Last Lectures

Last Lectures

 

Initiated in 1976, the Honors Last Lecture has become an important tradition for the Utah State University community. Honors students nominate outstanding professors who have made an educational impact on them, in or outside of the classroom. Nominees should be established professors with an exceptional record of undergraduate teaching, scholarly research, and university service at USU. Each year, a committee of Honors students selects one Honors Outstanding Professor, whom they invite to deliver an imagined "Last Lecture," a talk that shares wisdom and insight with students and community members as if it were the professor's final chance to lecture at USU. The committee is looking for permanent, highly regarded faculty who bring their own research to life in the classroom and inspire students to ask questions and seek answers beyond the classroom.

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2019

Lecture 44: Picture Your Poison: An Environmental Story, Jennifer Peeples; The Last Lectures

2018

Lecture 43: America in the Mirror: Reflections & Blindspots, Jeannie L. Johnson; The Last Lectures

2017

Lecture 42: Alice vs. Sherlock: Who Knows Best?, Brian McCuskey; The Last Lectures

2016

Lecture 41: Rock the Vote: Putting the Communication Revolution to Work, Cathy Ferrand Bullock; The Last Lectures

2015

Lecture 40: Make a Difference: It's Our Only Hope, Fee Busby; The Last Lectures

2014

Lecture 39: Teaching Fast and Slow: What Have We Done for You Lately?, Nat B. Frazer; The Last Lectures

2013

Lecture 38: I'll Drown My Book: Shakespeare's Last Lecture, Phebe Jensen; The Last Lectures

2012

Lecture 37: The Role of Community in a Civil Society, John C. Allen; The Last Lectures

2011

Lecture 36: Standing on Boo Radley's Porch: The Importance of Story, Joyce Kinkead; The Last Lectures

2010

Lecture 35: We Choose to Go to the Moon, Charles Swenson; The Last Lectures

2009

Lecture 34: Children: My Least Common Denominator, Ann Berghout Austin; The Last Lecture Series

2001

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Lecture 26: A Tale of Two Communities- Managing the Ordeal of Change in the Intermountain West, Craig W. Johnson; The Last Lecture Series

1999

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Lecture 24: Freedom Crashed Down on Me, Carol A. O'Connor; The Last Lecture Series

1997

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Lecture 22: "The Beautiful Changes"- Poetry at the End of the Century, Kenneth W. Brewer; The Last Lecture Series

1994

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Lecture 19: Life is a Circle, Spiral, Stairstep, Exponential Growth Curve... It's Chemistry!, Joseph G. Morse; The Last Lecture Series

1992

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Lecture 17: The Gong, Charles W. Johnson; The Last Lecture Series

1991

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Lecture 16: What I Was Hired to Do is Not Part of My Job, James A. MacMahon; The Last Lecture Series

1990

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Lecture 15: Who Grades the Graders?, Lawrence O. Cannon; Last Lecture Series

1989

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Lecture 14: Education, The Last Odyssey, Charles M. Lutz; The Last Lecture Series

1987

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Lecture 12: U.S. Education- Committing Hara-Kiri?, Ross Allen; The Last Lecture Series

1986

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Lecture 11: Alternatives to the Lecture, Richard B. Power; The Last Lecture Series

1985

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Lecture 10: Staying a Student of Trees and People As Your Hair Turns Grey, J. J. Kennedy; The Last Lecture Series

1984

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Lecture 9: Beyond Basic Mastery to Something More, Kenneth C. Farrer; The Last Lecture Series

1980

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Lecture 5: On the Agonies and Ecstasies of Academic Acclimation, Clair Batty; The Last Lecture Series

1979

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Lecture 4: A Few Opinions, M. Judd Harmon; The Last Lecture Series

1978

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Lecture 3: Making Music and Musicians, Irving Wassermann; The Last Lecture Series

1977

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Lecture 2: No Exit- the Contemporary Search for Historical Reality, Ross Peterson; The Last Lecture Series

1976

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Lecture 1: Ideas on Teaching, Garth L. Lee; The Last Lecture Series