Lecture

Every spring semester the Honors College sponsors a nationally-recognized speaker to discuss their area of expertise and how they "know what they know." The Honors Lecture is intended to model the joy of learning and exploration, especially for honors students as they embark on the creation of new knowledge in their senior capstone projects. Although the Honors Lecture is open to the entire campus community, honors students have an opportunity to share a meal with the speaker.

2024
Tara Isabella Burton
Author
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

2023
Kerri Moseley-Hobbs
Executive Director
More Than A Fraction Foundation

2022
Stephen T. Asma
Professor of Philosphy at Columbia College Chicago
Senior Fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science and Culture

2020
John Rich, MD, MPH
Professor of Health Management and Policy
Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice

2019
Karen Duffin
Host and Reporter
NPR's Planet Money

2018
Ella Morton
Senior Editor and Co-Author
Atlas Obscura

2017
Latif Nasser
Director
Research at Radiolab

2016
Alex Hutchinson
Journalist and Author
Endure

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