Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Neuroengineering Initiative “Engineering and Medicine: Learning, Inference and Control” Click here to watch the lecture. "De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1" Click here to watch the lecture.
Pulickel Ajayan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering “Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” Click here to watch the lecture.
Ifeoma Ajunwa, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law; Director A.i. and the Future of Work Program, Emory University School of Law “The Quantified Worker” Click here to watch the lecture.
John R. Alford, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University "Politics in Our Genes: The Biology of Ideology" Click here to watch the lecture.
Mustafa Amin, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy "Origins: Our Universe, Planet, Life" Click here to watch the lecture.
Kyriacos Athanasiou, Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering. Bioengineering Department, Rice University "Bioengineering Toward Mending the Human Being: Is Arthritis Indeed Incurable?" Click here to watch the lecture.
Francisco J. Ayala, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Science Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California "So Human an Animal: Evolution, Culture, Ethics" Lecture was not recorded.
Andrea Ballestero, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
“Pacts”
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Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School "Networks and the Architecture of Complexity: From the WWW to the Cell" Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Baraniuk, C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Statistics, Professor, Computer Science "Networks of Knowledge" Click here to watch the lecture. “Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
Peggy F. Barlett, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology; Faculty Liaison to the Office of Sustainability Initiatives, Emory University "The Sustainable Campus: Food, Policies, and Place" (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard R. Batsell, Associate Professor of Marketing “Modeling Individual Choice Behavior” Click here to watch the lecture.
Phil Bedient, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University “Hurricane Katrina and Houston: Implications for our Future” Click here to watch the lecture.
Margaret Beier, Associate Professor, Psychology “What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” Click here to watch the lecture.
James B. Blackburn, Houston Attorney and Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University "Rethinking Environmentalism: Lessons from the Texas Coast" Lecture was not recorded.
Shantel Blakely, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
“People's Architects"
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John B. Boles William P. Hobby Professor of History. Editor, Journal of Southern History “Getting to Know President Lovett” Click here to watch the lecture. "Rice University: Edgar Odell Lovett's Vision" Lecture was not recorded.
Elias Bongmba, Rice University "Life on the Boundaries: Magic, Witchcraft, and Science in Africa" Lecture was not recorded.
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California "The Forgotten Frontier: Memory and Oblivion in a Digital Age" Click here to watch the lecture.
Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology “Why Technology Alone Won't Solve The Climate Crisis” Click here to watch the lecture.
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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"Climate Resilience and Urban Design" Click here to watch the lecture.
Janet Braam, Chair and Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology “Life is Incredible” Click here to watch the lecture.
Gwen Bradford, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rice University "Trolleys, Treasures and Trinkets: What Are Trade-Offs, and Why Are They So Hard? Click here to watch the lecture.
Anthony Brandt, Professor and Chair, Composition and Theory, the Shepherd School of Music and Director, Scientia Institute “Why Minds Need Art” Click here to watch the lecture. "Imagination: An Inside Look" Click here to watch the lecture.
"Music and Environmental Crisis"
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Marcia G. Brennan, Carolyn & Fred McManis Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religion and Art History “The Love of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Love” Click here to watch the lecture.
William R. Brinkley, William R. Brinkley BRASS Chair & Dean, Gruaduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine "The Politics of Teaching Evolution in Texas" Click here to watch the lecture.
Baruch Brody, Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, and Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine “The Global Regulation of Research” Lecture was not recorded. "Science and Judaism" Lecture was not recorded. "Philosophical Reflections on the Stem-Cell Research Debate" Lecture was not recorded.
Karin Broker, Professor/Chair, Visual Arts Department, Rice University "An Artist Constructs the Human or how I see your DNA" Click here to watch the lecture.
Judith Brown, Dean of Humanities, Rice University “Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of External Stress” Lecture was not recorded. "The Role of the Humanities: Rice as a Case Study" Lecture was not recorded.
Alexander X. Byrd, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of History, School of Humanities "From Chattel to Human: 'Race,' Politics, and the American Revolution's Black Refugees" Click here to watch the lecture.
“Houston, Rice and Race: A History in the Fourth Ward"
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“Facing a History of Racism”
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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John H. Byrne, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston "Neural Networks: Brain Circuitry for Processing Information, Generating Rhythms, and Learning and Remembering" Click here to watch the lecture.
Michael Dwyer Byrne, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Rice University "Extending the Human Being via Robotics" Click here to watch the lecture.
Peter C. Caldwell, Samuel G. McCann Professor of History; Founding and Current Director, Program in Politics, Law & Social Thought, Rice University "Democracy and Dictatorship: Of Fuzzy Distinctions, Political Passions, Militant Democracy, and Power" Click here to watch the lecture.
William Camfield, Art & Art History, Rice University "Examples of Chance in the Visual Arts: Forced, Fudged, Bona Fide?" Lecture was not recorded.
Kathleen Canning, Dean, School of Humanities
“Houston, Rice and Race: A History in the Fourth Ward"
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Nicole Bremner Casarez, Attorney, Communication Professor at the University of St. Thomas. “Inequality and the Criminal Justice System” Click here to watch the lecture.
Juan Jose Castellon, Assistant Professor of Architecture "Porous Matter: Rethinking Building Technologies" Lecture was not recorded.
Eric Cech, Assistant Professor, Sociology “The Power of Culture” Click here to watch the lecture. “The ‘Passion Principle,’ Career Choice, and Occupational Inequality Click here to watch the lecture.
Anne Chao, Adjunct Lecturer in Humanities; Manager of the Houston Asian American Archive, Rice University “Democracy Through Foreign Eyes” Click here to watch the lecture.
Daniel Cohan, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
“Earth’s Thin Blue Line”
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“Confronting Climate Gridlock”
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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William E. Cohn, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Transplant and Assist Devices Division "Extending the Human Being via Robotics" Click here to watch the lecture.
