Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series

The University of Connecticut is a national leader among public research universities in research prominence, advancements in teaching and learning, and community engagement. A culture of innovation encourages and supports our more than 2,000 full-time faculty in their pursuit of knowledge and promotes a vibrancy and diversity that seizes the opportunities of a dynamic global society.

The Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series fosters intellectual, professional, and personal growth and collegiality among the University of Connecticut community. This series provides an opportunity for our most recently-inducted Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs to share advances in their expertise and engage thought-provoking discussions.

Along with their respective schools and colleges, we are pleased to host these accomplished scholars who are recognized by the University as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors or brought to UConn via named chairs with prestigious endowments. These outstanding faculty set the highest standards with their teaching, research, and outreach, and advance our university.

Past Speakers

April 19, 2022

Climate Change and Envisioning a Tomorrow in Harmony with Nature

RADENKA MARIC

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering

Speaker Bio

Professor Radenka Maric is Chair Professor in Sustainable Energy in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. She is the Interim President at UConn, and had served as Vice President for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VPRIE) at UConn and UConn Health since 2017. She also formerly served as the Executive Director of the UConn Technology Park and Innovation Partnership Building (2015-2017).

Professor Maric holds the rank of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019), the National Academy of Inventors (2019), and the International Association of Advanced Materials (2020), and is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Her many recognitions include receiving a Fulbright Chair Professor appointment at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2016-2017), a fellowship from the Japan Organization for the Promotion of Science (2012), the Leadership Award from the National Research Council of Canada (2009), and the Hartford Business Journal’s Women in Business Award (2020). Governor Lamont appointed her to serve on the Board of Directors of Connecticut Innovations in 2020.

Professor Maric is a world leader in technologies for clean energy applications and sustainability. She has significantly advanced understanding of materials and catalysts and has developed innovative manufacturing processes involved in fuel cell technologies, storage materials, and electrochemical sensors for health applications, leading to higher-performance, commercially viable clean energy systems. Her scholarly work has resulted in more than 300 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, 21 book chapters and invited review articles in major journals, one book published, and two books under preparation. She also has six issued patents and eleven published patent disclosures. She serves on numerous review panels for the Department of Energy, the European Commission, and Horizon 2020 and serves as a board member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science.

Professor Maric is a dedicated teacher and mentor of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty in the areas of batteries, fuel cells, sustainability, and innovation and entrepreneurship. She initiated many programs supporting scholarship and experiential learning, including the student-led podcast called In Vivo and World Poetry Books, the only publisher in the United States dedicated solely to publishing books of international poetry in English translation, and promoted placement of students with startup companies in UConn’s Technology Incubation Program and in UConn Health laboratories through the Partnership in Innovation and Education (PIE). She also promoted interdisciplinary collaborations and the growth of multidisciplinary research by working with Deans in the Schools of Business, Engineering, and Fine Arts to support research faculty in the Human Rights Institute and other programs.

As VPRIE, she has focused on making research opportunities available to students and faculty across the University by launching new funding programs, including the Innovation Grant in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM), the Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research Program (SCHARP) Awards, and, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards, among others. She also led UConn’s task force on mental health of graduate students and has shown leadership in philanthropy by establishing an endowed scholarship for the most vulnerable graduate students with the UConn Foundation.

April 7, 2022

Power Prior: An Approach for leveraging Real World Evidence in Statistical Inference and Designs of Clinical Trials

MING- HUI CHEN

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Speaker Bio

Dr. Chen is Professor and Head of Statistics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His previous awards include International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Outstanding Service Award in 2011, the University of Connecticut AAUP Research Excellence Award in 2013, the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Excellence in Research Award in the Physical Sciences Division in 2013, the University of Connecticut Alumni Association's University Award for Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity (Sciences) in 2014, and ICSA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2020. He was elected to an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 1999, Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2005, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2007, and Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2016.

Professor Chen is a world-renowned expert in Bayesian statistics, cancer research, design of clinical trials, meta-analysis, missing data, and Monte Carlo methods. Dr. Chen has published over 415 peer-reviewed articles and delivered more than 209 colloquia or invited talks nationally and internationally. He has also published five books including two advanced graduate-level books on Bayesian survival analysis and Monte Carlo methods. The statistical methods and computational algorithms developed by him and his collaborators have been implemented in statistical software SAS and R and also cited in the FDA guidance. His research in prostate cancer with Dr. Anthony V. D’Amico of the Harvard Medical School has changed clinical practice in the United States and abroad with regard to the management of prostate cancer and complications from its treatment. His work is supported by grants from the NIH, the NSF, and several industrial companies.

