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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

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

February 8, 2022

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

DAN FABRIS

  • Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

November 17, 2021

Osteoarthritis of Mice and Humans from Bench to Bedside

MARJA HURLEY

  • Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine

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

September 14, 2021

The Inner Space of Cells

LESLIE LOEW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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