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In April 2008
Bill McKibben
Activist, environmentalist, author of
"The End of Nature",
"The Age of Missing Information" and other works.
Seminar:
"Building an International Climate Movement"
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
3:00 pm
Architecture Auditorium, UH Manoa
Public lecture:
"Deep Economy: What the World Looks Like When We Take the Environment Seriously"
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom, UH Manoa
Co-sponsor: Environmental Center, UH Manoa
Stephen Greenblatt
The author of the bestselling Shakespeare biography,
"Will In the World," and a literary and cultural critic.
Seminar:
"Mobility Studies"
Friday, April 25, 2008
3:00 pm
Architecture Auditorium,
UH Manoa
Public lecture:
"Shakespearean Beauty Marks"
Thursday, April 24, 2008
7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom, UH Manoa
Co-sponsor: Department of English, UH Manoa
Previous Speakers
In January 2007
Craig Venter
Public Lecture: "The Ocean Genome: A Key to Earth's Habitability"
Thursday, January 25, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Seminar: "Genomes, Medicine, and the Environment"
Wednesday, January 24, 3:00 - 5:30pm
Medical Education Building, Third Floor
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is regarded as one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his invaluable
contributions in genomic research and is one of the country's most frequently cited scientists. He is
Founder, Chairman and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for-profit, research and support
organization dedicated to human, Microbial, Plant and Environmental genomic research, the exploration of
social and ethical issues in genomics, and to seeking alternative energy solutions through Genomics. The
J. Craig Venter Institute has two divisions, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), founded by Dr.
Venter in 1992; and the Center for the Advancement of Genomics.
Dr. Venter began his formal education after a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman, in Danang, Vietnam from
1967 to 1968. After earning both a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Physiology and
Pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego, he was appointed professor at the State
University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National
Institutes of Health campus where he pioneered a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. At
TIGR he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus
influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. TIGR has sequenced more than 50 genomes to date
using Dr. Venter's techniques.
In 1998, Dr. Venter founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome. The successful completion of
this research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome in the journal, Science.
He and his team at Celera also sequenced the fruit fly, mouse and rat genomes. Dr. Venter and his team at
the Venter Institute continue to blaze new trails in genomics research and have recently published several
important papers covering such areas as environmental genomics, synthetic genomics and the sequence and
analysis of the dog genome.
Dr. Venter is the author of more than 200 research articles and is the recipient of numerous honorary
degrees, public honors, and scientific awards. These include: the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter
Prize, and the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious
scientific organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and the American Society for Microbiology. In 2004 Dr. Venter was one of the first 38 people to
be selected by Desmond Tutu as part of his 'Hands that Shape Humanity' world exhibition.
Cosponsored by the Dept. of Oceanography and the John. A. Burns School of Medicine,
University of Hawaii, Manoa
In February 2007
Richard Dawkins
Public Lecture: "Queerer Than We Can Suppose?: The Strangeness of
Science"
Tuesday, February 20, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Seminar: "Is Evolution Predictable?"
Wednesday, February 21, 3:30 pm -5:00 pm
Architecture Auditorium
Professor Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles
Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, and a Fellow of New
College, at the University of Oxford. A graduate of Oxford, he did his doctorate
under the Nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. He has written numerous
bestsellers on evolutionary biology, science, and religion; these include The
Selfish Gene (1976; second edition, 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The
Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing
Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A
Devil's Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), and The
God Delusion (2006). Professor Dawkins has been awarded the International
Cosmos Prize (1997), the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London
(1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize
for Achievement in Human Science (1990), the Kistler Prize (2001), the Shakespeare
Prize (2005), and Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as a Fellow of the
Royal Society.
Cosponsored by the College of Natural Sciences, Departments of Botany and Zoology,
Lyon Arboretum, and the Center for Conservation Research and Training, University of Hawaii, Manoa
In March 2007
Picture courtesy BBC
Richard Alley
Public Lecture: "Get Rich and Save the World: Global Warming, Peak
Oil, and Our Future"
Tuesday, March 13, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Seminar: "Fraying at the Edges--Sea Level and the Bizarre Behavior
of Ice Sheets"
Thursday, March 15, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Architecture 205
Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn St. University.
