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Fall 2014 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
8/22/14	How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes Dr. Yasmine Shamma
8/29/14	Citing Your Sources in Style	Prof. Rachel Luria
9/05/14	Unwanted Attention: Privacy in the Age of Google Glass and You Tube	Dr. Mark Tunick
9/12/14	Serendipitous Science	Dr.Paul Kirchman
9/19/14	Doing History in the Digital Age	Dr.Christopher Strain
9/26/14	Ethics and Science: Three Publications	Dr.Veljko Dragojlovic
10/03/14	The Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims in Spain	Dr.Miguel Vázquez
10/10/14	Nerve Cell Stamina	Dr. Gregory Macleod
10/17/14	Named Scholar Ceremony	Moustafa Bayoumi
10/24/14	So What's Economics Good For?	Dr. Keith Jakee
10/31/14	Contemplating "Nature:" A Research Program	Dr. Wairimũ Njambi Dr. William O'Brien
11/07/14	Science at Sea: Exploring Bear Seamount	Dr. Jon Moore
11/14/14	Call of the Wild: The Art of Illustrating Nature	Prof. Dorotha Lemeh
11/21/14	What Becomes a Legend Most	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Spring 2014 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
1/10/14	Fieldwork in Andean Ecuador	Dr. Rachel Corr
1/17/14	FAU's Agora Project & the Rebooting of the American University	Dr. William Trapani
1/24/14	Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go?	Steve Hunsicker
1/31/14	Through the Looking Glass; Seeing Images, Seeing Ourselves	Dr.Anita Kirchen
2/07/14	WWII History: History from an American Ex-POW	Morton Brooks
2/14/14	Innovative Thinking	Dr.Daniel Raviv
2/21/14	The Kenan Social Engagement Program: What is Social Entrepreneurship	Dr.Timothy Steigenga Dr. Christopher Strain
2/28/14	Beyond the Thesis; University-Wide Research Opportunities	Elizabeth Tranquil Melanie Pineda
3/07/14	Spring Break	X
3/14/14	Confessions of a Textbook Author	Dr. Barbara Bjorklund
3/21/14	The Origins of Terrorism in Russia	Dr. Christopher Ely
3/28/14	A Doctorate of a Different Color	Dr. Monica Maldonado
4/4/14	Archival Research in Literary Studies	Dr. John Hess
4/11/14	Symposium - TBA	Ms. Shahzia Sikander
4/18/14	What Becomes a Legend Most?	Dr. Jeffrey L. Buller

Fall 2013 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
08/30/13	Open Discussion - Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
09/06/13	Privacy in the Age of Google Glass and YouTube	Dr. Mark Tunick
09/13/13	Why Yeast are Better Guinea Pigs than Humans	Dr. Paul Kirchman
09/20/13	Surf and Turf at the Honors College	Dr. Jon Moore
09/27/13	Them!	Dr. Jim Wetterer
10/04/13	The Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Emotion	Dr.Laura Vernon
10/11/13	Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story	Mr. Jim Holt
10/18/13	Understanding your Credit History and Credit Score	Mr. Jason Athas
10/25/13	The Life and Times of an Algebraist	Dr. Warren McGovern
11/01/13	Bridge to a Better Life	Alyssa Wood
11/08/13	Ireland Study Abroad: Hidden Histories and Unexpected Lessons	Prof. Rachel Luria
11/15/13	Why Everything You Know about Egypt is Wrong	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
11/22/13	Visual Ethnography	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes

