February 5, 2009
Donald Boesch, Professor of Marine Science and President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and Chairman the Maryland Governor’s Climate Change Commission
Wayne Gilchrest, former Congressman representing Maryland’s 1st District and co-chair of the Climate Change Caucus
Sarah Zaleski, Coordinator, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability
Ray Hoff (Moderator), UMBC Professor of Physics and Director of the collaborative NASA-UMBC research centers Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and Goddard; Earth Sciences & Technology Center (GEST)
Planet in Peril: Policy Responses to Climate Change
February 18, 2009
Will Baker, President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Saving Chesapeake Bay: The Greatest Fight for Clean Water this Nation Has Ever Seen
February 26, 2009
Kenneth L. Marcus, Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/The City University of New York
Civil Rights in the Obama Administration
March 11, 2009
Claudia Koonz, Professor of History, Duke University
The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?
March 25, 2009
Carla Hayden, Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library
Gaining Information, Knowledge, and Power in the 21st Century
April 20, 2009
Thomas A. LaVeist
William C. & Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy
Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status: Advancing Understanding of Race Disparities in Health
April 29, 2009
Paul Root Wolpe
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics and Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University
Bioethics advisor to NASA
Thorny Bioethical Issues at NASA
May 6, 2009
The Low Lecture, organized by the Department of History
G. Derek Musgrove, Professor of History, University of the District of Columbia