Wednesday, 01 Feb 2006
Consider the Source: Good lessons, grand characters and great fun from covering Iowa for 45 years - Chuck Offenberger
Chuck Offenberger is the former "Iowa Boy" columnist for the Des Moines Register and now publishes the Web site Offenburger.com. In 2005, he wrote a book about the history of high school athletics in Iowa and is now working on a biography of former Cyclone all-America Gary Thompson, who recently retired as a basketball analyst covering the Iowa State and the Big 12.
Engineering Cultures: Becoming a Problem Definer and Solver Across Different Perspectives - Gary Downey and Juan C. Lucena
Gary Downey is a Professor of Science and Technology Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education, Sociology, and the Women's Studies Program. He is currently Boeing Company Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering and serves at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers and co-developed the multimedia textbook Engineering Cultures. Juan C. Lucena is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts and International Studies Division at the Colorado School of Mines and in 2005 received the Boeing Senior Fellowship in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering. He has directed the Science, Technology, and Globalization Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers at CSM and is the author of Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking in Science and Engineering Education from Sputnik to the War Against Terrorism. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Setting America on a New Course - Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle served as Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader from 1994-2005. Throughout his 18-year presence in the Senate, he was an advocate for quality education, healthcare, agriculture communities, Veterans and Native Americans. In his first year on the hill, he was appointed to the powerful Senate Finance Committee, an unusual honor for a freshman. In 1988, then-Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell named Daschle the first-ever co-chair of the Democratic Policy Committee. Part of the National Affairs Series.