The 60-Second Lectures
Each semester faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences take a minute to share ideas and opinions on topics from poetry and politics to physics, fractions and fly fishing. During the month of September, join us for 60 seconds of instruction-and even a little fun.
Stiteler Plaza
Locust Walk and 37th Street
11:55 a.m.
Rain Location: Houston Hall Reading Room
This program is free and open to the public.
September 9
Nancy Bonini
Lucille B. Williams Term Professor of Biology
Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury
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September 16
Herman Beavers
Associate Professor of English
When Poetry Gets the Blues
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September 23
Angela Duckworth
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Why Achievement Isn't "Normal"
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September 30
Philippe Bourgois
Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology, and Family Medicine and Community Health
Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility
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