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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.

The Boyd Professor Seminar is taught each spring as a seminar for one hour credit. The rank of Boyd Professor is the highest academic rank at LSU, and this seminar consists of Boyd Professors from a variety of disciplines presenting introductory lectures for a general audience on some subject related to their area of expertise. The seminar provides an opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of topics (e.g. cloning, music, wetlands, new energy, history of the South, parasitic diseases, black holes, and others). Students will hear firsthand about some of the exciting developments in research and scholarship that are taking place at LSU.

SPRING SEMESTER 2006: Tuesdays at 4:10-5:00, 109 COATS HALL

JAN 17 Harry Roberts: Introduction and A New Energy Resource From Deep Water: The Potential of Gas Hydrate

JAN 24 Thomas R. Klei: Parasitic Diseases: Their Impact on Disease Outcome and Treatment

JAN 31 Meredith Blackwell: How to Eat Wood

FEB 7   Jimmie D. Lawson: Our Mathematics: Where in the World did It Come From

FEB 14 Jesse Walker: Vulnerability of Some Coastlines

FEB 21 James M. Coleman: Wetland Loss

FEB 28 Mardi Gras Break

MAR 7   Isaiah Warner: Chiral Molecules: The Difficulty of Separating these Jekyll-Hyde Twins

MAR 14 Robert A. Godke: Embryo Engineering in Mammals

MAR 21 Robert F. O’Connell: Black Holes and Other Exotic Bodies in the Universe

MAR 28 C. Dinos Constantinides: New Music at LSU

APR 4   Richard Anderson: I Led Three Lives in mathmatics

APR 11 Spring Break

APR 18 William Copper: The Antebellum South

APR 25 George Z. Voyiadjis: Damage Characterization for Materials

MAY 2   Final Class: Final reports due

Instructor:
Harry Roberts
Coastal Studies Institute
304 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-2964
Fax: 225-578-2520
Email: hrober3@lsu.edu

Course requirements include student attendance at the weekly lectures and lecture reports of length 300 words or more. Each report should be independently written, include a clear and concise summary or overview of the main ideas of the lecture, and may include additionally student evaluations of and responses to the lecture. Well-written reports (based on quality of writing, not length) will be given 10 points credit, mediocre 5, and poor 0. As should be obvious, reports will not be accepted for lectures not attended.

Attendance at a minimum of 10 of the 13 lectures is required. A seminar participation score of 10 points will be awarded for each lecture attended. A final grad of A will be assigned for those who attain a total of at least 190 points for participation and reports combined. So, for example, attendance at 10 lectures and 9 acceptable reports or attendance at 13 lectures and 6 acceptable reports will meet the requirements for an A.

Approximately half of your reports should be turned in a mid-semester and the rest at the end of the semester.

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Comments? Meredith Blackwell
3 February 2006