Professorial Lectures: 2016-2017
The Most Interesting Woman You’ve Never Heard Of –The Life and Work of San Francisco’s Sarah B. Cooper
Mike Owens, Ph.D. (Department of English)
If this were 1897, most all of us would be familiar with the name Sarah B. Cooper of San Francisco. Initially with aspirations of being a fiction writer, Cooper found…
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Ecology in the Field: Doing Inquiry-based Projects as Service Learning in Science
Laurie Eberhardt, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
Valparaiso University’s mission statement says that we prepare students to lead and serve in society. Service learning may conjure images of social work students placed in social service agencies, education…
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Christ in the University: Schlink’s Vision and the Valpo Tradition
Matthew Becker, Ph.D. (Department of Theology)
In the wake of the Nazi transformation of Heidelberg University in the 1930s and early 40s, several individuals who were called to Heidelberg after 1945 began to work toward that…
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Putting Walt Whitman to Work: The Employment of English Majors
Martin Buinicki, Ph.D. (Department of English)
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 triggered a wave of protest writing, and many of these works are now considered classics of American literature. Today, as our…
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The Business of Climate Change
Elizabeth Gingerich, JD (Department of Business)
In December 2015, world leaders converged in Paris for the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to collectively…
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Some Interesting Characteristics of Human Memory and How to Take Advantage of Them in Academic Settings
Kieth Carlson, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology)
The human brain is obviously tremendously complex, and yet, 6 basic principles describe its general functioning fairly well. I will use demonstrations, research and commonly held, but false, beliefs about…
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