Iowa State University Lectures Program
Schedule of Upcoming Events
Please check our web site for changes and additions:  www.lectures.iastate.edu.
All events are free and open to the public. Funded by GSB and university departments and offices.

August
 
Selling a Global Economy - Bob John
Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 6:30 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Bob John is the Vice President of Sales at TIAX and a former consultant with IBM Global Financing in Central and Eastern Europe. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
Globalization and Culture - Jim Waters
Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 6:00 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Jim Waters is vice president of Caterpillar, Inc., 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 has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
September
Digital Internet Use - Jeffrey Cole
Wednesday, September 5, 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.
 
 
Why Do I Need to Think Globally to Be Effective in My Job? - Kirk Thompson
Tuesday, September 11, 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. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
Globalization and Sustainability - Barry Hughes
Wednesday, September 12, 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
Thursday, September 13, 2007, 8:00 PM @ The Gallery, 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 and the Orden pour le MÈrite. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture.
 
Globalization: Looking Back and Looking Forward - George Strawn
Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 6:30 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - George Strawn is Chief Information Officer at the National Science Foundation. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
Vegetable Oil: Changing Source of Food, Fuel and Chemicals - Thomas Binder
Wednesday, September 19, 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
Wednesday, September 19, 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.
 
Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 8:00 PM @ Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Richard Florida 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.
 
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood - Marie Arana
Thursday, September 20, 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.

 
Global Communications and U.S. Foreign Policy - Ambassador David Gross
Tuesday, September 25, 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
Tuesday, September 25, 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.
 
Forging New Ties: Shaping a New U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 7:00 PM @ South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Joy Olson, Executive Director Washington Office on Latin America, and Vicki Gass, the organization's Senior Associate for Rights and Development, will discuss the organization'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 broadly located on 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.   
 
Life, Liberty, and Justice - Dr. Alveda C. King
Wednesday, September 26, 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
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 7:00 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.  
 
October
Saints:  A Different Perspective - Robert Ellsberg
Monday, October 1, 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.
 
Technology, Globalization, and Culture  - Greg Churchill
Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 6:30 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Greg Churchill is the 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. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
Covering the Caucuses - Sandy Johnson and Chuck Raasch
Tuesday, October 2, 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.  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. 2007 Chamberlain Lecture.
 
Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures: Representations of Genomic Research in Popular Culture - Priscilla Wald
Thursday, October 4, 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.
 
More Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail:
The Iowa Caucuses and American Presidential Candidate Selection - Steffen Schmidt
Monday, October 8, 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 Presidential Lecture.

Tradition and Transformation - Panel Discussion of the History of Iowa State University
Tuesday, October 9, 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, and Dorothy Schwieder, Professor of History Emerita. Charlie Dobbs, Chair of the History Department, will moderate.
 
The Place of Gays and Lesbians in the Church - Sister Jeannine Gramick
Tuesday, October 9, 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 battle 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. National Coming Out Day.
 
Global Screen Industries - Michael Curtin
Wednesday, October 10, 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
Wednesday, October 10, 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, an inquiry into what makes cities both here and abroad great - or miserable. 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.
 
The Economics of Investing in Children: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills - James J. Heckman
Thursday, October 11, 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.
 
Agricultural Research and Food Security in Africa - Monty Jones
Monday, October 15, 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 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. 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.
 
Faith-Based Environmental Stewardship
Tuesday, October 16, 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.
 
Oil on the Brain: Travels in the World of Petroleum - Lisa Margonelli
Wednesday, October 17, 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.
 
 
Geo-Politics, Human Rights, and You - John Perkins
Thursday, October 18, 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.
 
Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Human Nutrition - Robert Lawrence
Monday, October 22, 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. The center focuses on research, education, and advocacy that examine the relationships among diet, food production systems, the environment and human health.  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 first annual Dennis Keeney Distinguished Lecture, which honors the Leopold Center's first director, and is part of the Center's 20th anniversary and Iowa State University's Sesquicentennial celebration.
 
Global Environmental Change: Technology and the Future of Planet Earth  - Gene Takle
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6:00 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Gene Takle is Professor of Agricultural Meteorology at Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 

Sigma Xi Lecture - Thomas Baum
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 7:00 PM @ Gallery, Memorial Union - Thomas Baum is a professor of Plant Pathology at Iowa State University. Sigma Xi Lecture.
 
Can the Experiences of Jews Serve as a Template for Today's Muslims in the Diaspora? - Sander Gilman
Thursday, October 25, 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 as well as of Emory University's Health Sciences Humanities Initiative.  A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. 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 the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane , reprinted in 1996, as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. 2008 Goldtrap Lecture.
 
The Supreme Court and Reproductive Rights - Eve Gartner
Sunday, October 28, 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
 
 
Growing Up Global: Can Education Reduce Gender Inequality and Poverty?  Cynthia B. Lloyd
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room/South Ballroom - Cynthia B. Lloyd is director of social science research in the Policy Research Division at the Population Council, an international, nongovernmental organization that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research. Lloyd 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.
 
November
Exporting America - Christine Romans
Tuesday, November 6, 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 is a graduate of Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
 
Technology, Globalization, and Culture - James Bernard, Jr., and Jamie Thingelstad
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 6:00 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr., is General Manager, at the Internet company CBS MarketWatch 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.
 
Evolution and Human Development - Milford Wolpoff
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7:00 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.  
 
Eating Genes: The Global Ethics of Genetically Modified Foods - Lisa Weasel and Virginia Walbot
Thursday, November 8, 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."
 
The Globalization of Higher Education - James Duderstadt
Tuesday, November 13, 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.
 
How Did Petroleum Source Rocks Accumulate? Insights from Deep-Sea Sediments - Philip A. Meyers
Wednesday, November 14, 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 paleoenvironmental changes that are 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 unifying element of his studies of marine and lake records is that both types of systems are sensitive to global climate change, although in ways that are differently influenced by local or regional factors. The marine records generally yield information about large-scale processes, whereas the lake records respond more rapidly to shorter-term phenomena. These various processes impact the production, delivery, and preservation of organic matter in the bottom sediments, which provides information that can be interpreted to yield histories of paleoenvironmental changes. The Fall 2007 Sigma Xi Lecture.
 
The Physics of Baseball - Eli Rosenberg
Wednesday, November 14, 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. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics (cum laude) from the City College of New York, and his masters 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 Politics of Genetics - A Symposium
Thursday, November 15, 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."


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Technology, Globalization, and Culture - Jon Grannis
Tuesday, November 27, 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.
 
The Effect of Stereotyping on Student Performance - Claude Steele
Thursday, November 29, 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.
 
December
The 2007 Manatt Phelps Lecture - Frederick Smith
Tuesday, December 4, 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.  
 
Technology, Globalization, and Culture  - Klaus Hoehn
Wednesday, December 5, 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.