Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academics

Previous Seasons

1998-1999 Season

February 22, 1999
Daniel S. Goldin, Ph.D.
NASA Administrator

March 8, 1999
The Honorable George Bush
The Forty-First President of the United States
and Barbara Pierce Bush

April 28, 1999
Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
President, Institute for Exploration

May 3, 1999
Yvonna S. Lincoln, Ph.D.
Professor of Educational Administration
Texas A&M University

1999-2000 Season

November 22, 1999
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Chancellor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, The DeBakey Heart Center of Baylor and Methodist Hospital

February 23, 2000
Sheila Widnall, Ph.D.
Institute Professor, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, 1992-1997

April 6, 2000
F. Sherwood Rowland, Ph.D.
Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science
The University of California at Irvine
1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

April 26, 2000
Albert S. Broussard, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Holder of the Elton P. Lewis Faculty Fellowship
Texas A&M University

2000-2001 Season

October 30, 2000
John P. Fackler, Jr., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Toxicology
Texas A&M University

December 5, 2000
Jonathan Weiner
Writer
Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

February 15, 2001
Paul Sereno, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
University of Chicago

March 27, 2001
Dennis Mileti, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Director, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
University of Colorado, Boulder

April 10, 2001
Roger S. Ulrich, Ph.D.
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and of Architecture and
Director of the Center for Health Systems and Design
Texas A&M University

2001-2002 Season

November 8, 2001
Norman Hackerman, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
The Welch Foundation

December 4, 2001
James E. Womack, Ph.D.
Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology
Texas A&M University

February 20, 2002
Rex M. Ellis, Ed.D
Vice President for the Historic Area
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

April 17, 2002
Paul J. Fox, Ph.D.
Professor of Oceanography and Geology and Geophysics
Director, Ocean Drilling Program
Texas A&M University

2002-2003 Season

September 19, 2002
William B. F. Ryan, Ph.D.
Doherty Senior Scholar
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

December 3, 2002
Leonard L. Berry, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Marketing and
M. B. Zale Chair of Retailing and Marketing Leadership
Texas A&M University

February 18, 2003
Jack St. Clair Kilby
Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics

April 8, 2003
Marvin W. Rowe, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Texas A&M University

2003-2004 Season

November 6, 2003
Rita Dove, M.F.A.
Commonwealth Professor of English
University of Virginia

December 2, 2003
Roger D. Launius, Ph.D.
Division of Space History
Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum

February 3, 2004
Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D.
W.H. Brady Fellow
American Enterprise Institute

March 2, 2004
Raymond J. Carroll, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Statistics
Texas A&M University

April 13, 2004
Katherine I. Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication
Texas A&M University

2004-2005 Season

September 21, 2004
George C. Edwards, III, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Texas A&M University

October 12, 2004
Jonathan Spence, Ph.D.

November 17, 2004
Dame Julia Polak, M.D.
Professor and Chairman of Histochemistry, Hammersmith Hospital
London, England
Director, Tissue Engineering Center,
Imperial College School of Medicine,
United Kingdom

March 8, 2005
David G. Woodcock, F.A.I.A.
Professor of Architecture
Texas A&M University

March 22, 2005
Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and
Professor of Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

April 5, 2005
Christopher Leaver, Ph.D.
Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Science
Oxford University

2005-2006 Season

October 10, 2005
Samuel P. Huntington, Ph.D.
Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor
Harvard University

November 28, 2005
Jay Parini, Ph.D.
D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing, Department of English
Middlebury College

February 7, 2006
Bruce H. Robison, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

March 28, 2006
Ian Tizard, Ph.D.
Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology and
Holder of the Richard M. Schubot Chair in Avian Health
Texas A&M University

April 25, 2006
Mark Holtzapple, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University

2006-2007 Season

October 10, 2006
Robert P. Kirshner
Clowes Professor of Science
Department of Astronomy
Harvard University

November 14, 2006
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

February 7, 2007
Steven E. Smith
Professor of Library Science
Associate Dean for Advancement
Director of the Cushing Library
Holder of the Dr. C. Clifford Wendler Endowed Professorship
Texas A&M University

March 20, 2007
Joanne R. Lupton
Professor of Nutrition and Food Science and
of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition
Texas A&M University

May 1, 2007
Lonnie G. Thompson
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
The Ohio State University