Speaker | Topic |
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Saundra Yancy McGuire, PhD, Director Emerita Center for Academic Success (CAS), (ret) Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University | Metacognition and mindset: Changing perspectives on intelligence |
Ann Soukhanov, lexicographer, columnist and U.S. General editor of the Encarta Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition | Our language as a marker of where we have been and a predictor of where we are heading as a society |
Alan Farrell, PhD,(ret) Professor of French, Virginia Military Institute | Fudge Motors Inc.: The Model T Ford operator’s manual and the modern mind |
Deanna Cash, PhD, Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development, School of Education and Human Development, University of Lynchburg | The future of (special) education: Will we ever truly have no child left behind |
Alisha Marciano, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Sciences, University of Lynchburg | Cyber bullying and Facebook preoccupation: Potential harmful effects of constant connectedness |
Thomas W. Nygaard, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Centra Health | Health care change: The health care affordability act or inevitability? |
Nancy Welch ’68, MD, Director, Virginia Department of Health | Healing emotional wounds: One step forward – two steps back |
Mike Davis ’08, Project Director, Exhaled Breath Research, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing | Exhaled breath: Biomarkers for therapy |
Jim Herrick, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, James Madison University | Antibiotic resistance: Are we on the threshold of a post-antibiotic era? |
Kate Skaggs ’06, CoastSmart Communities Planner, Maryland Department of Natural Resources | Death by a thousand cuts? Local impacts of global climate change in coastal management |
Lauren Braithwaite Dianich, AIA President, Atelier 11 Ltd. Architecture, and Jon Braithwaite, AIA | Demystifying the LEED process |
Elise Sheffield, MTS, Education Director, Boxerwood Nature Center, Lexington, Va. | “I’ve always wanted to be a hero” – Caring for the Earth and each other at Boxerwood |
Candace Todd, PhD, Assistant Professor of Communications, School of Communications and the Arts | Seeking inspiration: Dialectical perspectives on epideictic rhetoric |
Eric Kyper, PhD, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, School of Business and Economics, University of Lynchburg | Is online privacy an obsolete idea? |
Amy Merrill Willis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lynchburg | Narratives of the self: The Bible, modernity and the dystopian future |
Anna-Marion Bieri, LLM, Assistant Professor of Practice, Director of Science, Technology & Law Program, Virginia Tech | Intellectual property – Trends and issues in science and technology |
Bradley W. Bateman, PhD, President, Randolph College | Topic TBA |
Jennifer Thomas, Executive Director of the Virginia Association of Museums | Historic houses and sustainability: Why it matters. |
Kirt von Daacke, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia | Awash in a sea of risk: The free Afro-Virginian struggle to define freedom and achieve economic independence in an agrarian slave society |
L. Kimball Payne, City Manager, Lynchburg, Virginia | Keeping Lynchburg’s financial house in order |
David O. Freier, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Science and Biology, School of Sciences, and Director, Senior Symposium and the University of Lynchburg Symposium Readings Program | 42 and ’70: Professional baseball’s integration and the end of the reserve clause |
Lindsay Pieper, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sports Management, School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, University of Lynchburg | Testing sex to verify gender: The International Olympic Committee’s control of women’s sport, 1968–1988 |
Hilary Scott, Men’s Head Basketball Coach, University of Lynchburg | The culture of high school athletics and its influence on college athletics |
Bob Sullivan, MD | |
Virginia Cylke, PhD, associate professor of psychology | Gender identity and sexual orientation: Examining nature vs. nurture |
David Oliver, PhD, David Oliver, former professor at MIT, author of The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World and Sacred Attraction: Meditations on God and Science | The free spirit in the machine: Constraint and freedom in the biology of human action |
Jessica Gordon-Roth, PhD, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, Washington and Lee University | Can Locke respond to Reid’s brave officer? |
Gary Krapf, PhD, State Council of Higher Education in Virginia | Free will and the relationship to cognitive and behavioral psychology |
Sean Collins, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology | Exercise, nutrition, and cognition: How they connect |
Dominic Barrett, Director of the United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond and Shalom Farms | Free will in a food desert |
Glenn D. Stone, PhD, professor of anthropology and environmental studies, Washington University in St. Louis. | Frankenfoods! |
Christopher Bakken, PhD, associate professor and Chair of English, Allegheny College | From Greece to the garage: Case studies in subversive eating |
Taylor Thompson ’14 and Laura Dupuy, Director of Lynchburg Neighborhood Development Corporation | Homelessness in Lynchburg |
Michael E. Mann, PhD, professor of meteorology and Director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State University | Dire predictions: Understanding global warming |
Cory Booker, JD, 36th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey; 2012 Stanford University Commencement Speaker (via YouTube) | A conspiracy of love |
Eben Alexander, MD, neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey through the Afterlife | What does the phenomenon of consciousness reveal about free will? |
Nina Salmon, MEd Assistant Professor of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Assistant Director of Senior Symposium and LCSR | A color line runs through it |
Jordan Hill, MA and Doctoral Candidate Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT), Virginia Tech | Does genuine free will require sacrifice? |
Sharon Bryant, Monacan Tribal Chief | Our neighbors the Monacan Indian nation |
Gary Phillip ’71, PhD, Dean of the College and professor of religious studies, Wabash College | Representing the irreparable: the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak |
James F. Pontuso, PhD, Patterson Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Hampden-Sydney College | Resistance, freedom, and responsibility in Kurdish Iraq |
Laura Kicklighter, PhD Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lynchburg | Biology and destiny: Genetics and moral responsibility |
W. Michael Bryant, President and CEO, Centra Health | Health care and health policy |
Richard Stein, PhD, postdoctoral associate, Rockefeller University, laboratory of molecular biology and biochemistry | Vaccination: interdisciplinary perspectives and crossroads |
Cynthia Ramsey, DMA, Associate Professor of Music, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Lynchburg. | Engaging the creative: The lessons of Stravinsky, Sessions, Spielberg and Starbucks |
Siobhan Byrns, MAT., MFA, Assistant Professor of Art, School of Communications and the Arts, University of Lynchburg | The fear of thinking creatively |
Bill Hamilton, PhD, associate professor of biology, Washington and Lee University | Blue Lab Brewing: creativity in small business |
J. P. Briggs, PhD, professor of writing, linguistics, and creative process at Western Connecticut State University | Genius as a process |