Thomas R. Cole, Beth and Toby Grossman Professor and Director, McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and Visiting Professor, Humanities, Religious Studies Department, Rice University "Aging and the Changing Nature of the Human" Click here to watch the lecture.
Scott Colman, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture “Prisonship Earth” Click here to watch the lecture.
Andrew Colopy, Associate Professor, School of Architecture
“People's Architects"
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David B. Cook, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Rice University "Does Jihad Mean Violence?" Click here to watch the lecture.
Joseph Cooper, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University “100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture.
Marjorie Corcoran, Professor, Physics and Astronomy “Symmetries” Click here to watch the lecture.
Adrienne Correa, Assistant Professor of Biosciences
“Confronting Environmental Change Through Fundamental Science"
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Laura Correa Ochoa, Assistant Professor of History
“Democracy is Not Community"
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Leda Cosmides, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara "Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange" Lecture was not recorded.
Sarah Kielt Costello, Instructional Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Houston "Stealing Memory: Temples, Shamans and the Struggle for Power in Early Mesopotamian State Formation" Click here to watch the lecture.
Steven J. Cox, Professor, Computacional and Applied Mathematics “Atoms of Thought” Click here to watch the lecture.
Maura Coughlin, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Social Sciences
“Betterment of the World-Social Scientific Approach to Health and Well-Being"
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Flavio Cunha, Associate Professor of Economics “Economics of Human Development” Click here to watch the lecture.
Robert F. Curl, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences, Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus "Is our intelligence impairing our chances for survival?" Click here to watch the lecture.
“Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” Click here to watch the lecture. “I Didn’t Do This By Myself” Click here to watch the lecture.
Michael E. DeBakey, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas "Extending the Human Being via Robotics" Click here to watch the lecture.
Sylvia Dee, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences “Climate Change: Trade-Offs Between People and Planet” Click here to watch the lecture.
“Climate Change Introduction"
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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Reginald DesRoches, President, Rice University “The 2010 Haiti Earthquake: A Story of History, Race, Poverty and Natural Hazards” Click here to watch the lecture.
"From Haiti to California - Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Earthquake Risks" Lecture was not recorded.
Christina Diaz, Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences
“Betterment of the World-Social Scientific Approach to Health and Well-Being"
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Edward Djerejian, Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University “U.S. Policy Toward Islam and the Arc of Crisis” Lecture was not recorded.
Rachelle Smith Doody, Effie Marie Cain Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Professor, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas "Aspects of Memory" Click here to watch the lecture.
Terrence Doody, Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Rice University "Aspects of Memory" Click here to watch the lecture. “Impossible' probabilities and quantum reality” Lecture was not recorded. "Darwinism and its Cultural Legacies" Lecture was not recorded.
Charles Dove, Director, Rice Cinema; Lecturer, Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, Rice University "Impossible Memory: Cinema, History, Information (on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil)" Lecture was not recorded.
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Rice University "Complex Networks: The Key to Resilient Infrastructure Systems" Click here to watch the lecture.
Johanna Dunaway, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University "The Questionable Relevance of Facts: Information, Beliefs and Identity" Click here to watch the lecture.
Amy Dunham, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology “Connections Among Biodiversity, Well-being and Inclusion” Click here to watch the lecture.
David Eagleman, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry; Founder/Director of BMC's Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, Baylor College of Medicine "The Brain and the Law" Click here to watch the lecture.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Sociology, Founding Director, Religion and Public Life Program “Mentoring” Click here to watch the lecture. “Beyond the Ideal Scientist: Why Academic Science Doesn't Work for Men or Women Who Want Children and Why It Matters” Click here to watch the lecture.
Scott Egan, Associate Professor of Biosciences “eDNA: A Detection Tool for Biodiversity Discovery and Conservation” Click here to watch the lecture.
Farès el-Dahdah, Architecture and Director, Humanities Research Center
“The Villain”
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Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal, Professor of Economics and Statistics and Chair of Islamic Economics, Finance and Management “Social Capital and Finance” Click here to watch the lecture. "Right or Left: The Economic Trolley Problem" Click here to watch the lecture.
Jim Elliott, Professor and Sociology Department Chair "Environmental Diversity" Click here to watch the lecture. "Why Social Inequality Matters to Resilience" Click here to watch the lecture.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Rice University
“Between Past and Future: Democracy on Trial” Lecture was not recorded.
Mark Embree, PhD, Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Director of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
“Numerate Citizenship”
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Christian J. Emden, Francis Moody Newman Professor; Professor of German Intellectual History and Political Thought; Founding Director, Program in Politics, Law & Social Thought “Democracy is Not Community” Click here to watch the lecture.
Ed Emmett, Fellow in Energy and Transportation Policy, Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies; Senior Fellow, Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Professor in the Practice, School of Social Sciences “Enjoy Now or Let Someone Else Have a Better Tomorrow” Click here to watch the lecture.
Peter Euben, Professor, Department of Politics, University of California at Santa Cruz "Politicizing the University and Other Clichés" Lecture was not recorded.
Joshua Eyler, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Adjunct Associate Professor, Humanities, Rice University “What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 1” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 2” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 3” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. "Teaching as a Creative Endeavor" Click here to watch the lecture.
Rodrigo Ferreira, Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science “What Do You Mean By AI Ethics?” Click here to watch the lecture.
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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Julie Fette, Associate Professor, French Studies, Rice University “Exclusion” Click here to watch the lecture. “American Democracy Through Foreign Eyes” Click here to watch the lecture.
Simon Fischer-Baum, Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences, Rice University
“Heterogeneity”
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"Determinism in Behavior"
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Jeffrey Fleisher, Associate Pofessor, Anthropology “What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” Click here to watch the lecture. “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” Click here to watch the lecture.
