Herrett Forum Distinguished Speaker Series Presents:
Herrett Forum Distinguished Speaker Series Presents:
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 10, 2024 | Nisei Trials: 80 Years, Remembering the Minidoka Draft Resisters | Frank Abe and Eric Muller |
| 2 | Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | Balancing the Energy Transition | Adam Richin, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Idaho Power |
| 3 | Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | Managing Wildland Fires | Jake Strohmeyer, Forest Supervisor, Sawtooth National Forest |
| 4 | Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Navigating the Changing Landscape of Public Libraries in Idaho | Tara Bartley, Library Director, Twin Falls Public Library |
| 5 | Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | How Girls and Boys View Politics Differently and Why it Matters | Dr. Angie Bos, Dean, School of Public Service Adminstration, Boise State University |
| 6 | Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | A Historical and Contemporary Musical Travelogue of the People, Places, and Stories of Idaho | Heather Platts and Bruce Michael Miller, CrazyLove Duo |
| 7 | Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | Flour Gold and Chinese Miners: An Update on the National Register Snake River Canyon Historical Mining District Archaeological Surveys | Ron James, Twin Falls County Historic Preservation Commission Member |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 12, 2023 | BASE Jumping at the Perrine Bridge | Tom Aiello |
| 2 | October 10, 2023 | The Idaho Constitution, the Rule of Law and American Democracy | David Adler |
| 3 | November 13, 2023 | Why Courts? A Look at Idaho's Third Branch of Government | Chief Justice Richard Bevan and Nate Poppino |
| 4 | February 13, 2024 | Preserving Southern Idaho's Agricultural Legacy: The Role of Land Trusts in the Magic Valley | Deb Wilson |
| 5 | March 12, 2024 | Ice Age Giants: Unveiling Ancient Hunting Strategies and Migration Patterns in North America | Andy Speer |
| 6 | April 9, 2024 | Managing Solid Waste: A Sustainable Vision for Southern Idaho | Nate Francisco |
| 7 | May 14, 2024 | Forging Frontier Legacies: The Buffalo Soldiers of Idaho | Justin Vipperman |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13, 2022 | Rethinking Global Change and its Effects on Ecosystems | Brandon Barton, PHD, Trent University, Ontario Canada |
| 2 | October 11, 2022 | Millennials to Boomers and Beyond- Why Women are Embracing Philanthropy | Moderator: Gloria Gott; Panel: Linda Watkins, Jan McBride, Angel Chapman-McDavid, Khristin Quigley, and Sami Ashenbrener |
| 3 | November 22, 2022 | El Arte Jondo: An Introduction to Flamenco | Gustavo Lopez |
| 4 | February 14, 2023 | Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Incarceration During WWII | Kurt Ikeda, Director of Interpretation and Education, Minidoka National Historic Site & Robyn Achilles, Executive Director, Friends of Minidoka |
| 5 | March 14, 2023 | The Future of Energy | Megan Ronk, Director of Economic Development & Innovation, Idaho Power |
| 6 | April 11, 2023 | The 51 Tunnels that Saved Twin Falls: The Twin Falls Canal Company's Bold Solution to a Nasty Drainage Surprise | Jim Gentry & Brian Olmstead |
| 7 | May 9, 2023 | Building the Iron Road: The Archaeology of Chinese Workers along the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah | Ken Cannon |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 14, 2021 | Idaho in a Pandemic: An Investigative Journalist Reflects on How COVID-19 Has Affected Idaho, and What Comes Next | Audrey Dutton, Idaho Capital Sun Senior Reporter |
| 2 | October 12, 2021 | Polly Bemis: A Chinese-American Pioneer | Priscilla Wegars, author, historian, and artifact analyst |
| 3 | November 9, 2021 | Preserving the Salmon: Historical Context for the Proposed Removal of Lower Snake Dams | Kevin Marsh, Professor, Department of History, Idaho State University |
| 4 | February 8, 2022 | Windows and Mirrors: Growing Up Black and White in Twin Falls | Savina Barini, Social Media Manager, Theater Alliance and Teaching Artist, St. Thomas Playhouse |
| 5 | March 8, 2022 | A Century Plus of Growth, Now What? Preserving the Magic of Downtown Twin Falls | Samra Culum, Chairperson, Twin Falls City Historic Preservation Commission; Mychel Matthews, Story Chief and Local Historian, Times-News; Nathan Murray, Economic and Community Development Advisor, Idaho Power |
| 6 | April 12, 2022 | Tabernacles or Dumps? How American Literature Has Influenced and Shaped Contemporary Attitudes Toward Urban Wild Spaces and Twin Falls' Rock Creek | Dr. Shelley McEuen Howard, English professor at CSI and Co-Founder, Rock Creek Institute |
