FACULTY LECTURES
Fall 2011 (October 25, 2011)
Dr. Becky Cox
Professor, Ecuational Studies
Title of Presentation: "Think, Understand, Succeed"
Fall 2010 (November 1, 2010)
Dr. Nancy Warren
Department of Nursing
Title of Presentation: “The Life and Times of Florence Nightingale”
Dr. Mary Lee Hall
Dean, Education and Behavioral Science
Title of Presentation: “Those who can, do; Those who can do more, Teach”
Fall 2008 (October 28, 2008)
Dr. Mary A. Lemons
Department of Managment, Marketing, and Political Science
Title of Presentation: “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lessons from a Management Pioneer”
Fall 2007 (October 30, 2007)
Dr. Stephanie Kolitsch
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Title of Presentation: “Mathematics and Magic”
Fall 2006 (November 28, 2006)
Dr. Ann Gathers
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Title of Presentation: “About Face: Neural Developmental Changes in Face Recognition”
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"
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?"
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?"
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"
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"
Fall 2000
Dr. Otha Britton
Director, Computer Services
Title of Presentation: "35 Years of Computing at UT Martin"
Fall 1999
Dr. Richard J. Helgeson
Assistant Professor, Engineering
Title of Presentation: "Structural Control of a TV Communications Tower in Nanjing,China"
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"
Fall 1997
Dr. James L. Byford
Dean, Agriculture and Human Environment
Title of Presentation: "The Rainforest Conundrum"
Fall 1996
Dr. J. David Pitts
Professor, Biological Sciences
Title of Presentation: "Natural Selection in Bugs, Birds, and Schools"
Fall 1995
Dr. Robert M. Smith
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Title of Presentation: "What Leaders Do and How They Do It"
Fall 1994
Dr. Maria Malone
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "Brazil’s Global Impact"
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"
Fall 1992
Dr. Jeff R. Clark
Department of Economics and Finance
Title of Presentation: "National Health Care: Myth and Realities"
Fall 1991
Dr. Parker Cashdollar
Department of Economics and Finance
Title of Presentation: "An Economic System You Can Live With"
Fall 1990
Dr. Jimmy Trentham
Department of Biological Studies
Title of Presentation: "Genetic Engineering: Potential Benefits and Potential Abuses”
Fall 1989
Dr. Choong S. Kim
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Title of Presentation: "Role of ‘Non-Western’ Anthropologist Reconsidered: Fantasy of Nativeness verses Reality of Marginality”
Fall 1988
Dr. David Loebbaka
Department of Geosciencs and Physics
Title of Presentation: "Lasers: A Demonstration Lecture”
Fall 1987
Dr. Gopal K. Sharma
Department of Biological Studies
Title of Presentation: "Cannabis (Marihuana)”
February 12, 1986
Dr. Goetz Seifert
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "A Cultural and Historical Look at the German Speaking People”
November 12, 1985
Dr. William Nelson
Department of Biology
Title of Presentation: "Interesting Snakes I Have Met”
Special Lecture
February 5, 1986
Dr. Gary Young
School of Business
Title of Presentation: “Free Enterprise or Not”
Fall 1984
Dr. Allison Nelson
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Title of Presentation: "Classical Music and the Layman”
Special Lecture
January 17, 1985
Mr. Joe Stroud
Title of Presentation: “Japan: National Identity and Future Decisions”
Fall 1983
Dr. Larry Ingram
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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”
November 17, 1981
Dr. William Baker
School of Business
Title of Presentation: "Popular Economic Doctrines in the 2oth Century”
Fall 1980
Dr. Bob Duck
School of Agriculture
October 25, 1979
Dr. David Loebbaka
Department of Geoscience and Physics
Title of Presentation: "Physics Is a Liberal Art”
Fall 1977
Dr. Kellie Jones
Department of English
List compiled by Anna Clark
PKP Secretary, 2002-2004
(Updated March 2012)
Organized by Rebecca McClure and Sam Stephens (2008)