The Power of Ideas Part I
Ideas - and the various processes of inventing, developing, critiquing, testing, transforming, rebutting, transmitting, and implementing them - are the heart and soul of the university. Each of this year's Scientia colloquia will present a set of 5-minute talks by faculty on the ideas that have most powerfully influenced and engaged them in their career and intellectual life.
2013 Spring Lecture Schedule
- January 22
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Mechanobiology
K. Jane Grande-Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Mind, Brain & Reality
James Pomerantz, Professor, Psychology
The Love of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Love
Marcia G. Brennan, Carolyn & Fred McManis Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religion and Art History
Saying Goodbye to Rube Goldberg
Yousif Shamoo, Vice Provost for Research, Professor of Biosciences, Wiess Career Development Chair
Video of all combined lectures is available here.
- January 29 – BOCHNER LECTURE
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Zionism, America, and the Creation of the State of Israel
Allen J. Matusow, PhD, Academic Affairs Director at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and William Gaines Twyman Professor of History
Video available here.
- February 12
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Atoms of Thought
Steven J. Cox, Professor, Computacional and Applied Mathematics
Discriminated Against
Michelle Hebl, Professor, Psychology and Management
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Unfinished Ethics
Matthias Henze, Professor in Biblical Studies
Life is Incredible
Janet Braam, Chair and Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Video of all combined lectures is available here.
- March 12
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Symmetries
Marjorie Corcoran, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Who's Eating Who
Evan H. Siemann, Professor and Department Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Standpoint
Rosemary Hennessy, Professor, English and Director, Center for the study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Villain
Farès el-Dahdah, Architecture and Director, Humanities Research Center
Video of all combined lectures is available here.
- April 9
Ray Courtyard, Rice Student Center
Modeling Individual Choice Behavior
Richard R. Batsell, PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing
Computational Thinking
Devika Subramanian, PhD, Professor, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Beauty Premium and The Beauty Penalty
Rick K. Wilson, PhD, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Political Science
Gender
Lora Wildenthal, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, History Department
Video of all combined lectures is available here.