| 7 | May 10, 2022 | The Initial Peopling of the Americas: A Review of Archaelogical Research (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture, for Idaho Archaeology Month) | Dr. Ruth Gruhn, Professor Emerita, University of Alberta |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 8th, 2020 | COVID-19 and Its Effects on Magic Valley | Lisa Klamm, Public Health Nurse at South Central Public Health District; Melody Bowyer, District Director at South Central Public Health District; and R. Scott Holiday DO Emergency Medicine St. Luke's Health System |
| 2 | October 13, 2020 | Idaho First: How Archaeological Discoveries on the Lower Salmon River Changer Our Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas | Loren Davis, Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University |
| 3 | November 10, 2020 | Gothic Boise: Dark Stories and Sinister Places in Boise's Historic Downtown | Todd Shallat, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of History and Urban Studies Boise State University |
| 4 | February 9, 2021 | The Milner Dam | Brian Olmstead, General Director, Twin Falls Canal Co. |
| 5 | March 9, 2021 | Community Oriented Policing | Craig S. Kingsbury, Chief of Police, Twin Falls Police Department |
| 6 | April 13, 2021 | U.S. Senate: Connecting Current Politics With Political History | Marc Johnson |
| 7 | May 11, 2021 | The Goodale Cut-Off | Marie Holmer |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 10, 2019 | This Flotsam and Jetsam of Human Passions: Idaho War Horses to the South African War, 1899-1902 | Philip Homan |
| 2 | October 8, 2019 | Puerto Rican Sharp-Shinned Hawk: Status and Conservation | Russell Thorstrom |
| 3 | November 12, 2019 | Staying Focused in the Age of Distraction | Chris Huston |
| 4 | February 11, 2020 | Black Hole Collisions and the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Dr. William Kells |
| 5 | March 10, 2020 | Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp | Mia Russell, Executive Director, Friends of Minidoka |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2018 | The Effects of Light Pollution and How We Can Protect Our Night Sky | Betsy Mizell, Idaho Conservation League |
| 2 | October 9, 2018 | Public Art in Context | Curtis Eaton, Paul Smith, and Dave LaMure, Jr. |
| 3 | November 13, 2018 | Culture Wars | Thomas Schwartz |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 | The Green Ribbon of Hope: Korea's DMZ as Nature Preserve | Dr. Lisa Brady, Idaho State University |
| 5 | March 12, 2019 | The Impact of Interpersonal Violence and Intersections of Oppression | Voices Against Violence's Donna Graybill, Executive Director; Katelyn Schwennen, Client Care Coordinator; Lacey Galloway, Case Manager; Angie Soto, Bilingual Case Manager; and Yarit Rodriguez, Outreach and Education Coordinator |
| 6 | April 9, 2019 | Still Pickled After All These Years | Brian Crane, the "Pickles" Cartoonist |
| 7 | May 14, 2019 | History and Archaeology of Western Airways with an Empasis on Southern Idaho (for Idaho Archaeology Month) | David Valentine, Idaho Power Archaeologist |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 12, 2017 | A Perspective on the World's Huddled Masses | Jim Jones, Retired Chief Justice, Idaho Supreme Court |
| 2 | October 10, 2017 | Colorism: Discrimination Amongst People of Color | Alma Jam, former Miss Africa Idaho |
| 3 | November 16, 2017 | The Idaho Guide History Project: Stories, Myths, and Legends from Idaho's Wildlands and Waters | Brian Chaffin & Emerald LaFortune |
| 4 | February 13, 2018 | Standards in Journalism: Who Can We Trust | Travis Quast & Matt Christenson, Times-News |
| 5 | March 13, 2018 | How a Different Kind of Company Can Shape and Impact a Community | Business trends panel: Dale Ducommun, General Manager Clif Bar Baking Company; Rudy Ashenbrener, Co-owner of Rudy's - A Cook's Paradise; Alan Horner, Retired President and CEO of First Federal; and Becky Nelson, Director of Human Resources for First Federal |
| 6 | April 10, 2018 | Geology Underfoot in Southern Idaho | Shawn Willsey, CSI Geology Professor |
| 7 | May 8, 2018 | Idaho Wilderness Considered (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecutre, for Idaho Archaeology Month) | Jennifer Emery-Davidson and Panel |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 21, 2016 | Liminal - The Refugee Experience | Liyah Babayan, Refugee Community Member |
| 2 | October 19, 2016 | INL Overview | Dr. Mark Peters, Director of INL |