At UConn, Dr. Chen was a member of the Research Advisory Council (2013-2014), a University senate (2018-2021), and the Director of Statistical Consulting Services (SCS) for over 10 years (2006 – spring 2019). Dr. Chen has supervised/been supervising thirty-seven Ph.D. students and trained over 100 graduate students on statistical consulting and collaborative research. Dr. Chen initiated and organized the annual UConn Statistics Biopharmaceutical summer academy started in 2018. Now, this summer academy has been integrated into the MS program in Biostatistics as a required 1-credit course BIST 5092 Biostatistics Practicum. His service to his profession has included Executive Director of ICSA (2017-2010), President of ICSA (2013), Chair of Eastern Asia Chapter of ISBA (2018-2019), President of New England Statistical Society (2018-2020), Representative from Districts 1-3, ASA Caucus of Academic Representatives (2018-2021), and the 2022 JSM Program Chair. Dr. Chen is a member of grant review panels for federal agencies and an organizer of several international conferences. Currently, he is Co Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Its Interface, inaugurated Co Editor-in-Chief of New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, and an Associate Editor for several other statistical journals.

February 8, 2022

When Chemistry Meets Biology: New Technologies for Cracking the Epitranscriptomics Code

DAN FABRIS

Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

Speaker Bio

Dan Fabris is professor and the Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry. He grew up in Italy, hiking in the Dolomites, playing rugby, and studying chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from University of Padova (Italy) and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Research Council in Padova and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. At the dawn of the field of proteomics, he was involved in the development of novel approaches for protein analysis based on mass spectrometry (MS). As an independent investigator at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, his research focus shifted to the investigation of the structure-function relationships in RNA systems involved in infectious diseases. His group developed new MS approaches for the elucidation of RNA and protein-RNA complexes that were not directly amenable to X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He investigated the ability of selected nucleic acid ligands to affect the structure and dynamics of the packaging signal of the genome of immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1), which induced inhibition of essential chaperoning activities of the viral nucleocapsid protein. After moving to University at Albany to become one of the founding members of The RNA Institute, his research interests expanded to include the investigation of the effects of covalent RNA modifications of both endogenous and exogenous origin on the structure/dynamics of viral RNA. His group developed new strategies for epitranscriptomics analysis that enables the investigation of RNA post-transcriptional modification at a system level. At University of Connecticut since 2020, he is now capitalizing on these unique technologies to explore the role of the epitranscriptome in virus-host interactions and to identify new targets for the development of more effective antiviral therapies.

November 17, 2021

Osteoarthritis of Mice and Humans from Bench to Bedside

MARJA HURLEY

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine

Speaker Bio

Dr. Hurley is a tenured Professor of Medicine and Orthopedics at UConn Health School of Medicine. Her previous awards include the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award (1985), First University of Connecticut Martin Luther King Award for Achievement in Science (1990), First New England Board of Higher Education Award for Innovation in Education (2003), Visiting Professor Edwin T. Harper Scholars Program, Indiana University, School of Medicine (2009),West Indian Foundation Award (2009), Connecticut Technology Council Women of Innovation and Leadership Award (2010), Ray and Carol Neag Award (2011), UConn Health White Coat Gala Honoree (2011), UConn Health Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award (2011), Lawrence G. Raisz, Esteemed Award American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2016), and Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award, UConn School of Medicine (2018). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York (2019). She is a Fellow of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, The Association of Osteobiology, and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. She is also a Trustee of the Connecticut Science Center.

Professor Hurley is widely recognized as a leading authority in the world on fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in osteobiology. These growth factors are of fundamental scientific interest and are important in development and maintenance of organ systems including normal bone homeostasis as well as disorders of bone and cartilage. Her work has revealed new information about how FGF2 protects against development of osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis using Fgf2 conditional knockout and transgenic murine models developed in her laboratory. She has advanced the study of these molecules world-wide. She has published over one hundred scientific papers and reviews, delivered countless contributed and invited presentations before professional groups around the world, and has published numerous conference abstracts and proceedings. Her work is currently supported by grants from the NIH.

