part of Political Action Week and the Presidential Caucus Series.

Latin Music Celebration with Everardo Y Su Flota
Sat, 22 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Everardo Y Su Flota is a Chicago-based eleven-person orchestra that plays six genres of Latin music, ranging from salsa to bachata. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.

The Yellow Rose of Suffrage - A One-Woman Play performed by Jane Cox
Sun, 23 Sep 2007, 7:30 PM – Fisher Theatre, Iowa State Center - The Yellow Rose of Suffrage, is a one-woman play about the life of Iowa State University alumna Carrie Chapman Catt. Jane Cox did her undergraduate work at Iowa State University and has now been on the ISU faculty for over twenty years. She is a full Professor and stage director for Iowa State University Theatre. She has been involved with over two hundred-fifty productions as an actress, designer, or director. Her one woman shows have been performed in over twenty states as well as the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian. Cox wrote The Yellow Rose of Suffrage through funding from a grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences College. Part of the Iowa State Sesquicentennial Celebration.

Banned Book Jeopardy - The Game!
Mon, 24 Sep 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join a Banned Book Week battle between two teams of literate panelists as they attempt to answer questions about banned books and their authors. Panelists include Ames Tribune Editor Dave Kraemer, Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa producer and host Katherine Perkins, Associate Professor of English Fern Kupfer, Ames Tribune Reviewer and Meredith Editor Steve Sullivan, Associate Provost and Professor of English Susan Carlson, and Professor Emeritus of English Dale Ross. Banned books will also be displayed and available for purchase.

Global Communications and U.S. Foreign Policy - Ambassador David Gross
Tue, 25 Sep 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Ambassador David A. Gross is the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Ambassador Gross began his career as a partner in a law firm specializing in telecommunication issues. In 1994 he left the firm to become Washington Counsel for AirTouch Communications, later acquired by Vodafone. In 2000 he joined the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign as National Executive Director of Lawyers for Bush-Cheney. He has a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received his law degree from Columbia University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

The Mess We're In: How U.S. leaders Have Failed Us in the Middle East and What You Can Do - James Zogby
Tue, 25 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, DC-based organization that has served as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community since 1985. For the past three decades Zogby has been involved in a range of Arab American issues. He was a cofounder of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and Save Lebanon, a private non-profit, humanitarian relief organization. Following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington he served as copresident of Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. Since 1992 Zogby has written a weekly column on U.S. politics, Washington Watch, for the major newspapers of the Arab world. He is the author of What Ethnic Americans Really Think and What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Entrepreneurial Considerations in a Global Economy: Competition, Culture, and Currency - Christopher Clover
Wed, 26 Sep 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christopher Clover has served as the president and CEO of Mechdyne Corporation since founding the company in 1996. Mechdyne is a global leader in virtual reality systems, with such clients as Boeing, Conoco Phillips, Ford Motor Company, John Deere, NASA, and the U.S. Army. The company developed the first commercial CAVE to be driven with personal computers, the first rear-projected curve screen systems used in immersive visualization applications, and the world's first reconfigurable immersive room. Clover earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Forging New Ties: Shaping a New U.S. Policy Toward Latin America - Joy Olson and Vicki Gass
Wed, 26 Sep 2007, 7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Joy Olson, executive director of Washington Office on Latin America, and Vicki Gass, the organization's senior associate for rights and development, will discuss the WOLA's initiative to help shape the foreign-policy debate in the upcoming presidential campaign and lay the foundation for Latin American policy in the next administration. This initiative is the result of a consensus from people across the political spectrum and will be available for distribution at the event. Washington Office on Latin America has worked to shape U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America since 1974. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Life, Liberty, and Justice - Dr. Alveda C. King
Wed, 26 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Alveda C. King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is director of African American Outreach for Gospel of Life, an ecumenical ministry that defends the sanctity of life and rights of the preborn. She is the author of Sons of Thunder: The King Family Legacy and I Don't Want Your Man, I Want My Own, a collection of Christian testimonies. King served in the Georgia State House of Representatives and is also an accomplished actress and songwriter.

Designing Humanity - Hamilton Cravens
Thu, 27 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Hamilton Cravens is a professor of history at Iowa State and the 2007 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Scholar. His teaching and research interests include American cultural and intellectual history and the history of science and technology. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the forthcoming "Designing Humanity: The Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1776-2001." Cravens has been a Ford Foundation Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center and the Davis Humanities Center - University of California. He is also the recipient of three Fulbright Awards. Cravens is working on a new book about changing notions of race in America since reconstruction.

A Conversation on Reproductive Rights - Karen Mulhauser
Fri, 28 Sep 2007, 12:00 PM – Margaret Sloss Women's Center - Karen Mulhauser, senior policy advisor to the Obama campaign, will speak on Senator Obama's stance on the issue of reproductive rights and take questions. Karen Mulhauser previously served as executive director of the Center for Education on Nuclear War, Citizens aginst Nuclear War and National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

The Comedy of THE DAILY SHOW - Aasif Mandvi
Fri, 28 Sep 2007, 8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - Doors open at 7:00 pm - Aasif Mandvi is the Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His political reporting antics have been a highlight of the Emmy Award-winning show. He will bring clips of the show and talk about reporting on the best "fake" news show on television. In addition to his work on The Daily Show, he has won an OBIE Award for Sakina's Restaurant and has many movie and television roles to his credit, including appearances on The Sopranos, Law and Order, CSI, Jericho, and The Bedford Diaries.

A Discussion on the 2008 Election - Cate Edwards and James Denton
Sun, 30 Sep 2007, 12:45 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Cate Edwards, daughter of Elizabeth Edwards and presidential candidate John Edwards, will be joined by Desperate Housewives' James Denton. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

Saints for Today and Everyday - Robert Ellsberg
Mon, 01 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Ellsberg is publisher of Orbis Books, the publishing arm of the Maryknoll Society. Since 1987 he has also served as Orbis's editor in chief. Ellsberg is the author of many books, including The Saints' Guide to Happiness and All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, which won a Christopher Award and a Catholic Book Award. His most recent book, Blessed among All Women (2005), won three Catholic Book Awards. Ellsberg graduated from Harvard College with a degree in religion and literature and later earned a Masters in Theology from the Harvard Divinity School. The Mnsgr. Supple Endowed Lecture.

10 Realities of Doing Business Globally - Greg Churchill
Tue, 02 Oct 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Greg Churchill is Vice President and Chief Operating officer at Rockwell Collins Government Systems, which provides defense communications and electronic systems to the U.S. Department of Defense. He provides leadership for all Government Systems businesses, including the company's international subsidiaries, China Business Development office and Government Operations in Washington, D.C. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Churchill earned a B.S. in Industrial Administration from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Covering '08 - Sandy Johnson and Chuck Raasch
Tue, 02 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sandy Johnson, Washington Bureau Chief for the Associated Press, is responsible for editorial and photo coverage of the federal government and national politics, and is in charge of the AP's polling unit. Since 1986, she has directed the AP's political coverage for every presidential election. She will speak on politics and the First Amendment. Chuck Raasch is political editor for Gannett News Service, and has covered political campaigns since 1978, including Tom Daschle's first race for Congress and George McGovern's last race for the Senate. He has covered presidential campaigns since 1988. He will speak on defending the mainstream media. The 2007 Chamberlin Lecture.

It's the end of the world as we know it . . . - Adrian Sannier
Wed, 03 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Adrian Sannier is the University Technology Officer at Arizona State University. An expert in human/computer interaction and three-dimensional visualization, he was formerly the Stanley Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State and associate director of the university's Virtual Reality Applications Center. Prior to joining the ISU faculty in 2001, Sannier was vice president and general manager of Engineering Animation, a leading provider of 3D computer graphics software. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Global Citizenship Symposium - A Panel Discussion
Thu, 04 Oct 2007, 6:30 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - A panel of speakers will talk about culture, sustainability and other related topics as part of the Third Annual Global Citizenship Symposium. Panelists: Hsain Ilahiane is a professor in anthropology whose research deals with mobile technology in businesses in Morocco. He will talk about his research on technology transfer among different cultures. Kevin Nordmeyer, an architect from a firm in Des Moines, will talk about purpose-driven design and how it relates to sustainability. Fred Kirschenmann, a Senior Fellow of the Leopold Center who has over twenty-five years of sustainable and organic farming experience, will discuss sustainable agriculture. Gerry Schnepf, director of Keep Iowa Beautiful, will explain the efforts of his organization to beautify the state and how individuals can make a difference.

Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology - Priscilla Wald
Thu, 04 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Priscilla Wald is a professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science, and medicine. She is currently completing a project on the public understanding of genome sciences. Post-lecture commentary will be offered by Amy Bix, Associate Professor of History, and Max Rothschild, Distinguished Professor of Animal Science. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series.

Global Citizenship Symposium: Climate Challenge Game
Sat, 06 Oct 2007, 1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Bill Gutowski, a professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, will be the lead facilitator of the Climate Challenge Game, a simulation of climate issues facing our world today and what countries can do to lessen the problem. Professor Gutowski will also discuss global warming from his perspective. Other facilitators for the event include representatives from engineering, political science, economics and ISU Facilities Planning & Management.

More Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: The Iowa Caucuses and American Presidential Candidate Selection - Steffen Schmidt
Mon, 08 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steffen Schmidt is University Professor of political science and the director of international programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State. He is perhaps best known as "Dr. Politics," the longtime commentator and cohost of WOI Radio's weekly political call-in show. Schmidt joined Iowa State's Political Science Department in 1970. He specializes in public law and the government, policies of globalization, and, more recently, the policy and politics of managing coastal areas. He is also interested in distance learning and teaching and was named the 2007 Innovator of the Year by the Iowa Distance Learning Association. Schmidt has become one of the most quotable political science experts in the media on U.S. presidential elections and the Iowa caucuses. In 2004 he shared his insights with such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Christian Science Monitor. Schmidt is a coauthor of the annual series American Government and Politics Today as well as coeditor of Soldiers in Politics and Issues in Iowa Politics. The Fall 2007 University Presidential Lecture. A reception and display of student research will precede the lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the South Ballroom.

Tradition and Transformation - Panel Discussion about the History of Iowa State University
Tue, 09 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - A panel of contributors will discuss the centerpiece to Iowa State's sesquicentennial celebration, a book commissioned to document the university events and themes of the second half of the twentieth century. Sesquicentennial History of Iowa State University: Tradition and Transformation was edited by Dorothy Schwieder and Gretchen Van Houten. Panelists include Tom Kroeschell, Communications Manager in the Athletics Department; Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Professor of History and Director of the Agriculture History and Rural Studies Program; and Dorothy Schwieder, Professor Emerita of History. Charlie Dobbs, Chair of the History Department, will moderate. Part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Celebration.