| 3 | November 16, 2016 | Climate Change and Fossil Fuels: A New Dynamic Emerges (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | David Christensen, Adjunct Instructor of History, Boise State University |
| 4 | December 14, 2016 | Once Upon a Time (Lecture / Piano performance, Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Del Parkinson PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 18, 2017 | Over the Rainbow: The LGBT Experience in the Magic Valley | Brandon Tesch, LGBT Performance Artist |
| 6 | February 15, 2017 | For Lincoln and Liberty Too: Songs from a House Divided (Lecture / Performance, Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | William Rossiter, Folklorist and Musician |
| 7 | March 15, 2017 | Oasis in the Desert | Curtis Johnson, Stricker Descendant and Local Historian |
| 8 | April 19, 2017 | Public Lands - What are they, and who manages them? | Lawrence Wasden, Attorney General, State of Idaho |
| 9 | May 3, 2017 | Ice Age Animals of the Snake River Plain: Camels, Elephants, Lions and Sloths, Oh, My! (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture, for Idaho Archaeology Month) | Sue Miller, Paleontologist |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 16, 2015 | Celebrating 50 years at CSI | CSI 50th Anniversary Panel |
| 2 | October 21, 2015 | Showdown i the Big Quiet: The Power of American Western Mythology | Dr. John Bieter, Professor, Boise State University |
| 3 | November 18, 2015 | Worldviews of Islam (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Dr. Raja Tanas, Professor of Sociology, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA |
| 4 | December 2, 2015 | Shall We Dance? (Lecture / Piano performance, Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Del Parkinson PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 20, 2016 | How to Be a Great Patient (The Importance of Co-Producing Your Own Healthcare) | Paul Miles, MD, former VP for Quality, American Board of Pediatrics |
| 6 | February 17, 2016 | How to Cure Alzheimer's Disease | John Sims, MD, Neurologist, Havard Medical School, and Investigator, Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| 7 | March 16, 2016 | The Obsidian Blade of the Aztecs in the 21st Century | Jim Woods, MS, Professor of Anthropology, College of Southern Idaho |
| 8 | April 20, 2016 | Idaho in Africa - The Unique Partnership that Restored Gorongosa National Park | Heidi Ware, MS, Education and Outreach Director, Intermountain Bird Observatory, Boise State University |
| 9 | May 11, 2016 | Archeology of the Idaho National Laboratory (Annual Crabree Memorial Lecture, for Idaho Archaeology Month) | Brenda Pace, Archaeologist, Idaho National Laboratory |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 17, 2014 | As Rugged as the Terrain: CCC 'Boys,' Federal Convicts, and World War II Alien Internees Wrestle with a Mountain Wilderness (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Priscilla Wegars, Founder, University of Idaho Asian American Comparative Collection |
| 2 | October 15, 2014 | Behind the Scenes with Outdoor Idaho | Ron Pisaneschi, IPTV General Manager; and Bruce Reichert, “Outdoor Idaho” host |
| 3 | November 19, 2014 | Ezra Pound: The Only Mentor that Ernest Hemingway Didn't Burn (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Ted Dyer, Teacher, Free-lance Journalist, and Musician |
| 4 | December 3, 2014 | Preludes and Pictures (Lecture / Piano performance, Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Del Parkinson PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 21, 2015 | Daydreams and Nightmares: Utopias and Dystopias from Fahrenheit 451 to The Hunger Games (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Brian Attebery |
| 6 | February 18, 2015 | The Buhl Woman and New Information Regarding the First Native Americans (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture) | Tom Green, Former Director, Arkansas Archaeological Survey |
| 7 | March 18, 2015 | SOFIA: The Hidden Universe | Jo Dodds and Ralph Peterson |
| 8 | April 15, 2015 | Where Have All the Silos Gone? Documenting the Evolution of a Rural Landscape | Elizabeth Jacox and Barbara Perry Bauer, TAG Historical Research |
| 9 | May 6, 2015 | Chocolate: Food of the Gods (For Idaho Archaeology Month) | Dr. Lauren Fins, Professor of Forestry, University of Idaho |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 18, 2013 | Mining in Idaho: Today and Yesterday (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Tom Blanchard, Adjunct Instructor of History, College of Southern Idaho |
