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Eugenie C. Scott
Executive Director, National Center for Science Education, Inc.
Presented:
“Making Sense of Biology”
on September 20, 2006
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Randolph Nesse
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Director, Evolution and Human Adaptation Center, University of Michigan
Presented:
“Why did Natural Selection Leave us so Vulnerable to Disease? ”
on October 24, 2006
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Margo Wilson (Oct 1, 1942 - Sept 24, 2009) and Martin Daly
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and Professors in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, Department of Psychology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Presented:
“The Truth about Cinderella: Discriminative Mistreatment of Stepchildren ”
on December 6, 2006
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David Sloan Wilson
Professor of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University
Presented:
“Evolutionary Social Constructivism ”
on January 16, 2007
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David M. Buss
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Texas-Austin
Presented:
“The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill ”
on February 7, 2007
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Rudy Rucker
Mathematician, Computer Scientist, cyberpunk/transrealist author
Presented:
“Life is a Gnarly Computation ”
on April 4, 2007
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Daniel C. Dennett
University Professor, professor of philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University
Presented:
“Meaning and Morality: Darwin's 'strange inversion of reasoning' ”
on April 10, 2007
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Janna Levin
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University
Presented:
"Minds, Machines and the Cosmos: Is the Universe Infinite?" and "Chaos and Black Hole Binaries"
on September 11, 2007 and September 12, 2007
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Ze Frank
Blogster, digerati cynic, social media critic, performance artist
Presented:
“Acceleration Anxiety: Stories from a Worm's Eye View in the Digital Landscape”
on October 3, 2007
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Patricia J. Williams
James L. Rohr Professor of Law, Columbia University; journalist, memoirist, race, gender and cultural theorist
Presented:
“Conjoined Identities and the Corporatized Body”
on October 18, 2007
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Elizabeth Streb
Award-winning artistic director of Streb Extreme Dance Company
Presented:
“The Limitless Imagination of the Muscles & the Bones: Action in Time & Space”
on January 7, 2008
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Kenny Lerner and Peter Cook
Peter Cook and NTID's Kenny Lerner ;
acclaimed ASL poet & hearing collaborator perform imaginative, experimental visual & visceral poetry
Presented:
“Poetry in Motion: The Flying Words Project”
on February 2, 2008
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John Maeda
E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
President-elect, Rhode Island School of Design, 2008
Presented:
“Humanity, Simplicity, Technology”
on March 12, 2008
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Heather McHugh
Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Univ. of Washington, Heather McHugh has authored over a dozen books of poetry, criticism & translation
Presented:
A reading
on April 23, 2008
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Lynda Barry
Graphic novelist, artist, playwright, syndicated comic strip creator of "Ernie Pooks Comeek" and several nationally known novels
Presented:
"Writing the Unthinkable" and 3-hour related Writing Workshop
on May 5, 2008
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Ray Kurzweil
Legendary futurist, inventor and artificial intelligence expert
Presented:
“The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”
on September 17, 2008
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George Elliott Clarke & D.D. Jackson
Award-winning Africadian poet/playwright teams up with renowned NYC jazz composer and pianist
Presented:
“BeBopera & BeBopera Too”
on October 15, 2008
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Bill McKibben
Environmental Writer, Educator, Activist. Scholar-in-Residence at Middlebury College
Author of Deep Economy, official reading for RIT's first year students
Presented:
“Uniting Global and Local”
on November 6, 2008
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Edward Burtynsky
Canadian photographer of landscape transformed by industry
Presented:
“The Landscape of Oil”
on January 21, 2009
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Mark Frauenfelder & Carla Sinclair
Authors, journalists, webloggers, new media magnates; Mark co-founded Boing Boing & Make magazine; Carla is "Net Chick," & edits Craft magazine
Presented:
"The Happy Mutant's Guide to the Modern Maker Movement" and related workshop
on March 26, 2009
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Maira Kalman
Innovative children\'s book author, illustrator, product designer & librettist
Presented:
“Just Looking”
on April 6, 2009
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Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D
World pioneer in molecular biotechnology and genomics; founder, Institute for Systems Biology
Presented:
“Systems Biology and Systems Medicine”
on April 23, 2009
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Matt Coolidge
Director of Programming, Center for Land Use & Interpretation; Exhibitions & Projects on landscape perception & human-induced changes, using perspectives from geography, installation and conceptual art, tourism, and political economy
Presented:
“Ground Up: The Center for Land Use Interpretation”
on May 4, 2009
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Joslyn Barnes
Producer, co-founder (with Danny Glover) and Chief Operating Officer of Louverture Films
Presented:
“Imagination and the Cinema of Resistance”
on September 21, 2009
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Stefan Sagmeister
International graphic designer, artist,
author of Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far and Sagmeister: Made You Look
Presented:
“Design and Happiness”
on October 5, 2009
Issued a design challenge for all-RIT campus
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Rebecca Solnit
Activist, historian, author
Presented:
“Other Loves: Public Life and Unsaid Emotions”
on November 4, 2009
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Adam Frank
University of Rochester astrophysicist and author
Presented:
“The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs Religion Debate”
on December 2, 2009
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Michael Singer
Artist and principal designer, Michael Singer Studio
Presented:
“Regenerative Design in the Public Realm”
on January 19, 2010
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Nick Gurewitch & Chris Onstad
Giants of independent webcomics; creators of Eisner award-winning "Perry Bible Fellowship" and "Achewood"
Presented:
“Internet Famous: Comic Time with Nick and Chris”
on February 10, 2010
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David Cay Johnston
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, author, distinguished lecturer and partner with WXXI in a new series, How Did We Get Here?
Presented:
“A Path Back to Prosperity for America”
on March 9, 2010
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Hiroshi Ishii
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT; Co-director of the MIT Media Lab, Things That Think Consortium, and head of the Tangible Media Group
Presented:
“The Art of Tangible Bits”
on March 29, 2010
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Christopher deCharms
Neuroscientist; serial entrepreneur; founder of life-sciences company, Omneuron
Presented:
“Imagine your own brain with real time fMRI while seeing your imagining”
on April 19, 2010
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Matt Crawford
political philosopher and master mechanic
Presented:
“The Case for Working with Your Hands”
on September 8, 2010
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Dan Ariely
behavioral economist
Presented:
“Who Put the Monkey in the Driver's Seat?”
on September 29, 2010
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Jeanne Gang
architect
Presented:
“Assembly as Medium”
on October 20, 2010
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Alison Bechdel
critically acclaimed cartoonist and author
Presented:
“Drawing Words, Reading Pictures”
on December 2, 2010
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David Liptak
professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music
Presented:
“Composing New Music”
on February 2, 2011
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Golan Levin
experimentalist engineer in audiovisual performance and interactive art
Presented:
“Interactive Art and Speculative Human-Computer Interaction”
on March 8, 2011
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
storyteller, author
Presented:
“Shifting Spaces: Identity, Literature and the Emergence of Stories”
on April 4, 2011
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David Bainbridge
science writer, veterinarian and reproductive biologist
Presented:
“Teenagers: The Pinnacle of Human Evolution?”
on April 18, 2011
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