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Provost’s Lecture Series Hosts John Hartwig on May 5

Catalyzing Organic Synthesis From Prozac to perfume and from sustainable plastics to solar energy, catalysis enables our current standard of living and controls our potential to progress sustainably. The reduced...

April 25, 2023

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May 4 Provost’s Lecture: Challenges in Real-time Earthquake Shaking and Impact Estimation

David Wald is a prominent seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Golden, Colorado. He is leading the research, management, operations and development for the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)...

April 28, 2022

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April 29 Provost’s Lecture: Makoto Fujita Explores Latest Advances in Coordination Self-Assembly

Makoto Fujita introduced the concept of “metal-directed self-assembly” to supramolecular chemistry, creating building blocks from transition metal groups and organic molecules that self-assemble into large...

April 21, 2022

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Nov. 22 Provost’s Lecture: Dirac’s Dramatic Road to a Nobel Prize in Physics

Mats Larsson is a professor of physics at Stockholm University and director of the AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm, which is a joint scientific center between the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm...

November 11, 2019

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October 24 Provost’s Lecture with Dean Adams and Presentation of Rohlf Medal

Morphometrics, Macroevolution, and an Effect Size Measure for Multivariate Data Dean Adams is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State University, where he is the Director of Graduate Education in Ecology and...

October 11, 2019

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October 18 Provost’s Lecture on the Growing Field of Reticular Chemistry

Reticular Chemistry Leading to Carbon Capture and Water Harvesting from Air Omar Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. He received a BS in chemistry from SUNY Albany (1985)...

October 4, 2019

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October 4 Provost’s Lecture on Mobile Cognitive Health Research

Dr. Martin Sliwinski is Director of the Center for Healthy Aging, Gregory H. Wolf Professor of Aging Studies, and Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His expertise is in...

September 23, 2019

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October 2 Provost’s Lecture on Indigenous Historians in Colonial Mexico

Camilla Townsend is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is a leading scholar in Nahuatl, the Aztec language and culture of the central valley of Mexico, and in the complex colonial mixing of...

September 17, 2019

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April 25 Provost’s Lecture: I Am Therefore I Think

Karl Friston is Professor of Neurology at University College London. He is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. Although he trained in psychiatry, his revolutionary impact on studies of the brain...

April 17, 2019

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April 11 Provost’s Lecture: Transnational Families as Public Spaces

Multilingualism, Ideologies and Identity Online Elizabeth Lanza is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, and Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society Across...

April 1, 2019

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April 3 Provost’s Lecture: Seeing Human Rights Through Film

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina, Asheville and an affiliated professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden. He is also a member of the Economic and Social...

March 25, 2019

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March 28 Provost’s Lecture: The Entrepreneur’s Edge 2019

Dawn Zier — The Entrepreneur’s Edge 2019: Company Culture and Its Impact on Growth Dawn Zier is President and Chief Executive Officer of Nutrisystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRI), an innovative provider of weight loss programs...

March 14, 2019

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March 14 Provost’s Lecture: A Dialogue on Diversity

Patricia Matthew—Diversity, Faculty Retention, and Institutional Practices: A Dialogue Patricia A. Matthew, Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University, is the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity...

March 4, 2019

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Quantum Immersion Workshop to Showcase Research

The goal of the Quantum Immersion Workshop — held on Monday, February 25, from 8 am to 5 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center — is to build a Quantum Information Science (QIS) community of researchers at Stony Brook...

February 14, 2019

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February 8 Provost’s Lecture: Darwin’s Really Dangerous Idea

The Evolution of Beauty: Darwin’s Really Dangerous Idea Richard Prum is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University. He is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist with broad interests...

January 28, 2019

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October 23 Provost’s Lecture with Kenneth Langone and Roberto Mignone

Kenneth Langone is the founder and CEO of Invemed Associates LLC, a New York Stock Exchange member firm specializing in healthcare and high-technology companies. He received a BA from Bucknell University and an MBA from...

October 18, 2018

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2018 How Class Works Conference Features Speaker Rhonda Williams

Rhonda Y. Williams, Professor of History, John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History at Vanderbilt University, will discuss “The Things That Divide Us: Meditations” as part of the 2018 How Class Works...

May 24, 2018

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April 20 Provost’s Lecture: Metaphors in Our Lives

Metaphors in Our Lives: “I Love You for Yourself” Alexander Nehamas is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature and the Carpenter Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, and a Fellow...

April 5, 2018

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