Professor Hurley is also an accomplished teacher of medical, dental, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows pursuing biomedical research. She has supervised and mentored more than forty students in biomedical research. She has served as thesis or associate thesis advisor for seven PhD, two MD,PhD., and four M.Sc. students. Professor Hurley’s trainees have been the recipient of many academic awards including the highly coveted and prestigious American Society Bone Mineral Research Young Investigator Award. She has coauthored a number publications with her trainees in major international bone and cartilage research journals.

Professor Hurley has a long history of dedicated service at the college and university level, including two years as Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Education for reaccreditation of the School of Medicine, thirty-four years as Associate Dean and Founding Director of the Aetna Health Professions Partnership Initiative at UConn/UConn Health, where she focused on developing STEM programs for middle, high school and college students to diversify the health professions for which she garnered more than $14 million dollars in extramural grants. Her service to her profession has included terms as Chair International Gordon Research Conference (2018), Councilor, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (2019-2022), as a member of grant review panels for federal agencies, and as an organizer, session chair and discussion leader at several national and international conferences.

October 13, 2021

Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Human Rights

RICHARD A. WILSON

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law
Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights

Speaker Bio

Richard Ashby Wilson is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Intellectual Life at the School of Law, Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights, Professor of Law and Anthropology. In 2003, he founded the interdisciplinary Human Rights Institute at UConn and served as Director for ten years, during which time the Institute hired ten faculty, held several international conference that led to edited volumes with Cambridge University Press, and launched an undergraduate human rights major and a graduate certificate in human rights.

Wilson is a scholar of human rights and transitional justice who teaches courses on law and society, post-conflict justice, and an interdisciplinary graduate level course on the anthropology, history, law and philosophy of human rights. He is the author or editor of 11 books on international human rights, humanitarianism, truth and reconciliation commissions and international criminal tribunals. He wrote the definitive ethnographic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2001). His book Writing History in International Criminal Trials was selected by Choice in 2012 as an “Outstanding Academic Title” in the law category. His latest book, Incitement On Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2017), explains why international criminal tribunals struggle to convict individuals for inciting speech and proposes a new model of regulating hate speech and incitement to genocide. His work has been translated into Chinese, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Having received his BSc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Professor Wilson held full-time faculty positions at the Universities of Essex and Sussex in the UK, as well as visiting professorships at the Free University-Amsterdam, University of Oslo, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has held prestigious fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is committed to bringing scholarly findings into policy discussions and has consulted for various international agencies, including Conciliation Resources in the UK and UNICEF in Sierra Leone. He served as Chair of the Connecticut State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 2009 to 2013, during which time the Committee focused attention on the achievement gap in Connecticut’s high schools and racial profiling in police traffic stops.

September 14, 2021

The Inner Space of Cells

LESLIE LOEW

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, School of Medicine

Speaker Bio

Leslie M. Loew is Professor of Cell Biology at the UCONN School of Medicine. He holds a B.S from City College of NY, a Ph.D. from Cornell and did post-doctoral research at Harvard, all in Chemistry. He joined UConn in 1984 after spending 10 years on the Chemistry faculty at SUNY Binghamton. He was appointed Full Professor in 1986 and awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Cell Science in 2007.

While at SUNY, Dr. Loew pioneered the design and synthesis of fluorescent voltage sensitive dyes (VSDs). These dyes permit subcellular spatial resolution and millisecond time resolution, vastly improving over traditional electrode-based electrophysiology by allowing electrical activity to be imaged with high speed cameras. Realizing that the applications of VSDs could best be explored within a medical school, he decided to move to Farmington. His laboratory at UConn continued to synthesize improved VSDs and has applied them to imaging electrical activity in nervous and cardiac systems. He supplies VSDs to hundreds of laboratories throughout the world. He has also developed several high resolution microscope imaging technologies that have been broadly applicable in other realms of cell and tissue physiology.

Loew is probably best known for his work in computational modeling of cell biophysics. He was motivated to pursue this area in order to begin to discern the biophysical mechanisms that underlie the wonders revealed by the microscopy experiments. With his team, he developed the Virtual Cell computational system for modeling and simulating complex biological processes. Since 1998, he has been Principal Investigator of an NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center, which supports the Virtual Cell project. Virtual Cell has over 25,000 registered users worldwide.