Spring 2013 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
01/11/13	Them	Dr. James Wetterer
01/18/13	The Future is Now!: Resources for Successful Career Planning	Mr. Luis Santiago
01/25/13	What Happens in Hamlet	Dr. Michael Harrawood
02/01/13	Understanding your Credit History and Credit Score	Mr. Jason Athas
02/08/13	Undergraduate Research in Cell Biology	Rosa Beltran, Kristal Hazelief, Ana Rodrigues, Christina Turn, Rachel Turn, Joe Williams
02/15/13	The Kenan Social Engagement Program: What is Social Entepreneurship	Dr. Timothy Steigenga Dr. Christopher Strain
02/22/13	Lessons Learned from Internships	Dawn Adolfson, Hannah Norcini
03/01/13	Navy Seals: A View from the Inside	Lt. Hector J. Delgado
03/08/13	Spring Break	X
03/15/13	Looking for Mathematics in African Culture	Dr. Terje Hoim
03/22/13	Marine Mammal Epidemiology: Connecting Wildlife, Environmental and Human Health	Mr. Adam Schaefer
03/29/13	The BP Oil Spill: Impacts, Investigations and Recovery	Dr. Jon Moore
04/05/13	The Historical Origins of Terrorism	Dr. Christopher Ely
04/12/13	The Evolution-Creation Dispute: A Sibling Rivalry	Dr. Michael Ruse
4/19/13	College Professors in the Movies	Dr. Jeffrey L. Buller

Fall 2012 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
08/24/12	Panel Discussion - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander	Dr. Christopher Strain, Dr. Daniel White, Dr. Michael Harrawood, Daniel Zengotita
08/31/12	Beer, Bread and Immortality	Dr. Paul Kirchman
09/07/12	Privacy in the Age of Google Glasses and You Tube	Dr. Mark Tunick
09/14/12	Altar Ego: Reading the Ara Pacis	Dr. Jeffrey L. Buller
09/21/12	My Summer Road Trip	Skylar Benedict, Sarah Harris, Natalie Harrison, Stephanie Lopez, Sarah Sax, Christina Turn
09/28/12	My Summer Road Trip with Jim Crow	Dr. William O'Brien
10/05/12	Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go?	Steve Hunsicker
10/12/12	The Grass is Greener on this Side	Hugh Howey
10/19/12	Student Research Presentation	Blake Bailey, Arely Baugh, Stephen Jones, Rachael Pilaski
10/26/12	Named Scholar Ceremony	Leslie Lilly, Pres/CEO
11/02/12	2012 Elections	Dr. Kevin Lanning
11/09/12	So what is regression analysis all about?	Dr. Kanybek Nur-tegin
11/16/12	Bioactive Molecules	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic

Spring 2012 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
01/13/12	Boundaries in Personality and Politics	Dr. Kevin Lanning
01/20/12	Marine Mammal Research and Conservation - An Overview of Careers in Marine Mammal Medicine and Biology	Stephen McCulloch
01/27/12	Understanding your Credit History and Credit Score	Mr. Jason Athas
02/03/12	From Jacaltenango to Jupiter: Religion, Politics, and the History of the El Sol Resource Center	Dr. Timothy Steigenga
02/10/12	Study Abroad and You	CJ Kwan
02/17/12	Mr. Jacobson goes to the White House: A Daughter's Memory	Gloria Shusterman
02/24/12	Higher Education in Saudi Arabia	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
03/02/12	Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go?	Steve Hunsicker
03/09/12	Spring Break	X
03/16/12	Unwanted Attention: Privacy and Free Speech in the Age of YouTube	Dr. Mark Tunick
03/23/12	The Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims in Spain	Dr. Miguel Vázquez
04/06/12	Extreme Algebra	Dr. Warren McGovern
04/13/12	HC Symposium for Research and Creative Projects	Carole Y. Taylor
04/20/12	Fieldwork in Andean Ecuador	Dr. Rachel Corr

