Honors College Lecture Series

Lectures

​Everyone is welcome to attend! All lectures are at 6pm.
Week 2
  • February 2, 2021: "Francis Galton: Fingerprints and Eugenics" by Harold Goldwhite (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Week 4
  • February 17, 2021: "Why is cancer so tough to beat?" by Jamil Momand (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
​Week 6
  • March 3, 2021: "Genetic Screening, Social Inequality, and the Bandwagon Effect" by Elaine Draper (Sociology)
Week 9
  • ​​​​March 24, 2021: "On the Use and Abuse of Pride: Augustine and Rousseau on the Extraordinary Consequences of an Ordinary Passion" by Michael McLendon (Political Science) 
Week 11
  • ​​​​April 14, 2021:  “D’où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?” ("Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?") by Franz Metcalf (History)
Week 13
  • ​​​​April 27, 2021: “Debunking the myth of evolutionary progress: why there are no missing links or living fossils.” by Kirsten Fisher