Spring 2024 Speakers
All events are at 7:30 p.m. in the Willie Miller Instructional Center Auditorium. All events are free and open to the public, all students, staff, faculty and administration.
Tuesday, March 26 
Steven Noll is an instructional professor in the history department at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1993. He has 3 advance degrees from UF, and received his bachelors degree from William and Mary. He has received numerous teaching awards from UF, and in 2012 was named one of the 300 best professors in the US by the Princeton Review. He works closely with Florida Humanities, where he is a member of their Speakers’ Bureau, giving talks at different locations around the state. Currently, he is the lead scholar on their traveling exhibition in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, entitled “Democracy: Voices and Votes.” The book on which this talk is based, co-authored with David Tegeder, entitled Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s Future won the Rembert Patrick Award from the Florida Historical Society and the Michael Thompson Award from the Gulf South Historical Association.
Past Honors Series Events
- Saturday, October 14: Julie Fowlis
Julie Fowlis in Concert - Wednesday, November 1: Dr. Erika Nesvold
The Ethics of Space Settlement - Wednesday, November 29: Dr. Marcus Eriksen
Saving our Synthetic Seas
- Wednesday, November 2: Timothy A. Wise
- Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food
- Monday, November 14: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” - Wednesday, February 22: Winona LaDuke
What Does It Mean to Be a Water Protector — in Florida?
- Wednesday, February 2: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Tuesday, February 8:Martin Ford
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything - Tuesday, March 29: Fred Haise
Failure Is Not an Option
- Wednesday, September 25, 2019: Dr. Stephanie Seneff
RoundUp Ready? The Far-Reaching Impact of Intensive Glyphosate Use -
Tuesday, October 15, 2019: Julie Fowlis
In Concert - Wednesday, November 20, 2019: Mark Nepo
More Together Than Alone
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020: Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Hais
Failure Is Not An Option
- Tuesday, October 9, 2018: Julia Ioffe
What Does Russia Really Want - Monday, November 5 and Tuesday, November 6, 2018: Matt Haimovitz
The Bach Suites: A Moveable Feast -
Wednesday, January 30, 2019: The Cashore Marionettes
Life in Motion -
Wednesday, February 27, 2019: The Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company (WHDC)
- Tuesday, October 3, 2017: Robert Glennon
Imagining Our Water Future - Wednesday, November 15, 2017: ETHEL, with Robert Mirabal
In Concert - Wednesday, February 7, 2018: An Evening with John McCutcheon
In Concert - Wednesday, February 28, 2018: Kentaro Toyama
Will Technology Really Solve Our Problems?
- Tuesday, October 25, 2016: Graeme Wood
What ISIS Really Wants - Wednesday, April 5, 2017: The Hot Club of San Francisco
Postcards from Gypsyland - Monday, January 23, 2017: Charlie Miller
If You Build It, I Can Break It - Monday, February 6, 2017: Heather Knight
Charismatic Machine
- Monday, October 5, 2015: Fredi Lajvardi
Inspiring Creativity through Science - Tuesday, November 3, 2015: Scott Dikkers
- Wednesday, January 20, 2016: Anya Kamenetz
The Test - Monday, February 8, 2016: David Linden
Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind - Tuesday, March 1, 2016: Caladh Nua
In Concert
- Wednesday, September 24, 2014: Sean Carroll
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World - Friday, October 24, 2014: The Turtle Island Quartet
- January 28, 2015: Fred Haise
Failure is Not An Option - April 10, 2015: Maharajah Flamenco Trio
An Evening of Music featuring, “Music of Mystery and Imagination”
- Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 6:45-7:45 p.m.: Bill Rosemann
"Super-Heroes on (and off) the Page" - Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 7:30-8:30 p.m.: UF Biology Professor Jamie Gillooly
"Art and Engineering: The Bookends of Discovery" - Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:30 p.m.: Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch, and Wu Fei
"Introducing... the Wu-Force!" - Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 7:30 p.m.: Dan Korte
"Why be an engineer."
- Monday, October 08, 2012: David Wolman
"The End of Money" - Wednesday, November 07, 2012: Arthur Bergles
"Energy and Water Everywhere, but Not a Drop..." - Wednesday, November 28, 2012: Dr. Lewis Duncan
"Robo Sapiens: Technology and our Emergent Transhuman Future" - Monday, February 04, 2013: Jack Weatherford
"Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan" - Friday, February 15, 2013: John McCutcheon
"An Evening with John McCutheon"
- Monday, October 10, 2011: Peter Bergen
"The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East (and What it Means for Oil, Israel, Terrorism and America)" - Wednesday, February 1, 2012: James Bradley
"Doing the Impossible" - Thursday, March 1, 2012: Dr. Vladimir Golubev
"Eyes in the Sky: How MAV Research Brings Science Fiction to Reality"
First Annual ERAU Researcher of the Year Lecture - Tuesday, April 3, 2012: Captain Al Haynes
"Teamwork in Crisis: The Story of Flight 232"
- Monday, October 11, 2010: Arun Gandhi
"Lessons from Grandfather" - Monday, November 22, 2010: Norman Augustine
"Aerospace: Past, Present and Future" - Monday, January 31, 2011: Steven Solomon
"Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization" - Monday, February 28, 2011: George Michelsen Foy
"Zero Decibels: The Search for Absolute Silence" - Wednesday, March 9, 2011: Fabien Cousteau
"The Ocean Adventures"
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010: Homer Hickam
"Dare to Dream” in “An Evening with Homer Hickam" - Monday, October 12, 2009: Jerome Ringo
"The Green Economy: America’s New Frontier" - Monday, November 16, 2009: Dr. Bruce Jakosky
"Science, Society and the Search for Life Elsewhere" - Monday, January 25, 2009: Carbon Sciences CEO, Byron Elton
"Carbon as an Answer, not Just an Enemy"
- Monday, November 10, 2008: Pete Earley
"Inside the Mind of a Traitor" - Monday, December 1, 2008: Dr. Mike Brown
"How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming" - Monday, February 2, 2009: General Russel Honore
"The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" - Monday, February 23, 2009: Dr. Raymond Tanter
"U.S. Policy Toward Iran" - Monday, March 30, 2009: Dr. Padraig O'Malley
"Efforts at Peace and Reconciliation in Iraq"
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