| 2 | October 16, 2013 | Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project | Dr. Debbie Lee, Professor, Washington State University & Dr. Dennis Baird, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho |
| 3 | November 20, 2013 | Harvard to Hagerman | Myron Finkbeiner, Founder, World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame |
| 4 | December 11, 2013 | Celebrating Gershwin (Lecture / Piano performance, Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | Del Parkinson PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 15, 2014 | Lincoln and Idaho (Idaho Humanities Council Lecture) | David LeRoy, former Idaho Attorney General and Lt. Governor |
| 6 | February 19, 2014 | The Idaho Innocence Project: from Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy to Chris Tapp in Idaho Falls | Dr. Greg Hampikian, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University |
| 7 | March 19, 2014 | Community Arts: Influence and Impact | Autumn Kersey, Executive Director of Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, LLC |
| 8 | April 16, 2014 | Secrets of the City - City of Rocks National Monument and Castle Rocks State Park | Wallace Keck, Superintendent City of Rocks National Reserve |
| 9 | May 14, 2014 | Blood Sport in Ancient America (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture, for Idaho Archaeology Month) | John Clark, Professor, Archaeology, Brigham Young University |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 19, 2012 | Letters to a Young Actor | Tony Mannen, Professor of Communications/Theatre, College of Southern Idaho |
| 2 | October 17, 2012 | Queen of Diamonds | Philip Homan, Assoociate Professor, Idaho State University, Eli M. Oboler Library (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker's Bureau) |
| 3 | November 14, 2012 | Pole Shift, Nibiru, and Planetary Alignments: Why the World WON’T End on December 21, 2012 | Chris Anderson, Production Specialist & Observatory Coordinator, Herrett Center |
| 4 | December 12, 2012 | Impressionism | (Lecture/piano performance featuring the music of Debussy and Ravel) Del Parkinson PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 5 | January 16, 2013 | Senator Frank Church: It’s Called Democracy | Steve Shaw, Prof. of Political Science and Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Northwest Nazarene University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 6 | February 20, 2013 | Geothermal – Renewable Energy for Idaho and the U.S. – An introduction to geothermal energy, its origins, uses, and potential within a framework of economics and public policy | Dr. Walter Snyder, Director, National Geothermal Data System; Director, GeoStrat and Professor of Geosciences, Boise State University |
| 7 | March 13, 2013 | From Transylvania to the Magic Valley | Edit Szanto, Vice President of Student Services/Planning and Grant Development |
| 8 | April 17, 2013 | Idaho Women in Politics: A Look Back and a Look Forward | Wendy Jaquet, State Representative from Idaho’s District 25 |
| 9 | May 8, 2013 | Defending Tropical Forests with Indigenous People: Anthropology at Work in Latin America | Anthony Stocks, Anthropology Department Chair (Interim) Idaho State University (annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture, co-sponsored by the Snake River Chapter, Idaho Archaeological Society) |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 21, 2011 | From Text to Tweet: Communication Trends in the 21st Century | Tiffany Seeley-Case, Professor of Communications, College of Southern Idaho |
| 2 | October 19, 2011 | Aukera: A History of the Basques in Idaho | John Bieter, Associate Professor of History, Boise State University |
| 3 | November 16, 2011 | Crabtree and Titmus: A Century of Flintknapping Experimentation | James Woods, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Southern Idaho |
| 4 | December 7, 2011 | The Piano Music of Franz Liszt (lecture/piano performance) | Del Parkinson, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 18, 2012 | Baseball and Film | Marshall “Marty” Most, Professor of Communication, Boise State University |
| 6 | February 15, 2012 | Geothermal – Renewable Energy for Idaho and the U.S. | Dr. Walter Snyder, Director, National Geothermal Data System; Director, GeoStrat and Professor of Geosciences, Boise State University |
| 7 | March 21, 2012 | Robert Limbert, the Stories Behind the Early Photos of Idaho | Steve Wursta, Arctic Circle Productions |
| 8 | April 18, 2012 | Lincoln and Presidential Power | David Adler, Director of McClure Center for Public Policy, University of Idaho |
