University Lecturer

Dan Fagin is a professor of journalism and the director of the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. For fifteen years, he was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was twice a principal member of reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

Lecture Titles: “The future of the monarch butterfly and biodiversity in the Anthropocene” and a second lecture, “Science communication in the age of denialism”
Date: April 24, 2025
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

University Lecturer

Dr. Michael Gordin, Dean of the College and Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History in the History Department at Princeton University, will provide a lecture as part of a celebration of the life and work of Dr. Henry Guerlac.

Lecture Title: “Was 1869 Mendeleev’s ‘Crucial Year’?: Or, Henry Guerlac in St. Petersburg”
Date: April 30, 2025
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Place: Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

Messenger Lecturer

Cynthia Dwork is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School.

She uses theoretical computer science to place societal problems on a firm mathematical foundation.

Her awards and honors include the National Medal of Science, the IEEE Hamming Medal, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics, the Dijkstra, Gödel, and Knuth Prizes, and the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Lecture title: “Talk 1”
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 3:45-4:45pm
Place: G01 Bill and Melinda Gates Hall

Lecture title: “Talk 2”
Date: May 6, 2025
Time: 11:45am-12:45pm
Place: G01 Bill and Melinda Gates Hall

Lecture title: “Talk 3”
Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 3:45pm
Place: Tbd

University Lecturer

Lawrence Wein is The Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. He also is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, Graduate School of Business. His main research interests are in operations management and public health with his primary current interest on solving violent crimes, with a focus on ballistic imaging, sexual assault kits and forensic investigative genetic genealogy.

Lecture Title: “TBD”
Date: Fall 2025
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

Messenger Lecturer

Professor Ludovic Orlando, HDR, PhD, Agrégé, Normalien, Director, Centre for Anthropobiology & Genomics of Toulouse, CAGT, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France, is one of the world’s leading scientists who study ancient DNA. His published work over the past decade has provided paradigm-changing insights into the evolution and domestication of the horse and the contributions of the horse to human civilization.

Lecture Titles: “The Ancient DNA revolution in human evolution,” “The horse before and after our shared history, ” and “Environmental DNA: time capsules of past and present life”
Date: Spring 2026
Time: TBD
Place: TBD