Chronological List of C.P. Snow Lectures at Ithaca College
Compiled by Stacia Zabusky (H&S Dean’s Office) with additions by John Hickey (Ithaca College Archives) with links to articles in the Ithacan or to bibliographic descriptions in the Ithaca College Library / College Archives Catalog
2008
Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University “Body Modification and the Future of Normal"
2007
David Macaulay, author/architect "Body Building and Other Architectural Journeys"
2006
Manjul Bhargava, professor of mathematics, Princeton University "Drumming and Poetry: The Nature of Human Thought and the Origins of Mathematics"
2005
William Rathje, professor, Stanford University "Garbology: The Archaeology of Us"
2004
Bill McKibben, author/social critic/environmentalist "Technology: Invasion of the Soul?"
2003
Steven Wise, American legal scholar "Consciousness: For Humans Only?" (animal consciousness)
John Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, professor of psychology, University of Michigan "Consciousness: For Humans Only?" (artificial intelligence)
2002
Patch Adams, physician, founder/director of the Gesundheit Institute "Alternative Medicine"
2001
Robert D. Bullard, Ware Professor of Sociology, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University "Environmental Justice for All: The Politics of Pollution" Video in College Archives
2000
Kristin Dawkins, vice president for international programs, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (Minneapolis) "Agriculture and Biotechnology: Battle Royal of the 21st Century" Video in College Archives
Martha Crouch, professor of biology, Indiana University "From Golden Rice to Terminator Technology: The Trouble with Biotechnology in Agriculture" Video in College Archives
1999
Michael J. Balick, vice president and chair, Botanical Science Research and Training; director and philecology curator, Institute of Economic Botany, the New York Botanical Garden "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicines: Ethnobotany, Conservations and Therapies of the Tropical Rain Forest" Video in College Archives
Wade Davis, explorer-in-residence, National Geographic Society "Light at the End of the World: Ethnobotany" Video in College Archives
1998
Patricia Goldman-Rakic, professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology, Yale University School of Medicine "How We Remember, How We Know"
Kathryn Machan, associate professor of writing, Ithaca College, Diane McPherson, associate professor of writing, Ithaca College, & Marian MacCurdy, professor of writing, Ithaca College "Shapes of Memory: How We Write Our Lives" Video in College Archives
1997
David Newlin, Ph.D. Research, Triangle Institute (Baltimore) "Blood on the Tracks: Scientific Research on Drug Addiction" Video in College Archives
1996
Paul W. Ewald, director, Program in Evolutionary Medicine, department of biology, University of Louisville "Epidemics: Past, Present, and Future"
Dale L. Morse, professor, School of Public Health, University at Albany “Public Health Approach to Emerging Epidemics” Video in College Archives
1995
Steven Bickham, professor of philosophy, Mansfield University "4th Philosophical Facet of Creativity” Video in College Archives
George Zebrowski, science fiction author "Raising the Net" Video in College Archives
1994
Robert John Richards, Morris Fishbein Professor in the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago "Ernst Haeckel-- The Last Romantic" Video in College Archives
Sandra G. Harding, professor, social sciences and comparative education, University of California, Los Angeles "Is Science Multicultural?" Video in College Archives
1993
Charles R. Cantor, professor, biomedical engineering; professor, pharmacology, School of Medicine, Boston University "Implications of Human Genome Project" Video in College Archives
Wachbroit, Robert Samuel, research scholar, University of Maryland “Ethical Challenges of the Human Genome Project” Video in College Archives
1992
Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, University of Guelph (Canada) "Culture of Darwinism" Video in College Archives
Douglas J. Futuyma, professor of ecology and evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook "Evolution Today: Facts, Theories, and Evidence" Video in College Archives
1991
H.E. Gove, professor of physics, University of Toronto "Carbon Dating the Schroud of Turin" Video in College Archives
William M. Voelkle, curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts;department head, The Pierpont Library (New York) "Spanish Forger" Video in College Archives
Robert Mark, scientist, U.S. Geological Survey "Structural Archaeology: Solving the Mysteries of the Master Builders" Video in College Archives
1990
Lynn Margulis, biologist; university professor, department of geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Gaia Hypothesis” Video in College Archives
E.R. Buskirk, professor, applied physiology and human nutrition, Penn State "Human Performance: Past and Future" Video in College Archives
Colin T. Campbell, professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews "In the Midst of a Nutrition Revolution" Video in College Archives
1987
Ira H. Carmen, professor, political science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Cloning and the Constitution" Video in College Archives
Michael B. Gregg, acting director, Epidemiology Program Office, Center for Disease Control "Ethical Issues Involved in the Control of AIDS" Video in College Archives
Dorothy Nelkin, university professor of sociology, New York University "Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology" Video in College Archives
1986
William Caldicott, pediatric radiologist/social critic "Technology and Survival"
Alvin Weinberg, director of the Institute for Energy Analysis "Life After Chernobyl"
1984
John Bird, professor of geology, Cornell University "The Geological Evolution of the Earth"
Robert Christiansen, geologist, U.S. Geological Survey "Volcanism: Mapping the Earth's Interior"
Eugene Shoemaker, geologist, U.S. Geological Survey "Bombardment of the Earth and Crises in the History of Land"
1983
Jerry Pournelle, author "The Strategy of Progress"
Richard Platek, professor of math, Cornell University "Intelligence: Artificial and Human"
