Lin Great Speakers Series

2007-2008

• Rabbi Jack Bemporad
  Director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding
  Professor of Interreligious Studies, Vatican's Angelicum University in Rome
• Jamal Badawi, Ph.D.
  President of the Islamic Society of North America
• Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Ph.D., D.D.
  Archbishop Emeritus of Washington

2006-2007

• Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D.
  Senior Fellow in Economics at the Brookings Institute
• Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
  Internationally renowned bioethicist and oncologist
• Brin Professor, Johns Hopkins University

2005-2006

• Paul Solman
  Business and Economics correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  Producer of PBS Series "China on the Rise"
• Mark Salzman
  Award-winning author of "Iron & Silk" and "The Soloist," among others

2004-2005

• Jeremy Rifkin
  Author, Founder and President of Foundation on Economic Trends
• Cynthia Cooper
  WorldCom whistleblower and former auditor

2003-2004

• Andres Oppenheimer
  Pulitzer prize winner, internationally-syndicated columnist
• Phillip Jenkins
  Distinguished Professor of History and Religion, Pennsylvania State University

2002-2003

• Brian Greene, Ph.D.
  Author, physicist and string theorist
  Professor at Columbia University

2001-2002

• Rev. Terrence Toland, S.J.
  Theologian
• Sister Karen Dennelly, C.S.J.
  President Emeritus at Mt. St. Mary's College (California)

2000-2001

• Douglas Rushkoff
  Social theorist, Professor of Media Culture at New York University

1999-2000

• Ernesto Cortés
  Southwest Industrial Area Foundation Regional Director and community activist
• The Rev. David Fleming, S.M.
  Superior General of the Society of Mary (Rome)
• Robert N. Bellah
  Author, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley

1998-1999

• Robert Reid
  Internet venture capitalist and E-commerce columnist for Forbes ASAP
• Vincent Lin, Ph.D.
  Chief Financial Officer, Linbro Inc.

1997-1998

• Robert Curl, Ph.D.
  1996 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Professor at Rice University
• Giovanni Fazio, Ph.D.
  Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Leon Lederman, Ph.D.
  1988 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Pritzer Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
• René R. Martinez
  Senior Scientist, NASA's Johnson Space Center

1996-1997

• Robert Coles
  Child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize winner, Professor at Harvard University
• The Rev. Quentin Hakenewerth, S.M.
  Former Superior General of the Society of Mary (Rome)
• Harris Wofford
  Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National Service

1994-1995

• John Quiñones
  ABC Television Correspondent
  Maria Julia Hernandez
  Humanitarian, Director of Legal Protection for the Archbishopric in El Salvador
• Li Lu
  Co-leader of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations

1993

• Thomas Sowell
  Author and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University
• Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees
  Visiting Academic Challenge Scholar and Markley Lecturer at Miami University of Ohio
• Rodolfo de la Garza
  Mike Hogg Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
• Elizabeth Brown, M.D., Ed.D.
  Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Rev. Andrew Greeley, S.J.
  Author and social scientist

1992

• Giovanni G. Fazio, Ph.D.
  Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Kenneth Ashwood, Ph.D.
  Commissioner of Higher Education of Texas
• Norman Cantu
  National Drector of Education Litigation and Advocacy Project
  Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Syd Mead
  Innovator, consultant, product designer
• Alexander W. Astin, Ph.D.
  Professor of Higher Education, Director of Higher Education Research Institute

1991

• Carlos Fuentes
  Distinguished Mexican novelist
• Sidney Weintraub, Ph.D.
  Dean Rusk Professor of International Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
• Brother Jim Facette, S.M.
  Sociopastoral worker in Peru
• Linda Schele, Ph.D.
  John D. Murchison Regents' Professor of Art at The University of Texas at Austin
• Larry Hufford, Ph.D.
  Professor of Political Science at the University of the Incarnate Word
• Robert Rivard
  Deputy Managing Editor, San Antonio Light Newspaper
• Marguerite Berger, Ph.D.
  Senior Adviser of Women in Development, Inter-American Development Bank
• John Booth
  Regents' Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas
• Andy Hernandez
  President, Southwest Voter Research Institute

1990

• George J. Stigler
  Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago
  1982 Nobel Prize winner in Economics