Past Honors Lectures

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Spring 2026 Lectures

Dr. Tia Miles, “Navigating the College Search: Understanding Barriers and Institutional Support for First-Generation College Students,” February 26, 2026
Dr. Thomas Dirth, “Living Well within Limits: Ableism, Environmental Psychology, and Sustainable Futures,” March 17, 2026
Dr. Shaawano Uran, “Applying an Indigenous Lens to Non-Indigenous Film: A Red Reading of the Black Phone,” March 31, 2026
Dr. Judith Zatkin, “Reality Television in the Classroom: Frivolous or Foundational?” April 14, 2026
Dr. Kat Klement, “One Great Man vs. the Collective: Does the Batman Actually Help Gotham?” April 28, 2026

Fall 2025 Lectures

Dr. Mark Standing Eagle Baez, “Braiding Healing and Prevention: The Indigenous S.A.F.E. Screening Tool with the Sweetgrass Method Approach,” October 15, 2025
Lisa Krall and Lisa Schmitz, “Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Tale from a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Project,” October 20, 2025
Prof. Ruth Eckstrom, “Chronic Pain and the Opioid Epidemic,” November 3, 2025
Dr. Ashley Charwood, “Afrocentric Social Work & Sankofa: Connecting the Past to the Present,” November 18, 2025

Spring 2025 Lectures

Dr. Erik Heine, “‘Montage,’ ‘Anti-montage,’ and ‘Hyper-montage’ in Film Since 2000,” February 18 2025
Dr. Kathrina O’Connell and Dr. Danielle Sullivan, “Reaching Rural Readers,” March 3, 2025
Pete McDonnell, “UAP Studies: The (re)Emergence of Academic Interest in a Once-Taboo Subject,” March 27, 2025
Hannah Leffelman, “Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: The Role of Vaccines and Immunotherapy,” April 10, 2025
Dr. Miriam Webber, “Music, Emotion and Expression: Constructing Emotion in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich,” April 22, 2025
Dr. Kelly La Venture, “From Oxford to Opportunity—Student Reflections on EuroSpring’s Impact,” April 29, 2025

Fall 2024 Lectures

Dr. Jenna O’Dell, “Challenging Students to Experience Mathematics as Mathematicians,” October 10, 2024
Dr. Sarah Cronin, “10 Countries, 3 Continents: Lessons Learned Teaching on a Comparative Study Abroad Program”
Dr. Dennis Lunt, “Compulsory Castration of Convicted Sex Offenders: A Bioethics Perspective”
Dr. Stephen Hamrick, “‘He Wasn’t as Tall as This’: Hamlet and his Skull in British Sketch Comedy,” November 20, 2024
Dr. Brian Hemmelman, “Engineering Design and Prototyping Using Remote Teams”

Spring 2024 Lectures

Dr. Chad Abushanab, “Poetic vs. Computational Intelligence: Poetry’s Place in an AI Landscape,” February 12, 2024
Dr. Kimberly Balzer-Jaray, “The Language of Tattoo,” February 24, 2024
Dr. Daniel Guentchev, “Traumatized Peoples Traumatize Peoples: Western Dismissal of Indigenous Philosophy,” March 14, 2024
Dr. Paul Kivi, “The Industrial Revolution, the Remarkable Rise in Life Expectancies, and Unintended Consequences,” March 27, 2024
Dr. Brenda Mack, Emily Paine, and Ashley Charwood, “Human Library as an Experiential Multicultural Learning Opportunity,” April 23, 2024

Fall 2023 Lectures

Dr. Shaun Duke, “Canonicity in the Rainbow Age of the ‘Net: Unstable Canons, Diversification and Writers,” October 2, 2023. Zoom Recording.
Dr. Rachel Hellmann Whitaker, “Elucidating the Role of LINC00896 RNA in the Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder,” November 1, 2023. Zoom Recording.

Spring 2023 Lectures

Dr. Brenda Mack and Dr. Sue Rickers, “”The Organization Was Designed to Burn You Out”: An Exploration of Organizational Practices that Intentionally Promote Employee Resilience,” January 18, 2023. Zoom recording.
Dr. Lisa Krall, “From ‘Reading Wars,’ ‘Science of Reading,’ Low Reading Test Scores, to Dyslexia: Who is Prepared to Teach Reading,” February 7, 2023. Zoom recording.
Dr. Jozie Nummi. “Ferguson Protests in 2014: Social Media Innovation and Policing Tactics,” February 28, 2023. Zoom recording.
Amanda Longie, “COVID-19 and the Continued Impact on Substance Use,” March 13, 2023. Zoom recording.
Dr. Margaret Lubke and Jessica Bernand, “Supporting Youth and Young Adults with Trauma Informed Care,” March 30, 2023. Zoom recording.
Dr. Thomas Dirth, “Empowering Disability and Disability Empowered: A 4-Model Framework for Teaching Disability in Psychology,” April 11, 2023. Zoom recording.

