Lecture Archive 2008–2009
Dr. Atomic: The story behind the opera
Robert Eisenstein (Professor Emeritus of Physics, UI)
100 Years of Corn Research
John Dudley (Professor Emeritus of Crop Sciences, UI)
Illinois architecture: 150 great places
Mike Jackson (Chief Architect, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Introduction to the Prairie Ensemble
Kevin Kelly (Musical Director, Prairie Ensemble)
The reinvention of Richard III
Sharon Michalove (Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, UI)
Emergency planning and crisis management
Todd Short (Police Officer, UI)
A focus on women and aging
Ellen Evans (Professor of Kinesiology, UI)
Biofuels: A case study
Kathleen Robbins (Director, Clean Energy, Green Microfinance)
April 1975: The fall of Saigon
Ron Yates (Professor and Dean, College of Media, UI)
Thwarting the attack
Tony Ortiz (Police Officer, UI)
Digital Delights
Sam Reese (Associate Professor Emeritus of Music Education, UI)
Creating the Ghetto: Venice and the Jews in the sixteenth century
Sharon Michalove
Illinois Promise
Susan Gershenfeld (Director, Illinois Promise, UI)
Coming of Age: China and the Olympic Games
Nancy Thies Marshall (1972 Olympic gymnast and former NBC sports commentator)
Regional dynamics and racialization on a Midwest frontier
George Calfas (Graduate student in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, UI)
The Lord was not on trial
Dannel McCollum (Champaign Mayor, and son of the plaintiff in the landmark case on the separation of church and state)
Economic seminar
Ed Scharlau (Vice Chair, First Busey Corporation)
Summer Studio Theatre
Brant Pope (Professor and Head, Department of Theatre, UI)
Transcendental meditation
Emily Levin (teacher of transcendental meditation)
Angels and Demons
Robert Eisenstein
The New Yorker covers the landscape
Bob Riley (Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, UI)
Book finding
Fred Christensen