Lectures and Performances

The 2019 Community Lecture Series features Lake Forest College professors sharing perspectives on the natural environment.

Recorded October 2, 2019 in McCormick Auditorium.

Comedian, author and blogger Samantha Irby gives a reading of her hilarious and provocative writing. Born and raised in Evanston, Irby has published three books: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Meaty, and New Year, Same Trash, and has run the blog bitches gotta eat since 2009.

Irby is the 2019 Artist in Residence at Lake Forest College.

Irby has the rare ability to divulge her personal problems to an expansive, invisible Internet audience and still dazzle a crowded room of literati. Her seamless shifts between the two worlds have attracted adoring, fiercely loyal fans.”

-Chicago Magazine

Recorded Tuesday, October 1 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel.

The 2019 Community Lecture Series features Lake Forest College professors sharing perspectives on the natural environment.

Recorded Wednesday, September 25 in McCormick Auditorium.

The 2019 Community Lecture Series features Lake Forest College professors sharing perspectives on the natural environment.

Recorded Wednesday, September 18, in McCormick Auditorium

3:00: Sadiq Dabire and Nhu Quach, The Synthesis of Antimalarial Natural Products: The Chaetoxanthones

Mentor: Professor Paul Gladen, Chemistry

3:30: Nnena Aseh, The Advancement of Educational Practices for Post-development Societies in Africa

Mentor: Professor Desmond Odugu, Education

3:55: Allison Akins, Jessica Day, and Graeme Witte, Sharing is Caring: A Fungus That Stays Alive Through Heterokaryon Rescue

Mentor: Professor Karen Kirk, Biology

1:00: Bilal Khan, Unlocking Parkinson’s: Can Yeasts Unleash the Toxic Potential of all Synucleins?

Mentor: Professor Shubhik DeBurman, Biology

1:25: Adriana Jovsic, Who’s Doing the Work: How Teachers Provide Opportunities for Historical Meaning Making

Mentor: Professor Jacquelynn Popp, Education

1:50: Esther Kim, Hoodwinking Tuberculosis with Cancer Therapy

Mentor: Professor William Conrad, Chemistry

2:15: Desire Nalukwago Uwera, To Fly or Not to Fly: Evolutionary Trade-Offs in the Bean Beetle

Mentor: Professor Flavia Barbosa, Biology

10:00: Mathieu Norcross and Josephine Klein, Urban Safe Havens: Studying Effects of Natural Corridors on Ant Communities

Mentor: Professor Sean Menke, Biology

10:30: Samantha Stubbs, Decomposing Toxic Pharmaceuticals in Waste Water

Mentor: Professor Erica Schultz, Chemistry

10:55: Nathaniel Kregar and Yeshi Tshering, Don’t Take Your Rat to the Beach: An Exploration of Materials in the ASST

Mentor: Professor Jean-Marie Maddux, Psychology

11:25: Kylie Morgan, Something Seems Fishy: Linking Biomechanics and Sensory Systems

Mentor: Professor Margot Schwalbe, Biology

June 7, 2019. All times are CST.

3:30: Lazarus Brown, Rachel Peterson, and Hira Sadiq, Digitizing Sacred Spaces: The Holy Trinity

Mentor: Professor Benjamin Zeller, Religion

3:55: Audrey Bailey, Eleanor Hansen, and Emma Overton, Restrictive Covenants, Restricted Educational Opportunity

Mentor: Professor Desmond Odugu, Education

June 7, 2019. All times are CST.

2:10: Christian Reyes, Solving Stable Matching Problems With the Gale-Shapley Algorithm

Professor Enrique Treviño, Mathematics

2:25: Enrique Salonga, Do your Emotions Affect your Investments?

Mentor: Professor Dmitra Papadovasilaki, Finance

2:40: Elizabeth Ramirez, Mckinley Scheppler, and Eleanor Sokol, The Joker vs. Batman: Who’s More Likely to Use Verbal Sexual Coercion?

Mentor: Professor Susan Long, Psychology