The Place of Gays and Lesbians in the Church - Sister Jeannine Gramick
Tue, 09 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sister Jeannine Gramick, a Roman Catholic nun, cofounded along with Fr. Robert Nugent the New Ways Ministry, a national, Catholic social justice center working for the reconciliation of lesbian/gay people and the church. Two of her many books and articles, Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church and Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive Catholic Writings on Lesbian/Gay Issues, were the subject of a Vatican investigation. Gramick is the subject of the 2006 documentary film In Good Conscience, which tells the story of her faith journey and conflict with the Vatican over the rights of gay and lesbian Catholics. In 1999 the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith permanently prohibited her from any pastoral work with lesbian or gay persons. In 2000 the School Sisters of Notre Dame ordered her to cease speaking about the Vatican investigation and about homosexuality in general. She transferred to the Sisters of Loretto in 2001 in order to continue engaging in lesbian/gay ministry. "In Good Conscience" will be shown prior to her presentation, at 6:00 pm in the South Ballroom. National Coming Out Day.

Global Screen Industries - Michael Curtin
Wed, 10 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Michael Curtin is a professor of media and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the UW Global Studies Program, a federally funded National Resource Center for International Studies. He is the author of Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics and coeditor of Making and Selling Culture and The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

The Long Emergency: The Coming Global Oil Crisis and Climate Change - James Howard Kunstler
Wed, 10 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Howard Kunstler is an author and social critic perhaps best known for The Geography of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban development in the United States. He also authored The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. His most recent book, The Long Emergency, tackles the global oil crisis. Kunstler has worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers and as a staff writer for Rolling Stone. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday magazine and op-ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

The Economics of Investing in Children: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills - James J. Heckman
Thu, 11 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Daniel McFadden). His recent research deals with such issues as evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, and alternative models of the distribution of income. Heckman has been the director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, at the University of Chicago since 1973. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association, the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the University College Dublin Ulysses Medal, and the Aigner award from the Journal of Econometrics. The T.W. Schultz Lecture.

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime - Kenneth Helphand
Fri, 12 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design - Kenneth Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, where he has taught since 1974. He has guest lectured at numerous universities and is a regular visiting professor at the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology. His research is in landscape history and theory with a particular interest in the contemporary American landscape. His works include Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space. Most recently he published Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, an examination of gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the Warsaw and other ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps. Helphand is a graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. The P. H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture.

Agricultural Research and Food Security in Africa - Monty Jones
Mon, 15 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Monty Jones, the 2007 Norman Borlaug Lecturer, is the executive secretary of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), based in Ghana. He received the 2004 World Food Prize for his breakthrough achievements in creating a new rice variety specifically bred for the ecological and agricultural conditions in Africa. Jones, the first African to win the World Food Prize, began his career in 1975 with the West Africa Rice Development Agency (WARDA). In 1991 he was appointed head of WARDA's Upland Rice Breeding Program, where he developed NERICA, a "New Rice for Africa." Jones subsequently worked to distribute NERICA rice to farmers in Africa's villages through partnerships among WARDA, policymakers, NGOs, and research and extension services as well as a community-based outreach program. Jones was born and educated in Sierra Leone. He completed a PhD in plant biology in 1983 at Birmingham University in the United Kingdom and received an honorary Doctor of Science in 2005. 2007 Norman Borlaug Lecture. Prior to the Lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display from 7 to 8 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

Globalization: Threats and Opportunities - Tom Vilsack
Tue, 16 Oct 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Tom Vilsack was first elected Governor of Iowa in 1998 and was reelected to a second four-year term in 2002. On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2008 election but ended his bid on February 23, 2007. In May 2007, Vilsack joined the Des Moines office of the Minneapolis-based law firm Dorsey & Whitney and is of counsel. Vilsack received a Bachelor's degree in 1972 from Hamilton College in New York. He received the J.D. in 1975 from Albany Law School. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

In Good Conscience - A Film
Tue, 16 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The film In Good Conscience chronicles the true story of Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is defying a Vatican edict that she shut down her compassionate ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics and silence herself permanently on the subject of homosexuality. Her battle takes her all the way to Rome where she attempts an audience with her key adversary over the years - none other than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the Inquisitor, who would become Pope Benedict XVI.

Making Peace Between Heaven and Earth: A Faith-Based Approach to Social and Environmental Transformation - Susan Drake Emmerich
Tue, 16 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Susan Drake Emmerich is a nationally known speaker on faith-based environmental stewardship and the founder and CEO of Emmerich Environmental Consulting. She founded and directed the nonprofit Tangier Watermen's Stewardship for the Chesapeake and helped produce the Telly and Aurora Award-winning PBS documentary on the Tangier Watermen's Initiative. As a U.S. negotiator she was involved in the 1992 Earth Summit, Biological Diversity Convention, Global Climate Convention, and International Coral Reef Initiative. She has also worked for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, EPA, and Department of Interior and served as the director of the East Coast office of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies and as vice president of the Au Sable Institute's board of directors. Currently, Emmerich is an assistant professor at Trinity Christian College, where she teaches environmental science and directs an environmental research partnership between Trinity Christian College and the Lake Katherine Nature Preserve. Part of the Areopagus Lecture Series.

The Village at the Other End of the Pipeline: Imagining the Future of the Global Energy Economy - Lisa Margonelli
Wed, 17 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Journalist Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy. She has written for Slate, CNN, NPR, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. Margonelli is a graduate of Yale University and is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation. Her book Oil on the Brain: Travels in the World of Petroleum will be published in February 2007. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

A Longing to Understand - A One-Woman Play performed by Jane Cox
Wed, 17 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jane Cox is a professor and stage director in the Iowa State University Theatre Program. She has been involved with over two hundred-fifty productions as an actress, designer, or director. Her one-woman shows have been performed in over twenty states as well as at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. "The Longing to Understand" is the story of Barbara McClintock, the maize geneticist who discovered mobile genetic elements called transposons, or "jumping genes," in corn. In 1983, at the age of eighty-one, McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for this work. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."

African Ambassadors and Leaders Speak about Poverty, Food Security, Health, Education and Governance in Africa
Wed, 17 Oct 2007, 7:30 PM – Lush Auditorium, Kildee Hall 125 - A panel of top diplomats and distinguished leaders from across Africa will discuss poverty, food security, HIV/AIDs, information and computer technologies and nurturing democratic reforms. The event is a unique opportunity to hear from African leaders, themselves, about their efforts to address the challenges of the continent. Invited speakers include H.E. Hawa Ndilowe, Ambassador of Malawi; H.E. Peter Ogego, Ambassador of Kenya; H.E. Amadou Ba, Ambassador of Senegal; H.E. Keerteecoomar Ruhee, Ambassador of Mauritius; Hon. Amina Salum Ali, Africa Union Ambassador; Andrew Makenete, ABSA Bank, South Africa; Dr. Lindiwe Sibanda, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network; Michael Kijjambu, 1000 Cups of Coffee, Uganda; and Mamadou Diarrah, First Secretary, Embassy of Mali. This event is being organized by Iowa State's African Studies Forum, in conjunction with the World Food Prize Organization's 2007 Norman E. Bourlaug International Symposium. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Breaking the Creative Barriers between Art and Science: A Panel Discussion
Thu, 18 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - A discussion with artists Dennis Dake, Barbara Walton, Dean Biechler and Ingrid Lilligren, and scientists Tong Wang and Paul Canfield from the exhibit Breaking the Creative Barriers between Art and Science, currently on display in the Pioneer Room. The show features collaborative work created by teams of ISU artists and scientists. The exhibit showcases the artists' creations and includes posters summarizing the scientific research that informs each artwork, illustrating how the sciences are fertile ground for creative and artistic imagination. The exhibit is on display through November 12, 2007.

Geo-Politics, Human Rights, and You - John Perkins
Thu, 18 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Perkins detailed his former role as an economic hit man in a book by the same name. His job was to convince Third World countries to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development - loans that were much larger than needed - and to guarantee that the development projects were contracted to U.S. corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel. He contends that once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the U.S. government and the international aid agencies allied with it were able to control these economies and to ensure that oil and other resources were channeled to serve the interests of building a global empire. In his new book, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption, he draws on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, government officials, and activists, to examine the current geopolitical crisis. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Learning from the Civil Rights Movement: Current Concerns of African Americans in Iowa - Charles McDew
Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 2:00 PM – Black Cultural Center - Charles McDew, one of the principal architects in the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) of 1960, will discuss his experiences during the Civil Rights movement as well as current issues concerning African Americans in Iowa. SNCC was a fundamental organization of the American Civil Rights Movement, playing a major role in the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington and Mississippi Freedom Summer. McDew was the chairman of SNCC from 1961 to 1964. He recently retired from Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis.

The Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains - Dave Cooper
Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 5:30 PM – Pearson Hall 1115 - Dave Cooper is a resident of Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and spent twenty years working in industry as a mechanical engineer. After seeing a mountaintop removal mine in operation, he became a full-time activist. Cooper is a member of the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and worked for a year as a coalfield organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC). He is currently on a national speaking tour to educate people on the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, communities and the environment.

The Agriculture-Public Health Connection - Robert Lawrence
Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Curtiss Hall Auditorium, Rm 127 - Robert Lawrence, M.D., is the founding director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He will speak about the obesity epidemic, the problems associated with antibiotic resistance, the problems of food security and the contribution of industrial agriculture to global climate change. Lawrence received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 2002 for his lifelong efforts to improve health care, human rights and the environment. This is the Dennis Keeney Distinguished Lecture, which honors the Leopold Center's first director, and is part of the Center's 20th anniversary. Also part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Celebration.

Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect - Jim Autry
Tue, 23 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Autry coauthored The Book of Hard Choices after interviewing a variety of leaders about the tough decisions they've made on the job. An experienced executive himself, he was president of the magazine group of the Meredith Corporation and is the author of ten books, including The Servant Leader, Real Power, and the bestselling Love and Profit. He is currently a consultant with FORTUNE 500 corporations and a popular lecturer on leadership and business ethics. Reception and book-signing to follow.

Women and Public Leadership - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wed, 24 Oct 2007, 5:30 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Doors open at 4:30 pm - New York Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first First Lady of the United States elected to public office and the first woman elected independently statewide in New York State. She serves on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging, and she is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Clinton is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. The annual Mary Louise Smith Chair brings nationally renowned political leaders, scholars and activists to Iowa State to enrich the experiences of students and educate citizens about the role of women in the political process. Every woman who has sought the Republican or Democratic Party nomination for president since 1995, when the chair was established, has served as this distinguished lecturer. The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Fall 2007 Mary Louise Smith Chair. The transcript of Senator Clinton's speech follows under "Learn more."