William Fulton, Senior Advisor, PFM Management and Budget Consulting Group; Fellow, Terner Center of Housing Innovation, University of California at Berkeley “How Technology Will Change The Cities of the Future” Click here to watch the lecture.
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1"
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Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard “Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics” Lecture was not recorded.
Luz Garcini, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, School of Social Sciences
“Betterment of the World-Social Scientific Approach to Health and Well-Being"
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Reto Geiser, Associate Professor, School of Architecture
“People's Architects"
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Kenneth J. Gergen, Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College "Technology, Self and the Moral Project" Lecture was not recorded.
Jim Gemmell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft's Next Media Research Group "MyLifeBits: Digital Memories and Ubiquitous Computing" Click here to watch the lecture.
Lisa Geraci, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University "Implicit Memory and Aging?" Lecture was not recorded.
Kathleen R. Gibson “The human cognitive niche: evolutionary perspectives” Lecture was not recorded.
Malcolm Gillis, President, Rice University "The Future of Universities: Alternative Views from Scientists, Humanists, and Social Scientists" Lecture was not recorded. "Rethinking the University: Rice in the 21st Century" Lecture was not recorded.
Christine Gorman, Associate Editor and Senior Writer, Time Magazine “The Potential Threat of Bio- and Nuclear Terrorism: Is Media Coverage Hazardous to our Health?” Lecture was not recorded.
G. Anthony Gorry, Friedkin Professor of Management & Professor of Computer Science, Jones Graduate School of Management, Director, CTTL, Director, W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine "Human Beings and the Machines of Sunshine" Click here to watch the lecture. “From Homer to the Internet: What Can We Learn from History about Changes in Information Technology?” Lecture was not recorded.
K. Jane Grande-Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering “Mechanobiology” Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Grandy, Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Philosophy, Rice University "Theories About Facts" Click here to watch the lecture. "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture “Maintaining objectivity: can we repair the crumbling philosophical foundations of academic inquiry?” Lecture was not recorded. "The Structure of the Kuhnian Revolution" Lecture was not recorded. “Impossible' probabilities and quantum reality” Lecture was not recorded.
Simon Grant, Lay Family Professor in Economics & Finance "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" Click here to watch the lecture.
Anthony Graves, Death Row Exoneree 138, Founder, Anthony Graves Foundation.
“Professional Ethics”
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Vartan Gregorian, President, Brown University “Is it Still Possible to be a Renaissance Man or Woman?” Lecture was not recorded.
Ozge Gurcanli, Lecturer, Psychology “The Traditional Classroom: What Future?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Naomi Halas, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics
“Innovation Fallout”
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“Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Chemical Production”
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Deborah Harter, Rice University "Art and the Poetics of Failure: The Truth About Fiction" Click here to watch the lecture.
Peter Hartley, George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" Click here to watch the lecture. “Impossible' probabilities and quantum reality” Lecture was not recorded.
Thomas Haskell, Professor of History, Rice University "Academic Freedom: Who Needs It? Who Deserves It?" Lecture was not recorded,
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Assistant Professor, the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences “Climate Change: Trade-Offs Between People and Planet” Click here to watch the lecture.
Katharine Hayhoe, Atmospheric Scientist and Director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University
"Talking Climate: Why Facts Are Not Enough" Click here to watch the lecture.
Michelle Hebl, Professor, Psychology and Management
“Discriminated Against”
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Gisela Heffes, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
“In Praise of Irreverence”
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Rosemary Hennessy, L.V. Favrot Professor of Humanities, and English Department Chair “Standpoint” Click here to watch the lecture. "Women in Leadership" Click here to watch the lecture.
Matthias Henze, Isla Carrol and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Unfinished Ethics” Click here to watch the lecture. “The American Apocalypse: Evangelical Expectations of the End in Trump’s America” Click here to watch the lecture.
David Hess, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Religion, Alternative Medicine, and Questions of Public Interest" Lecture was not recorded.
Vivian Ho, James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and Professor of Economics “Innovation for the Other 90%” (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded. “Context and Human Behavior” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
“Do Technological Advances Make Cost Escalation Inevitable?”
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1"
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Yael Hochberg, Head of Rice University Entrepreneurship Initiative and Ralph S. O'Conner Professor in Entrepreneurship
“Idea to Impact: Navigating the Challenges to Commercializing University Discoveries"
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John Hopkins, Assistant Professor, Art History and Classical Studies
“What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” Click here to watch the lecture. Frank Huband, Executive Director, American Society for Engineering Education "The Virtual University: Alternatives to Traditional Structures" Click here to watch the lecture.
David Hull, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University "Evolutionary Theory: An Old Paradigm and a New Metaphysics" Lecture was not recorded.
Dennis Huston, Gladys Louise Fox Professor, English
“The Traditional Classroom: What Future?”
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John Hutchinson, Dean of Undergraduates, Professor, Chemistry “What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Andrea Isella, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy "Origins: Our Universe, Planet, Life" Click here to watch the lecture.
Jonathan Ishee, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth “Privacy in the digital age, a comparative review of legal and policy framework in various jurisdictions” Lecture was not recorded.
Walter Isle, English, Rice University "The Anthropic Principle: Probability, Cosmology and Copernicus" Lecture was not recorded.
Amy Jaffe, Wallace Wilson Fellow of the Baker Institute and Associate Director, Rice Energy Program "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Johnson, Director of the Admin. Center for Sustainability & Energy Management, Professor in Practice Environ Study, Sociology, Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
"The Sustainable Campus: Food, Policies, and Place" Click here to watch the lecture.
“Greening At Home”
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Lacy M. Johnson, Associate Professor of Creative Writing "Disaster as Rupture, Resilience as Resolution" Click here to watch the lecture.
Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University "Experience and Memory: The Cognitive Psychology of Happiness" Lecture was not recorded.