Loew has published 1 book, 237 research papers and holds 9 patents. He has given invited talks at over 150 universities and scientific conferences. Between his projects on fluorescent sensors, imaging technologies, cellular biophysics and computational modeling, Loew has been awarded research grants amounting to almost $70M during his 36 year career at UConn. Recently, with 2 colleagues, he founded a company, Potentiometric Probes, LLC, to help disseminate the VSD technologies.

With regard to leadership, Loew established the Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) in 1994 to focus research on optical, photonic, image processing and computational technologies for the investigation of the behavior of living cells. He was the Director of CCAM from 1993 to 2020 and, with its 15 faculty scientists, built it to be a world-renowned center for multi-disciplinary cell biophysics research. In service to the UConn and regional scientific community, CCAM established a Microscopy User Facility to offer state-of-the-art microscope imaging instrumentation and expertise. Also, CCAM assembled computational hardware and software to establish the CCAM High Performance Computing Center, which is now the largest research computing resource in the University.

In education, Loew spearheaded a new Systems Biology Graduate Area of Concentration to provide unique multidisciplinary training to Biomedical Science PhD students. He teaches at the graduate level in several courses and also has a long history of teaching in the Medical School basic science curriculum. Dr. Loew has been thesis advisor for 21 Ph.D. students and mentor to 33 post-docs. Additionally, he regularly mentors undergraduate interns in his lab. He organized many international courses and workshops in computational cell biology both in Farmington and at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

With regard to external service, Loew has chaired and served on numerous NIH and NSF grant review panels and on editorial boards of several scientific journals. In 2012, he was selected by the Biophysical Society to serve a 5 year term as Editor in Chief of Biophysical Journal. For this service and for his many other volunteer activities, he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Biophysical Society in 2018.

April 21, 2021

Voices of Genocide: From German Colonialism in Africa to the Southern District Federal Court of New York

KATHARINA VON HAMMERSTEIN

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Speaker Bio

Katharina von Hammerstein received her Ph.D. in German Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds a degree in Mathematics, German, and Education from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her interdisciplinary and international research is located at the intersections of Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, War Studies and Human Rights and has been funded by numerous prestigious grants.

Her twelve book publications and more than seventy articles investigate German and Austrian literature, art and nonfictional texts from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries and focus on: human rights issues and collective conflict/war; white authors’ representations of Black people in German-language texts and Black authors’ perspectives on Germany around 1900; women authors’ self-writings as political practice in nineteenth-century Germany; and German Romanticism (she is the leading expert on Sophie Mereau-Brentano). She also published on interdisciplinary curriculum development, i.e., on connecting the learning of second languages with courses in history, art history, political science, geography, film. Currently, she is investigating Ovaherero and German, nonliterary and literary, oral and written testimonies about the German-Ovaherero Colonial War and Ovaherero Genocide (1904-1908) in the former colony of German Southwest Africa (today’s Namibia).

Her scholarly background comes to bear in her graduate courses on German Romanticism; Self-Writings and Writing Yourself; Colonial and Postcolonial German-African Connections; Love in German Literature; the 1848 German Revolution. She includes film and other artistic representation (e.g., UConn’s precious Kaethe Kollwitz collection) whenever appropriate.

Prof. von Hammerstein has given numerous presentations in the United States (incl. Harvard), Canada and Germany as well as the UK (incl. Oxford), France (incl. the Sorbonne), Austria, Italy, Spain, Romania, Russia, Namibia, and South Africa. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director (with UConn’s Sebastian Wogenstein) of the interdisciplinary and interinstitutional transatlantic Connecticut (USA) / Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Human Rights Research Consortium.

March 23, 2021

Looking into a Name: The Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair and World History

SERGIO LUZZATTO

Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Speaker Bio

Sergio Luzzatto is professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History. He was born in Italy, and received his Ph.D from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, as well as from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before joining UConn, he taught for almost twenty years at the University of Turin, as a full professor in European Modern History.

Whereas his Ph.D. dissertations and his earliest publications dealt with the French Revolution and its legacy in nineteenth-century Europe, starting from the mid-1990s his academic work has focused mostly on twentieth-century Italy.

