Fall 2016

Posted on August 22, 2016 by paula

September 20	Nizar Ibraham, PhD., Lead author of a study on the creatures who lived 100 million years ago in North Africa and could swim Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous
October 4	Chef Roland Mesnier, Executive White House Chef, 1979-2004 All the Presidents’ Pastries
October 18	Rob Kapilow, Composer, conductor, author, NPR music commentator, along with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University Hayden and the Detective Novel: Does Music Have a Plot?
November 1	Mark D. Smith MD. MBA, Founder and CEO of California Health Care Foundation; Clinical faculty member, University of California, San Francisco Making America’s Health Care Great (Again?)
November 15	Brigid Barton PhD., Professor Emerita, Art History, Santa Clara University; Lecturer, Stanford University Continuing Studies Paris and Impressionism, the history of a new city and a new style; how Impressionist artists looked at Napolean III and Hausmann’s renovated Paris
December 6	Gary Griggs, Director of Marine Sciences, Distingished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Climate Change and the California Coast
January 17	Marc Lapadula, Playwright, screenwriter, and award-winning film producer; lecturer at Yale University on screen writing since 1992 Four Films that Changed America

Winter/Spring 2016

Posted on January 1, 2016 by paula

February 2	Lorrin Koran, MD., Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Stanford University Medical Center and former Director, Stanford Medical Center, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic and Research Program Overcoming Obessions and Compulsions
February 16	Larry Gerston, PhD ., Professor Emeritus of Political Science, San Jose State University The 2016 Election: Why We Should Care (And Why Few People Do!)
March 1	Elizabeth J. Freeman, Director, VA Palo Alto Health Care System VA Palo Alto Health Care System: The transformation of health care with a Veteran-centered focus
March 15	Rick Steves, Advocate of smart, independent travel; writer, producer of tv series “Rick Steves’ Europe” Broadening Your Global Perspective Through Travel
April 5	Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet Laureate Becoming American: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey
April 19	Karl Eikenberry, Director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Former Ambassador to Afghanistan (May 2009 – July 2011); Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Army America and Its Military – Drifting Apart
May 3	Maureen Corrigan, Book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air; Columnist for The Washington Post; Lecturer in English at Georgetown University So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
May 17	John King, San Francisco Chronicle’s Urban Design Critic; author of Citiscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings What Yesterday’s Buildings Say About Today’s San Francisco
June 7	Hank Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University The End of Sex: The Future of Human Reproduction