Evening Lecture Series - Pensacola

Upcoming Lecture : May 7, 2026

Jeffery Becker

The Neurobiology Underlying Transcendence Induced by Ketamine and the Psychedelics

Ketamine is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist that can rapidly produce profound shifts in consciousness, often resembling spontaneous mystical states. [...]

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Pensacola Archives

Stephen L. Buchwald – UWF Smart Lecture Series

Pd-catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen Coupling Reactions: How Did We get Here and Why do We Care?

April 14, 2026

Dominic D’Agostino

Brain Energy, Aging, and Injury: Why Recovery Gets Harder with Age

March 5, 2026

Robert Griffin

The Potential of Humanoid Robots, from Past, Present, to Future

February 12, 2026

Dan Ferris

Measuring Brain Activity in Real World Tasks and Environments

January 22, 2026

Zachary Graham

Walk This Way or How I Learned to Start Worrying About Walking

December 4, 2025

Charles Serhan

The Inflammation-Resolution Code: Discovering Pro-Resolving Mediators and Their Functions

November 13, 2025

Dr. Tim Swager – UWF Smart Lecture Series

Molecular Electronics and High-Performance Sensors

November 6, 2025

Thom Mayer

Leading in Times of Crisis: Leadership is Worthless…But Leading is Priceless

October 7, 2025

Jonathon Sullivan

ATHLETIC TRAINING, TRANSHUMANISM, AND TELOS

September 18, 2025

Johnathan Edwards

Ketamine: From Anesthetic to Healer

May 22, 2025

Dr. David Rabin MD, PhD

The Art and Neuroscience of Self-Healing and Learning

April 24, 2025

Michael Larson

Sleep - what it is, why we can’t do without it, and how IHMC is using technology to aid in deeper more restorative sleep without resorting to drugs.

March 4, 2025

Tim Broderick

Wearable Devices That Extend Human Health, Performance and Teaming

February 13, 2025

Pascal Lee

Moon To Mars: Our Amazing Human Exploration Future Ahead

January 30, 2025

Dr. Frank Butler

Transforming Battlefield Trauma Care

December 17, 2024

Tommy Wood

Cognitive Enhancement and Cognitive Decline

November 13, 2024

Susan Paley & Virginia Galloway

Power of Sensory Design

October 17, 2024

Sarah Robb O’Hagan

From Burnout to High Performance: How to Build a Kick-Ass Hybrid Work Culture

September 19, 2024

Stefan Pasiakos

Pathophysiology of Stress During Strenuous Military Operations and the Role of Essential Amino Acids in Health and Performance

May 23, 2024

Benjamin Bikman

Why we get sick: the role of metabolism in health

April 25, 2024

Dr. Tom Jones

Space Shuttle Stories: Capturing the Human Element of America’s Iconic Spaceship

March 14, 2024

Steven Nolan

What can gold do for you? A synthetic chemist’s perspective

February 6, 2024

Dr. Niranjan Suri

Internet of Things: Origins, Present and Future

January 18, 2024

Dallas Little

“Simplicity beyond Complexity” Engineering Solutions to Infrastructure Problems

December 12, 2023

Dr. Jeff Phillips

Human Behavior and Matters of the Mind: Trapdoors and Triumphs

November 14, 2023

Stephen Anton

Lifestyle Approaches for Healthy Aging: The Importance of Stress and Recovery

October 26, 2023

Nicolaus Radford

From Outer Space to Inner Space: Developing Robots for Final Frontiers

September 20, 2023

Dr. Angela K. Wilson

Computing is Changing the World and How the World will be Changed by Computing: A Perspective from a Chemist

September 7, 2023

Tony Barr

Unification of Computing, Language, Philosophy, and Mathematics

May 11, 2023

Dr. Dom D'Agostino

Metabolic-Based Strategies for Neurological Disorders and Brain Health

April 27, 2023

Dr. Stuart McGill

Spine Resilience and Performance for Life

March 30, 2023

Karen Wooley

From commercial translation of carbohydrate-derived degradable plastics to harvesting of building blocks from insect feedstocks

February 2, 2023

Dr. Alexander (Zan) Fleming

Targeting Healthy Longevity—Why, How, and When will we have the means of living longer but healthier

January 25, 2023

Marcas Bamman

Human Health and Performance: Assembling the Puzzle Pieces toward Optimization

December 13, 2022

Dr. Gwen Bryan

Improving Human Performance Through Wearable Robotics

November 2, 2022

Art De Vany

On Being a Long-Lived, Lean, Muscular, Fast Twitch Phenotype

October 13, 2022

Dan Pardi

Actual Health

September 22, 2022

Vyvyane Loh

The Magical Mystery Macrophage Tour

May 26, 2022

Duane Mitchell

Advancing Immunotherapy for Malignant Brain Tumors

April 25, 2022

Mark Williams

What Makes an Expert?