Eric R. Kandel, M.D., University Professor, Physiology and Cell Biophysics, Psychiatry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University - 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine "The Long and Short of Long Term Memory Storage" Click here to watch the lecture.
John Kappelman, Professor of Anthropology “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” Click here to watch the lecture.
Melissa Kean, PhD, Rice University “Rice's 'Masterson Crisis': The problem is, what is the university going to be?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Gezahgen Kebede, Honorary Consul General of Ethiopia, President, Ethiopia American Trade & Investment “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Keeling, M.D., Executive Editor, Journal of American College Health (news release) “Drinking and our Common Health: the Challenge of Campus Alcohol Programs and Policies” Lecture was not recorded.
Werner Kelber, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, Religious Studies and Director, Rice Center for the Study of Cultures “From Homer to the Internet: What Can We Learn from History about Changes in Information Technology?” Lecture was not recorded. "Darwinism and its Cultural Legacies" Lecture was not recorded.
Caleb Kemere, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering, Rice University. Adjunct Associate Professor of Neuroscience, BCM “Interacting with Memories” Click here to watch the lecture. "Determinism in Behavior" Click here to watch the lecture.
Martin John Kemp “Ways of knowing how to see: notes towards a new history of the visual in art and science” Lecture was not recorded.
Alexandra Kieffer, Associate Professor of Musicology "Music and Environmental Crisis" Click here to watch the lecture.
Thomas Killian, Dean of Wiess School of Natural Sciences, E. Dell Butcher Professor of Physics and Astronomy “The Pursuit for Total Control” Click here to watch the lecture.
“Confronting Environmental Change Through Fundamental Science"
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Rachel Kimbro, Dean of Social Sciences, Associate Professor, Sociology “The Social Determinants of Health” Click here to watch the lecture. “The Traditional Classroom: What Future?” Click here to watch the lecture. “Betterment of the World-Social Scientific Approach to Health and Well-Being" Click here to watch the lecture
Eden King, Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences "Women in Leadership" Click here to watch the lecture.
Danielle King, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences "Employee resilience and stigma at work" Click here to watch the lecture.
James Kinsey, Rice University “Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of External Stress” Lecture was not recorded.
Anne Klein, Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University "Tibetan Medicine” Lecture was not recorded.
Stephen Klineberg, Professor of Sociology, Rice University “Globalization in the Houston Context: Facing the New Demographic and Economic Realities” Lecture was not recorded. “Assessing Risk and Fairness: The Role of Statistical Science in Policy” Lecture was not recorded. "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" Click here to watch the lecture. “100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture. “Hurricane Katrina and Houston: Implications for our Future” Click here to watch the lecture. "Prophetic City: Exploring Some of the Difficult Trade-Offs That Will Inform the Future of Houston and America" Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Knight, Executive Chef, Atlas Diner @ Bravery Hall "Food, Art and the Banksy Shredder" Click here to watch the lecture.
Edward Knightley, Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “The Growing Opportunity Gap” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Urban Redevelopment in a Post Carbon Economy” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
Jordan Konisky, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Rice University “Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of External Stress” (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded.
C. Everett Koop, M. D., Former U.S. Surgeon General, 1981 - 1989 "The Right to Health Care: Has the Time Come?" Lecture was not recorded.
Phillip Kortum, Professor of Psychological Sciences, Rice University
“The role of usable systems in making your vote count” Click here to watch the lecture.
Rekha Lakshnanan, Director of Advocacy and Policy, The Immunization Partnership; Contributing Expert for the Center for Health and Biosciences, Baker Institute, Rice University
“Vaccines in the Time of Covid-19” Click here to watch the lecture.
Sydney M. Lamb, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Rice University "Aspects of Memory" Click here to watch the lecture.
Neal Lane, Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the Baker institute and Malcom Gillis University Professor Emeritus, Rice University "Scientists Speaking Out" Click here to watch the lecture. “The Rice Institutes - Present at the Creation” Click here to watch the lecture. “The Traditional Classroom: What Future?” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. "Giving Science Advice to the President is Getting Harder - Do Facts Really Matter Much?" Click here to watch the lecture. “Disparities and Biases in K-12 STEM Education” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Inequality in the Stem Representation in Today’s Research 1 Universities: The Role of Racism” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Things that go 'click' in the night - the nuclear conundrum” Lecture was not recorded. “The Invisible Elbow: Conservation for Conservatives” Lecture was not recorded. “The Dream of a Common Language: Making the Science-NonScience Bridge” Lecture was not recorded.
Larry Laudan, Historian of Science “Negotiating risk in a risky world” Lecture was not recorded.
Benjamin Lee, Professor of Anthropology “Culture and Identity in an Age of Globalization” Lecture was not recorded.
Cin-Ty Lee, Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
“Confronting Environmental Change Through Fundamental Science"
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David Leebron, President, Rice University "What's a Fact Anyway? Insights from a Journalist, a Scientist, a Lawyer and a Sheep" Click here to watch the lecture.
Brett Ashley Leeds, Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Political Science “The Politics of Military Alliances: Trump and Beyond” Click here to watch the lecture.
Caroline Levander, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Digital Education; Carlson Professor, English “The Traditional Classroom: What Future?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Lisa Lin, Manager of Transportation Demand Management, Rice University “Greening At Home” Click here to watch the lecture.
John Lienhard “How we finally wiped the smile of reason from our faces” Lecture was not recorded.
D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University "Networks as Channels of Power" Click here to watch the lecture.
Matthew Loden, Lynette S. Autrey Dean of Music, Professor of Executive Music Management "Music and Environmental Crisis" Click here to watch the lecture.
Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine "The Fiction of Memory" Click here to watch the lecture.
Jessica M. Logan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rice University "Brain and Behavior: How We Create and Maintain Memory in Early Adulthood and Advanced Age" Click here to watch the lecture.
