Robert and Lillis Kingman Lecture Series on Science and Society

2023: Mary H. Schweitzer

The third annual Robert and Lillis Kingman Lecture Series on Science and Society will be held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at the Howard Performing Arts Center. Dr. Schweitzer is a professor in the Department of Biological Science at the North Carolina State University. The title of her presentation, "Dinosaurs Under the Microscope," will provide insight into her research in fossils, molecules, and exploring their journey through time.

2021: Eugenia Cheng

The second annual Robert and Lillis Kingman Lecture Series on Science and Society was held on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at 7:00 pm in the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University. The presentation, intended for lay audiences was entitled, "The Art of Logic in an Illogical World." Eugenia Cheng, PhD, was the featured speaker. Dr. Cheng is a Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an Honorary Visiting Fellow of City, University of London. Previously she was a senior lecturer of Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, UK. Click here to watch the video recording of the lecture.

2019: David Reitze

The inaugural speaker was Dr. David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His presentation was titled "Gravitational Waves: A Revolution in the Way We Study the Universe." Additional Information & Video