Tuesday, October 11
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Geoff Calkins is an award-winning sports columnist for The Commercial Appeal, in Memphis, Tenn. He has twice been named Best
Sports Columnist in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors,
and has won the Green Eyeshade Award as the Best Sports Columnist
in the south three times. Calkins also writes one metro-section column
a week for The Commercial Appeal, makes daily radio appearances on
the Gary Parrish Show with Geoff Calkins, and hosts the weekly television show, Sports Files with Geoff Calkins, on WKNO (Memphis PBS). Co-Sponsor:
Skyhawk Athletic
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Thursday, October 27
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Dr. Albert Wiley, M.D., Ph.D., is the medical and technical
director of radiation emergency medicine programs at Oak Ridge
Associated Universities with overall responsibility for the medical
care, continuing medical education courses and research conducted
by the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site. REAC/
TS is a U.S. Department of Energy facility managed by ORAU. He
is also head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center
at Oak Ridge. Co-Sponsor: UT Martin Chapter of the Student Members of the American
Chemical Society
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Wednesday, November 16
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Mark Whitaker is the executive vice president and managing
editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker is responsible for leading editorial coverage across CNN's multiple platforms and directing the overall
approach, tone and scope of CNN's reporting. Whitaker most recently
served as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief for NBC
News, succeeding the late Tim Russert in July 2008. In that role, he was
responsible for Washington-based programming for NBC and MSNBC,
including Meet the Press and the network's political coverage.
Co-Sponsor: Student Affair
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Tuesday, January 31
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Dr. Julie Hill, director of percussion studies at the University of Tennessee at Martin, is highly regarded as a performer and pedagogue
specializing in contemporary and world percussion. She has presented
clinics and concerts for universities and state Day of Percussion festivals
throughout the U.S. and is a frequent guest lecturer and performer on
the topic of Brazilian percussion
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Thursday, February 2
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Rick Bragg is an American author and journalist known for his
non-fiction books, especially those on his family in Alabama. Bragg
won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 for his work at The
New York Times.
Co-Sponsors: Paul Meek Library, Friends of Paul Meek Library and Martha C. Meek Endowmen
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Thursday, February 23
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Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer,
advocate and legal scholar who currently holds a joint appointment at
the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz
College of Law at the Ohio State University. In 2005, she won a Soros
Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of her first book, The
New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New
Press, 2010).
Co-Sponsor: Civil Rights Conference
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Thursday, March 22
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Robert Gallucci became president of the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation on July 1, 2009. He also served as dean
of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service for 13 years, and he has authored a number of publications on
political-military issues.
Co-Sponsor: Center for Global Studies
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Thursday, March 29
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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is an astronomer, author and speaker. She
has studied star-forming regions of our galaxy using radio, optical and
infrared telescopes and currently serves as the senior project scientist for
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Wiseman also has an interest in
public science policy and has served as a Congressional Science Fellow
of the American Physical Society, working with the staff of the Science
Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Tuesday, April 3
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Dr. Wesley Harris earned a bachelor of science degree (with
honors) in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in
1964; a masters of arts and a doctor of philosophy degree in aerospace
and mechanical sciences from Princeton University in 1966 and
1968 respectively. He has been recognized with membership in the
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Cosmos Club and Confrerie des Chavaliers du Tastevin, and he has been awarded several
honorary doctorate degrees. He currently holds the position of Charles Stark Draper
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Provost for Faculty Equity and
Director of the Lean Sustainment Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Co-Sponsors: Sigma Xi Research Society, College of
Engineering and Natural Sciences and College of Agriculture and Applied Science
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