Past Grand Seminars
Fall 2025
Kim Cobb, Ph.D.
Director of Brown University’s Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Fall 2024
Sylvester James "Jim" Gates, Ph.D.
Theoretical Physicist at the University of Maryland and Winner of the National Medal
of Science
Fall 2023
Adam Phillippy, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland
Fall 2022
Kartik Chandran, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University,
2015 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2013 Fellow for the Water Environment Federation
Spring 2022
Nicola Fox, Ph.D.
Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters
in Washington, D.C.
Fall 2020
Leana Wen, M.D.
Emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University
Fall 2019
Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D.
Professor of epidemiology and global public health, director of the Center for Genomics
and Systems Biology at New York University, and 2011 MacArthur Fellow
Fall 2018
Peter Lu, Ph.D.
Physics Research Fellow in the Department of Physics in the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
Fall 2017
John Warner, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, LLC
Founder of Beyond Benign, a non-profit dedicated to sustainability and green chemistry
education and winner of the 2014 Perkin Medal
Spring 2017
Dr. John Mather
Senior Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
2016
Dr. Bonnie Bassler
Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the department of molecular biology
at Princeton University
2015 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
2015
Dr. Adam Riess
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the Johns Hopkins University
Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute
2014
Dr. Richard Alley
Earth Scientist, Professor, and Contributor to the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007 Nobel Prize
2013
The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Mario Livio
Astrophysicist
2012
The Art of Mental Calculation
Arthur Benjamin, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics and Mathemagician
2011
From Loyola to Outer Space
Colonel Timothy "T.J." Creamer, ’82
Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer on International Space Station Expedition
22/23