Previous Lectures

22 May 2008
Javad Kekmat-panah, M.D.
Neuroscientists at the University of Chicago

30 November 2006
Stephan S. Meyer
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Light from the Big Bang

27 April 2006
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Simplifying Complexities Using Microfluids

October 2005
Scott A. Branting
Simulating Where We Walk: Understanding Activity and Choice in the Past and Present

28 April 2005
Martha K. McClintock
Race Matters!?! Social Causes of Fertility and Cancer

5 May 2004
Clemens Reichel
Counting the Losses: Archaeology in Iraq One Year after the War.

27 January 2004.
29 April 2003
Harinder Singh
Stem Cells: Science and Ethics

11 February 2003
Peter Dorman
Creation on the Porrter's Wheel: Ceramic Sculpture and the 'Big Bang' in Ancient Eqypt

1 May 2002
Bruce Winstein
What We are Learning about the Mystery of the Cosmos

29 January 2002
Olaf Schneewind.
Bacterial Pathogenesis or Biological Warfare: Anthrax and Other Infectious Diseases

1 May 2001
Explosions, Bombs and Politics: Modeling a Type Ia Supernova

6 February 2001
Nancy Cox
Why are Complex Diseases Complex? Diabetes: Puzzle and Paradigm

26 April 2000
Michael Roizen
What I've Learned about Changing the Health of the Nation... How You Can Easily Keep Your RealAge Young

9 February 2000
Stephen Stigler
Addition Doesn't Always Work: Statistical Paradoxes with Scientific Implications

6 May 1999
Sangram Sisodia
Human Neurogenerative Diseases: Lessons from Transgenic Animal Models

2 February 1999
John Carlstrom
Exploring the Origin and Ultimate Fate of the Universe

13 May 1998
Susan Lindquist
Prions: Unravelling the Mystery of New Diseases and New Forms of Inheritance

11 February 1998
Sidney Nagel
The Properties of Granular Materials: Why Sand is Science

14 May 1997
Raphael Lee and Kathleen Kelly
The Human Aesthetic Response to Deformity: A Mind-Brain Perspective

18 February 1997
Saunders Mac Lane
Should Universities Imitate Industry?