TIAA Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture
Annually since 2002, the Honors College at the University of Maine has endeavored to host a distinguished Honors graduate for a several day visit. The visit typically includes in- and out-of-class conversations with members of the Honors community as well as other interested students and faculty. The Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture is the campus-wide highlight of their visit. Between 2002 and 2008, this initiative was sponsored by TIAA, which returned as a sponsor in 2015.
2019-20 TIAA Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture
Emily Cain ’02H
Executive Director, EMILY’s List
“The Myth of Electability: What it Really Takes for Women to Win”
September 24, 2019
Past Distinguished Honors Graduate Lectures
2018-19 – Isaac Record ’03H
Assistant Professor of Practice, Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College
“Life, the University and Everything: My Romp Across Disciplines in Pursuit of Answers”
September 27, 2018
2017-18 – Sara Morris ’86H
Managing Director, Stone Coast Fund Services
“Accounting for Happiness: The Rewards of Unlikely Career Choices, and the Lasting Value of Kindness”
September 26, 2017
2016-17 – Mark Pettegrow ’81H
Sculptor
“Fairing the Edge: In Search of Eloquent Form”
September 27, 2016
2015-16 – Mark R. Haskell ’82H
Partner with the Washington D.C. office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, specializing in energy regulatory law.
“Federal Regulation of Oil and Natural Gas: 30 Years of Shifting Regulatory Paradigms, Broken Crystal Balls and Conflicting Policy Priorities”
November 2, 2015
2014-15 – Dr. Amy Benoit Frappier ’99H
Associate professor at Skidmore College in the Department of Geosciences, serving as Charles Lubin Family Professor for Women in Science
“The Natural Philosophy of Hurricanes in the Anthropocene”
February 2, 2015
2013-14 – Dr. David Bronson ’69H
President of the Cleveland Clinic
“Healthcare Reform and the Bumpy Road to Universal Access”
November 20, 2013
2012-13 – Kristen Gwinn-Becker ’97H
Founder and CEO of HistoryIT
“Navigating Entrepreneurship and the Humanities”
October 24, 2012
2010-11 – Dr. Bruce Stanton ’74H
Andrew C. Vail Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth Medical School
“Arsenic: A Global Public Health Crisis”
February 23, 2011
2009-10 – Bettina Boxall ’77H
2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting
“Please Don’t Tweet Me: Journalism Today”
April 14, 2010
2007-08 – Dr. Bernard Lown ’42H
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
“On Global Activism in an Ailing World”
March 26, 2008
2005-06 – Daniel P. Christensen ’77H
CEO of Hancock Natural Resource Group, President Hancock Timber Resource Group
“Is Change the Only Constant in the World Today?”
24 April 24, 2006
2004-05 – George Z. Singal ’67H
Chief United States District Judge, District of Maine
“Wandering through the Garden of Eden: How do I get out of here?”
April 11, 2005
2003-04 – Charles V. Stanhope, ’71H
Director of Development, United States Library of Congress
“Making Sense of the Information Explosion: A View from the World’s Largest Library”
April 12, 2004
2002-03 – Carolyn Reed, ’72H
Director, Hollings Cancer Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina
“Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Medicine and Beyond”
April 21, 2003
2001-02 – James Tierney, ’69H
Attorney General of Maine, 1980-1990
“Diversity in Maine: An Opportunity”
April 22, 2002