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Jeroen Tromp, Professor of Geosciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Earthquakes, Impacts, and Seismic Imaging

Sean Wilentz, Professor of History
The Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship

Susan Stewart, Professor of English
The Ruins Lesson

Denis Feeney, Professor of Classics
Wormholes and Time Machines on the Site of Virgil's Rome

Nolan McCarty, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
The Polarization of American Politics

Virginia Zakian, Professor of Molecular Biology
Maintaining the End: Telomere Replication and Its Connections to Human Health

Naomi E. Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Flocks and Fleets: Collective Motion in Nature and Robotics

Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
America's War on Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs
The Copenhagen Climate Summit, in Context: What Came Before, What Happens Next?
 

João Biehl, Professor of Anthropology  
“Social Innovation in Global Health: When People Come First”

Leonard Barkan, Professor of Comparative Literature
“Did Eating Have a Renaissance? Mapping a Scholarly Itinerary from Past to Repast”

Lyman Page, Professor of Physics:  "Observing the Birth of the Universe"
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Linda Colley, Professor of History:  "Lives for our Times: Biography and Global History"
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Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature:  "Because It Was He, Because It Was I"  The Good of Friendship
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Simon Morrison, Associate Professor of Music:  “The Unknown Prokofiev”

Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics:  “Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics?”
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Elizabeth Gould, Professor of Psychology:  “Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain”
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Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology:   “How Bacteria Talk to Each Other”
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Paul Muldoon, the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities:   “In the Horse Latitudes”
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Katherine Newman, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs:   “School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in ‘Perfect’ Places”
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Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science:   “Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics and the Fight to Control Digital Media”
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Alan Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy:   “Misunderestimating Terrorism: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism”
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Claudia Johnson, the Murray Professor of English Literature:   “Jane Austen and War”
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Bess Ward, the William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences:   “Strange Biogeochemistry of Permanently Ice-Covered Lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica”
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Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values:   “The Ethics of Identity”
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Marta Tienda, the Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies:   “Equity and Access to Higher Education: Lessons from Texas”

Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History:  “Technica Curiosa: Technology and Magic in Early Modern Europe”
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Carol Armstrong, the Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies:  “Manet and Cézanne: In the Margins of Their Modernism”
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Vincent Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering:   “Anytime, Anywhere: The Wireless Revolution”
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Caryl Emerson, the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures:   “The Fall of the Russian Empire, the Rise of Slavic Studies and the Relevance of Both for the Hardcore Humanities”

Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs:   “Inequality, Health and Wealth”
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Stewart Smith, the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics:   “Imperfect Opposites: Matter vs. Antimatter at Accelerators and in the Universe”
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