Dear UConn Community,
Each year, the Office of the Provost hosts our Distinguished Speaker Series to highlight the scholarly expertise of a few of our most accomplished faculty. We are pleased to announce this year’s line-up.
The speakers in this series have been recently honored either as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors or endowed professors. They are well-known at UConn and more broadly in their fields for their excellence in scholarship.
A listing of the Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series for 2021-2022 is included below. Each talk will be broadcast via WebEx. The links for each talk will be available on the Provost’s Office website, at this link.
Leslie Loew
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, School of Medicine
“The Inner Space of Cells”
September 14, 2021, 4 to 5 p.m.
Richard A. Wilson
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law
“Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Human Rights”
October 13, 2021, 4 to 5 p.m.
Marja Hurley
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
“Osteoarthritis of Mice and Humans from Bench to Bedside”
November 17, 2021, 4 to 5 p.m.
Dan Fabris
Harold S. Schwenk Sr. Distinguished Chair in Chemistry
“When Chemistry Meets Biology: New Technologies for Cracking the Epitranscriptomics Code”
February 8, 2022, 4 to 5 p.m.
Radenka Maric
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering
“Climate Change and Envisioning a Tomorrow in Harmony with Nature”
March 9, 2022, 4 to 5 p.m.
Ming-Hui Chen
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
“Power Prior: An Approach for Leveraging Real World Evidence in Statistical Inference and Designs of Clinical Trials”
April 7, 2022, 4 to 5 p.m.
We hope you will join us for these engaging talks throughout this year.
Best,
Michael Bradford
Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff and Student Development
For more information, contact: Amanda Pitts at amanda.pitts@uconn.edu