Mouramay Lopez-Alonso, Associate Professor of History; Co-Director, Program in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities; Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics; Lecturer in Management, Rice University "Democracy Through Foreign Eyes" Click here to watch the lecture.
Elizabeth Long, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair “Local:Global = David:Goliath” Click here to watch the lecture.
Helen Longino, Professor of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota "Complexity, Plurality, and Context: Philosophy of Science after Kuhn" Lecture was not recorded.
John Maeda, Design Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Design and Venture Capital” Click here to watch the lecture.
Igor Marjanovic, William Ward Watkin Dean, Rice Architecture
“People's Architects"
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Melissa Marschall, Professor of Political Science, and Director of Center for Local Elections in American Politics “Be Careful What You Wish For” Click here to watch the lecture. "Women in Leadership" Click here to watch the lecture.
Bill Martin, Professor of Sociology, Rice University “Apocalypse Soon: The Contemporary Significance of Biblical Prophecy” Lecture was not recorded.
Randy Martin, Department of Psychology, Rice University “Assessing Risk and Fairness: The Role of Statistical Science in Policy” Lecture was not recorded.
Kathy Matthews, Stewart Memorial Professor, BioSciences “The Traditional Classroom: What Future?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Kirstin Matthews, Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute, Rice University “Vaccines in the Time of Covid-19” Click here to watch the lecture.
Allen J. Matusow, Academic Affairs Director at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and William Gaines Twyman Professor of History “Zionism, America, and the Creation of the State of Israel” Click here to watch the lecture.
Laurence McCullough, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy "Toward a Theodicy for Molecular Medicine" Lecture was not recorded.
Caleb McDaniel, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities and Chair, Department of History, School of Humanities “Open Notebook Research” Click here to watch the lecture.
“Houston, Rice and Race: A History in the Fourth Ward"
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Amy L. McGuire, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine "Genomic Horoscopes and the Future of Personalized Medicine" Click here to watch the lecture.
“Genomic Data Sharing: Improving Health, Revealing Secrets and Catching Criminals”
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1"
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Larry V. McIntire, Butcher Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering Rice University “A World View of Tissue Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges” Lecture was not recorded.
Susan McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “From Savagery to Civilization: Darwin's Influence on Theories of Sociocultural Change and Human Progress” Lecture was not recorded.
Ernan McMullin, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Notre Dame University "Science and Scripture: Galileo and After" Lecture was not recorded. "Toward a Theodicy for Molecular Medicine" Lecture was not recorded.
Lisa Meffert, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology “Humans as Custodians of the Animal Kingdom: Concerns in Conservation Biology” Click here to watch the lecture. "Darwinism and its Cultural Legacies" Lecture was not recorded.
Anthony Melchiorri, Associate Director, Biomaterials Lab "Porous Matter: Rethinking Building Technologies" Lecture was not recorded.
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas "Using Network Models to Predict and Control 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic Influenza" Click here to watch the lecture.
Hannu Miettinen, Professor of Physics, Rice University "The Discovery of the Top Quark" Lecture was not recorded.
Greg Mikkelson, Center for the Study of Science and Technology “The Invisible Elbow: Conservation for Conservatives” Lecture was not recorded.
Kathy Miller, President, Texas Freedom Network "The Politics of Teaching Evolution in Texas" Click here to watch the lecture.
Thomas Miller, Associate Professor, Biosciences "Ecological Resilience Through Mutualism" Click here to watch the lecture.
Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center "Failing to Learn from Our Successes and Failures: Overcoming Hurdles to Delivering on Personalized Medicine" Click here to watch the lecture.
Melanie Mitchell, Director of Adaptive Computation, Santa Fe Institute “What ‘Complex Systems’ Approaches Can Offer to Science” Lecture was not recorded.
Cyrus Mody, History, Rice University “Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” Click here to watch the lecture.
Aditya Mohite, Associate Professor Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Director of Rice Engineering Initiative for Energy Transition and Sustainability “Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Chemical Production” Click here to watch the lecture.
Emilia Morosan, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
“Cooking with Metals”
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Steve Murdock, Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor in Sociology, Rice University “Why is Privacy Critical to the Success of a Public Census: Observations from a Former Director of the United State Bureau of the Census” Click here to watch the lecture.
Satish Nagarajaiah, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering "The BP Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe: Causes, consequences and cures" Click here to watch the lecture.
Luay Nakhleh, William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering, Professor or Computer Science
"Origins: Our Universe, Planet, Life"
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“Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Chemical Production”
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Carolyn Nichol, Director, Rice Office of STEM Engagement, Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemistry “Disparities and Biases in K-12 STEM Education” Click here to watch the lecture.
Nancy Niedzielski, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Linguistics "The Strange and Amazing Resilience of Spoken Soul: A Linguistic Account of Dialect Persistence Through Time" Click here to watch the lecture.
David Nirenberg, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University “From Nebuchandnezzar to Negroponte: Three millenia of millennialism” Lecture was not recorded.
Alastair J. Norscross, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Rice University
“Puppies, Pigs, & People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases”
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Ronald L. Numbers, Professor, History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin “Science, Scripture, and Salvation in Evangelical America" Lecture was not recorded.
Casey O’Callaghan, Associate Professor, Philosophy
“Beyond Vision”
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Marcia O'Malley, Stanley C. Moore Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Computer Science, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Advisor to the Provost, Rice University. "Extending the Human Being via Robotics" (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. "Creativity Through Courage: Leaving the Comforts of Your Home Discipline" Click here to watch the lecture.
Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor of History and the Center for Africa and African American Studies “Authoritarianism as Democratic” Lecture Available Upon Request.
Donald Ostdiek, Director, Policy Studies Program “The Invisible Elbow: Conservation for Conservatives” Lecture was not recorded.
Kirsten Ostherr, Professor of English, Rice University "Violence in the Mass Media" Click here to watch the lecture. “Trust and Privacy in the Ecosystems of Wearable Technology and Self-Tracking Devices” Click here to watch the lecture.
