PHI KAPPA PHI LECTURES
2010-2011 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2010 ( November, 1, 2010)
Dr. Nancy Warren
Professor, Department of Nursing
College of Agriculture and Applied Science
Title of Presentation: "The Life and Times of Florence Nightingale"
Muriel Tomlinson Lecture
Spring 2011 (February 8, 2011)
Dr. Julie Hill
Department of Music
College of Humanites and Fine Arts
Title of Presentation: "The Black Music of Brazil: An Emphasis on Social Transformation for Women and Children Through Escola Dida"
2009-2010 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2009 (October 27, 2009)
Dr. Mary Lee Hall
Dean, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Those who can, do; Those who can do more, Teach"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2010 (March 2, 2010)
Dr. Christopher A. Hill
Department of English
Title of Presentation:"'I Cannot Keep Decorum Personae': A Renaissance Rhetoric of Strife"
2008-2009 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2008 (October 28, 2007)
Dr. Mary A. Lemons
Department of Management, Marketing, and Political Science
Title of Presentation: “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lessons from a Management Pioneer”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2009 (February 10, 2009)
Dr. David Barber
Department of History and Philosophy
Title of Presentation: "Poverty, Plenty, and the World Economic Crisis"
2007-2008 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2007 (October 30, 2007)
Dr. Stephanie Kolitsch
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Title of Presentation: “Mathematics and Magic”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecture
Spring 2008 (February 12, 2008)
Dr. Daniel Nappo
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: “The Rise and Fall of Mexican Cinema”
2006-2007 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2006 (November 28, 2006)
Dr. Ann Gathers
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Title of Presentation: “About Face: Neural Developmental Changes in Face Recognition”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecture
Spring 2007 (February 13, 2007)
Mr. Douglas Cook
Chair, Department Visual and Theatre Arts
Title of Presentation: “Cultural Aesthetic Outlooks: Why We Like What We Like When We Like It”
2005-2006 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2005 (November 9, 2005)
Dr. Ernest R. Moser
Dean, Business and Public Affairs
Title of Presentation: "The Future of Baccalaureate Education: Business and Beyond"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturers
Spring 2006 (Feb. 13, 2006)
Dr. Lisa LeBleu and Ms. Teresa Collard
Department of Family and Consumer Science and Department of Communication
Title of Presentation: “Gender Equity in Education”
2004-2005 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2004 (November 16, 2004)
Dr. J. Douglas Sterrett
Dean, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Energy, Entropy and What Will We Do When the Oil Runs Out?"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2005 (February 15, 2005)
Dr. David Coffey
Chair, Department of History and Philosophy
Title of Presentation: “The Great Triumvirate of Union Victory: Observations on the Unlikely Rise of Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan”
2003-2004 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2003
Dr. James L. Byford
Dean, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Hunting, A Cultural Vestige — How Long Should We Cling to Our Roots?"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2004
Dr. Margrethe Ahlschwede
Associate Professor of English
Title of Presentation: “Learning to Write Is Like Learning the Two Step”
2002-2003 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2002
Dr. James R. Clark
Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems
Title of Presentation: "Nerds 3.14159: A Look at Computers, Those Who Program Them, and Computer Science"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2003
Dr. E. Jerald Ogg
Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Title of Presentation: “Holland McCombs and the Mystery of Life”
2001-2002 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2001
Dr. Rebecca Irwin
Associate Professor, Biology
Title of Presentation: "How Evolution Doesn’t Work—and How It Does: From Cartoons to Current Research"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2002
Dr. Andrew Schopp
Assistant Professor, English
Title of Presentation: “Transgressing the ‘Safe Space’: Scream, The Blair Witch Project and Generation X Horror Films”
2000-2001 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 2000
Dr. Otha Britton
Director, Computer Services
Title of Presentation: "35 Years of Computing at UT Martin"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2001
Mr. Stanley Sieber
Assistant Professor, History
Title of Presentation: “Extending the Walls of UTM”
1999-2000 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1999
Dr. Richard J. Helgeson
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Title of Presentation: "Structural Control of a TV Communications Tower in Nanjing,China"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 2000
Dr. Frank Black
Professor, Educational Studies
Title of Presentation: “National Education Standards: What Is All the Fuss About?”
1998-1999 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1998
Dr. Nell S. Gullett
Assistant Professor, International Business, Finance, Economics, and Marketing
Title of Presentation: "Economic Value Added as a Determinant of Stock Returns"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1999
Dr. Daniel F. Pigg
Associate Professor, English Department
Title of Presentation: “Apocalypse Then: The Ideology of Literary Form in Piers Plowman”
1997-1998 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1997
Dr. James L. Byford
Dean, Agriculture and Human Environment
Title of Presentation: "The Rainforest Conundrum"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1998
Dr. Paul B. Crapo
Chair, Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: “Gustave Courbet: Social Reformer? Political Activist? Or Publicity Hound?”
