Provost's Seminar Series
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Craig H. Benson | Engineering
Spring 2022 Provost's Seminar Series
March 23, 2022, Noon
Driftmier Engineering Center, Room 1240
Benson is the former Dean of Engineering and Hamilton Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served from 2015-2021. He is also Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). Prior to joining UVA as Dean, Benson he held college-level and university-level leadership positions at UW-Madison. Benson has a BS from Lehigh University and MSE and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, all in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in geoenvironmental engineering and waste containment systems. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), as well as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Faculty Profile
Event hosted by the College of Engineering
Lecture is part of the Spring 2022 Signature Lecture Series
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Jahan Ramazani | English
Spring 2022 Provost's Seminar Series
April 13, 2022 at 2 p.m.
Zoom Webinar, Register
Ramazani specializes in modern and contemporary Irish, British, American, Caribbean American, and African poetry. His books include “The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English” and “Poetry in a Global Age.” He is the editor of numerous books and special journal issues including “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” and “The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry.” In his latest book, “Poetry in a Global Age,” Ramazani discusses modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography.
Faculty Profile
Event hosted by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts
Lecture is part of the Spring 2022 Signature Lecture Series
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Daryll J. Pines | Engineering
"Aerospace Prizes Inspire the Five I’s of Success"
- Dean, Clark School of Engineering
- Professor of Aerospace Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
March 5, 2020
Reception: 3:30 p.m., Coverdell Rotunda
Seminar: 4:00 p.m., Coverdell Auditorium (Room 175)
Pines is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and Institute of Physics (IOP).Faculty Profile I Meet the Dean
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POSTPONED:
Roger Cone | Life Sciences- Mary Sue Coleman Director & Research Professor, U-M Life Sciences Institute
- Vice Provost & Director, U-M Biosciences Initiative
- Professor, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, U-M
- Medical School Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, LSA
March 30, 2020
Seminar: 9:30 a.m., Coverdell Auditorium
Cone is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Faculty Profile
Hosted by the Office of Research
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Johanna Drucker | Digital Humanities
- Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies,
Department of Information Studies at UCLA
- Distinguished Professor of Information StudiesSeptember 25 at 1 p.m., Zoom virtual lecture
Drucker is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Willson Center, UGA Libraries, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Carl M. Loeb University Professor of History, Harvard University
Constitution Day: “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future”
September 17, 11:30 a.m., Zoom Webinar
Gordon-Reed is a distinguished professor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” and “On Juneteenth.” She has received numerous honors, including the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her lecture is part of Constitution Day, an annual celebration of the day that representatives to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed and signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Registration for this virtual event is required.
Visit spia.uga.edu/constitution-day for more information and to register.
Co-sponsored by the American Founding Group, The Gable Fund of the Department of History, Jack Miller Center, Office of Institutional Diversity, President’s Venture Fund, School of Law, School of Public and International Affairs, and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Nominations
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost is seeking nominations for a seminar series that brings members of the following academies to campus to share their insights and meet with members of the campus community:
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Engineering
- National Academy of Medicine
The Provost’s Office will invite up to two speakers each Fall and Spring semester, and nominations will be considered on a rolling basis. Nominations for the Provost’s Seminar Series may be submitted via this link.
Nominators and their respective unit heads or deans are expected to serve as hosts
for their selected speaker. The Provost’s Office will cover all travel expenses for
speakers and provide a nominal honorarium. Talks given through the Provost’s Seminar
Series are also eligible for designation as a Signature Lecture.
Contact
All nominations will be retained for future consideration if not selected initially. For more information about the Provost’s Seminar Series, please contact Will Richardson at (706) 583-0506 or willr@uga.edu.