Global Environmental Change: Technology and the Future of Planet Earth - Gene Takle
Wed, 24 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Gene Takle is a professor of atmospheric science and agricultural meteorology at Iowa State University. He is also faculty director of the University Honors Program. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Listening to the Still Small Voice: The Life of George Washington Carver - Paxton J. Williams
Wed, 24 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Paxton J. Williams portrays George Washington Carver - scientist, educator and humanitarian. He takes the audience on a journey from Civil-war era Missouri, to Carver's laboratory, to the halls of Congress to witness the trials and ultimate triumph of the "Wizard of Tuskegee." Dr. Carver was the first African American student and faculty member at Iowa State University. Williams, like Dr. Carver, is a graduate of Iowa State University; he received his BA in political science and communication studies in 2000. This performance celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) and is part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

The Soybean Menace: Cyst Nematodes - Thomas Baum
Thu, 25 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Thomas Baum is Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at Iowa State, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1995. His research focuses on the compatible interaction of cyst nematodes with their hosts, with the long-range goal of engineering novel plant resistances. Baum has served as interim director of the Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses (CPRES). He was the recipient of the 2006 Ruth Allen Award of the American Phytopathological Society for research that changed a field of plant pathology. He received an M.S. in agricultural sciences from the Technical University of Munich in 1989 and a Ph.D. in plant pathology from Clemson University in 1993. Sigma Xi Lecture.

The Jewish Experience: A Template for Muslim Diaspora? - Sander Gilman
Thu, 25 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where he is the director of the Program in Psychoanalysis and the university's Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. He has written on such diverse topics as aesthetic surgery, Albert Einstein's violin, sex and disease in George Bush's America, electrotherapy, art and the creation of the natural, and obesity. His Oxford lectures Multiculturalism and the Jews, appeared in 2006; his most recent edited volume, Race and Contemporary Medicine: Biological Facts and Fictions appeared in 2007. He is also the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane. The 2007-08 Goldtrap Lecture. Sander Gilman will also join students and faculty on Thursday, October 25 for an afternoon seminar, "A Conversation on the History and Language of Mental Illness," in Ross 212 at 3:40 p.m.

The Coming Revolution in Science - Newt Gingrich
Fri, 26 Oct 2007, 12:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Newt Gingrich was elected to Congress in 1978 and served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995 he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served until 1999. As Speaker of the House, he was the architect of the "Contract with America," leading the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. As an author, Gingrich has published fourteen books, including Contract with America, Winning the Future: A 21st-Century Contract with America, Rediscovering God in America, and his most recent publication, Contract with the Earth. His is also the author of several works of historical fiction, including Pearl Harbor, A Novel of December the 8. Gingrich received his bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's and doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Limited Government and the Constitution - Ron Paul
Fri, 26 Oct 2007, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Congressman Ron Paul is a physician, congressman, and presidential candidate from the state of Texas. A Republican, he has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and previously served as the representative from Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. Paul presently serves on the House Financial Services Committee, the International Relations Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. He works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He advocates immediate withdrawal from Iraq and a foreign policy of nonintervention. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

Immigration Reform - Tom Tancredo
Sun, 28 Oct 2007, 4:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Presidential candidate Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is a lifelong conservative with nearly a decade of experience in the U.S. Congress. There he advanced his reputation as a prolife, progun, small government Republican and emerged as the leader for immigration reform. He recently introduced the Accountability in Enforcing Immigration Laws Act of 2007. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses.

The Supreme Court and Reproductive Rights - Eve Gartner
Sun, 28 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eve Gartner is a senior staff attorney in the Public Policy Litigation & Law Department of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), where she challenges attempts to restrict access to reproductive healthcare, advises Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country about the legal issues raised by such attempts, and assists those affiliates in designing proactive legislative and public advocacy strategies to improve access to women's health services. Prior to joining PPFA in 1997, Gartner served for four years as a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. She has been involved in several key reproductive rights cases. She was lead counsel in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a challenge to the federal abortion ban that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in April of 2007. Other notable cases include Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co., the first case to establish that a private employer's failure to provide insurance coverage for prescription contraception constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Constitution Day Lecture

Just Breathe Normally: A Reading - Peggy Shumaker
Mon, 29 Oct 2007, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Peggy Shumaker is professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she was chair of the English Department and director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing. She will read from her new book, Just Breathe Normally, a work of nonfiction. She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Blaze, a collaboration with the painter Kesler Woodward, and Underground Rivers. Shumaker currently teaches in the low-residency Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Technology in the Global Economy Today: A New Stage in World History? Tony Smith
Tue, 30 Oct 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Tony Smith is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Iowa State University and author or editor of six books, including Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the "New Economy". His teaching and research interests include the philosophy of technology, ethical theory, and the philosophy of economics. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Growing Up Global: Can Education Reduce Gender Inequality and Poverty? Cynthia B. Lloyd
Tue, 30 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom - Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program and chair of the Bixby Fellowship program at the Population Council. She also serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Population. Prior to her work at the Population Council, she was chief of the fertility and family planning studies section at the United Nations Population Division and an assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Lloyd's fields of expertise include transitions to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and population issues, and household and family demography in developing countries. She has worked on these issues extensively in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as well as comparatively. Part of the World Affairs Series.

How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
Wed, 31 Oct 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Christopher Hitchens is among the best-known controversial writers and critics in the media. He was a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Slate. As a foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents. He is the only writer to have written from Iran, Iraq and North Korea since 2000. Hitchens is the author of the recently published God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, as well as Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies, The Palestine Question, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, and A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Part of the World Affairs Series.

King Corn - A Documentary Film
Mon, 05 Nov 2007, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - One acre of corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside - and the American diet. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm. The 80-minute film will also be shown on Wednesday, November 7 at 6:30 PM in the LeBaron Hall Auditorium, before a panel discussion featuring Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf.

Presidential Candidate Forum on the Bioeconomy
Mon, 05 Nov 2007, 7:30 PM – Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State Center - Presidential candidates from both major political parties will participate in a forum on the bioeconomy as part of the Iowa State University Biobased Industry Outlook Conference. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Biden (D-Del.), Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) have confirmed their participation. Candidates will speak for fifteen minutes and answer questions pertaining to agriculture, education and the bioeconomy. Robert C. Brown, the Iowa Farm Bureau Director of Biorenewables Programs at Iowa State and the Bergles Professor in Thermal Science, will moderate. Admission is free, but tickets are required for attendees not registered with the conference.

Globalization Backlash: How Politics, Culture and Sovereignty Complicate Real Globalization - Christine Romans
Tue, 06 Nov 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christine Romans is the host of In the Money, CNN's weekend business roundtable program, and a featured reporter and substitute anchor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. Romans has covered such topics as immigration reform, homeland security, American foreign policy with China and Latin America, and the war on terrorism's effect on markets. Her "Exporting America" reporting earned Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a business story. Prior to joining CNN, she reported for Reuters and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Romans received her B.A. in journalism and French from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Immigration: Human Rights in Our Neighborhood - Panel Discussion
Tue, 06 Nov 2007, 7:00 PM – Hoover Hall 1227 - This panel will focus on the human dimension of immigration, specifically the impact of immigration policy on human rights and the effect of immigration on our local communities. Panelists include Loreto Prieto, director of Iowa State's Latino/a Studies Program; Ryan Gildersleeve, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State; immigration attorney Ferzana Hashmi; and Lieutenant Mike Brennan of the Ames Police Department. Moderated by Hillari Hoerschelman from the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. The event is part of a series of discussion panels the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights is presenting at Iowa, Iowa State, and UNI.

Evolution and Human Origins: The Late Divergence Hypothesis - Milford Wolpoff
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Milford Wolpoff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has studied fossils and tool making but is most noted for his study on human evolution. Wolpoff, a paleoanthropologist, believes in multiregional evolution states - that for about two million years humans have lived in several areas of the world and have evolved together because they met and interbred. He is the author of Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution and coauthor with Rachel Caspari of Race and Human Evolution, which won the 1999 W. W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the American Anthropological Association. In 2002 Wolpoff was named a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.

Open Sesame: How the Evolution of Outsourcing Is Changing Business - James Bernard, Jr., and Jamie Thingelstad
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr., is general manager at the Internet company MarketWatch.com, owned by Dow Jones. His responsibilities include managing the licensing sales of data and news to the top financial firms and media companies including Fidelity, Ameritrade, American Express, New York Times, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal Online. Jamie Thingelstad is the chief technology officer and vice president at Dow Jones Online. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

King Corn - A Documentary Film
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 6:30 PM – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - One acre of corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside - and the American diet. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm. The 80-minute film will be followed by a discussion with Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf.

King Corn - Panel Discussion
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf will discuss King Corn, Woolf's documentary that follows college friends Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney as they grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil, and then try to follow it through the food system. The panel discussion follows a screening of the 80-minute film at 6:30 pm in the LeBaron Hall Auditorium.

A Town Hall Meeting with Rudy Giuliani
Thu, 08 Nov 2007, 3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been praised for his leadership in the post-9/11 New York City recovery efforts, and honored with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Freedom Award, knighted by the Queen of England, and named Person of the Year by TIME magazine. He was born and raised in New York and attended Manhattan College and New York University Law School. The Reagan administration named him Associate Attorney General, where he supervised all U.S. attorney offices' law enforcement agencies. He also served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1993 he became the first Republican elected Mayor of the City of New York in a generation. He is the author of Leadership. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses.

Eating Genes: Global Ethics and Equity Issues in Genetically Modified Food and Sustainability - Lisa Weasel and Virginia Walbot
Thu, 08 Nov 2007, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lisa Weasel is an associate professor of biology at Portland State University. Her work draws on social science methodologies and perspectives from the humanities to better understand the intersection between science and society. Weasel's current research focuses on global ethics and equity issues relating to agricultural biotechnology and food security and sustainability. This research compares the standpoints of different stakeholders in the debates over agricultural biotechnology in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Virginia Walbot is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. A broad theme of her research is the interplay of environment and development in the life cycle of plants. Walbot manages the NSF-funded Maize Gene Discovery project and is interested in how genomic diversity is created and how biochemical pathways are assembled through gene duplication and promoter evolution. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."

Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America - Susan Faludi
Mon, 12 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She is also the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Her new book, The Terror Dream examines the post-9/11 outpourings in the media and popular culture and how America's fear of home-soil terrorism has been the foundation of first one war and then another. A book signing and the Women's Studies Program 30th Anniversary reception will follow.

Iowa Caucus Workshop - How to Participate in the Iowa Caucuses
Tue, 13 Nov 2007, 4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Unon - Speakers will provide an overview of the Iowa process and lead a community-wide training session. Iowa Republican and Democratic Party officials will explain their parties' caucuses. The one-hour workshop will include practice exercises, and a candidate information resource fair will follow.