1996-1997 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1996
Dr. David Pitts
Professor, Biological Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Natural Selection in Bugs, Birds, and Schools"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1997
Dr. Polly S. Glover
Professor, English Department
Title of Presentation: “Discovering Self: From Women’s Texts to Experience”
1995-1996 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1995
Dr. Robert M. Smith
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Title of Presentation: "What Leaders Do and How They Do It"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1996
Dr. Milton D. Simmons
Department of Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Title of Presentation: “The Governor’s School for the Humanities and Its Impact on This Region and State”
1994-1995 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1994
Dr. Maria Malone
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "Brazil’s Global Impact"
Special Lecturer
Spring 1995
Dr. Bruce Beck
University of Georgia
Title of Presentation: “The Water Infrastructure of Sustainable Cities of the Mid-21st Century”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1995 (April 25, 1995)
Dr. Michael Caldwell
Department of Music
Lecture/Recital: “Death and Transformation, an Exploration and Performance of Chopin's B-flat Minor Sonata (Funeral March) and Liszt's Sonata in B-Minor”
1993-1994 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1993
Dr. Michael A. Gibson
Department of Geography, Geology, and Physics
Title of Presentation: "The History of Life on Earth: Lessons from Tennessee’s Ancient Past"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1994
Dr. Lynn M. Alexander
Department of English
Title of Presentation: “The Ghost in the Looking Glass: Women, Work, and Victorian Literature"
1992-1993 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1992
Dr. Jeff R. Clark
Department of Economics and Finance
Title of Presentation: "National Health Care: Myth and Realities"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1993
Dr. William H. Zachry Jr.
Department of Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Title of Presentation: “It's All in Your Mind: Cognitive Obstacles to Getting Along with Others"
1991-1992 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1991
Dr. Parker Cashdollar
Department of Economics and Finance
Title of Presentation: "An Economic System You Can Live With"
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1992
Dr. Stephen P. Mohler
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: “The Columbus Papers: The Role of Languages and Letters in His Triumphs"
1990-1991 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1990
Dr. Jimmy Trentham
Department of Biological Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Genetic Engineering: Potential Benefits and Potential Abuses”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1991
Dr. Roy Neil Graves II
Department English
Title of Presentation: “Shakespeare’s Lost Sonnets"
1989-1990 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1989
Dr. Choong S. Kim
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Title of Presentation: "Role of ‘Non-Western’ Anthropologist Reconsidered: Fantasy of Nativeness versus Reality of Marginality”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1990
Dr. Theodore Mosch
Department of History and Political Science
Title of Presentation: “Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe in 1989"
1988-1989 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1988
Dr. David Loebbaka
Department of Geosciencs and Physics
Title of Presentation: "Lasers: A Demonstration Lecture”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1989
Dr. F. Louis Mouldin
Department of Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
1987-1988 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1987
Dr. Gopal K. Sharma
Department of Biological Studies
Title of Presentation: "Cannabis (Marihuana)”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1988
Dr. Barbara Jones
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial
Spring 1988
Dr. Maria Malone
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "The Influence of Brazilian Art"
1986-1987 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
February 12, 1986
Dr. Goetz Seifert
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "A Cultural and Historical Look at the German Speaking People”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
April 2, 1987
Dr. Lonnie Maness
Department of History and Political Science
Title of Presentation: “An Untutored Military Genius: The First West Tennessee Campaign of General Nathan Bedford Forrest”
1985-1986 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
November 12, 1985
Dr. William Nelson
Department of Biology
Title of Presentation: "Interesting Snakes I Have Met”
Special Lecturer
February 5, 1986
Dr. Gary Young
School of Business
Title of Presentation: “Free Enterprise or Not”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1986
Dr. Milton Simmons
Department of Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Title of Presentation: “Adjustments of UTM International Students to College Life”
1984-1985 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1984
Dr. Allison Nelson
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Title of Presentation: "Classical Music and the Layman”
Special Lecturer
January 17, 1985
Mr. Joe Stroud
Title of Presentation: “Japan: National Identity and Future Decisions”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Fall 1985
Dr. Jim Andreas
Department of English
Title of Presentation: “Comic and Tragic Modes in Romeo and Juliet”
1983-1984 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1983
Dr. Larry Ingram
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Special Lecturer
Fall 1983
Ms. Sandra Baker Acosta
Title of Presentation: “A Medieval Romance, Ille et Gabron of Gantier d’Arras: Names, Numerololgy, and Narrative Structure”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
March 1, 1984
Dr. Stephen Mohler
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: “Microcomputers and Education”
1982-1983 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
November 9, 1982
Dr. Gary Brown
Department of Psychology and Religious Studies
Title of Presentation: "A Scientific Inquiry into Humor: It’s No Laughing Matter”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
Spring 1983
Dr. Charles Smith
Chancellor of the University
Title of Presentation: “Sputnik II—Where Are You When We Need You?”
1981-1982 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
November 17, 1981
Dr. William Baker
School of Business
Title of Presentation: "Popular Economic Doctrines in the 20th Century”
Muriel Tomlinson Memorial Lecturer
February 17, 1982
Dr. Patrick Taylor
Department of History and Political Science
Title of Presentation: “Languages and Other Necessities”
1980-1981 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1980
Dr. Bob Duck
School of Agriculture
1979-1980 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
October 25, 1979
Dr. David Loebbaka
Department of Geoscience and Physics
Title of Presentation: "Physics Is a Liberal Art”
1978-79 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
1977-1978 Phi Kappa Phi Lectures
Faculty Lecturer
Fall 1977
Dr. Kellie Jones
Department of English
List compiled by Anna Clark
PKP Secretary, 2002-2004
(Updated in January 2011 by Tyler Baggett, Writing Center Student Assistant and Webmaster)
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