Honors Program Speaker Series
The Honors Program adds to the quality of students’ educational experiences and campus life through its guest speaker series. When possible, the speakers’ areas of expertise are closely tied to the themes of the Honors seminars.
Faculty Speaker Series
Since its inception, the Honors Program has sponsored a monthly lecture series featuring members of the Embry-Riddle faculty. The talks (known informally as the ‘Feed Your Head’ series) also include pizza, beverages and plenty of informal discussion for everyone.
Distinguished Speakers Series
These speakers spend a class period with seminar students. They also address a larger audience during a separately scheduled event. The Distinguished Speakers Series offers topics of interest to a broad spectrum of students, faculty, staff and members of the larger urban community.
2011-2012
- 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"
2010-2011
- 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"
2009-2010
- 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: 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"
2008-2009
- Monday, November 10: Pete Earley
- "Inside the Mind of a Traitor"
- Monday, December 1: Dr. Mike Brown
- "How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming"
- Monday, February 2: General Russel Honore
- "The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"
- Monday, February 23: Dr. Raymond Tanter
- "U.S. Policy toward Iran"
- Monday, March 30: Dr. Padraig O'Malley
- "Efforts at Peace and Reconciliation in Iraq"