| 9 | May 9, 2012 | Wasden Site – Paleo Evidence of the Mammoth | (Collaboration with Snake River Chapter, Idaho Archaeological Society) Suzann Henrikson PhD, Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management, Burley Field Office |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2010 | Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder | General Lance Undheim, USAF |
| 2 | October 20, 2010 | Idaho River History | Cort Conley, Literature Director, Idaho Commission on the Arts |
| 3 | November 17, 2010 | An Artist's Perspective of the Historic Heyburn Art Collection | Lavar Steele, Emeritus Professor of Art, College of Southern Idaho |
| 4 | December 8, 2010 | My Favorite Chopin (lecture and piano performance) | Del Parkinson, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 19, 2011 | Twin Falls and the Architecture of an Irrigated Town | Elizabeth Giraud, Former Idaho State Historian |
| 6 | February 16, 2011 | Health Care Reform Has Passed. Now What? | David Pate, Chief Executive Officer, St. Luke's Regional Health System |
| 7 | March 16, 2011 | Ancient Burial Behavior: A Western Idaho Example (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture) | Max Pavesic, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Boise State University |
| 8 | April 20th, 2011 | Astronomy Paradise at World's Largest Twin Optical Telescopes, the Keck Observatory | Marc Kassis, Staff Astronomer, Keck Observatory (Hawai'i) |
| 9 | May 11, 2011 | Kennewick Man and the First Americans (Collaboration with Snake River Chapter, Idaho Archaeological Society) | James C. Chatters, PhD |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 16, 2009 | Changing the Way We Age | Jan Mittleider MPE, Professor of Physical Education, College of Southern Idaho |
| 2 | October 21, 2009 | No Easy Prescription: Getting Africans the Medicines They Need | Laura Frost, DSc, Partner, Global Health Insights |
| 3 | November 18, 2009 | Twin Falls Prepares for the Future: 1955-1965 | James Gentry, PhD, Professor of History, College of Southern Idaho |
| 4 | December 16, 2009 | A Classical Christmas (piano performance/lecture) | Del Parkinson, PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 20, 2010 | The Emergence of Chariot Warfare, Early Metallurgy and Social Complexity in the Middle Bronze Age of North Central Eurasia (2100 - 1750 BCE) (Annual Crabtree Lecture) | Dr. Bryan K. Hanks, University of Pittsburgh |
| 6 | February 17, 2009 | The History of the Military Fort Boise | Kenneth Swanson, Executive Director, Idaho Military Historical Museum |
| 7 | March 17, 2009 | Auger Falls Archaeology and 13,000 Years of Snake River History | Matt Root, PhD, Archeologist, Rainbow Research |
| 8 | April 21, 2009 | The Secret Life of Raptors | Trish Nixon, Raptor Specialist, Peregrine Fund (In conjunction with the Audobon Society) |
| 9 | May 12, 2009 | Reconstructing the Paleo-Indian Lifeway in Idaho and the Far West | Skip Lohse PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Idaho State University (In conjunction with the Snake River Archeology Club) |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 16, 2008 | The Glory of Form: A Demonstration of Sculptural Ceramics | Bill and Cheryl West, College of Southern Idaho Art Faculty |
| 2 | October 15, 2008 | Charles Darwin: The Tree of Life | Michael Whiting, PhD, Professor of Biology, Brigham Young University |
| 3 | November 19, 2008 | Twin Falls Prepares for the Future: 1955-1965 | James Gentry, PhD, Professor of History, College of Southern Idaho |
| 4 | December 10, 2008 | Classical Piano Favorites (concert/lecture) | Del Parkinson, PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University |
| 5 | January 21, 2009 | Wounded Watchdog? Public Interest Journalism in the Age of the Internet | Flynn McRoberts, Deputy Projects Director at the Chicago Tribune |
| 6 | February 18, 2009 | Realizing the Founders' Vision | Keith Allred, PhD, President of TheCommonInterest.org |
| 7 | March 18, 2009 | Endangered Peoples, Endangered Species: Creating an Archaeology that Matters | Herbert D. G. Maschner, PhD, Anthropology Research Professor, Idaho State University |
| 8 | April 15, 2009 | Idaho's Sabertooths—A Tale of Two Kitties (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture) | William Akersten, PhD, Idaho Museum of Natural History |
| 9 | May 13, 2009 | Archaeology of America's Oldest Human Remains: Ancient DNA at the Paisley Caves in Oregon | Dennis Jenkins, PhD, Senior Staff Archaeologist, University of Oregon |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 19, 2007 | The Future of Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities | Ed Dahlberg, MS, CEO of the St. Luke’s Health System(Sponsored by St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center) |
