Year/School(s) |
Speaker |
Info |
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| 2000 |
Graduate
School |
Graduate
School |
Director, National Science Foundation |
|
| School
of Law |
Harold Hongju Koh |
Assistant secretary of state for democracy,
human rights and labor |
|
| Schools
of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Hunter (Patch) Adams |
Physician whose philosophy of dispensing
humor along with medicine was the basis
for the film "Patch
Adams". |
|
| 2001 |
Graduate
School |
Lester
Brown |
Founder and President, Worldwatch Institute |
|
| School
of Law |
Clare
Dalton |
Matthews Distinguished University
Professor at Northeastern University School of Law |
|
| Schools
of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
John
G. Rowland |
Governor, State of Connecticut; former
U.S. Congressman (R-Conn. 3rd Dist.) |
|
| 2002 |
Graduate
School |
Frene
Ginwala |
Speaker of the South African National
Assembly and leader of the African National Congress |
|
| School
of Law |
Patricia
McGowan Wald |
Former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals |
|
| Schools
of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Judah
Folkman |
Director, Vascular Biology Program,
Children's Hospital, Boston |
|
| 2003 |
Graduate
School |
Arthur
Levitt |
Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group,
former chairman of the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission |
|
| School of Law |
Albie
Sachs |
Justice of the Constitutional Court
of South Africa |
|
| Schools
of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Dushanka
Kleinman |
Deputy director of the National
Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at
the National Institutes of Health |
|
| 2004 |
Graduate
School |
Gene
E. Likens |
Director of the Institute of Ecosystem
Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. |
|
| School
of Law |
Dennis
Wayne Archer |
Mayor of Detroit, Mich |
|
| Schools
of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Francisco
Jimenez |
Professor of Modern Languages & Ethnic
Studies and Director, Ethnic Studies Program, Santa
Clara University |
|
| 2005 |
Graduate
School |
Jonathan
Fanton |
President of the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation |
|
| School
of Law |
Morris
Sheppard Arnold |
Judge, Eighth Circuit Court of
Appeals |
|
|
Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Antonia Novello |
Surgeon General
of the United States from 1990-1993 |
|
| 2006 |
Graduate School |
Arthur Caplan |
Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia |
|
| School of Law |
The Honorable Allyson Duncan |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
|
| Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Francis S. Collins |
Director of the Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. |
|
| 2007 |
Graduate School |
Wolfgang Ketterle |
John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 |
|
| School of Law |
Shirin Ebadi |
Founder and leader of the Association for Support of Children's Rights in Iran |
|
| Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Charles Bertolami |
Dean of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry and president-elect of the American Dental Education Association |
|
| School of Pharmacy (PharmD) |
Robin Bogner |
Associate professor and Pharmacy “Teacher of the Year” |
|
| 2008 |
Graduate School |
Garry Wills |
Scholar and journalist and recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize |
|
| School of Law |
Chase T. Rogers |
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court |
|
| Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine |
Dr. Pauline Chen |
Transplant surgeon and author of "Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality" |
|
| School of Pharmacy (PharmD) |
Gerald Gianutsos |
UConn associate professor of pharmacology |
|
| School of Social Work |
Gary Bailey |
Associate professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work and past president of the National Association of Social Work (NASW) |
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| 2009 |
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