He is one of the world's leading climate researchers, and has spent numerous
field seasons in both Antarctica and Greenland studying the waxing and waning
of ice sheets. Dr. Alley has chaired a National Research Council study on
Abrupt Climate Change, and serves, or has served, on other advisory panels
and steering committees related to climate change. In additional to publishing
numerous scholarly articles on climate change and Earth's recent climate
history, Alley's popular book "The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt
Climate Change, and Our Future" (Princeton University Press) provides a first
hand account of his own work drilling the Greenland ice sheet, and places
the results of his own work in the context of global climate change research.
The book is the recipient of the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science.
In addition to being recognized as an exceptional scholar he is well known
as a source of accessible public information about climate change, including
appearance on TV (Nova, BBC), radio (NPR, Earth and Sky), and print outlets
(New York Times, Time Magazine).
Portions modified from http://cires.colorado.edu/events/lectures/alley/ & PSU
web pages.
Cosponsored by the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii,
Manoa
In November 2007
P.J. E. Peebles
Public lecture:
Discovering the Big Bang
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007,7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Seminar:
Galaxy Formation: Puzzles and Resolutions
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, 3:30 pm
Auditorium at the Institute for Astronomy
2680 Woodlawn Drive
P. J. E.(Jim) Peebles and Robert Dicke predicted that the birth of the universe would leave a residue,
a faint glow of radio emission from the hot Big Bang. When this was confirmed in the early 1960s, cosmology
was transformed from philosophy to science. Later, as evidence grew for the existence of dark matter, Peebles
led the debate over where it is and how much of it there is. Thanks in large part to Peebles, we now
understand that dark matter played a crucial role in the development of structure in the universe, and hence
a crucial role in creating the conditions for life. Under Peebles' guidance for over four decades, cosmologists
have developed a complex and increasingly compelling picture of the physical origins of the universe.
P. J. E. Peebles is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science Emeritus at Princeton University and has won many
major prizes for his contributions to physics, including the Crafoord Prize and the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
In January 2006
Steven Squyres (Cornell University)
Principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project
Thursday, January 19, 7:00pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Dr. Steven Squyres is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy in Cornell
University's astronomy department. His research focuses on the large solid
bodies of the solar system—the terrestrial planets and the satellites of
the Jovian planets. Squyres has participated in numerous planetary spacefl
ight missions. He was an associate of the Voyager imaging science team, a
radar investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, a member of the Mars
Odyssey gamma-ray spectrometer fl ight investigation team, and a co-investigator
on the Mars Express. Squyres is also currently the scientific principal investigator
for the Mars Exploration Rover Project.
Cosponsored by the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
Science results from the Mars Exploration Rover *Spirit*, will be held in
Architecture 205. The time will be 3:30 pm.
In March 2006
Alexander McCall Smith
Author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Sunday Philosophy
Club, and other works.
Public Lecture: "On Being a Serial Novelist"
Thursday, March 23, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Public Lecture: "An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith: A Reading
and Conversation"
Friday, March 24, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Cosponsored by the Hawaii Council of Teachers of Englishand Hawaii Writing
Project
In November 2005
General Eric Shinseki (ret.)
Former Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army
Public Lecture: "Challenges in the Effective Use of Force"
Tuesday, November 8, 7:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
Born in Lihue, Kauai in 1942, Gen. Eric Shinseki (ret.) has had a distinguised
military career. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1965.
(He also has a MA in English Literature from Duke University). He served in
a number of command and staff assignments. These included two tours of duty
in Vietnam, as well as postings in Hawaii, Texas, Germany, and Italy. In 1997,
he was appointed Commanding General United States Army Europe, and, in 1999,
he became the 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, the only Japanese
American to be promoted to that position. He was one of the principal architects
of the "Revolution in Military Affairs." He retired from the military in 2003.
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