Past Green Honors Chairs

2021-22

Premier Green Honors Chair presented by the College of Fine Arts and Neeley School of Business
Rafael Rozendaal
Visual Artist
“NFTs and Digital Scarcity,” “Taxes, NFTs, Blockchain and Smart Contracts,” Independent Making and Exhibiting,”

Environmental Science
Erin Baerwald
Principal Investigator, Baerwald Bat Lab
Assistant Professor, Ecosystem and Management, University of Northern British Columbia
“Loving the Unlovable: The Challenges of Conservation (Bats)”

Religion
David Patterson
Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
“The Holocaust: What Begins with the Jews Never End with the Jews”

Theatre
Regina Taylor
Actress, Director, Playwright, Educator, Activist
“Playwrights for Social Change” Workshop and Q&A

Religion
Michael Berenbaum
Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University
“The Reality of Human Dignity,” “The Perils of Holocaust Denial, Falsification, Trivialization and Minimization in 2022,” “Hate, Holocaust and the Search for Humanity: Survivors’ Perspectives”

Nutritional Sciences
Chris Reale
Owner/Operator, Paris Coffee Shop and Roy Pop Grocery
“Tequila 101 and Proper Methods in Cocktail Crafting”

Computer Science
Solomon Sonya
Director of Offensive Cyber Operations Training
“Securing Cyberspace via Lessons Learned from the Evolution of Malware,” “Dangers of Wifi: How Attackers Can Track and Exploit You Because Your WiFi is Enabled”

Art
Cathy Malchiodi
Research Psychologist, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Expressive Arts Therapist
“Expressive Arts Therapy,” “Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy,” “Self-Care for the Therapist”

Engineering
Charles Camarda
Astronaut and Engineer
“Return to Flight After the Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy”

Nursing
Cynthia Vlasich
Health Care Executive
“The Living Nature of Resilience,” “The Discovery of Emotional Intelligence,” “In Search of Leadership”

Criminal Justice
Jill Turnaovic
Associate Professor, Florida State University
“Mass Shootings in America”

Economics
Melinda Sandler Morrill
Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
“Using Natural Experiments to Measure Cause and Effect: The Case of Magnet Schools”

Idea Factory
Jeremy Utley
Hasso Plattner School of Design Stanford University
“How to Get Breakthrough Ideas”

2020 – 2021

Math
Sommer Gentry
Professor of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy,
Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Senior Investigator, U.S. Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients
“The Size of Infinity,” “Superhuman Counting” and “Models that Matter; Making Organ Allocation Fair”

Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Award-winning Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard University
Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies

Social Work
Matt Bennett
Trauma Care Advocate, Author, Trainer, Innovator
“Psychological Trauma, Resilience, and Community Health”

Psychology
John Dunlosky
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Science of Learning and Education Center, Kent State University
“Improving Student Note-taking” and “The promise of successive relearning for improving students’ achievement in the sciences”

Education
Virginia Richardson
Professor of Education, University of Arizona
“Curriculum and Instruction”

Education
Cynthia Franklin
Dean, Doctoral Education and Stiernberg/Spender Family Professor in Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin
“A Nationally Ranked Dropout Prevention Program”

Kinesiology
Benjamin Levine, M.D.
Cardiologist and Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Director, Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
Co-Investigator, Spacelab
“Aging, Fitness and Failure: Optimizing Cardiovascular Function” and “Lessons from a Space Cardiologist”

English
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Dean Emerita, College of Liberal Arts, and Professor of English, Georgia Tech
“In Search of Transformational Spaces for Action and Leadership:

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