The Globalization of Higher Education - James Duderstadt
Tue, 13 Nov 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Duderstadt is President Emeritus of the University of Michigan. Duderstadt has a PhD in engineering science and physics from the California Institute of Technology and the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1968 in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He served as dean of the College of Engineering and provost and vice president of academic affairs prior to his appointment as president in 1988. He currently holds a university-wide faculty appointment as University Professor of Science and Engineering and also directs the university's Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Genocide in Darfur: "Never Again" Must Mean "Never" - Ellen J. Kennedy
Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Ellen Kennedy directs the Genocide Intervention Network in Minnesota, promoting education about genocide with special attention on Darfur. She is also the Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. Kennedy holds doctorate degrees in both sociology and business from the University of Minnesota. She was a college professor for nearly thirty years, with an academic specialization in immigration. She will speak about the causes and consequences of the crisis in Darfur and steps that ordinary citizens can take to prevent and stop genocide. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Technology, Globalization, and Culture - Oded Shenkar
Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Oded Shenkar is the Ford Motor Company Chair and Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University. Professor Shenkar has studied China for over thirty years and is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese business and management. He is a frequent advisor to multinational corporations, governments, and international organizations on China-related matters. Shenkar holds degrees in East-Asian Studies and Sociology as well as a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

How Did Petroleum Source Rocks Accumulate? Insights from Deep-Sea Sediments - Philip A. Meyers
Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Philip A. Meyers is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. He is an organic geochemist who is interested in the processes that are involved in the origin, delivery, and accumulation of organic matter in sediments and the evidence for global climate changes recorded in the composition of sedimentary organic matter. His research focuses on paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on organic matter in Cretaceous black shales, Mediterranean sapropels, and Holocene lake sediments. The Fall 2007 Sigma Xi Lecture.

The Best of What We Are: John Brentlinger and the Painters of Solentiname, Nicaragua - Gary Tartakov
Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Gary Tartakov, Iowa State professor emeritus and art historian, will discuss the exhibit The Ideal and the Real: Folk Art from Solentiname, Nicaragua. The exhibit of oil paintings is from one of the most important folk art movements in the world that sprang into being along with Liberation Theology and the Sandinista Revolution. Tartakov will also reflect on the impact of the late John Bretlinger, founder of the Solentiname Nicaragua Friendship Group and author of The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution. The exhibit is on display November 15, 2007 - January 2, 2008.

The Physics of Baseball - Eli Rosenberg
Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eli Rosenberg is a professor of physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University. His research area is experimental high-energy physics, and he has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in reviewing programs at Argonne National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Rosenberg is the author or coauthor of over five hundred refereed scientific journal articles; is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; and is a past chair of the SLAC User's Organization, which represents over 1,300 U.S and international scientists. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the City College of New York and his master's and doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fall 2007 Dean's Lecture.

The Ethical, Philosophical, and Legal Implications of Genomic Research - A Symposium
Thu, 15 Nov 2007, 9:30 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Featured speakers in this daylong symposium include: Lori Andrews, J.D., a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology; Troy Duster, the director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge and a professor of sociology at New York University; Jeffrey Murray, MD, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa whose research in human molecular genetics focuses the identification of genes and environmental factors involved in birth defects; and Karen-Sue Taussig, faculty in the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Department of Anthropology and in the U of M Medical School. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."

THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon, 19 Nov 2007, 8:00 AM – No events planned - No events planned the week of November 19-23.

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice - Christopher Dodd
Tue, 27 Nov 2007, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - At the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after World War II, young attorney Thomas Dodd's inquisition of the brilliant Hermann Goring provided the centerpiece of the trials. Walter Cronkite, who covered Nuremberg, said years later that Dodd had saved the day. In 1990, his children discovered his voluminous correspondence from Nuremberg to his wife, Grace. These letters describing the trial and events leading up to it is the writer's unfussy concern for righteousness, which under the circumstances meant winning the case-and in the proper way. Thomas Dodd, like his son presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd, later became a senator. Senator Dodd will discuss his father's excerpted letters. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

Technology, Globalization, and Culture - Jon Grannis
Tue, 27 Nov 2007, 6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Jon Grannis is the president of Logical Performance, based in Ankeny, Iowa. The company provides personalized business services ranging from web and software development to employee and brand development. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Children and Families in the 2008 Campaign - Tom LaPointe
Tue, 27 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tom LaPointe is the director of Every Child Matters in Iowa. The Every Child Matters Education Fund is a public education campaign in the early presidential primary states. Its sole purpose is to help raise the visibility of children's issues and to make them a priority topic of policy debate throughout the 2008 presidential campaign. Issues to which attention is being drawn include the prevention of child abuse and neglect, improving the health of low-income children, and finding solutions in child care, early childhood education, after-school programs, and responsible decisions on federal budget and tax issues.

Cultural Relics, Intellectual Property and Intangible Heritage - Peter Yu
Thu, 29 Nov 2007, 4:30 PM – Ensminger Room, 1204 Kildee Hall - Peter Yu holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law whose work focuses on international trade, international and comparative law and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of three books, including the four-volume reference book Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age. Before joining Drake University, he taught at Michigan State University College of Law and founded its nationally renowned Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. Part of the Bioethics Program Series.

How Stereotypes Affect Intellectual Performance - Claude Steele
Thu, 29 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Claude Steele is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is a professor of social psychology and director of Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Steele's research interests focus on how group stereotypes, such as racial or gender stereotypes, can influence academic performance. He is the coauthor with Theresa Perry and Asa G. Hilliard III of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students and a participant in the PBS Frontline series Secrets of the SAT. Steele was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2003. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University. A social hour will precede the lecture at 7:00 in the South Ballroom and a reception and book signing will follow the talk.The Annual Fritz Lecture

The Comedy of Mo Rocca - A Study Break
Mon, 03 Dec 2007, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mo Rocca contributes off-beat news reports and satirical commentary on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS News Sunday Morning. A former correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he also is a regular panelist on NPR's quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, creator and host of AOL's Mo Rocca 180°, and author of All the Presidents' Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over. It's not a study break without food - popcorn provided by SUB.

A Town Hall Meeting with John Edwards
Tue, 04 Dec 2007, 5:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is running for president to provide all Americans with the same opportunities for success that he has had throughout his life. He was the first presidential candidate from either party to lay out a universal healthcare plan and a comprehensive plan to achieve energy independence and fight global warming. He has also provided detailed plans to end the war in Iraq, revitalize rural America, reform our education system and make college more affordable through his College for Everyone program. Prior to his election as a US Senator from North Carolina, John Edwards practiced law for twenty years. He is the former director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill and was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2004. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses.

Going Global: Trends and Issues in the World Marketplace - Frederick Smith
Tue, 04 Dec 2007, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Frederick Smith is the founder, president, and CEO of the Federal Express Corporation. He is known as the "father of the overnight delivery business." On the first night of operations, a fleet of 14 jets took off with 186 packages. In the first two years, the venture lost $27 million. By 1997, the company was worth $16 billion, with 170,000 employees flying a fleet of 584 planes and 38,500 trucks to deliver 2.8 million packages daily to 212 countries. A graduate of Yale University, Smith enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving two tours of duty in Vietnam. The 2007 Manatt Phelps Lecture in Political Science.

Globalization and Technology: Challenge and Opportunity for Future Engineers - Klaus Hoehn
Wed, 05 Dec 2007, 6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Klaus Hoehn is Vice President of Advanced Technology and Engineering at Deere & Company. He joined the company in 1992 as a manager at John Deere Werke in Mannheim, Germany. Hoehn received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in mechanical and agricultural engineering from Rostock University in Germany.Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Rachel and Me: The Road from SILENT SPRING to LIVING DOWNSTREAM
Mon, 14 Jan 2008, 8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber is a recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. She received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master's degree in English from Illinois State University. Her writing expresses scientific reportage about the natural world in lyrical, poetic prose and earned her the Will Solimene Award from the American Medical Writers Association and recognition from the Sierra Club as "the New Rachel Carson." Steingraber's book Living Downstream presents cancer as a human rights issue. Her 2001 book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood was featured on "Kids and Chemicals," a PBS documentary by Bill Moyers. Parents are welcome to bring children and babies to this event.

Let Freedom Ring - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration Carillon Concert
Wed, 16 Jan 2008, 11:50 AM – Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King with Dr. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration
Thu, 24 Jan 2008, 4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Musical performances and speakers celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Speakers include Religious Studies Professor Mary Sawyer, Student Activist Greg Bonett, Government of the Student Body President Brian Phillips and Black Student Alliance President Rachel Iheanacho. Singer Darryle Bohanna will perform. Provost Elizabeth Hoffman will present the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Advancing One Community Awards. Birthday cake graciously donated by Campus Dining Services.

Legacies of Repression: Archives and Human Rights - Trudy Huskamp Peterson
Mon, 28 Jan 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Trudy Huskamp Peterson, retired director of the National Archives, is a leader among international efforts to preserve records of governmental truth commissions and international criminal tribunals. In South Africa she served as an advisor for the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established to serve victims of violence and human rights abuses under Apartheid. She has served as the director of Archives and Records Management for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and led efforts to preserve and make available archives from the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Most recently she worked with government police records in Guatemala. Peterson received her B.A. in English from Iowa State University in 1967. She is the author of Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions. Part of the World Affairs Series and the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Running on Ice: Stories from a Warming Arctic - Elizabeth Andre
Tue, 29 Jan 2008, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Elizabeth Andre will share stories, slides and videos from her 1,200 mile dogsled trek across the Canadian Arctic's Baffin Island with renowned polar explorer Will Steger and a team of Inuit hunters, explorers and educators. Her experience included encounters with polar bears, sleds falling through the ice, snowstorms, and mushing a team of ten huskies through mountain passes and over frozen ocean. She will also recount stories shared by Inuit people living in a rapidly warming climate and offer insights to how we can respond to the challenge of global warming. Elizabeth Andre is an Ames native and graduated from Iowa State in 1998 with degrees in Spanish and International Studies. Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Wisdom of the Mystic Saints - Ralph Martin
Tue, 29 Jan 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ralph Martin is the author of several books on spirituality, including The Fulfillment of All Desire, as well as audio albums on the teaching of the saints. He is Director of Graduate Programs in The New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, assistant professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit as well as visiting professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries and the host of the weekly television program The Choices We Face.

The Science, Technology, and Economics of Climate Change: A Forum on Global Warming Solutions
Thu, 31 Jan 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This forum, led by distinguished Iowa State faculty, has been organized in coordination with over 1,400 institutions participating in "Focus the Nation," a nationwide teach-in on climate change. The panelists include Gene Takle, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences; John Miranowski, professor of agricultural economics; and Vikram Dalal, a professor of electrical engineering whose work in the field of energy includes groundbreaking research on solar cells. The event is being sponsored by the Students for Iowa PIRG (Public Interest Research Group).

