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
Lecture 26: A Tale of Two Communities- Managing the Ordeal of Change in the Intermountain West, Craig W. Johnson; The Last Lecture Series
1999
Lecture 24: Freedom Crashed Down on Me, Carol A. O'Connor; The Last Lecture Series
1997
Lecture 22: "The Beautiful Changes"- Poetry at the End of the Century, Kenneth W. Brewer; The Last Lecture Series
1994
Lecture 19: Life is a Circle, Spiral, Stairstep, Exponential Growth Curve... It's Chemistry!, Joseph G. Morse; The Last Lecture Series
1992
Lecture 17: The Gong, Charles W. Johnson; The Last Lecture Series
1991
Lecture 16: What I Was Hired to Do is Not Part of My Job, James A. MacMahon; The Last Lecture Series
1990
Lecture 15: Who Grades the Graders?, Lawrence O. Cannon; Last Lecture Series
1989
Lecture 14: Education, The Last Odyssey, Charles M. Lutz; The Last Lecture Series
1987
Lecture 12: U.S. Education- Committing Hara-Kiri?, Ross Allen; The Last Lecture Series
1986
Lecture 11: Alternatives to the Lecture, Richard B. Power; The Last Lecture Series
1985
Lecture 10: Staying a Student of Trees and People As Your Hair Turns Grey, J. J. Kennedy; The Last Lecture Series
1984
Lecture 9: Beyond Basic Mastery to Something More, Kenneth C. Farrer; The Last Lecture Series
1980
Lecture 5: On the Agonies and Ecstasies of Academic Acclimation, Clair Batty; The Last Lecture Series
1979
Lecture 4: A Few Opinions, M. Judd Harmon; The Last Lecture Series
1978
Lecture 3: Making Music and Musicians, Irving Wassermann; The Last Lecture Series
1977
Lecture 2: No Exit- the Contemporary Search for Historical Reality, Ross Peterson; The Last Lecture Series
1976
Lecture 1: Ideas on Teaching, Garth L. Lee; The Last Lecture Series