Professorial Lectures: 2024-2025
“The Return to Big Questions in Economics”
Sara Gundersen, Ph.D. (Department of Economics)
Recent econometric innovations have enabled economists to show causality, resulting in a widespread shift to small, answerable questions. In this talk, I argue for the return to big questions using…
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Protecting Our Drinking Water Sources
Zuhdi Aljobeh, Ph.D., P.E. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Protecting our drinking water sources is a critical component of environmental sustainability and public health. In my presentation, I will focus on the implementation of stormwater best management practices (BMPs),…
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Underpaid, Overperforming: The Untold Story of Women in Executive Roles
Jiangxia (Renee) Liu, Ph.D. (College of Business)
Women hold a small percentage of top executive roles and earn significantly less than men, yet they often outperform their male counterparts. While part of the pay gap can be…
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Nuclear and Particle Physics at Colliders
Adam Gibson-Even, Ph.D. (Department of Physics)
For more than 50 years, enormous particle colliders have addressed fundamental questions in particle and nuclear physics: What are the fundamental constituents of matter? What laws govern it? I will…
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