Visions of Freedom: A Forum
Thu, 31 Jan 2008, 7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Photographs depicting both personal and historic moments of freedom will be on display, and members of the university community will discuss the impact of those moments and share personal stories of freedom. Speakers include Dean of Students Dione Somerville, associate professor of journalism Barbara Mack, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction Warren Blumenfeld and Latinosamericanos members David Ernesto Romero and Claudia Marcela Prado-Meza.

Immigration and Survival: An Alternative Perspective from Central America - John Donaghy
Thu, 31 Jan 2008, 8:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - John Donaghy was Director of Campus Ministry and Coordinator of Charity, Justice, and Peace Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center at Iowa State University from 1983 to spring 2007. In June 2007 he began ministry in southwestern Honduras with the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan. In addition to his current work in Latin America, he has spent time in El Salvador as a leader of educational delegations and doing pastoral work in the parishes of Santa Lucia, Suchitoto, and San Roque, San Salvador. He was a volunteer with a program for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland sponsored by the Irish Fellowship of Reconciliation and has participated in Campus Ministry Across the Americas in Peru and Bolivia. Donaghy has a PhD in philosophy from Boston College. His scholarly interests are in agriculture and Catholic social teaching, the ethics of development, and nonviolence and nonviolent movements.

Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza
Fri, 01 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The 2008 Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza will feature the Restoration & Prayze Gospel Choir from Des Moines, the Gospel Soul Innovators, and the New Birth Baptist Church Children's Choir.

Classroom Climate for Students and Faculty of Color at Iowa State - A Panel Discussion
Mon, 04 Feb 2008, 12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode, Iowa State alum and former faculty member, joins Iowa State Engineering Professor Derrick Rollins and students Jaymes Barnett and Jowelle Benson for a discussion about the experience of students and faculty of color on campus. Michael Whiteford, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will moderate the discussion. Audience member are encouraged to participate.

The Lost History of the Civil Rights Movement - Modupe Labode
Mon, 04 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode is the Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Previously, she was chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, and she has taught in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Labode was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1988, the fourth student and first woman from ISU to receive the honor. She graduated from Iowa State in 1988 with a BS in history and received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Traitors I Have Known - Jim Olson
Thu, 07 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Jim Olson is a senior lecturer and the CIA Officer in Residence at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1969 and served for thirty-one years, mostly overseas in clandestine operations, and is the author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. He held the positions of Deputy Chief of Station in Moscow and Chief of Station in Vienna and Mexico City. He also served as Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1969. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Finding Solutions to End the Brain Drain - A Generation Iowa Forum
Fri, 08 Feb 2008, 1:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Generation Iowa Commission will host an open forum for feedback on its recently published report identifying key challenges and potential solutions for keeping young people in the state after graduation. The commission, established in spring 2007, is charged with finding solutions to Iowa's brain drain. It has identified several challenges to retaining young people, including a lack of state marketing, lack of entertainment options for young people, a lack of diversity among the state's population, high student loan debt and lower wage jobs, and the declining populations of rural areas. The Commission is interested in engaging Iowans to further develop solutions to these issues and to identify other areas of improvement for the state.

Unclaimed Legacy: Who Will Lead? Jeff Johnson
Fri, 08 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jeff Johnson, originally known as "Cousin Jeff," has earned a reputation as the conscience voice of BET Networks. A journalist, social activist, and political commentator, he has a commitment to fostering broad-based communication about issues related to race, politics, pop culture, and socioeconomics. His new book Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am is a call to service for the post-Civil Rights generation. Johnson has worked as senior advisor for Media and Youth Outreach for People for the American Way, as national director of the Youth & College Division of the NAACP, and as the vice president of Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Celebration.

Beyond the Autism Diagnosis: How Professionals Can Help Parents - Marion O'Brien
Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marion O'Brien directs the Family Research Center and is a professor in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She has conducted extensive research on children and families and is one of the investigators of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care & Youth Development. She is also an investigator for the STAR Project in Greensboro, NC, a longitudinal study of children's early social-emotional and cognitive skills and how they integrate to enhance early school success. O'Brien studies parenting practices and parental attitudes and their influence on parent-child relationships and child development. Her book for professionals who work with families of children with autism, Beyond the Autism Diagnosis, was published in 2006. Part of the Hansen Lecture Series.

The Future of Agriculture in Iowa - A Panel Discussion
Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Curtiss Hall Auditorium - Panelists will include Iowa Senator David Johnson; Director of the Leopold Center, Jerry DeWitt; Director of the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers, Aaron Putze; and Kevin Miskell, Vice President of the Iowa Farmers Union. Jerry Perkins, Des Moines Register Farm Editor, will moderate the discussion.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Event to be announced.

L.A. Graffiti: Is It Art? - Steve Grody
Wed, 13 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Since 1990 Los Angeles native Steve Grody has been studying the graffiti art of L.A.'s back alleys, washes and abandoned lots, cultivating trust among the city's most prolific, skilled and infamous graffiti writers. His recent book, Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art, includes interviews with the artists and explores the motivations and creativity behind graffiti as well as questions of its legality. The book was named one of the top ten books of 2007 by New York Magazine. Steve Grody earned his B.A. in fine arts. He is also an internationally respected martial arts instructor and swing dance instructor, and choreographer for Jim Carrey and cast in The Truman Show.

Tales of the Ice Ages - Tanya Atwater
Thu, 14 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tanya Atwater is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Speaker of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, and on the faculty of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was educated at M.I.T., the University of California, Berkeley, and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Atwater researches many aspects of plate tectonics, especially the evolution of western North America and the San Andreas fault system. Her presentation brings Earth processes alive with computer animations.

Ethics and the Emotional Lives of Animals - Marc Bekoff
Fri, 15 Feb 2008, 1:00 PM – Gilman Hall Auditorium, Rm 1002 - Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000 he was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for major long-term contributions to the field of animal behavior. Bekoff is also regional coordinator for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, in which he works with students of all ages, senior citizens and prisoners, and he is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Jane Goodall Institute. In 2000 he and Goodall cofounded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies. Bekoff is the author of eighteen books, including Animals Matter. Keynote address for the Symposium on the Ethics of Wildlife Research.

Letters to a Young Iowan: Readings - Zachary Jack and Friends
Sun, 17 Feb 2008, 2:00 PM – Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Ave. - Iowa State alum Zachary Jack joins faculty and community members in reading from Letters to a Young Iowan. These wise, humorous, and thoughtful letters advise young Iowans on how to live in and preserve the environment of our home state. Zachary Jack is an assistant professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and editor of Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom. Other participants include Jim Pease, an extension wildlife specialist and associate professor in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; Neil Nakadate, University Professor of English and author of Understanding Jane Smiley; Susan Futrell an Ames native, freelance writer, and owner of One Backyard; Ames resident Phyllis Harris, author of Stories from Where We Live: Great Lakes Edition; and Karen Menz, who lives and teaches in Perry, Iowa.

Rapture in the Earth: Visions of Nature, Animals, and Spirit - Brenda Peterson
Sun, 17 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She began her career working for The New Yorker and then relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Her nonfiction includes Living by Water, Nature and Other Mothers, and Sister Stories. She also coedited, with Linda Hogan, the anthologies Intimate Nature: The Bond between Women and Animals and The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Peterson's articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Sierra, Orion, and Utne Reader. She will speak and show slides from her new work Raptured: Seal Sitting in the End Times and her memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

The Craft of Environmental Fiction - Brenda Peterson
Mon, 18 Feb 2008, 9:00 AM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Renowned nature writer Brenda Peterson will draw on examples from her novel Animal Heart in a discussion of how animals can become characters in fiction. The novel offers a captivating love story of people whose compassion for animals compels them into extraordinary acts of heroism. Peterson is the author of four novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She began her career working for The New Yorker and then relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Sierra, Orion, and Utne Reader. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

Books of Place and the Cartography of the Self - ISU Alumni Writers Roundtable
Mon, 18 Feb 2008, 10:15 AM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Four writers discussed their latest publications and explore both the physical and intellectual landscapes of their books - how and where the books were written as well as what effect setting or place has on character, persona, metaphors and imagery. Participating writers include Neelika Jayawardane, Deborah Holten, Michael McDermott, and Cristina Eisenberg. Following the roundtable, the writers will offer breakout discussion groups on various aspects of the process of writing. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination and the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series. Due to a blizzard and dangerous road conditions, ISU alums Anna Leahy, Linda Morganstein, and Richard Solly were unable to participate in this event as originally scheduled.

Poetry and Fiddle Tunes - Paul Brooke and Ken Waldman
Mon, 18 Feb 2008, 1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Paul Brooke will read and show slides from his latest book of poetry, Light and Matter: Photographs and Poems of Iowa. Brooke previously worked as a biologist and naturalist in Alaska, and his writings draw on environmental issues and scientific observation. Brooke is an ISU alum (M.A., English) and currently an associate professor of English and chair of the Humanities Division at Grand View College in Des Moines. Ken Waldman has drawn on his twenty years in Alaska to produce poems, stories and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his own. A former college professor, Waldman has had more than 400 poems and stories published in national journals and has worked full time since 1994 as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, performing at some of the nation's leading universities, festivals, arts centers, and clubs. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

Plants and Animals in the Field, Oracles on the Page - Members of the Black Earth Institute
Mon, 18 Feb 2008, 2:15 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Members of the Black Earth Institute will discuss scientific work and observation of animals in the field. They will then examine the transformation of those animal images into both stereotype and oracular wisdom on the literary page. Their remarks will include the observation of grapes, pumpkins wolves, eagles and other creatures that have become important symbols in Native American stories, fairy tales, and Celtic and African mythology. The Black Earth Institute is a progressive think-tank dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society. Participants include Cristina Eisenberg, Deborah Holton, Patricia Monaghan, and Mary Swander. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

Earth, Animal, Oracle: Readings by Ven Begamudre and Sheryl St. Germain
Mon, 18 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ven Begamudré, a short story writer and novelist, was born in Bangalore, India, and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was six. He has an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, and has completed six writer-in-residence programs, including the Canada-Scotland Exchange. His most recent works include The Lightness Which Is Our World, Seen from Afar and a biography of Isaac Brock for young adults. He splits his time between Regina, Saskatchewan, and the island of Bali. Sheryl St. Germain, a native of New Orleans, currently directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham College, where she also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work has received several awards, including two NEA Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship and the William Faulkner Award for the personal essay. Her books include The Mask of Medusa, How Heavy the Breath of God, Swamp Songs and Let It Be a Dark Roux. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination. Fiddle music by Ken Waldman and a slide show of photographs by writer and naturalist Paul Brooke will precede the readings at 7:30 p.m.

