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President's Lecture in Chemistry - Geraldine L. Richmond
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Geraldine Richmond is the Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. She is also the founder and chair of the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists, an organization assisting in the advancement of women faculty in the sciences. Richmond’s research applications of nonlinear optical spectroscopy and computational methods to the chemistry that occurs at complex surfaces and interfaces have relevance in numerous areas, including energy production, environmental remediation, and atmospheric chemistry. Recent awards for her scientific accomplishments include the Spiers Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2004), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) and the Bomem-Michaelson Award (2008). Richmond received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in chemical physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Women in STEM Series.

Where Do You Find the Most Credible News Source? Panel Discussion
4:00 PM @ Gallery, Memorial Union - Participants to be announced. Part of the First Amendment Days Celebration.

Watchdog Journalism in the 21st Century - Joe Mahr
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Joe Mahr is a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Previously, he worked for the Toledo Blade, where he was part of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning team that uncovered the U.S. Army’s 36-year cover-up of Tiger Force during the Vietnam War. He has written award-winning stories on subjects ranging from Ohio’s lax efforts to fix dangerous stretches of highways to allegations that Toldeo police refused to arrest or investigate abusive priests. More recently he has written a series of stories looking at abuse and neglect in the mental health system. Part of the First Amendment Days Celebration.

Event Being Planned
12:00 PM @ Gerdin Business Building - Speaker to be announced. Part of the College of Business 25th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Series

What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison: A Poetry Reading - Camille Dungy
7:00 PM @ Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Camille Dungy is cofounder of From the Fishouse, a nonprofit organization that promotes the oral tradition of poetry. She is coeditor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and her poetry collection What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy lives in San Francisco, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the recipient of several prominent writing fellowships, and a former artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park. Part of the Eco-Voices Series.

VEISHEA Opening Ceremony
12:00 PM @ Central Campus - VEISHEA 2010 is scheduled for April 12-18. VEISHEA is an annual celebration held at Iowa State each spring, and one of its oldest traditions. It serves as a showcase and display of the Iowa State community with a wide variety of educational and entertainment events.

Equal Pay Is Not Only About Fairness - It's About Survival - Lilly Ledbetter
7:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lilly Ledbetter gained national recognition when in 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a jury’s ruling in the pay equity law suit she had won almost a decade before. Ledbetter had worked for nearly twenty years at Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Gadsden, Alabama, and despite receiving top performance awards discovered that she had been paid significantly less than male co-workers in the same position. In a 5-4 decision, Supreme Court justices ruled that employees could only file a wage discrimination complaint within 180 days of the original pay decision. In January 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act became the first bill that President Obama signed into law. The law restores the long-standing interpretation of civil rights laws and EEOC policies that allows employees to challenge any discriminatory paycheck they receive.

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12:00 PM @ To be announced - Event to be announced.

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12:00 PM @ To be announced - Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference keynote address to be announced.

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12:00 PM @ To Be Announced - Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration keynote to be announced.