Past Speakers
2012 Speaker
Susan Solomon
7 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Jordan Ballroom, Student Union Bldg.
“A Tale for Our Times: Something for Everyone about Climate Change and the Reasons for Climate Gridlock”
Solomon is internationally recognized as a leader in atmospheric science, particularly for her insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone “hole” and for her leadership of the 2007 science report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2007 she won the Nobel Prize along with Al Gore and other IPCC members. She currently focuses on issues relating to both atmospheric chemistry and climate change.
October 6, 2011 RAJ PATEL , Award-winning writer, food activist and academic.
December 1, 2010 JODY WILLIAMS, humanitarian and Nobel Laureate.
February 16, 2010: STEVE FAINARU, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and author of “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq.”
April 16, 2008: WILLIAM McDONOUGH, internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call “The Next Industrial Revolution.”
October 16, 2007: LOUIS SULLIVAN, former secretary of health and human services under President George H.W. Bush.
March 12, 2007: HANS BLIX, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq and author of “Disarming Iraq.”
October 10, 2006: JOHNATHAN KOZOL, public education advocate, author and winner of the National Book Award for “Death at an Early Age.”
April 12, 2006: JOSEPH STIGLITZ, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of “Globalization and Its Discontents.”
February 13, 2006: SEYMOUR HERSH, investigative reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. He is the author of “Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib” and other books.
October 4, 2005: KAREN ARMSTRONG, religion scholar and author who wrote “A History of God,” “The Battle for God,” the memoir “The Spiral Staircase” and a number of other well-received books.
March 15, 2005 CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD, internationally acclaimed conductor and musicologist.
April 14, 2004: E.O. WILSON, a world-renowned biologist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
October 19, 2004: MARY ROBINSON, president of Ireland from 1990-1997 and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002
October 9, 2003: MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, author who won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours.
October 2, 2002: LECH WALESA, former president of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace
April 25, 2002: HORST STORMER, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics.
October 9, 2001: JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace for “his sustained efforts to hinder the oppression of a small people” in his homeland of East Timor
April 10, 2001: TERRY WAITE, humanitarian and hostage negotiator