What Can Wildlife Tell Us About Our Changing World? - A Panel Discussion
Tue, 19 Feb 2008, 9:00 AM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Residents of Maine watch as their birdfeeders fill with migratory songbirds in February. Flowers that once bloomed only in the southern states now grow in Nebraska. Animals are extremely sensitive to changes in the Earth's environment. This panel of Iowa State faculty will discuss the changing behavior of a variety of animals and explain how they might be reflective of larger climate changes. Panelists from the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB) and the Department of Natural Resource Ecology Management (NREM) include Diane Debinski, Julie Blanchong, Brent Danielson, Fred Janzen, and Lisa Schulte. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

Farmscape: Documenting the Changing Rural Environment - A Student Readers Theatre Production
Tue, 19 Feb 2008, 10:45 AM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Iowa State creative writing students document the American farmscape through interviews with people involved in changes in how we grow our food and live our lives in the rural United States. You'll take delight in a sip of Zinfandel at a new winery and savor the taste of organic vegetables on a truck on its way to the local farmer's market. You'll make a stop at a bed and breakfast and Hispanic cultural center and gaze out the window at restored wetlands and prairie. You'll also suit up in protective clothing before entering a hog confinement and you'll watch chickens move quickly down a conveyor belt at an IBP slaughtering plant. You'll experience the David and Goliath story of a family farmer up against the economic forces of the 3,500-acre agribusiness operation next door. In the end, you'll understand that farming completely changed the ecosystem of the prairie. Part of the 4th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.

The International Evangelical Environmental Movement - Calvin DeWitt
Tue, 19 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Calvin DeWitt is a professor with the Nelson Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the cofounder of the International Evangelical Environmental Network, a founding member and chair of the American Society of the Green Cross, chair of the advisory council for the Evangelical Campaign to Combat Global Warming and Climate Change, an advisor to the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, and president of the Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists. DeWitt has a B.A. in biology from Calvin College, an M.A. in biology from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Michigan. Part of the Areopagus Lecture Series.

The Discovery of Life on Earth - David Hillis
Wed, 20 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David Hillis is an internationally recognized molecular and organismal biologist. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a previous MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Hillis has made major contributions to the study of biological diversity using molecular genetic techniques. He brings twenty-first-century technology to longstanding and fundamental questions in biology, such as Why are there so many kinds of organisms? How did this diversity come about? He is the author of a popular textbook on molecular systematics and has published more than 150 scholarly articles. He is currently the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The Annual Charles E. Bessey Lecture.

Dreaming the Future: Trends and Technologies for the Next 150 Years - Lowell Catlett
Thu, 21 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lowell Catlett is dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University. He holds the New Mexico State University Regents Professorship in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and is a 1990 winner of the Westhafter Award for Teaching, NMSU's top faculty honor. He has been a consultant for the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Defense, and Labor and has traveled internationally to consult and speak on new technologies and their implications for the way we live and work. Catlett received his PhD in economics at Iowa State University. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

From Grief and Joy We Sing: The Musical Rituals of Q'eros, Peru - A Documentary and Discussion with Holly Wissler
Thu, 21 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – 1213 Hoover Hall - Holly Wissler, a native of Iowa, has lived and worked in southern Peru for more than twenty years as a mountain trek leader. Her current research is with the Q'eros native people, who have made their home at 14,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. Wissler is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the Florida State University College of Music and was awarded a Fulbright Award to record, transcribe, and translate the Q'eros' indigenous music. The project is the first of its kind from the perspectives of gender roles, musical change and cultural adaptation. She will show and discuss her video documentary, "From Grief and Joy We Sing."

Forum on Sustainability - Richard Howarth and Bryan Norton
Fri, 22 Feb 2008, 3:30 PM – Ensminger Room, Kildee Hall - The term "sustainability" is widely used in agriculture, environmental policy, and economic development, but it is often difficult to know what the term means. This forum brings to campus two scholars who are renowned for their practical as well as their theoretical work on the concept of sustainability. Richard Howarth is an economist who earned his doctorate from the Energy and Resources Program at the University of California at Berkeley. He has put his background in resource economics to work analyzing issues of sustainability and intergenerational fairness. He directs the Environmental Studies Program and is a member of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth University. Bryan Norton, a professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is is one of the nation's most important scholars in the field of ethics and environmental policy. He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophy and environmental philosophy, including Searching for Sustainability and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Ecosystem Management.

Family Farms in an Era of Global Uncertainty - John Ikerd
Sun, 24 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he has spent most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability, with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is the author of Sustainable Capitalism, A Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, and Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture. The 2008 Shivvers Memorial Lecture

The Color of Our Future - Farai Chideya
Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio and is currently host of National Public Radio's News & Notes. Chideya has been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. She is the author of Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans and The Color of Our Future. Chideya's newest book, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, shows why half of Americans are cut out of the political system - and what we can do about it.

Life without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder - Jenni Schaefer
Tue, 26 Feb 2008, 7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jenni Schaefer often says that she has never been married, but she is happily divorced. A recovered bulimic, she coauthored Life Without Ed with her psychotherapist, Thom Rutledge, who taught her to treat her eating disorder as a relationship rather than an illness or condition. Schaefer actually named her anorexia/bulimia "Ed," an acronym for "eating disorder." Jenni Schaefer is a consultant with the Center for Change in Orem, Utah, and a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul. She is a regular guest on national radio and television, including appearances on Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight. Her work has been recognized in national publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Washington Times, and Woman's World. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Say Something: Poetry Slam with E. G. Bailey
Thu, 28 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - This event, featuring poet E. G. Bailey, will include an open microphone session where attendees are encouraged to speak poetry. Bailey is a poet originally from Liberia who now lives in the Twin Cities and has cofounded several spoken word and music collectives. He is the owner of a music label named Speak Easy Records. Musician and singer Kate Kennedy will also perform. The event is sponsored by UHURU, a student-run magazine that brings a multicultural perspective to politics, art, music, food, love, and health.

Remembering Alex the African Grey Parrot: More than Just a Birdbrain - Irene Pepperberg
Fri, 29 Feb 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Irene Pepperberg is an adjunct professor of psychology at Brandeis University and a research associate at Harvard University. She studies Grey parrots, focusing on how the cognitive and communicative abilities of these birds compare to those of great apes, marine mammals, and young children. She is best known for her work with the famous African Grey parrot Alex, who passed away in April 2006. Alex possessed more than one hundred vocal labels for different objects, actions, and colors; could count object sets up to the total number six; exhibited math skills that were considered advanced in animal intelligence; and was learning to read the sounds of various letters. Alex's accomplishments proved that African Grey parrots have an intelligence far beyond what was previously thought before his decades-long work with Pepperberg.

Spirituality on Campus - Arthur Chickering and Jon Dalton
Sat, 01 Mar 2008, 11:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - According to a national study of college freshmen, there is a growing interest among students in dealing with issues of faith, spirituality, meaning, and purpose, and many leaders in the field of student development argue that institutions of higher education need to find ways to integrate discussions regarding religion and spirituality into campus culture. Arthur Chickering and Jon Dalton will serve as the featured presenters of this conference, which will address spirituality as it applies to research, theory, curriculum, and student affairs at the university. Arthur Chickering serves as Special Assistant to the President of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. He is the author of many publications, including Education and Identity and has received numerous awards for his work in the field of college student development. Jon Dalton is an associate professor in educational leadership and director of the Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics at Florida State University. He directs the annual institute on college student values that focuses on moral and civic education in college student learning and development. Dalton and Chickering coauthored the recently published Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education. Keynote address for the Creating an Inclusive Campus Conference.

Lost Nation: The Ioway - Documentary Film and Panel Discussion
Mon, 03 Mar 2008, 7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Lost Nation explores the dramatic saga of the Ioway Indians from their ancestors - known as the Oneota - to their present day locations in Kansas and Oklahoma. It tells the dramatic true story of two brothers' struggle to save their people from inevitable American conquest, and the Ioway's current fight to reclaim and maintain their unique history and culture. Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle are perhaps best known for their award-winning documentary Villisca: Living with a Mystery, which won Best Documentary at the 2006 CRI Film Festival. The 50-minute screening of Lost Nation will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle; Lance Foster, a member of the Ioway tribe; and David Gradwohl, professor emeritus of anthropology at Iowa State.

Emerging from Obscurity: The Ioway Nation in the New Millennium - Lance Foster
Tue, 04 Mar 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lance Foster, a member of the Ioway Nation, is a traditional storyteller, artist, and involved in the preservation of the Ioway language. He has held positions with the National Park Service in New Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii and is a contributor to The Worlds between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa, Native Americans in the 20th Century, and Ancient Muses. Foster earned a Master's degree in anthropology as well as a Master's of Landscape Architecture from Iowa State. He currently lives in Helena, Montana. The 2008 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

The Figure in Contemporary Ceramics - Lisa Clague
Thu, 06 Mar 2008, 5:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design - Lisa Clague received her BFA from the Cleveland Art Institute, where she studied with Judith Salomon and Bill Brouillard. Her MFA degree is from the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she worked with Viola Frey, Art Nelson and Dennis Gallagher. Her first solo exhibition was in 1994 at the Udinotti Gallery in Scottsdale. Since that time she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the John Elder Gallery in New York City. Clague is currently represented by the John Natsoulous Gallery in California. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation recognized her achievements in ceramic sculpture, and she was recently invited to the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale in Korea.

The Simpsons Family Values - Mike Reiss
Thu, 06 Mar 2008, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mike Reiss, writer and producer of The Simpsons, has won four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for his work on the wacky animated series that has kept America laughing for more than a decade. The television show earned TIME Magazine's vote as "the greatest TV show of the twentieth century." During Reiss's fifteen years with the show, he penned a dozen scripts and produced over two hundred episodes. His talk takes the audience inside the lives of Springfield's first family - revealing how The Simpsons was almost canceled before it hit the air, secret trivia of the show, and dealings with network censors. Part of the National Affairs Series: Can Laughter Save America?

Running Brave: An Olympic Champion Honors His Lakota Heritage - Billy Mills
Fri, 07 Mar 2008, 12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Billy Mills is the cofounder and national spokesperson for Running Strong for American Indian Youth. An Oglala Lakota (Sioux) who was raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he earned a track scholarship to the University of Kansas and later served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Billy Mills came from behind to win the gold medal in the 10k race at the 1964 Olympics, and he is still the only American ever to win a gold medal in that event. He was the inspiration for the movie Running Brave. The movie stars Robbie Benson and chronicles the story of Mills's life on the reservation and the many obstacles he overcame to become an Olympic champion. Mills is the coauthor of Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Understanding. ISCORE Keynote Address. For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, go to: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore...ation.html

Weapons of Mass Destruction Myths and the Defense Department Response to WMD Events - Steven Bucci
Sat, 08 Mar 2008, 6:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Steven Bucci is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. He oversees the policy issues involving the defense domains, National Guard operational issues, Domestic Counter Terrorism, and readiness exercises. He was the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and served through the 9/11 attack and the Global War on Terrorism. He led a team of twenty-five other colonels to Baghdad to directly assist the Coalition Provisional Authority leadership in the final six-month period leading to the transfer of sovereignty. Steven Bucci has earned the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in international relations. He retired from active duty in 2005.

