Graduate School announces centennial colloquium schedule
The Graduate School will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a series of colloquia led by eminent graduate alumni on Wednesday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Lincoln Campus Center.
During the program, “A Century of Scholarship, 1908-2008,” graduates representing the campus’ schools and colleges with advanced degree programs and the W.E.B. Du Bois Library will speak on a variety of topics related to their fields.
The colloquia are free and open to the public. The speakers and their topics are as follows:
Session I: 10-11:30 a.m.
• Michael Blakey, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, “The Idea of Race and the Nature Politic,” 904 Campus Center. Blakey is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of anthropology and professor of American studies at William and Mary College.
• Dev Gupta, College of Engineering, “Built to Last,” 917 Campus Center. Gupta is the CEO of NewLANS, a firm developing high-speed, wireless data transmission.
• Rajan Varadarajan, Isenberg School of Management, “Global Outsourcing of Goods and Services: Business Decisions in the Face of Public Denouncements and Disapprovals,” 163C Campus Center. Varadarajan is associate dean for research and doctoral programs, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, and the Ford Chair in Marketing and E-Commerce at Texas A&M University.
Session II: 1:30-3 p.m.
• Gennaro Chierchia, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, “Logic and Grammar: How Language and Reasoning Shape Each Other,” 904 Campus Center. He holds the Haas Foundations Chair of Linguistics at Harvard University.
• Priscilla M. Clarkson, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, “My Last Lecture: Ten Things that Really Mattered,” 163C Campus Center. Clarkson is dean of Commonwealth College.
• David J. Mazzo, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, “From Classroom to Boardroom: One Analytical Chemist’s Journey,” 917 Campus Center. Mazzo is president and CEO of Aeterna Zentaris, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company.
Session III: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
• Noel Anderson, College of Natural Resources and the Environment, “Perspectives of Research Careers,” 905 Campus Center. Anderson is vice president of the Worldwide Technical Insights organization of the Pepsi Cola Company.
• Deborah J. Kenny, School of Nursing, “Military Nurses Making a Difference: Diffusion of Military Research into Civilian Nursing Practice,” 917 Campus Center. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Kenny is currently serving at the Uniformed Service University in Bethesda, Md.
• Homer “Skip” Meade II, campus library system and School of Education, “The University’s Archives: Inspiration from Days Gone By,” 904 Campus Center. A W.E.B. Du Bois scholar, he is senior area director for National Evaluation Systems, a part of Pearson Education, Inc.
In the evening, the nine alumni will be honored at an invitation-only dinner, where alumnus Russell Hulse, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics, will give the keynote address and also receive an award.
April 3, 2008.
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