His publications cover a large ground –from the Thermidorian Reaction to the Italian Risorgimento, and from Interwar France to Post-World War II Italy– yet they have all contributed to a single “longue durée” historical field: the origins, evolutions, and transformations of Modern Europe’s political cultures.

February 17, 2021

The Iron Man Approach: Accelerating Materials Development Using Atomistic Models

PAMIR ALPAY

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UConn School of Engineering
Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships
GE Professor in Advanced Manufacturing
Executive Director, UConn IPB/Tech Park

Speaker Bio

Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Pamir was a post-doctoral research associate at the Materials Research Center at the University of Maryland until 2001, after which he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) as an Assistant Professor and served as Department Head of MSE from 2013-2017.

Currently, he is the General Electric Endowed Professor in Advanced Manufacturing MSE and has a concurrent appointment in the Department of Physics. He is the Executive Director of UConn’s Tech Park, which leads the University’s efforts to increase strategic partnerships with businesses in a state-of-the-art research and development facility. In addition, he is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Ceramic Society. He is the recipient of several awards that include the NSF CAREER grant in 2001, the UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 2004, the UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2013 and the AAUP Excellence in Career Research and Creativity Award in 2018. Throughout his career, he has published over 190 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, four invited book chapters and an invited book co-authored on compositionally graded ferroelectric materials.

However, his most rewarding position is the opportunity to mentor an OUTSTANDING research group and support their science and career ambitions.

December 3, 2020

Well-Being in School, Child, and Community: Advancing the Whole, Not the Sum of Its Parts

SANDRA M. CHAFOULEAS

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, UConn Neag School of Education
Neag Endowed Professor, Department of Educational Psychology

Speaker Bio

Dr. Sandra M. Chafouleas is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Neag Endowed Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology within the Neag School of Education. She also serves as the founder and Co-Director of the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH). Dr. Chafouleas received her Ph.D. in psychology (school) from Syracuse University and has been a licensed psychologist in Connecticut since 2001. Dr. Chafouleas has demonstrated continued success with extramurally funded research since 2006, with work focused on supporting school system implementation of evidence-informed practices and expertise in areas of integrated health and learning (whole child), school mental health, and behavior assessment. She has authored over 150 publications, and regularly serves as a national presenter and invited speaker. She is a fellow in both the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science, and is and Invited Member and Past-President of the Society for the Study of School Psychology. She received the 2018 Edward C. Marth Graduate Mentorship award from the University of Connecticut AAUP; the 2018 UConn Alumni Foundation award for Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity Award in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; the 2016 APA Division 16 Oakland Mid-Career Scholar Award; the 2009 UConn Alumni Association award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching; and previously served as associate dean for The Graduate School (2012-2014) and then the associate dean for research in the Neag School (2014-2016). Prior to becoming a university trainer, she worked as a school psychologist and school administrator in a variety of settings supporting the needs of children with behavior disorders.

November 16, 2020

Shining Light in the Shadows: My Work in Dietary Supplements

C. MICHAEL WHITE

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, UConn School of Pharmacy
Department Head of Pharmacy Practice

Speaker Bio

Dr. White’s research interests are in the areas of cardiac care, comparative effectiveness, and preventing adverse events from drugs, devices, herbs, and illicit substances. His more than 350 peer-reviewed publications have resulted in 12,850 citations and an H-index of 61, placing him within an elite group of scholars. His work has been published in JAMA, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine and Circulation (among others) with research coverage by NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, BBC, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and hundreds of other (inter)national media outlets. Research awards include the ACCP Young Investigator of the Year, AACP Lyman Award Winner, and six time recipient of the ASHP Foundation Drug Therapy Research Award. In 2016 he received the ASHP Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature, a lifetime achievement award for scholarly excellence.

February 26, 2020

Trauma, Testimony, and Time: Remembering the Holocaust in the 21st Century

AVINOAM PATT

Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies, UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

February 5, 2020

The Know-It-All Society

MICHAEL LYNCH

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Director of the UConn Humanities Institute
Director of the New England Humanities Consortium

December 2, 2019

The Decline in Public Firms and the Rise of Private Capital

YIMING QIAN

Professor and Toscano Family Chair in Finance, UConn School of Business

October 9, 2019

Probing Precipitation from Space: Key to Advancing Predictability of Storm Hazards

EMMANOUIL ANAGNOSTOU

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UConn School of Engineering
Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering
Eversource Energy Center Director