Hillbillies and Beachcombers: The Impact of Geography on Hunter-Gatherer Organization - Lewis R. Binford
Mon, 10 Mar 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lewis R. Binford, one of the most influential anthropological archaeologists of the twentieth century, is best known as the pioneer of "New Archaeology." He helped establish the field of ethnoarchaeology in the 1960s, arguing that an understanding of the archaeological record is only possible through an understanding of the process and cultural context under which it was formed. Binford has authored or edited nine books, including An Archeological Perspective, Bones: Ancient Men & Modern Myths, In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archeological Record, Working at Archeology, and, most recently, Constructing Frames of Reference. He is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Methodist University.

A Celebration of Women in the History of Iowa State University - Amy Bix
Tue, 11 Mar 2008, 12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Amy Bix is an associate professor of history at Iowa State and codirector of the History of Science and Technology Program. She has published on such topics as the history of women in the field of eugenics and the history of funding for breast cancer and AIDS. Her current project focuses on the history of engineering education for American women, examining how, when and why universities of science and technology, such as Iowa State, began admitting women to engineering programs. Bix received her Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 and coauthor of the recently released The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America since 1950. Part of the Women's History Month Celebration and Iowa State's 150th Anniversary Celebration.

Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
Wed, 12 Mar 2008, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Amy Sedaris is best known for her role as Jerri Blank in the television series and 2006 movie adaptation of Strangers with Candy, and, most recently, for sharing her domestic skills in the satirical guide to entertaining I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Sedaris has appeared in the movies Elf, School of Rock, Maid in Manhattan, the film version of Bewitched and on television in Rescue Me, Monk, Just Shoot Me! Sex and the City, and in My Name Is Earl. She also made a guest appearance on Sesame Street as a flustered Snow White who keeps losing her dwarves. With her brother, author and essayist David Sedaris, Amy has coauthored several plays. She also coauthored the text-and-picture novel Wigfield with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert, her coauthors for Strangers with Candy. Part of the National Affairs Series: Can Laughter Save America?

Man Killed by Pheasant - John Price
Fri, 14 Mar 2008, 3:10 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Price is the author of Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands and recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He will be discussing his new book Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships. His essays have appeared in Orion, Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, The Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (Harper), In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton), Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Organization and Environment, and Healing: 20 Prominent Authors Write About Inspirational Moments of Achieving Health and Gaining Insight (Tarcher/Putnam). John Price is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.

SPRING BREAK
Mon, 17 Mar 2008, 8:00 AM – No events planned - No events planned the week of March 17-21.

Providing the World's Energy: Problems and Solutions - Graham R. Fleming
Tue, 25 Mar 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Graham R. Fleming is a professor of chemistry and Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been at the forefront of a major revolution in the biophysical sciences, leading investigations into ultrafast chemical and biological processes, in particular, the primary steps of photosynthesis. Fleming earned his Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Bristol and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of London. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1979. There, he rose through the academic ranks to become the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor. His ultimate goal is to develop artificial photosynthesis that would provide humanity with clean, efficient and sustainable energy. The 2008 Presidential Lecture in Chemistry.

Science, Policies and Food in Today's Market - A Dialogue with Whole Foods Market's Walter Robb and Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg
Wed, 26 Mar 2008, 5:10 PM – Curtiss Hall Auditorium - Walter Robb is Co-President & Chief Operating Officer of Whole Foods Market, Inc., the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with more than 270 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. Whole Foods Market was founded in 1978 and is based in Austin, Texas. The company - whose offerings include everything from meats and produce to vitamins and body care to pet and household products - is dedicated to stringent quality standards and committed to sustainable agriculture. Gary Hirshberg is President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. For the past twenty-five years, Hirshberg has overseen Stonyfield Farm's growth from a seven-cow organic farming school to its current $260 million in annual sales. In 2001 Stonyfield Farm entered into a partnership with Groupe Danone, and in 2005 Hirshberg was named Managing Director of Stonyfield Europe, a joint venture between the two firms with brands in Ireland, the UK and France.

The Anatomy of Prejudice - Jane Elliott
Thu, 27 Mar 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jane Elliott, the adaptor of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, will lead a three-hour presentation teaching about the anatomy of prejudice. The Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, which she developed in her Riceville, Iowa, classroom, was the subject of the Peabody Award-winning documentary "The Eye of the Storm" and the follow-up PBS/FRONTLINE production "A Class Divided." She will show clips and discuss that film and explore with the audience the problems of racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and ethnocentrism, and ways to eliminate them from ourselves and our environment.

Exploring Crop Genomes, Advancing Crop Improvement - Patrick Schnable
Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Patrick Schnable is the associate director of the Plant Sciences Institute, director of the Center for Plant Genomics, and director of the newly formed Center for Carbon Capturing Crops. He joined the Iowa State faculty in 1988 and is currently Baker Professor of Agronomy, holding appointments in the Departments of Agronomy and Genetics, Development and Cell Biology. He manages a research program that emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding plant biology. Schnable is a participant in the NSF-funded maize genome sequencing project and is chair of the international maize genetics executive committee. He recently helped write the first draft of the corn genome sequence, announced at the 50th Annual Maize Genetics Conference. Understanding the corn genome could help scientists improve corn plants so they withstand global climate change, add nutritional value to grain, sequester more atmospheric carbon in agricultural soils, and boost yields. Schnable received his B.S. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University and conducted post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. The Spring 2008 University Presidential Lecture. A reception and display of student research will precede the lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the South Ballroom.

Media Coverage of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Gary Kenzer
Tue, 01 Apr 2008, 7:30 PM – Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Room 1414 - Gary Kenzer is the National USA Executive Director of Honest Reporting, an organization devoted to exposing bias and promoting balance and accuracy in media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Kenzer has over twenty-five years of experience in the nonprofit industry. Prior to assuming his present position, he served for nine years as the executive director of Magen David Adom USA, Israel's emergency medical health, blood and disaster services. He was a founding member and director of The KIDS Help Foundation and worked with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in his home state of Illinois. He has a degree from Loyola University of Chicago.

Russia after the Presidential Elections: Is There Hope for Democracy? - David Satter
Mon, 07 Apr 2008, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David Satter is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He left his position as a police reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1976 when he was named Moscow correspondent for the London Financial Times. He worked in Moscow for six years, during which time he collected accounts of everyday people on the nature of Soviet society. He then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal, contributing to the paper's editorial page. In 1990 he was named a Thornton Hooper fellow, and later a senior fellow, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Satter is the author of two books about Russia, Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Part of the World Affairs Series and the First Amendment Day Celebration. The LAS Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program Distinguished Speaker.

Because I Said So! - Michael Ian Black
Mon, 07 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michael Ian Black is perhaps most recognized for his commentary on VH1's popular I Love the '70s/'80s/'90s series and as the star of the sketch-comedy show The State. He was cocreator of and starred in the Comedy Central series Stella and was a series regular on NBC's Ed, playing Phil, Stuckeybowl's manager. He is the screenwriter of Run, Fatboy, Run, has appeared in the film Wet Hot American Summer, been featured in a series of television commercials for Sierra Mist and was a player on Celebrity Poker Showdown.

The Power of Procrastination - Jorge Cham
Wed, 09 Apr 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jorge Cham, the author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, has been called the Dilbert of academia. The strip appears in numerous university newspapers and chronicles the struggles and humor of the lives of graduate students, the majority of whom admit to feeling overwhelmed and often depressed. Cham speaks about his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth and the power of procrastination. Three books compiling the strips have been released, including Life Is Tough and Then You Graduate and, most recently, Scooped!. Cham completed his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Stanford and is currently an instructor and researcher at the California Institute of Technology.

Post-Traumatic "Press" Syndrome and the State of the Media - A Panel Discussion
Wed, 09 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Gerdin Business Building Auditorium, Room 1148 - Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University and expert on post-traumatic stress disorder, will lead a discussion on the stresses journalists face when covering war, terrorism, and mass murder. Panelists include Tina Croley, editor of the Detroit Free Press series "Homicide in Detroit," and Donna Alvis-Banks, who covered the Virginia Tech shootings and their aftermath for the Roanoke (Va.) Times. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.

The First Amendment in a Post-9/11 World - A Panel Discussion
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 2:15 PM – 2432 Food Science - Distinguished panelists include Peter Erlinder, professor of constitutional law at William Mitchell Law School; Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild; Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney for Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Gene Choo, senior producer for NBC News. David Saldana from the Greenlee School of Journalism will moderate the discussion. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.

Dreams to Reality - Clayton Anderson
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 3:10 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Astronaut and Iowa State alum Clayton Anderson will share a multimedia experience that chronicles his 152 days in space as part of the 15th and 16th expeditions to the International Space Station. Anderson joined the Johnson Space Center in 1983 and held a number of positions before being selected as a mission specialist in 1998. In June 2007 he launched to the International Space Station aboard Shuttle Atlantis with the crew of STS-117. During his 152 day stint onboard the ISS, Anderson performed three spacewalks, totaling 18 hours of extravehicular activity. He holds a a master of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University (1983). Part of the Distinguished Lecture Series in Aerospace Engineering. A reception and his induction into the Department of Aerospace Engineering's Hall of Distinguished Alumni will follow.

Lessons from Two of the Nation's Largest Disasters, from Someone Who Was Involved in Both - Scott Hamilton
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 4:00 PM – Stark Auditorium, 1148 Gerdin Business Building - Scott Hamilton, a 1982 management graduate of the College of Business at Iowa State University, was Vice President of Investor Relations at WorldCom when it spiraled into bankruptcy amid the country's largest accounting scandal and was a public information officer for the State of Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. His background includes communications and marketing leadership positions in corporate, government and agency environments. He is currently a partner in a public affairs consultancy in Jackson, Mississippi. In addition to his degree from Iowa State, Hamilton holds an MBA in International Business from George Washington University. Part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Continental-Scale Ecology in a Connected World - Debra Peters
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 7:30 PM – Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Room 1414 - Debra Peters is a research scientist at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Jornada Experimental Range, located in the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem (Las Cruces, New Mexico). She is the Principle Investigator for the Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research Site. Her areas of research include the roles of fire and grazing in grassland systems, global change effects on ecosystem dynamics across spatial scales, boundary and ecotone dynamics, and spatially-explicit simulation modeling of ecosystem dynamics. Dr. Peters recently provided leadership for the National Science Foundation in the establishment of the National Ecological Observatory Network. She has a B.S. in biology from Iowa State University, an M.S. in biology from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in range science from Colorado State University. The Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Censoring Freedom: How the Quest for Security is Trumping Your Constitutional Rights - Mark Goodman
Thu, 10 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mark Goodman is the Knight Professor of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University and an expert on student free expression in the United States. He served as the executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia, for over twenty years, counseling student journalists and advisers about legal rights and responsibilities. Goodman received the Gerald M. Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication in 2007. He holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Duke University. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.