Fred Oswald, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Psychological Sciences, Department of Psychological Sciences "The Algorithms Are Now Hiring: The Science, Legality and Ethics of AI-Based Employment Testing" Click here to watch the lecture.
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1"
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Lida Oukaderova, Associate Professor of Art History "Democracy Through Foreign Eyes" Click here to watch the lecture.
B. Paul Padley, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of the T.W. Bonner Laboratory, Interim Vice President for Information Technology "Failure On An Epic Scale: The Excitement of Physics Yesterday and Today" Click here to watch the lecture. “Connecting the Small and the Big by Connecting People” Click here to watch the lecture.
Annise Parker, Fellow, Doerr Institute for New Leaders “Invisible Man? Where to draw the line in municipal surveillance” Click here to watch the lecture.
William B. Parsons, Professor of Religion “On Being SBNR: Past, Present, Future(s)” Click here to watch the lecture.
Matteo Pasquali, AJ Hartsook Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Director Carbon Hub “Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Chemical Production” Click here to watch the lecture.
Vimla L. Patel, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making "Failure to Detect Medical Error: Debunking the Myth of the Infallible Expert" Click here to watch the lecture.
James W. Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin “Applying Social and Psychological Research to Societal Problems” Lecture was not recorded.
Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University “Towards a New Physical World View” Lecture was not recorded.
Irene Pepperberg
"In Search of King Solomon's Ring: Studies on the Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots"
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Richard A. Perzan, Teacher (High School/Biology), Academy of Science and Technology, Conroe Independent School District "The Politics of Teaching Evolution in Texas" Click here to watch the lecture.
CJ Peters
"Emerging Diseases from Animals to Humans"
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Elizabeth Petrick, Associate Professor, Department of History
“How Do We Talk About Technology? Disability, Prostheses and Embodiment”
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 1"
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Henry Petroski, Duke University "Success and Failure: A Paradoxical Relationship" Click here to watch the lecture.
James Pomerantz, Professor of Psychology, Rice University "Failures of the Mind & Brain: Perceptual Illusions and What They Tell Us about Cognition" Click here to watch the lecture. “100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture. “Mind, Brain & Reality” Click here to watch the lecture. “Professional Ethics” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Inequality and the Criminal Justice System” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Hurricane Katrina and Houston: Implications for our Future” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
Albert Pope, G.S. Wortham Professor of Architecture. “Urban Redevelopment in a Post Carbon Economy” Click here to watch the lecture. “Climate Resilience and Urban Design” Click here to watch the lecture.
Theodore Porter, Professor of History, UCLA “The Rise of Statistical Thinking" Lecture was not recorded.
Andrew Putman, Associate Professor, Mathematics
“What We Can't Know”
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David Queller, Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis “From so simple a beginning: Huxley, Mueller and biology at Rice” Click here to watch the lecture. “The Invisible Elbow: Conservation for Conservatives” (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded. "Life in Darwin's World: Nasty, Brutish and Short?" Lecture was not recorded.
Paul Rabinow, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley "Secede and Assemble, Reflections on Scientific Change" Lecture was not recorded.
Muhammad M. Rahman, Research Scientist, Ajayan Research Group "Porous Matter: Rethinking Building Technologies" Lecture was not recorded.
Lyn Ragsdale, Dean, Social Sciences, Radosiav A. Tsanoff Chair, Public Affairs, Professor of Political Science “100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 1” Click here to watch the lecture.
Jenny Reardon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz; Adjunct Research Professor of Women's Studies and the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University "Finding Oprah's Roots, Losing the World: Beyond the Liberal Anti-Racist Genome" Click here to watch the lecture.
Will Reed, D.Min, President / CEO, Technology for All “The Growing Opportunity Gap” Click here to watch the lecture.
Patricia Reiff, Physics & Astronomy, Rice University "The Anthropic Principle: Probability, Cosmology and Copernicus" Lecture was not recorded.
Rebecca Richards-Kortrum, Malcom Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering “Learning to Swim” Click here to watch the lecture. “Innovation for the Other 90%” Lecture was not recorded.
Jacob Robinson, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Neuroengineering Initiative “Connecting Our Brain and Body to Computers” Click here to watch the lecture.
Peter Rodriguez, Dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Professor of Strategic Management
“Idea to Impact: Navigating the Challenges to Commercializing University Discoveries"
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Nikolas Rose, Professor, Sociology; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) "Neuropolitics in the Twenty First Century" Click here to watch the lecture.
Pauline Rosenau “Post-modern and modern science” Lecture was not recorded.
Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "Do We Need to Fear the Future?: the University in the 21st Century" Lecture was not recorded.
Peter Rossky, Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Harry C. & Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry & Biomolecular Engineering “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 2” Click here to watch the lecture.
Sherrilyn Roush, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rice University "The Anthropic Principle: Probability, Cosmology and Copernicus" (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded.
Jennifer Rudgers, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolution, Rice University "The Sustainable Campus: Food, Policies, and Place" Click here to watch the lecture.
George Rupp, President of the International Rescue Committee (former president of Rice University, 1985-1993) "Local Conflicts/Global Challenge" Click here to watch the lecture.
Michael Ruse, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University "Darwinism and Christianity: All in the Family" Lecture was not recorded.
Julia Saltz, Assistant Professor, Biosciences, Rice University "Determinism in Behavior" Click here to watch the lecture.
Raul Hernandez Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
“Confronting Environmental Change Through Fundamental Science"
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Paula A. Sanders, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor of History “Thinking with History” Click here to watch the lecture.
Ronald L. Sass, Harry Carothers and Olga Keith Wiess Professor of Natural Sciences and Department Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University “How difficult is it to believe in global warming?” Lecture was not recorded. "Darwinism and its Cultural Legacies" (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded.
