University Lectures
The University Lecture was established in 1950 to honor members of the faculty engaged in outstanding research. It provides an opportunity for all members of the University community — as well as the general public — to meet a distinguished scholar discussing a topic of recognized excellence. Each spring, all members of the faculty are invited to make nominations for the subsequent year's Lecturer. The University lecturers from the previous five years act as the Nominating Committee.
| Year | Presenter | Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Accepting Nominations | Please use attached PDF for details on nominating the 2010 University Lecturer |
| 2009 | Thomas H Kunz | Aerocology: The New Frontier |
| 2008 | James Collins | Biology by Design |
| 2007 | Andrew J. Bacevich | Illusions of Managing History: The Enduring Relevance of Reinhold Niebuhr |
| 2006 | Barbara Diefendorf | Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in History and Memory |
| 2005 | George Annas |
American Bioethics after Nuremberg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights |
| 2004/5 | William C. Carroll | |
| 2003 | Charles DeLisi | Crossing the Watershed: Biological and Other Worlds in the Post-Genomic Era |
| 2002 | Stanley Rosen | Comfortable Virtue: Remarks on the Enlightenment |
| 2001 | David H. Barlow | The Origins of Anxiety and its Disorders |
| 2000 | Robert Bone | From Judgment to Settlement: The Changing Character of American Courts |
| 1999 | Robert Dallek | Presidential "Disability": An American Dilemma |
| 1998 | Michael Mendillo | Astronomy through a Glass Darkly: Searching for Extended Atmospheres of Planets, Moons, and Comet |
| 1997 | Charles R. Cantor | After the Human Genome Project: a Peek at Future Biomedical Science and Technology |
| 1996 | Glenn C. Loury | The Divided Society and the Democratic Idea |
| 1995 | Roger Shattuck | The Rule of Excess: Faust and Frankenstein |
| 1994 | Lukas Foss | A Twentieth-Century Composer's Confessions About the Creative Process |
| 1993 | Nancy Kopell | Rhythms and Clues: Mechanisms of Self-Organization in Nature |
| 1992 | Jean Berko Gleason | Language Acquisition and Socialization |
| 1991 | H. Eugene Stanley | Fractal Landscapes in Physics and Biology |
| 1990 | Christopher Ricks | Literature and the Matter of Fact |
| 1989 | Stephen Grossberg | Human Vision and Neural Computation: Illusion and Reality in the Mind's Eye |
| 1988 | Phyllis Curtin | Views of Life and Education Gleaned from Performance |
| 1987 | Peter L. Berger | Moral Judgment and Political Action |
| 1987 | William B. Kannel | Conquest of Coronary Heart Disease: Epidemiologic Contributions of the Framingham Study |
| 1986 | Norman M. Naimark | Terrorism and the Fall of Imperial Russia |
| 1985 | Howard Clark Kee | Medicine, Miracle, and Magic in the Roman World |
| 1984 | Richard H. Clarke | Star Wars Surgery: What Chemical Physics Has to Offer the Operating Room of the Eighties |
| 1983 | Millicent Bell | Meaning and Unmeaning: Henry James |
| 1982 | Sidney A. Burrell | The Scottish Dimension in Irish History |
| 1981 | Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan | The New International Economic Order |
| 1980 | John N. Findlay | Ethics as an Art |
| 1978 | J. Michael Harrison | Sound and the Way It Controls Animal Behavior |
| 1978 | Lynn Margulis | The Early Evolution of Life |
| 1975 | Joseph H.Ssilverstein | The University Music School: Its Uses and Its Future |
| 1974 | Helen H. Vendler | The Recent Poetry of Robert Lowell |
| 1973 | Irwin T. Sanders | The Search for Community in a Complex Society |
| 1972 | John Malcolm Brinnin | Pray You, Undo This Button: The Sentimental Strategies |
| 1971 | Albert R. Beisel, Jr. | Erotica and the Law |
| 1969 | Theodore Brameld | Our Climactic Decades: Mandate to Education |
| 1967 | David Aronson | Real and Unreal: the Double Nature of Art |
| 1966 | Franz J. Inglefinder | Medical Technosis |
| 1965 | Amiya Chakravarty | The Emergent Design |
| 1964 | Lashley G. Garvey | The "Walled" Towns of New England |
| 1963 | Robert E. Moody | A Proprietary Experiment in Early New England History: Thomas Gorges and the Province of Maine |
| 1961 | Walter J. Gensler | Making Molecules: Ways to New Polyunsaturates |
| 1960 | L. Harold Dewolf | Acknoledgement of Non-Christian Contributions to Christian Faith and Life |
| 1960 | Peter A. Bertocci | Education and the Vision of Excellence |
| 1959 | Leland c. Wyman | Navaho Indian Painting: Symbolism, Artistry, and Psychology |
| 1958 | William O. Brown | Racial Issues in South Africa and the American South |
| 1957 | William C. Boyd | Genetics and the Races of Man |
| 1957 | Donald D. Durrell | The Search for Better Schools |
| 1956 | Gerald W. Brace | The Age of the Novel |
| 1956 | Chester S. Keefer | Medical Science and Society |
| 1955 | Frank T. Nowak | Russian Imperial and Soviet Foreign Policy |
| 1954 | Walter G. Muelder | The Idea of a Responsible Society |
| 1954 | Edward Wagenknecht | The Unknown Longfellow |
| 1953 | William Malamud | Psychosomatics: A Medical Definition of Body-Mind Relationship |
| 1953 | Karl Geiringer | The Bachs: A Family Portrait |
| 1952 | Elmer A. Leslie | The Intimate Papers of Jeremiah |
| 1952 | Sanford B. Hooker | The Individualities of the Human Blood |
| 1951 | Warren O. Ault | The Self-Directing Activities of village Communities in Medieval England |
| 1950 | Brenton r. Lutz | The Living Blood Vessels |
