Lecture Archive
Seeing versus Observing: Exploring Art and Science in the Liquid Light of Florida's Springs
Dr. Matthew Cohen, Director of the UF Water Institute, & Margaret Ross Tolbert, artist
Future-Proofing Food: Strategies for Enhancing Global Resilience and Sustaining a Growing World
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director of CGIAR
Revolutionary Research for a Growing World
Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture
Shaping the Future of Sustainable Agriculture
Erik Fyrwald, CEO of Syngenta Group
Understanding and Improving Crop Responses to Global Atmospheric Change
Dr. Lisa Kinsworth, Molecular Biologist, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Saving Plants, Saving Ourselves
Dr. Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus, Washington University
Why We Should Trust Science (Most of the Time): Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science
Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Sciences, Harvard University
GMO Technology: What do the Facts Say?
Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam, Extension Specialist, Animal Genomics and Biotechnology, University of California, Davis
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Dr. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University
What Would E.T. York Do?: How will land-grant institutions navigate the next 150 years?
Senator Bob Graham, Former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator
The New Global Food Security Agenda: It Will Test Our Will!
Dr. Ejeta, Distinguished Professor and 2009 World Food Prize Laureate
Green-Lighting the 21st Century Land Grant Mission
The Honorable Adam H. Putnam, United States Congressman
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Cellulosic Ethanol — Ethanol from the Inedible Portion of Plants
Dr. Lonnie Ingram, Distinguished Professor, UF/IFAS Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida; Director,
Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida, 2008
Research and Policy Priorities for the Global Food System
Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University; and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen, 2008
Animal Sciences in the Era of Systems Biology
Dr. Fuller W. Bazer, Associate Vice President for Research, Regents Fellow, Distinguished Professor and O.D. Butler Chair, Texas A&M Department of Animal Science, 2007
Future of Africa and the Role of Land-Grant Universities in Developing Countries
M. Peter McPherson, President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, 2007
Environmental Interactions with Genetics That Influence Obesity
Dr. David B. Allison, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006
Agriculture and Rural Life in the Americas in the 21st Century
Dr. Chelston W.D. Brathwaite, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), 2005
Florida ... A Land Remembered
Patrick Smith, Florida Artists Hall of Fame Inductee, Recipient of “Greatest Living Floridian” Award, Three-time Pulitzer Prize
Nominee, 2004
Ending Hunger in Africa: What Needs to Be Done
Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez, Director of Tropical Agriculture and Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City, 2003
Constraints on Growth in Agricultural Production
Dr. Vernon W. Ruttan, Regents Professor in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2001
Agriculture and Natural Resources: A Vision of the 21st Century
Dr. Monkombu S. Swaminathan, UNESCO Cousteau Professor in Ecotechnology, and International Agricultural Scientist and Statesman from Madras, India, 2001
Agricultural Research at 2000: Can the Remarkable Agricultural Transformation Achieved in the 20th Century Continue?
Dr. Donald L. Plucknett, President and Principal Scientist, Agricultural Research and Development International, 2000
Ecological Economics and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Dr. Robert Costanza, Director, Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Maryland, 1998
Insect Sciences for Sustainable Development: A Revisited Agenda
Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, Chief Executive and Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya, 1998
Biomass Energy: Clean Technology for Environment & Development
Dr. David O. Hall, Professor of Biology, King’s College, University of London, 1996
The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East
Dr. Daniel Hillel, Professor of Soil Physics and Hydrology, University of Massachusetts, 1995
Problems of Global Hunger and Malnutrition: Was Malthus Right After All?
Dr. E.T. York, Jr., Chancellor Emeritus of Florida’s State University System and Distinguished Service Professor, University of Florida, 1994
Food in a Changing World
Dr. John L. Monteith, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, 1991
From Wastelands to Wetlands
Dr. William H. Patrick, Jr., Boyd Professor of Marine Sciences Laboratory for Wetland Soils and Sediments, Louisiana State University, 1989
Individual, Social and Political Malnutrition
Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
Benefit Risk Considerations in the Use of Pesticides
Dr. Robert L. Metcalf, Professor of Entomology, University of Illinois, 1987
Life in the Dry State: The Physiology of Seeds
Dr. A. Carl Leopold, Distinguished Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, 1987
Integrated Natural Resources Management: Why?
Dr. Laurence R. Jahn, Vice President, The Wildlife Management Institute, 1986
Sector as Personality: The Case of Farm Protest Movements
Dr. Luther Tweeten, Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, 1986
World Hunger: What to Do?
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Rockefeller Foundation, 1970