Ann Saterbak, Professor in the Practice and Director of Laboratory Instruction, Bioengineering and Associate Dean of Engineering for Education “What is Active Learning and is it Happening in our Classrooms?” Click here to watch the lecture.
Laura Schaefer, Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Chair in Engineering, Professor, Department Chair "Environmental Diversity" Click here to watch the lecture.
David J. Schneider, Professor, Department of Psychology, Rice University “The Psychology of Violence" Click here to watch the lecture.
Anne Schnoebelen, PhD, Rice University “Sallie's Gift: The Shepherd School of Music–Beginnings and Evolution” Click here to watch the lecture.
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Albert Thomas Associate Professor of Political Science “Gender Inequality and Politics around the World" Click here to watch the lecture.
David Scott, Professor of Statistics, Rice University “Assessing Risk and Fairness: The Role of Statistical Science in Policy” (Moderator) Lecture was not recorded.
Patricia Seed “The dawn of the age of discovery and the age of the scientific revolution: Lecture was not recorded.
Bethany Self, Interim Director Opera Studies "Music and Environmental Crisis" Click here to watch the lecture.
Yousif Shamoo, Vice Provost for Research, Professor of Biosciences, Wiess Career Development Chair
“Saying Goodbye to Rube Goldberg”
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Merlin Sheldrake, Biologist and author of “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures” “Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures” Lecture was not recorded.
Kyle Shelton, Deputy Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research “Trade-Offs in the Effort to Build Housing for All” Click here to watch the lecture.
Nicolas Shumway, Dean, Humanities, Frances Moody Newman Chair, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 1” Click here to watch the lecture.
Evan H. Siemann, Professor and Department Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology “Who's Eating Who” Click here to watch the lecture.
Lee M. Silver, Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy, Princeton University “Biotechnology and the Reconstruction of the Soul” Click here to watch the lecture.
Richard Smalley, Norman and Gene Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Rice University “Nanotechnology and the Next Fifty Years” Lecture was not recorded.
Robert W. Smith, Chair, Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Adjunct Professor, Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University "Little Science, Normal Science, Big Science: Kuhn, Price, and Rethinking the Nature of the Scientific Enterprise" Lecture was not recorded.
Christopher Soghoian, Formerly the Principal Technologist with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project “Scoping law enforcement hacking” Click here to watch the lecture.
Nicky Sohn, Composer and DMA Candidate in Composition "Music and Environmental Crisis" Click here to watch the lecture.
Scott E. Solomon, Associate Teaching Professor of Biosciences “The Ecological Apocalypse: How Long will the Earth be Habitable?” Click here to watch the lecture.
John Sparagana, Grace Christian Vietti Chair in Visual Arts “Reading Revolutionaries” Click here to watch the lecture.
Lisa Spiro, PhD, Director, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Labs “Prospects for the Humanities in a Digitized and Networked Age” Click here to watch the lecture.
Lauren Stadler, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering “Monitoring Wastewater to Inform Pandemic Response Click here to watch the lecture.
Robert M. Stein, Professor of Political Science, Rice University “100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture. “Hurricane Katrina and Houston: Implications for our Future” Click here to watch the lecture. “Free and Fair Elections: Voter Confidence and Election Laws" Click here to watch the lecture.
Paul Stevenson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
“Impossible' probabilities and quantum reality” (Moderator)
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Gale Stokes, Professor, Department of History, Rice University “Doing Something about Nationalism” Lecture was not recorded.
Richard J. Stoll, Associate Dean and Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Rice University "Are Leo Durocher and Paul Wolfowitz right? Do "Nice States" Finish Last?" Click here to watch the lecture.
Rebecca Storey, Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” Click here to watch the lecture.
Diana Strassman, Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Humanities; Director, Program on Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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Joan E. Strassmann, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University “Assessing Risk and Fairness: The Role of Statistical Science in Policy” Lecture was not recorded. “Conflict and Violence in Animals" Click here to watch the lecture.
John Stroup, Harry and Hazel Chavanne Professor of Religious Studies "Science and New Age Spirituality: Mind over Matter in the Academy" Lecture was not recorded.
Devika Subramanian, Professor, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering "Evolutionary Computation" Lecture was not recorded.
“Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Computational Thinking” Click here to watch the lecture.
Carolyn Sumners, Director of Astronomy and Physics, Houston Museum of Natural Science and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University “The Exploration Paradigm: Can We Get Off this Planet if We Need To?” Lecture was not recorded.
Alvin Tarlov, Professor, UT Health Sciences Center - Houston and Fellow, Baker Institute, Rice University "The Social Determinants of Population Health and Human Welfare Policies" Lecture was not recorded.
Richard Tapia, University Professor, Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering, Director of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education. “Inequality in the Stem Representation in Today’s Research 1 Universities: The Role of Racism” Click here to watch the lecture.
Ned Thomas, Dean Engineering, William & Stephanie Sick Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 2” Click here to watch the lecture.
Mark Torres, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
“Confronting Environmental Change Through Fundamental Science"
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James Tour, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials, Rice University “Carbon nanotechnology at Rice: past, present and future” Click here to watch the lecture.
Maggie Tsang, 2021-2023 Wortham Fellow, Rice School of Architecture “Attractive Nuisances” Click here to watch the lecture.
Robert B. Tudor III, J.D., CEO, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co, LLC “Rice: Past, Present and Future- A Trustee's Perspective” Click here to watch the lecture.
Dirk van Tuerenhout, Curator of Anthropology, Houston Museum of Natural Science “Exhibiting ‘Lucy’: Bones of contention at the Houston Museum of Natural Science” Click here to watch the lecture.
Neyran Turan, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
“SUPERFORM”
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Ruth Lopez Turley, Professor of Sociology; Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research “Creating a More Just Society Through Research” Click here to watch the lecture.
