Keith Klepeis, “The Geology of Mountain Ranges: A View from Deep beneath the Earth’s Surface”

Mountains form some of the largest and most beautiful geological features on our planet. Yet despite their occurrence on all the continents we still don’t understand much about the forces and processes that shape the evolution of mountain ranges and operate deep within their interiors. One of the reasons for this lack of knowledge is […]

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 8:47 am and is filed under Full Professor Lecture Series.

Julie Roberts, “Disappearing or Only Different: Vermont Speech in the 21st Century,”

When Fred Tuttle exposed the rest of the world to Vermont’s unique dialect in the 1996 film Man with the Plan, it seemed the classic accent was alive and well. Not so, according to Julie Roberts, professor of communication sciences, who says most young Vermonters today display very few elements of the state’s folksy way […]

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Full Professor Lecture Series.

F. Gregory Gause “Oil, Politics and Democracy in the Middle East…and What That Might Tell Us about Iraq”

Professor F. Gregory GauseTuesday October 7, 2008
Political Science Professor Gregory Gause examines the various arguments in the academic literature about the relationship between oil and domestic politics in oil-producing states . . .
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am and is filed under Full Professor Lecture Series.