VEISHEA Opening Ceremony with Clayton Anderson
Fri, 11 Apr 2008, 12:00 PM – Central Campus (Moved to Beardshear Hall due to rain) - Astronaut and Iowa State alum Clayton Anderson will share his experiences spending 152 days in space and on the International Space Station. He joined the Johnson Space Center in 1983 and held a number of positions before being selected as a mission specialist in 1998. In June 2007 he launched to the International Space Station aboard Shuttle Atlantis with the crew of STS-117. During his 152 day stint onboard the ISS, Anderson performed three spacewalks, totaling 18 hours of extravehicular activity. He holds a a master of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University (1983). Part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

A Winning Strategy from the Biggest Loser - Matt Hoover
Fri, 11 Apr 2008, 5:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Iowa native Matt Hoover took home the grand prize as a contestant on Season Two of NBC's The Biggest Loser. He will talk about how he overcame the weight gain that ended his career as a competitive athlete, which lead to drinking problems, depression, and overeating. He arrived at The Biggest Loser Ranch in March 2005 weighing 339 pounds and left nine months later, 157 pounds lighter and a changed man. He was a two-time State Wrestling Champion for Belle Plaine High School and a member of four NCAA Championship teams. He was also a Junior National All-American and National runner-up, winning seven state Freestyle/Greco titles before an injury kept him from reaching his Olympic dreams.

COMEDY! - John Oliver from THE DAILY SHOW
Fri, 11 Apr 2008, 10:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Doors open at 9:15 p.m. - John Oliver is a regular writer and correspondent on the Emmy Award-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He won the Breakout Award at the Aspen Comedy Festival 2007, has starred in sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival, and hosted the satirical stand-up show Political Animal with Andy Zaltzman. He plays Dick Pants in Mike Meyers' upcoming movie The Love Guru.

Undergraduate Research as a Catalyst for Enhanced Learning - David Lopatto
Tue, 15 Apr 2008, 3:10 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Lopatto is a professor of psychology at Grinnell College, where he has taught since 1981. He has studied the impact of undergraduate research on student cognition, attitude, and career choice for more than eight years and will talk about the benefits of undergraduate research from the perspective of both the student and the faculty mentor. Lopatto has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Ohio University. His talk is part of the Second Annual Iowa State Undergraduate Research Symposium and Iowa State's 150th Anniversary Celebration.

Department of Defense Operations in the Twenty-first Century - Jack Bell
Tue, 15 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jack Bell, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, is the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the principal logistics official within the senior management of the Department of Defense. He served as the first chief of staff of the State Department's Afghanistan Reconstruction Group in Kabul, Afghanistan, advising the President's Special Envoy and Ambassador to Afghanistan on efforts to accelerate political stability, reconstruction, and economic development in that country. His work in the private sector included senior management positions at US Airways, American Airlines, and Burlington Northern Railroad. A captain in the Marine Corps, Bell served tours in Vietnam, Okinawa, and the Caribbean. He earned a B.A. in business administration from Northwestern University and an M.A. in international relations from the University of South Carolina. Part of the World Affairs Series.

The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming - Bjorn Lomborg
Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. In 2004 TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 globally most influential people, and the UK's Guardian newspaper recently named him one of the "50 people who could save the planet." Lomborg has questioned the priority given to solving global climate change, arguing that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring a safe, fresh water supply. As the organizer of the 2004 Copenhagen Consensus, he brought together internationally recognized economists to prioritize opportunities to solve the world's biggest problems. This and the subsequent conference he organized for UN ambassadors resulted in his publications How to Spend $50 billion To Make The World A Better Place; Global Crises, Global Solutions; and Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Getting Away with Murder: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths - Stefan Timmermans
Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Stefan Timmermans, professor of sociology at UCLA, one of the world's leading medical ethnographers. His most recent book, Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths, is based on three years of observing medical examiners perform autopsies. His research bridges medical sociology and science studies. Specific research interests include how sudden, unexpected deaths are dealt with in Western societies and how change occurs in contemporary health care. Timmermans is also coauthor of The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care and author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR.

Confessions of a Bamboozled Botanist - Lynn Clark
Thu, 17 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Botanist Lynn Clark is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and director of the Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State. She is also one of the world's leading authorities on bamboo, having named seventy species since she began her research twenty years ago. Clark's research takes her to Central and South America, where she gathers basic systematic data on bamboo in order to answer broader questions about its morphology, evolutionary relationships and geographic distribution. She earned her B.S. in botany and horticulture from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in botany from Iowa State. She is coauthor of American Bamboos. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Spring 2008 Dean's Lecture.

Brazilian Night with Chicago Samba
Fri, 18 Apr 2008, 9:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - FREE ADMISSION - Celebrate the Brazilian culture with Chicago Samba, a musical ensemble that offers the authentic sounds of Brazil mixed with the flavor of carnaval. They play a unique mix of musical styles, including Samba, Bossa Nova, beat, Brazilian jazz, Olodum, Forro, Chorinho, Pagode, and Batucada. Dance lessons provided!

The Plight of the Honey Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder - Diana Cox-Foster
Mon, 21 Apr 2008, 7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Diana Cox-Foster is a professor of entomology at Pennsylvania State University. She is leading a team of researchers trying to explain "colony collapse disorder," the name given to the phenomenon that occurs when bees unexplainably become disoriented and fail to return to their hives. Her research focuses on insect biochemistry and physiology and insect-pathogen interactions. Cox-Foster's research on the potential role of the Israeli acute paralysis virus in colony collapse disorder, recently published in Science, has huge implications for the honey bee industry in the United States and hence for U.S. agriculture. Her presentation will include an overview and discussion of colony collapse disorder along with related research on other pollinator species and implications.

Earth Day Forum: Iowa State's Role in the Energy and Climate Crisis
Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 4:30 PM – South Ball Room, Memorial Union - This panel of Iowa State University faculty and administrators will discuss how ISU is helping address the current energy crisis, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to safe levels. The topics covered will include reducing the university's contribution to climate change, advancing relevant research, and educating and promoting behavior change among the university community. Panel participants include: Vice President for Business and Finance Warren Madden; Associate Dean, College of Design, Kate Schwennsen; Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Gene Takle; and Dean of Students Pete Englin. Audience participation is encouraged. The documentary The 11th Hour will follow.

The 11th Hour - A Documentary
Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 6:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - This documentary is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and explores the perilous state of our planet, and the means by which we can change our course. Contributing to this crucial film are noted politicians, scientists and other ambassadors for the importance of a universal ecological consciousness. (92 minutes)

Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes? Kerry Emanuel
Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kerry Emanuel is a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. Emanuel is the author or coauthor of over one hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers and two books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, recently released by Oxford University Press. It received the 2007 Louis Battan Author's Award from the American Meteorological Society. Sigma Xi Spring Lecture.

The Great Debate: Private Equity and Its Impact on the Global Economy - Josh Lerner
Wed, 23 Apr 2008, 10:45 AM – 2117 Gerdin Business Building - Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. He is the author of The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and Innovation and Its Discontents. His research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations as well as the impact of intellectual property protection on the competitive strategies of firms in high-tech industries. The College of Business F. Wendell Miller Lecture.

The Cuban Revolution and Agriculture - Mary-Alice Waters
Thu, 24 Apr 2008, 6:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Mary-Alice Waters is the president of the Pathfinder Press and the editor of New International magazine. She has written a number of books on political topics and is a journalist and activist. Among the books she has edited or authored - including 18 titles on the Cuban Revolution in World Politics - are: Our History is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Cuban-Chinese Generals in the Cuban Revolution; Feminism and the Marxist Movement; and Making History. Waters will be the featured presenter in a panel discussion including students and faculty. A reception will precede the lecture and panel discussion, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead - Madeleine Kunin
Thu, 24 Apr 2008, 7:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Madeleine Kunin is a former three-term governor of Vermont and Ambassador to Switzerland. She also served as U.S. deputy secretary of education. Kunin is currently the Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont, where she lectures on history and women's studies. She is the author of Living a Political Life, The Big Green Book, and, most recently, Pearls, Politics and Power, an insider's view of the role of women in politics. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and master's degrees in journalism from Columbia University and English literature from the University of Vermont. Mary Louise Smith 2008 Spring Chair in Women and Politics.

Brave New Iowa: Stem Cells, Cloning and the Sanctity of Human Life - Wesley J. Smith
Thu, 24 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Author and lawyer Wesley J. Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture. His writing and opinion columns on assisted suicide, bioethics, legal ethics, and public affairs have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has authored or coauthored eleven books, including Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder; Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America; Power Over Pain, A Consumer's Guide to Obtaining Good Pain Control; and A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World. Smith is the author of the Internet blog "Secondhand Smoke" and hosts a biweekly podcast, "Brave New Bioethics."

Plants and Climate Change: A Mini Conference
Fri, 25 Apr 2008, 1:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join Iowa State faculty and visiting scholars for a discussion of issues related to climate change. Iowa State participants include: Steve Howell, Gene Takle, Kendall Lamkey, Matthew Liebman, Diane Bassham, Patrick Schnable, Rob Anex, and Catherine Kling. Visiting scholars include: Jian-Kang Zhu, University of California, Riverside; Stephen Long, Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Rattan Lal, Ohio State University.

Gender, Leadership and the Natural Order - Rosalind Chait Barnett
Fri, 25 Apr 2008, 1:15 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center - Rosalind Chait Barnett is Director of the Community, Families & Work Program and a senior scientist with the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She will discuss the media's use of gender stereotypes in the debate about women in leadership positions. Her research has encompassed such topics as workplace flexibility and employee health, employee-friendly after-school programs, and adult caregivers and job performance. Her many publications include Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs; She Works/He Works: How Two-Income Families Are Happier, Healthier and Better Off; and Gender and Stress. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D in clinical psychology from Harvard University. Part of the 2008 Women's Leadership Summit.

A History of Roadside Attractions - Erika Nelson
Fri, 25 Apr 2008, 8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Erika Nelson is director of the World's Largest Things, a nonprofit corporation for the study of roadside vernacular architecture, including such Iowa attractions as Audubon's Albert the Bull, Adair's talking Happy Chef, Stanton's Swedish coffeepot water tower, and the Pocahontas landmark statue. Nelson is the founder and curator of the traveling roadside museum The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things. Her artist-in-residence projects have covered such topics as storytelling and quiltmaking and Art Car development, and her many installations and exhibits include Domesticated: Deconstructing the American Dream and CanFormations. She has a BFA in illustration from Central Missouri State University and an MFA in textiles from the University of Kansas. This public talk will follow the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society banquet.

Event Being Planned
Mon, 30 Jun 2008, 8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Event to be announced.