Fall Signature Seminar Preview Lectures
Learn More About Our Fall 2023 Signature Seminars. All lectures will take place on Mondays at 5:15 p.m. in Gearhart Hall Auditorium
The Honors College offers Signature Seminars on cutting-edge topics taught by top
professors, who are named Dean's Fellows in the Honors College.
For full course information (full description, faculty bios, and times) visit our
Signature Seminars page.
Bad Medicine
March 6
While the concept of “bad medicine” conjures visions of medieval bleedings, blisterings and other grisly practices, medical abuse has persisted through the modern era. From the overprescription of opioids to unequal treatment based on race and gender, some medical practitioners in recent memory have failed to follow the Hippocratic dictum to “first do no harm.” Lecture by Tricia Starks, professor of history.
Good Medicine
March 13
In Ancient Greek the word diet meant mode of life, and it encompassed the various aspects of lifestyle: food, drink, physical exercises, baths and massage, sun-therapy, sleep and sexual practice, passions of the soul, generally the whole way of leading one’s life. Today, diet and physical activity are two separate fields of study. Led by Jamie Baum, director of the Center for Human Nutrition and associate professor in the department of food science, and Erin Howie Hickey, associate professor of exercise science in the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation.
Teeth
March 27
Between chewing food, supporting human speech and giving us our winning smiles, teeth are a biological triumph many millennia in the making. Most other mammals don’t have widespread dental disease and orthodontic disorders--why are we so different? The answer is rooted in evolutionary history. Led by Peter Ungar, distinguished professor and chairman of the Department of Anthropology.