Distinguished Professor Series

This provost-sponsored lecture series featured Virginia Tech's University Distinguished Professors (UDPs) and Alumni Distinguished Professors (ADPs), the elite of the university's faculty.

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  Charles Reinholtz (Profile) | ADP of Mechanical Engineering
  "Teaching Your Car to Drive: A How-to Guide for the Quintessential Back-seat Driver"
  Date: 3.28.05 | Length: 20:07
  

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  Thomas H. Ollendick (Profile) | UDP of Psychology
  "Fears, Phobias, Rituals, and Traumas: A Lifetime Journey"
  Date: 11.30.05 | Length: 28:39
  

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  John Tyson (Profile) | UDP of Biology
  "The New Systems Biology"
  Date: 03.15.05 | Length: 31:08
  

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  Fred Lee (Profile) | UDP of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  "Power Electronics, Energy, and Environment"
  Date: 03.31.05 | Length: 27:50
  

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  Ezra "Bud" Brown (Profile) | ADP of Mathematics
  "Chocolate Key Cryptography: A Delicious Way to Send Secret Messages"
  Date: 11.29.05 | Length: 26:21
  

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  Ali H. Nayfeh (Profile) | ADP of Engineering Science and Mechanics
  "A Super Controller for Cranes: From Theory to Laboratory to Industry."
  Date: 02.21.05 | Length: 26:56
  

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  James McGrath (Profile) | ADP of Chemistry
  "Advanced Materials for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."
  Date: 03.01.05 | Length: 26:23
  

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  Jacqueline Bixler (Profile) | ADP of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  "Icons of 'Mexican-ness': From Cortes to Cancun."
  Date: 04.25.05 | Length: 26:21
  

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  David Kingston (Profile) | ADP of Chemistry
  "The Faith of a Scientist."
  Date: 02.23.05 | Length: 26:28
  

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  Charles Bostian (Profile) | ADP of Electrical And Computer Engineering
  "Forty Years of Radio Research - From Glowing Bottles to Machines That Think"
  Date: 03.22.05 | Length: 26:28
  

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  Rosemary Blieszner (Profile) | ADP of Human Development
  "Why Are Close Relationships Important for Good Health?"
  Date: 02.16.05 | Length: 24:16
  

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  Robert Bodnar (Profile) | UDP of Geosciences
  "Pursuing Mega-projects: Virginia Tech's Efforts to Build a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in Southwest Virginia"
  Date: 02.24.05 | Length: 23:03
  

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  William Snizek (Profile) | ADP of Sociology
  "Survivors as Victims: Some Little Publicized Consequences of Corporate Downsizings"
  Date: 03.16.05 | Length: 28:28
  

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  James I. Robertson Jr. (Profile) | ADP of History
  "How the Civil War Still Lives"
  Date: 03.23.05 | Length: 24:22
  

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  Nikki Giovanni (Profile) | UDP of English
  "Rosa and Me: Writing a Children's Book about Rosa Parks"
  Date: 12.06.05 | Length: 31:45
  

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  Arthur L. Buikema, Jr. (Profile) | ADP of Biology
  "Effects of Different Teaching Strategies on Student Outcomes"
  Date: 03.21.05 | Length: 25:23
  

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  J. Michael Duncan (Profile) | UDP of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  "The Role of Case Histories in Civil Engineering Education"
  Date: 03.28.05 | Length: 31:34
  

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  Harold E. Burkhart (Profile) | UDP of Forestry
  "Sustaining Forest Resources"
  Date: 04.05.05 | Length: 21:33
  

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