Fall 2022 Lectures

Dr. Dennis Lunt, “The Right to Not Kill,” September 15, 2022.
Dr. Hillary Baron, “Culturally Responsive Undergraduate Science Education: A Model for Equitable Science Teaching in Academic Biology,” September 28, 2022.
Dr. Holly LaFerriere, “Isolation and Characterization of Viruses for Use in the Treatment of Bacterial Infections,” October 3, 2022.
Dr. Ryan Sayer, “The Quantum Double Slit Experiment: The Most Beautiful Experiment in Physics,” October 18, 2022.
Dr. Michael Lengefeld, “Callous Cruelty and Blowback: ICE Facilities, Riskscapes and Community Transmission of COVID-19,” November 1, 2022.
Dr. M Standing Eagle Baez, “Perspectives of American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health Practitioners on Psychological Distress, Social Support, and Wellness,” November 12, 2022.

Spring 2022 Lectures

Marty J. Wolf, “Ethical Reflections on Handling Digital Remains: Computing Professionals Picking Up Bones,” February 15, 2022.
Katrina O’Connell, “Equity, Enrichment, and Engagement for Students’ Summer Success,” February 23, 2022.
Amy Funk, “Exploring Sibling Bereavement,” March 1, 2022.
Rachel Hellman Whitaker, “Unraveling the Developmental Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease,” March 15, 2022.
Lindsay Bell, “Uncle Same Strikes Out: Commissioner Landis and the Rehabilitation of Baseball’s Patriotism, 1917-1944,” and Eric Berg, “Prince Honeycutt: The First African American Baseball Player in Minnesota,” March 30, 2022.
Colleen Deel and Patrick Leeport, “Understanding BSU Library Space from a Student Perspective: A Photo Elicitation Study,” April 7, 2022.
Mark Christensen, “Book Reading and Signing,” April 21, 2022.

Fall 2021 Lectures

Dr. John Perlich, “Real Enough: Helping Students Overcome Communication Apprehension Through the use of Virtual Reality Environments,” September 13, 2021.
Profs. Ann Humphrey and Sarah Cronin, “A Cross-Cultural Co-Teaching Collaboration: Reflecting on Successes and Lessons Learned,” September 28, 2021.
Dr. Kathryn Klement, “Trans in a Small Town: Barriers to Healthcare for Rural Transgender Patients,” October 12, 2021.
Dr. John Ellis, “The Human Body and Methodist Spirituality, 1776-1820,” November 4, 2021.
Ashik Shafi, “Communicating COVID-19: Center for Disease Control’s Social Media Posts During the 2020 Pandemic,” November 17, 2021.

Spring 2021 Lectures

Sarah Faust, “Cause and Consequences of Correctional Officer Stress and Suggested Interventions,” January 26, 2021.
Dr. Debbie Guelda, “Dam Nation,” February 11, 2021.
Dr. Hilary Lowrey, “Conjuring the Numinous in Music,” February 24, 2021.
Dr. Anna Carlson, Jordan Lutz & Andrew Miller, “Building Community Resilience: Leveraging NVIVO Software to Manage Diverse Qualitative Data,” April 1, 2021.
Dr. Dan Allosso, “Hybrid-Flexible Teaching, COVID, and the Changing Landscape of Higher ED,” April 19, 2021.
Dr. Miriam Webber, “Silent Voices: Women Composers in Their Own Words,” April 28, 2021.

Fall 2020 Lectures

Dr. Brenda Mack, “Resiliency-Focused Social Work Supervision: A Qualitative Study with Supervisors,” September 15, 2020.
Dr. Sarah Cronin, ” Missed Opportunity? College Counseling Service Models and Retention,” October 1, 2020.
Dr. Rucha Ambikar, “Women of Bollywood,” October 14, 2020.
Drs. Katie Peterson & Lucas Szrot, “Inspiring Future Scientists Through Curriculum-Enhancing Outreach,” October 27, 2020.
Dr. Christy Cook, “Modification and Implementation of a Clinical Practice Guideline for Neonates with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: An Evidence-Based Practice Approach,” November 11, 2020.
Dr. Season Ellison, “Performed Scholarship and the Town Too Tough to Die,” November 30, 2020.

