| February 1 | Eugenia Scott, Executive Director, National Center on Science Education Much Ado About Evolution |
| February 15 | Anne Robichaud, Author, Lecturer Implications of Being Italian: Gestures |
| March 7 | Yvonne Pendleton, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, NASA Researcher Pathway to the Stars |
| March 21 | Ernie Young, Co-Director, Center for Biomeidcal Ethics Emerging Issues in Biomedical Ethics |
| April 4 | Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Why the West and China View Tibet So Differently |
| April 18 | Mary Jane Moffat, Writer, Editor, Teacher The Long Backward Glance: The Value of Writing Memoirs |
| May 2 | Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Foreign Correspondents and Co-Bureau Chiefs of The Washington Post Close-Up View of Japan and Korea |
| May 16 | Michael Keller, Chief Librarian, Stanford University Library System Re-Engineering Academic Libraries in the Twenty-First Century |
| June 6 | Michael beachloss, Historian, Author, TV Commentator Election 2000: What Can History Tell Us? |
