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Vice President of Academic Affairs
St. Mary's University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, Texas 78228
phone: (210) 436-3716
fax: (210) 431-4213


Lin Great Speakers Series Information

The Lin Great Speakers Series is made possible by an endowment established in memory of Shu-Chi Lin by his widow, Mrs. Chang Le-Chiao Lin, and his son, Vincent Lin, Ph.D., a St. Mary’s alumnus and former faculty member. The series is presented to the public as a community service. All lectures are free of charge.

 

 

2008-2009 - "Green or Gone? What is our Environmental Future? "
Alan Weisman Sustainability Journalist
David Orr, Ph.D. Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont
2007-2008 -
   
2006-2007 - "Health Care and Medicine"
Exekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. Bioethicist and Oncologist
Brin Professor at John Hopkins Medical School
Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D. Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
2005-2006 - "China: Economic and Cultural Contrasts"
Paul Solman Business and Economic Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Mark Salzman Author, "Iron & Silk"
2004-2005 - The State of Knowledge in a Post-Modern World"
Jeremy Rifkin Author, founder and president of Foundation on Economic Trends
Cynthia Cooper WorldCom whistleblower and former auditor
2003-2004 - "Exploring the Challenges of Globalization"
Andres Oppenheimer Pulitzer prize winner, internationally-syndicated columnist
Phillip Jenkins Distinguished Professor of History and Religion, Pennsylvania State University
2002-2003 - "Explaining the Elegant Universe"
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 (Calif.)
2000-2001
Douglas Rushkoff Social theorist, professor of Media Culture at New York University
1999-2000
Ernesto Cortés Southwest Industrial Area Foundation regional director, 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—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
1995-1996
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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
1993
Thomas Sowell Author, 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 director 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 Incarnate Word College
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 University of North Texas
Andy Hernandez President, Southwest Voter Research Institute
1990
George J. Stigler Professor Emeritus in Economics at University of Chicago
1982 Nobel Prize in Economics
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