Office of the Provost

Dear UConn Community,

Each year, the Office of the Provost hosts our Distinguished Speaker Series to highlight the scholarly expertise of a few of our most accomplished faculty. We are pleased to announce this year’s line-up.

The speakers in this series have been recently honored either as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors or endowed professors. They are well-known at UConn and more broadly in their fields for their excellence in scholarship.

A listing of the Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series for 2020-2021 is included below. Each talk will be broadcast via WebEx. The links for each talk will be available on the Provost’s Office website, at this link, a week before each event.

• C. Michael White
  Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Department Head of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy
  “Shining Light in the Shadows: My Work in Dietary Supplements”
  Monday, Nov. 16, 4 to 5 p.m.

• Sandra M. Chafouleas
  Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Neag Endowed Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education
  “Well-Being in School, Child, and Community: Advancing the Whole, Not the Sum of its Parts”
  Thursday, Dec. 3, 4 to 5 p.m.

• Pamir Alpay
  Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships; GE Professor in Advanced Manufacturing; Executive Director, UConn IPB/Tech Park; School of Engineering
  “The Iron Man Approach: Accelerating Materials Development Using Atomistic Models”
  Wednesday, Feb. 17, 4 to 5 p.m.

• Sergio Luzzatto
  Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  “Looking into a Name: The Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair, and World History”
  Tuesday, March 23, 4 to 5 p.m.

• Katharina von Hammerstein
  Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  “Voices of Genocide: From German Colonialism in Africa to the Southern District Federal Court of New York”
  Wednesday, April 21, 4 to 5 p.m.

We hope you will join us for these engaging talks throughout this year.

Sincerely,
Carl and Michael

Carl Lejuez
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Michael Bradford
Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff, and Student Development