Spring 2020 Lectures

Dr. Dennis Lunt, “Refusing Care: Conscientious Objection in American Healthcare,” January 27, 2020.
Mitch Berg, “Promoting Tribal, County, and Municipal Relations,” February 5, 2020.
Pete Nelson, “Applying a Craft Stakeholder Approach to Cannabis Legalization,” February 20, 2020.

Fall 2019 Lectures

Dr. Mark Lawrence, “From Magical Giraffes to High-Speed Railways: Myths of Progress and the Environmental Impacts of China’s One Belt Road Initiative in Kibwezi, Kenya,” October 7, 2019.
Dr. Camille Brandt, “Art on Saturday’s: An Inclusiveness Project for Children Impacted by Autism Spectrum Disorders,” October 17, 2019.
Todd Frauenholtz, “The Scholarship of Supporting STEM Students,” October 28, 2019.
Beth Kujava, “Racial Disparities in Pre-Trial Risk for Cass County, MN. Implications for Greater Minnesota,” November 13, 2019.
Dr. Dan Allosso, “The Politics of Open Educational Resources,” November 19, 2019.
Dr. Ana M. Lopez-Aguilera, “Music Videos in YouTube: Becoming a Conscious Consumer of Media Products,” December 3, 2019.

Spring 2019 Lectures

Winona Laduke, “Be the Ancestor Your Descendants Would be Proud of,” February 5, 2019.
Dr. Anna Carlson and Dr. Jeffery Ueland, “Empowering Rural Communities : Estimating Solar Energy Potential From LiDAR-Based Rooftop Estimates,” February 13, 2019.
Dr. Rebecca Hoffman and Andrea Kingbird, “Challenging Power and Control Within the Domestic Violence Shelter,” February 19, 2019.
Dr. David Massaglia, “Wyoming-Minnesota Model Cooperatives: 2 Case Studies,” March 4, 2019.
Dr. Ryan Webber, “Motif and Leitmotif in Music of DC’s Arrowverse,” March 20, 2019.
Dr. Shaun Duke, “What Twitter Data can Tell Us About U.S. Elections: Political Meaning in the Age of Endless Data,” April 4, 2019.
Colleen Deel, “Critically Understanding Our Relationship to the BSU Centennial,” April 23, 2019.

Fall 2018 Lectures

Dr. Dan Allosso, “Reality, Narrative, History,” September 11, 2018.
Holly Laferriere, “Identification and Characterization of Genes Important for Memory Formation in Drosophila melanogaster,” October 3, 2018.
Daniel Guentchev, “John Dewey’s Critique of American Civilization and its Lessons for the 21st Century,” October 16, 2018.
Miriam Webber, “Honky-Tonk Carnival: Explorations of Laughter and Grotesque in Country Song,” October 29, 2018.
Thomas Dirth, “Bridging Disability Studies and Psychological Science: A Research Agenda for 21st Century Disability Psychology,” November 15, 2018.
William Sea, “The Opportunities and Challenges of Being Interdisciplinary,” November 26, 2018.

Spring 2018 Lectures

Veronica Veaux, “Servant Leadership as a Jedi,” January 17, 2018.
Erika Bailey-Johnson, “Working in the Ivory Tower: Breaking Down the Walls of Academia,” January 31, 2018.
Katie Peterson, “Putting Molocules to Work: Metal Complexes for Catch-and-Release of Phosphates and Fluorescent Probes for the Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide,” February 27, 2018.
Kathryn Klement, “From Virginity to Violence: How Negative Attitudes About Women’s Sexuality Uphold Rape Culture,” April 3, 2018.
Camille Brandt, “Art on Saturdays: An Inclusive Project for Children Impacted by Autism Spectrum Disorders,” April 3, 2018.
Jenna O’Dell, “Examining the Mathematical Dispositions of Elementary Students with an Unsolved Mathematics Problem,” April 16, 2018.

Fall 2017 Lectures

Carl Isaacson, “Environmental Endocrine Disruption, Reproductive Dysfunction and Population Level Effects,” September 14, 2017.
Jeanine McDermott, Tiffany Hommes, Sheila Paul, “Sustaining Lifelong Wellness,” September 28, 2017.
Dennis Lunt, “Torture and American Philosophy,” October 5, 2017.
Kelly La Venture, “Analyzing the Economic Impact and Stakeholder Perception of Destination Promotion: A Case Study of the “First City on the Mississippi” as “True North,” November 1, 2018.
Jessica Durgan, “The Cultural Phenomenon of Color,” November 1, 2018.
Mark Wallert and Research Team, “The Na+-H+ Exchanger Isoform as a Theraputic Target for the Treatment of Cancer,” November 13, 2017.