Andrias Van Dam, professor of computer science, Brown University "Dynamic Computational Graphics in Education"
1981”The Energy Dilemma”
Duane Chapman, Cornell University Dept. of Agricultural Economics "Energy Futures and Conservation" April 1 Copy to be scanned: H&S, Turk box 825
Carol E. Steinhart, Water Resources Center, U. of Wisconsin Madison “Energy Alternatives: The Role of Energy in Cultural Systems” March 25
John M. Fowler, Director of Energy Education and Special Topics, National Science Teachers’ Association “Energy, Environment, and Economics: Glimpses of the Future” March 23
1980 “Biology in the 80’s”
Gene E. Likens, Prof. of Ecology & Systematics, Cornell University “Where Has All the Water Gone?” April 9 Print Version: Q175.4 .C67 1980 Video in College Archives
Eville Gorham, Dept. of Ecology & Behavioral Biology, University of Minnesota “An Air That Kills—Man’s Alteration of the Chemical Climate” April 4 Print Version: Q175.4 .C67 1980 Video in College Archives
George M. Woodwell, Director of Woods Hole Research Center “The Greenhouse Effect From a Biologist’s Standpoint” March 30 Video in College Archives
1979
Forest Sterns, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "The Urban Ecosystem"
Ian McHarg, University of Pennsylvania "Planning in a Physical, Biological, and Cultural World"
Murray Bookchin, Goddard College "The Rediscovery of Urban Communities: Neighborhood and Local Self Government"
1978
Charles Edgerton Osgood, professor of communications and psychology, University of Illinois "Conservative Words and Radical Sentences in the Semantics of International Politics"
Vera John-Steiner, professor of psychology, University of New Mexico "Language and Thought"
1977
Hilary Putnam, professor of philosophy, Harvard University "Mind and Body"
Andrew Weil, research associate in ethnopharmacology, Harvard University; writer/lecturer/doctor "Mind in Body, Body in Mind"
Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science, MIT "Computation and Reconstruction of Reality"
1976
Perry Gilbert, director of the Mote Marine Laboratory; professor of neurobiology and behavior, Cornell University "Sharks and Man: A Perspective"
1975
Kip Thorne, professor of theoretical physics, California Institute of technology "The Search for a Black Hole in Space"
1974
Henry R. Munger, Cornell University "The Importance of Plant Breeding in Providing Food for the World"
Ralph Ruddle, Yale University "Genetics and Developmental Studies of Hybrid Cells"
Mark Ptashne, professor of biochemistry/molecular biology, Harvard University "Current Research on the Molecular Bases of Gene Control"
Bruce Wallace, Cornell University
"On the Reality of a Lottery"
1972
Rod Serling, television writer/author; visiting professor, Ithaca College "The Day After Tomorrow"
Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock; associate editor, Fortune magazine "The Future of Politics”
Robert Theobald, socioeconomist, editor, author "Why the Election was Irrelevant"
Robert Ascher, chairman and professor, department of anthropology, Cornell University "How to Build a Time Capsule" Copy to be scanned: H&S, Turk box 825
1971-72
Philip Abelson, editor, Science; president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington "Society in Transition"
Gerard Piel, president and publisher, Scientific American “The Acceleration of History"
Adolph Grunbaum, Andrew Mellon Professor of philosophy; director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
1970-71
Sylvan H. Wittwer, Michigan State University "The Challenges of Meeting Modern World Food Needs Through Modern Technology”
Bernard I. Cohen, Harvard University"The Individual in a World of Numbers: The Rise of a Statistical View of Man, Society and Sciences"
Victor Cohn, science editor, Washington Post "Technology on Trial: A Report from Washington"
Harvey Brooks, Harvard University "Can Science Survive in Modern Society?" Copy to be scanned: H&S, Turk box 825
1969-70
Franklin Long, Cornell University "Sciences, the Universities, and the Military"
Ralph Lapp, Quadri-Science, Inc. "The Scientist and National Problems"
Thomas Szasz, Syracuse University "The Right to Health"
1968-69
Philip Morrison, astrophysicist, MIT "Yams and Palaces: A Defense of Inventiveness"
F.C. Steward, Cornell University "The Control of Life: Fact and Fiction"
Commander Scott M. Carpenter, astronaut, United State Navy "Life Under the Sea"
Hans Bethe, Cornell University "Atomic Nuclei"
Alan Ross Anderson, University of Pittsburgh "Rational Intuition"
1967-68
Max Black, Cornell University "Freedom and Determination"
Clinton B. Ford, American Association of Variable Star Observers "Astronomy's Contribution to the Humanities"
Hilary Putnam, Harvard University "Is Science a Philosophy?"
Robert Heath, Tulane University "Schizophrenia as a Specific Biologic Disease"
Robert Cohen, Boston University "Science and Society"
1966-67
Stephen F. Barker, professor of philosophy, Johns Hopkins University "Scientific Explanation"
Thomas O. Jones, NSF director, Environmental Science "Supporting Science"
Louis F. Fieser, professor of chemistry, Harvard University "Chemistry in 3-Dimensions"
LaMont C. Cole, professor and chair, department of zoology, Cornell University "The Ecology of Populations"
1965-66
William L. Reese, delegate to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO "Philosophy and Science"
Howard Post, scholar; member of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship "Science and Religion"
Henry Guerlac, Goldwin Smith Professor of History, Cornell University "Science and History"
Perry Gilbert, chairman, American Institute of Biological Sciences Shark Research Panel "Sharks and Survival"
S.I. Rasool, physicist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; adjunct professor of meteorology, NYU "Science, Society, and Space"
1964 -1965
Peter J. W. Debye, professor emeritus, Cornell University “The Early Days of the Quantum Conception” March 4, 1965 [press release Aug 1, 1964; CP Snow speaker series files]
Eugene F. Byrnes, Michigan State University “Enzymology and Muscular Contraction” Dec. 16 [Press release 12/14/1964: CP Snow speaker series files]
Kenneth Kaufman, Ithaca College History Dept.”Seventeenth Century Dutch Science ; Christian Huygens and Revolutionary Theories of Light” Nov. 18 [press release of 11/17/64; Archives 0326]