♦  Earnest Adams, author and former game developer with Electronic Arts, Inc.
        "Game Theory and Game Design"

♦  Stephen Barley, Stanford University Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the School of Engineering's Center for Work, Technology and Organization
        "Do Loosened Organizational Ties Lead to Greater White Collar Work-Life Flexibility"

♦ Myles Brand, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
        "The Ethical and Academic Challenges of College Sports"

♦  John Cronin, the nation's first Riverkeeper and Director of the Pace University Academy on the  Environment.
        "The Future of the Hudson and Efforts to Improve Its Ecology"

♦  Park Doing, Cornell University, Bovay Program in History and Ethics of Engineering and a member of the University's Engineers for a Sustainable World program
        "Engineers for a Sustainable World"

 ♦  Milton Glaser, President of Milton Glaser, Inc.
        "A Quarter Century of Poster Art"

♦  Brenda Laurel, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director, Sun Microsystems Labs and Chair, Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design
        "How Do We Educate Muscular Designers?  How Do We Frame Failure? How Do We Measure Success?"

♦  Edward T. Linenthal, Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture and Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin
        "History Matters: The Promise and Challenge of Public History, An Illustrated Lecture"

♦  William Kennedy, Director of the New York State Writers Institute, and Dr. Richard Selzer, Troy native, surgeon, former faculty member of Yale University
        "Capital Region Arts and the Influence of the Arts of the Region on Their Writing"

♦  John Maeda, Muriel Cooper Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and Director of the Aesthetics and Computation Group
        "Design by Numbers"

♦  W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry.
        "Cloning Terror: The War of Images from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib"

♦  Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University
        "The New Naturalism: Science, Cognition, Evolution, Religion"

♦  Richard Selzer, Troy native, surgeon, former Yale faculty member, and author of novels, short stories and essays
        "The Doctor Becomes a Writer"

♦  Colin Teevan, Literary Fellow at Universities of Newcastle and Durham, England, and playwright
        "Narratology and Interactive Media: The Synchronicity Project"

♦  Conference: "Building Bridges: Classrooms, Communities, Research"  Sponsored by the Troy and Rensselaer Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC); the School of Humanities & Social Sciences; and the Center for Ethics in Complex Systems.

♦  Conference: "Civic Engagement and Service Learning for the Environment"  The 3rd Annual Conference of The Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities, with Nadinne Cruz, from Stanford University and the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs; Dr. Eric Pallant, Allegheny College; and John Cronin, Executive Director, The Beacon Institute.

♦  Women's History Speaker Series 2005 & 2006 Four lectures each spring semester, with themes:
        "Women and Science," and "Gender and Design"

♦  Mind & Brain Lecture Series 2007  Four lectures on the study culture, cognition, and development; mind, brain, and human evolutionary theory.

♦  Roger Panetta, Professor of History at Fordham University, "Achieving Interdisciplinarity through the Use of Information Technology for Humanities Research"

♦  Gunalan Nadarajan, Vice Provost for Research at Maryland Institute, College of Art, "Opportunities for Arts and Humanities: Research, Support, Networks, and Partnerships"

♦  Simon Penny, Director, Center for Arts, Computation, and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, "Experience and Abstraction: The Arts and the Logic of the Machine"

 

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