Washington University in St. Louis


			Previous Events: May 28, 2008 Composers at Work Hugh Macdonald, Ph.D. Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music April 30, 2008 The Impact of Human Activity on Biodiversity Alan Templeton, Ph.D. Professor of Biology March 26, 2008 Space Mission Failures... or When Rocket Science, Politics and Human Nature Collide Michael Swartwout, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering February 27, 2008 Video Surveillance: Fact and Fiction Robert Pless, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering January 30, 2008 King Corn Ken Olsen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology November 28, 2007 Quarks in the Universe Mark Alford, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics October 31, 2007 Donkeys from the Land of the Dead: The Skeletons of Abydos Fiona B. Marshall, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology May 30, 2007 Cognitive Illusions: How the Mind Bends Reality Henry L. Roediger, III, Ph.D. James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology April 25, 2007 Robotic Exploration of Mars and Revisiting the Moon Bradley Jolliff, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences March 28, 2007 Muslims in the West: Taking Europe as an Example John Bowen, Ph.D. Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology February 28, 2007 Einstein: What Did He Do? How Did He Do It? Who Was He? John Rigden, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Physics January 31, 2007 Is it Natural to be Moral? Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D. Professor of Biology November 29, 2006 The Upside of Being Upright Herman Pontzer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology October 25, 2006 “Corpus Delicti: Just Desserts” Performance by Local Infinities: Visual Theater Company, Chicago May 31, 2006 Cosmic Rays: Adventures in Antarctica Robert Binns Research Professor of Physics April 26, 2006 Chernobyl Twenty Years Later - the Tragic Fallout in Belarus Richard Chapman Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting, Department of Film and Media Studies March 29, 2006 Man, The Hunted Robert Sussman, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology February 22, 2006 Solar Energy and Nuclear Energy: Promise for the 21st Century? Mark Wrighton, Ph.D. Chancellor, Washington University in Saint Louis January 25, 2006 Minerals that Harm, Minerals that Help Jill Pasteris, Ph.D. Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences November 30, 2005 Plants and People—Is Your Beer Green? Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D. Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology October 25, 2005 Chaos John E. M^cCarthy, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics September 28, 2005 The Sumatra Earthquake, Could It Happen Here? Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences