Past Speakers

Lin Great Speakers Series

2010-2011

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer-winning author of "Enrique's Journey"Lecture presented on October 28, 2010

Gretchen Steidle Wallace

Founder of Global GrassrootsLecture presented on March 1, 2011

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2009-2010

Blake Mycoskie

Philanthropist, Founder and Chief Shoe Give of TOMS Shoes Inc.

David Brancaccio

Host of NOW on PBS

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2008-2009

David Orr

Leading Environmental EducatorPaul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College

Alan Weisman

Preeminent Sustainability JournalistAuthor of "The World Without Us"

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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

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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

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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

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2004-2005

Jeremy Rifkin

Author, Founder and President of Foundation on Economic Trends

Cynthia Cooper

WorldCom whistleblower and former auditor

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2003-2004

Andres Oppenheimer

Pulitzer prize winner, internationally-syndicated columnist

Phillip Jenkins

Distinguished Professor of History and Religion, Pennsylvania State University

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2002-2003

Brian Greene, Ph.D.

Author, physicist and string theorist
Professor at Columbia University

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2001-2002

Rev. Terrence Toland, S.J.

Theologian

Sister Karen Dennelly, C.S.J.

President Emeritus at Mt. St. Mary's College (California)

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2000-2001

Douglas Rushkoff

Social theorist, Professor of Media Culture at New York University

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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

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1998-1999

Robert Reid

Internet venture capitalist and E-commerce columnist for Forbes ASAP

Vincent Lin, Ph.D.

Chief Financial Officer, Linbro Inc.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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1990

George J. Stigler

Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago
1982 Nobel Prize winner in Economics