| 2 | October 17, 2007 | Detecting Nuclear Terrorism: Preventing the Unthinkable at US Borders | Eric Smith, MS, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA |
| 3 | November 14, 2007 | Mammoths in the Mountain West | Larry Agenbroad, PhD, Director of the Hot Springs Mammoth Site (South Dakota) and Professor Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology, Northern Arizona University |
| 4 | December 12, 2007 | The Piano Music of Frederic Chopin (lecture/piano performance) | Del Parkinson, PhD, Professor of Music, Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 5 | January 16, 2008 | Women at Work on the Southeast Idaho Frontier | Susan Swetnam, PhD, Professor of English , Idaho State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 6 | February 20, 2008 | The Toana Road: Freight Line, Stage Line, and Idaho Lifeline | Shauna Robinson, Chair, Twin Falls County Historical Preservation Commission |
| 7 | March 19, 2008 | Forest Insects & Diseases That Affect Forest Health Conditions in Our National Forests and their Management | Dwight Scarbrough, MS, Entomologist, USDA-Forest Service |
| 8 | April 9, 2008 | Norman Herrett’s Astronomy Legacy (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture) | Chris Anderson, MS, Planetarium Production Specialist and Observatory Coordinator, Herrett Center |
| 9 | April 17, 2008 | From Crystals to Climate: Tales from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets | Mary Albert, PhD, Research Engineer, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH. |
| 10 | May 14, 2008 | Paleoamericans of the Western United States | Ted Goebel, PhD, Director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A & M (co-sponsored by the Snake River Chapter, Idaho Archaeological Society) |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 20, 2006 | The Mirador Basin, Guatemala: Exploring the Natural and Cultural Wonders of the Cradle of Maya Civilization | Richard Hansen, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Idaho State University |
| 2 | October 18, 2006 | If the Horse Dies, Get Off. A New Revolution in Healthcare. | Paul Miles, MD, American Board of Pediatrics (Sponsored by St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center and Dr. Miles) |
| 3 | November 15, 2006 | Nerve Transfer Surgery for Improved Artificial Arm Function | Todd Kuiken, PhD, Northwestern University School of Medicine and Chicago Rehabilitation Institute. |
| 4 | December 13, 2006 | The Piano Music of George Gershwin (lecture/piano performance) | Del Parkinson, PhD, Professor of Piano, Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 5 | January 17, 2007 | Chinese Gold Mining at the Mon-Tung Site in the Snake River Canyon | Ron James, MA, Twin Falls School District, Twin Falls Historic Preservation Commission |
| 6 | February 21, 2007 | Prosperity in Isolation | Carol MacGregor, PhD, Professor of History, Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 7 | March 21, 2007 | Windmills for Power Generation | Gerald Fleishman, MBA, Idaho Office of Energy Resources |
| 8 | April 18, 2007 | Mount St. Helens, Then and Now | Shawn Willsey, MS, Assistant Professor of Geology, College of Southern Idaho (Sponsored by the Don Crabtree Lecture Series, CSI Foundation, Inc.) |
| 9 | May 16, 2007 | New Perspectives on New World Origins | Dennis Stanford, PhD, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Sponsored by the Snake River Chapter, Idaho Archaeological Society) |
| # | Date | Title | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 18, 2006 | Minidoka and the Magic Valley: A World War II Story | Robert Sims, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 2 | February 15, 2006 | Idaho's Railroad History with Emphasis on Magic Valley's and Twin Falls' Railroad History | Arthur Hart, Director Emeritus Idaho State Historical Society (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 3 | March 15, 2006 | The United States and the Middle East: Exploring the Origins of ‘The War on Terror | Michael Zirinsky, PhD, Professor of History at Boise State University (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |
| 4 | April 19, 2006 | Aztec Book of Destiny (Annual Crabtree Memorial Lecture) | Richard Holmer, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Idaho State University |
| 5 | May 17, 2006 | How Complex Civilizations Collapse: A Case Study of the Ancient Maya with Implications for Modern America | James Woods, MA, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Herrett Center CSI (Sponsored in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau) |