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Boyd Professor Lecture Series (UNIV 3005)
The world around us
The World Around Us (Boyd Professor Lecture Series, UNIV 3005) for 1 hour credit is open to upperclass students across disciplines who are seeking to broaden their education while on the LSU campus. This class will meet once a week for 13 weeks throughout the spring semester. The instructors (a different one each week) will lecture and lead a discussion on subject matter related to their specialty based on a successful career in research, teaching, and service, and the specialty that helped them earn a Boyd Professorship [Boyd Professors] [Foureaux Society] [Home].

SPRING SEMESTER 2002: Mondays at 4:10-5:00, 0116 TUREAUD HALL

JAN 21    Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday
JAN 28        Robert  A. Godke/Robert F. O’Connell: Introduction
FEB 4          Robert F. O’Connell: Physics, Religion and the Universe
FEB 11     Mardi Gras holiday
FEB 18        Thomas R. Klei: Parasitic Diseases in the Modern World
FEB 25        Harry Roberts: New Energy from Deep Water - The Potential of Gas Hydrates
MAR 4         Robert  A. Godke: Cloning, Man, and the Future
MAR 11       Jimmie D. Lawson: The Mathematics of Infinity 
MAR 18       To be announced
MAR 25       David York: Genes, Environment and Health 
APR 1       Spring Break Week
APR  8         C. Dinos Constantinides: Numerology in Music
APR 15        William H. Patrick, Jr.: Global Climate Change and Coastal Wetlands
APR 22        George Z. Voyiadjis: Damage Characterization for Materials
APR 29        Isaiah Warner: Chiral Molecules: The Difficulty of Distinguishing between these Jekyll-Hyde Twins 
MAY 6         William J. Cooper, Jr.: The Code of Honor in the Antebellum South 
MAY 11       Classes end
Instructors:
Robert  A.  Godke, Department of Animal Science (Tel.  578-3444;  Fax 578-3279)
Robert F. O’Connell, Department of Physics (Tel. 578-6848; Fax 5855)
Course requirements include student attendance at the weekly lectures and a 10 to 12 page term paper submitted to the instructor of record on Monday, April  XX.  Attendance at a minimum of 10 lectures is required. The term paper topic must be approved by the instructor of record by February 18.  Detailed  instructions  for preparing the required term paper will be given to the students at the first class period.  The term papers will be evaluated by a group of three Boyd Professors whose specialty areas best fit  the  topic area of the term paper. The grade on the term paper will be assigned by instructor of record based on the grade recommendations of the assigned Boyd Professor evaluation committee. Do you need references for the paper?  Try the Web of Science for ScienceCitation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index with access to 14,000 journals! 
Grade Assignment:
Attendance at 10 of the 13 lectures   =    100 points
Term paper                                       =    100 points
Total                                                 =    200 points
Final  grade assignment will be based on a percentage of the total number of  points and a letter grade assigned by the "university scale" as printed in the current LSU catalogue.
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Comments? Meredith Blackwell
21 January 2001