"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University "Origins of Creativity" Click here to watch the lecture.
Brittany Utting, Assistant Professor of Architecture “Living Spaces” Click here to watch the lecture.
Albert Van Helden, Lynette Autrey Professor of History, Rice University “From Homer to the Internet: What Can We Learn from History about Changes in Information Technology?” Lecture was not recorded.
"Can Historians and Philosophers of Science Bridge the 'Two Cultures?" Lecture was not recorded. "The Anthropic Principle: Probability, Cosmology and Copernicus" Lecture was not recorded.
Moshe Y. Vardi, University Professor, Director of Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology and Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Engineering “The Intelligence Apocalypse: The Prospect of an Artificial-Intelligence Singularity” Click here to watch the lecture. “Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of External Stress” Lecture was not recorded. “Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience” Click here to watch the lecture.
Jesus Vassallo, Associate Professor, School of Architecture “Affordable Housing Laboratory” Click here to watch the lecture.
Daniel Wagner, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology “Constant Change” Click here to watch the lecture.
David Walker, Chairman and Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston “The New Threat of Infectious Disease: Lessons from the Past” Lecture was not recorded.
Dan Wallach, Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University "Adventures in Electronic Voting Failures" Click here to watch the lecture. “STAR-VOTE: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable, and Reliable Voting System” Click here to watch the lecture.
Kerry Ward, Rice University "Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company" Click here to watch the lecture.
Danielle Ward-Griffin, Assistant Professor of Musicology "Music and Environmental Crisis" Click here to watch the lecture.
Joe Warren, Professor, Computer Science
“The Traditional Classroom: What Future?”
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Craig Watkins, University of Texas at Austin "Got Facebook? Rethinking Social Capital and Social Networks in the Digital Age" Lecture was not recorded.
Michael Watkins “The study of memory: an example of science losing its mind” Lecture was not recorded.
Alison Weaver, Executive Director, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University "What role can the arts play in fostering creative thinking across disciplines?" Click here to watch the lecture.
Steven Weinberg, Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin "Revisiting Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution" Lecture was not recorded.
Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic, Director, Genographic Project "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project" Lecture was not recorded.
Raymond Wells, Jr., Professor of Mathematics and Education, Rice University "Rice in International Perspective: the Bremen Initiative" Lecture was not recorded.
David W. Wetter, Professor and the Elma W. Schneider Chair in the Department of Psychology “Context and Human Behavior” Click here to watch the lecture.
Bill White, Mayor, City of Houston “Hurricane Katrina and Houston: Implications for our Future” Click here to watch the lecture.
Sarah Whiting, Dean, School of Architecture, William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture “Super” Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 3” Click here to watch the lecture.
Hadley Wickham, Adjunct Assistant Professor Statistics. Chief Scientist, RSTudio
“Foundations”
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Martin J. Wiener, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor, Department of History, Rice University "Violence in History" Click here to watch the lecture.
Lora Wildenthal, Associate Professor and Chair, History Department
“Gender”
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Rick Wilson, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Political Science "In Others We Trust?' Roots of Human Cooperation and Conflict" Click here to watch the lecture.
“100 Years of Social Science at Rice and the Next 100 Years” Click here to watch the lecture. “The Beauty Premium and The Beauty Penalty” Click here to watch the lecture.
“The ‘Passion Principle,’ Career Choice, and Occupational Inequality” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Beyond the Ideal Scientist: Why Academic Science Doesn't Work for Men or Women Who Want Children and Why It Matters” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture.
“Economics of Human Development” (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Gender Inequality and Politics around the World" (Moderator) Click here to watch the lecture. “Vaccines in the Time of Covid-19” Click here to watch the lecture. “Greening At Home” Click here to watch the lecture. "Political Conspiracies, Rhetoric and Alternative Facts" Click here to watch the lecture.
"The Climate Commons: Individual Action and Politics"
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"De Lange Conference XII: Technology, Culture, and Society Q&A Panel Day 2"
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Cary Wolfe "Animality and Disability, or, Learning From Temple Grandin" Click here to watch the lecture.
Anthony A. Wright
"Testing Animal Intelligence and Cognition"
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Faye Yarbrough, Associate Dean, Programs and Special Projects, Professor of History, School of Humanities
“Houston, Rice and Race: A History in the Fourth Ward"
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Robert Yekovich, Dean, Shepherd School of Music and Elma Schneider Professor of Music “Turrell with Music” Click here to watch the lecture. “Teaching and Learning in the University of Tomorrow 3” Click here to watch the lecture.
Laurence Yeung, Assistant Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences "Environmental Diversity" Click here to watch the lecture.
John H. Zammito, PhD, John Antony Weir Professor of History “If Animals are Machines, so are We: Calling Descartes’ Bluff in the 18th Century” Click here to watch the lecture. “Mt. Fuji and Me” Click here to watch the lecture. "How Kuhn Became a Sociologist (and Why He Didn't Like It)" Lecture was not recorded. "The Research University under the Auspices of NeoHumanism: Wilhelm von Humboldt and the 19th-Century German University On the Model of Berlin" Lecture was not recorded. "Eighteenth-century Epigenesis: Biology and Philosophy" Lecture was not recorded.
Richard Zare, Stanford University "The Power of a 'Failed' Lecture Demonstration: Enhancing Learning from Unexpected Outcomes" Click here to watch the lecture.
Jing Zhou, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management, Area Coordinator, Organizational Behavior Area, Dean’s Senior Advisor on International Affairs, Director for Asian Management Research and Education, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University "Research on employee creativity in the workplace" Click here to watch the lecture.
Huda Y. Zogbhbi, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine
“Mouse Studies and What They Teach Us About Neurodegeneration, Deafness and Breathing”
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Laurie Zoloth, Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and Religion, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University "Work in Progress: Science, Religion, and the Human Future." Click here to watch the lecture.
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