Professorial Lectures
Brand Damage
Curtis W. Cichowski, LL.M. (School of Law)
Once little more than a welcome consequence of good business, brand has become the profit prerequisite. Brands have matured into economic engines. They drive market-share, they drive investment, and they…
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Observations on Ethnicity and Ancestry in the United States, 2010-2012
Jon Kilpinen, Ph.D. (Department of Meteorology)
A wealth of data from the 2010 U.S. Census and estimates from the 2012 American Community Survey provide us with important insights on race, ethnicity, and ancestry. County-level maps of…
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Early Christian Views of Mental Health and Their Influence on Contemporary Western Thought
Jim Nelson, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology)
Mental illness has been recognized as a problem since classical Greek and Roman times. During the classical period, three worldviews offered a foundation for different visions of mental health. The…
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Mistake after Mistake after Mistake
Michael Watters, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
A largely chronological parade of failures, flops, frustrations, blunders, miscalculations, missteps, oversights, surprises and goofs while researching mutation, morphology and growth in Neurospora crassa.
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From Page to Stage; The Journey of a Costume Designer
Ann Kessler, MFA (Department of Theatre)
Just how are costume designs created from the play script to a realized production? In this talk Professor Kessler will give a glimpse into the imaginative world of costume design…
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In the Shadow of the Anvil: Two Decades of Convective Field Studies at Valparaiso University
Bart Wolf, Ph.D. (Department of Geography and Meteorology)
I have been conducting spring convective storm field study courses annually since 1994 and have logged 56 weeks and nearly 200,000 miles on the road with nearly 600 students. A…
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Liturgical Renewal for Such a Time as This
Lorraine Brugh, Ph.D. (Department of Music)
North American Lutherans find themselves uniquely poised to become the liturgical churches’ leaders for the upcoming decades. Following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960’s, American Roman…
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Is Indiana About to Fall into the Ocean? Some Thoughts on Seismicity in the Central and Eastern United States
Carmine Polito, Ph.D. (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Most people lump earthquakes in the continental United States into a group that includes surfing, the Twinkie Defense, the Kardashians, and the OJ trial: that is, things that can only…
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Scientific Visualization for Undergraduate Education
Jeffrey Will, Ph.D. (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
One of the great benefits for undergraduate students at a comprehensive university is being exposed to a broad range of disciplines. In this talk, Professor Will details how students can…
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