Fall 2011 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
08/26/11	Panel discussion - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot	Dr. Quintyne, Dr. Strain, Dr. White
09/02/11	The Blood of Strangers:Stories from Emergency Medicine	Dr. Frank Huyler
09/09/11	My Time in Africa	Stephen Jones
09/16/11	Global Warming and the Myth of Hydrogen	Dr. Michelle Ivey
09/23/11	Archaeological Adventure in Sicily at Ancient Paliké	Dr. Brian McConnell
09/30/11	Career Exploration: Finding the Right Fit	Sara McHale
10/07/11	The Adaptive & Maladaptive Aspects of Emotion	Dr. Laura Vernon
10/14/11	The Art of Representation	Dr. Amy McLaughlin, Prof. Lemeh
10/21/11	Ants!!!	Dr. James Wetterer
10/28/11	What can you do with a concentration in Economics?	Dr. Keith Jakee
11/04/11	Named Scholar Ceremony	Frank Cerabino
11/18/11	Retrospective: First Semester at “The HC”	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Spring 2011 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
01/14/11	Beer, Bread & Immortality	Dr. Paul Kirchman
01/21/11	Turtles to Seagrass: Moving Down the Food Chain	Kathryn Tiling
01/28/11	Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go?	Steve Hunsicker
02/04/11	The Max Planck Florida Institute: Exploring the Frontiers of Science	Dr. Claudia Hillinger
02/11/11	Bioactive Molecules	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
02/18/11	How I Met Your Aten	Alex Lange
02/25/11	Unintended Consequences	Dr. Keith Jakee
03/04/11	Conservation of Florida's Endangered Flora & Fauna	Dr. Jon Moore
03/11/11	Spring Break	X
03/18/11	Art in Technology	Prof. Dorotha Lemeh
03/25/11	Aristotle and Descartes: from Psyche to Cogito	Dr. Daniel White
04/01/11	The Origins of Terrorism in Russia	Dr. Christopher Ely
04/08/11	Eyewitness Memory	Dr. Julie Earles
04/15/11	Honors College Symposium (LLS Auditorium)	Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o
04/22/11	An Oedipus for the Rest of Us	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Fall 2010 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
08/27/10	Finding Manana Panel Discussion	Dr. Jeffrey Buller Dr. Warren McGovern
09/03/10	A Very, Very Brief Introduction to Econometrics	Dr. Kanybek Nur-tegin
09/10/10	Play Nice in the Sandbox	Sean Pierce & Jenna Johnson
09/17/10	On personality assessment: Lessons from studies of politicians, professors, poets, and you.	Dr. Kevin Lanning
09/24/10	The Art of Effective Communication	Alan Gray
10/01/10	Career and Internship Possibilities	FPL Team
10/08/10	Spanish Republican Exiles in the Dominican Republic	Dr. Carmen Cañete Quesada
10/15/10	Creating Pathways of Success	Johanna Martin, Asst. Director, Career Development
10/22/10	Named Scholars Ceremony	Special Guest Speaker
10/29/10	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigations	Dr. Eugene Smith
11/05/10	Enticing the Criminal: The Problem of Entrapment	Dr. Mark Tunick
11/12/10	Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Hayden Trepeck
11/19/10	Final Forum Paper Due
11/19/10	Special End-of-Term Event	Mr. Lari Martinez, Diplomat in Residence?

Spring 2010 Forum

Date	Title	Presenter
01/15/10	Losing the News	Alex S. Jones
01/22/10	Facebook is not your BFF: What College Students Need to Know	Dr. Sameer Hinduja
01/29/10	Inspiration	Alex Lange
02/05/10	Maturation of an Idea: Universities in France and the United States from 1200 to the Present..	Dr. Michael Armstrong
02/12/10	The Reciprocal Relevance of Psychology and Politics	Dr. Kevin Lanning
02/19/10	Formulating Research Topics: One Historian’s Journey	Dr. Chris Strain
02/26/10	Quants: Making the Transition from Theory to Practice	FPL Guest Speakers
03/05/10	The Fundamentals of Financial Literacy	Jason Athas
03/12/10	Spring Break	X
03/19/10	Nietzsche’s Eternal Return	Dr. Daniel White
03/26/10	History of Drug Development and Clinical Trials	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
04/02/10	Woman-Woman Marriage Practices Among the Gikuyu People of Kenya	Dr. Wairimu Njambi
04/09/10	HC Symposium	Dr. Jackie Ogden
04/16/10	Women’s Mosques at the Crossroads of Asia	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
04/20/10	Final Paper Due to Advisor by 5 p.m.
04/23/10	Altar Ego: Reading the Ara Pacis	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

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