March 24, 2022

Chris Logothetis

Addressing Paradoxes in Health Care

November 9, 2021

William Davis

Bowels Gone Wild: Microbiome Strategies For Age-Reversal

October 6, 2021

Josh Turknett

Reclaiming Youth: The Best “Brain Games” For Brain Health And Performance

September 23, 2021

Jennifer Gresham

The Modern Mismatch: Why Employers Can’t Find Talent and the Talented Can’t Find Good Jobs

March 12, 2020

Tommy Wood

Brain Health Across the Lifespan

February 27, 2020

Alex Garbino

Pushing the Limits in Space Medicine

January 30, 2020

Megan Hall Roberts

Low Carbohydrate Diets For A Longer, Leaner, Livelier Lifespan

December 5, 2019

Natalie Ebner

Oxytocin and human aging: Brain-behavioral evidence of benefits on cognitive and socioemotional functioning

November 21, 2019

Doug McGuff

How Resistance Exercise Will Prevent Disease, Extend Lifespan, Cure Cancer, Save the Economy and Make Humanity Great Again

October 10, 2019

Francesca Rossi

AI Ethics for Enterprise AI

September 10, 2019

Todd White

Your Health: The Dirty Secrets of the Wine Industry

May 13, 2019

Joe Gomes

Lessons Learned from Training the Elite

April 23, 2019

Jeffrey Moore

Lifecycle Control of Polymer Materials

April 18, 2019

Andrew Taggart

The Brief Story of How Work Took over the World and Made Us Who We Think We Are

March 14, 2019

Katy Bowman

Move Your DNA: The Difference Between Exercise and Movement (and Why It Matters)

February 21, 2019

Rick Baker

The Rich History of Florida: Beyond the Sunshine, A Timeline of Florida’s Past

January 17, 2019

Dawn Kernagis

Pushing the Human Limit: Living and Working in Extreme Environments

December 6, 2018

Jerry Pratt

Toward Humanoid Avatar Robots for Co-Exploration of Hazardous Environments

November 15, 2018

Harrison “Jack” Schmitt

How to Return to the Moon and Go On to Mars

October 25, 2018

Evan Kovacs and Richie Kohler

From the Seafloor to the Stars

September 5, 2018

Natalie Holt

Skeletal Muscle: From Molecular Motors to Animal Movement

May 23, 2018

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

Beyond Human Brain Mapping: Predicting Clinical Trajectories for Personalized Medicine

May 10, 2018

Michael Okun

Parkinson’s Disease: The Latest Advances in Treatment and Research

April 11, 2018

Steve Anton

Lifestyle Interventions to Preserve Function During Aging

March 29, 2018

Jack Burns

Our Future in Space: Humans, Robots, and Telescopes Exploring Together

February 22, 2018

Professor Richard D. McCullough

A Look at Future Technologies That Will Change Your Life: Bendable Televisions and Cell Phones, Windows That Are Lights and Energy Sources, and Printed Electronics on Demand

February 8, 2018

Ken Ford

On Computational Wings: The Prospects & Putative Perils of AI

January 31, 2018

Jim Stray-Gunderson

Blood Flow Restriction Training: Anti-aging medicine for the busy baby boomer

December 6, 2017

Mark Emery

The making of film for National Geographic, BBC and Discovery Channel (stories from the road & with footage to back it up)

November 16, 2017

Flora McConnell Hammond, MD

Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Myths and Realities

October 18, 2017

John Welbourn

Athletic Performance & Strength Training for Aging Populations

September 14, 2017

David Diamond

An Update on Demonization and Deception in Research on Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Heart Disease

May 31, 2017

Colin Champ

Cancer Prevention Through Diet - Tangible Takeaways

April 27, 2017

Monica Olvera De La Cruz

Polyhedral Geometries in the Living World (The William D. Smart Seminar Series in Chemistry)

March 30, 2017

Kirk “Doc” Parsley

The Most Overlooked Factor in Health and Longevity

March 22, 2017

Stuart McGill

There is no such thing as non-specific back pain: There is a cause

February 16, 2017

Claire Fraser

The Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease

January 26, 2017

Art De Vany

Renewing Cycles: Healing the wounds of aging through improved cellular defense and systemic renewal signaling

December 1, 2016

Gregory Smith

What we are learning from a virus that reprograms our nervous system

November 17, 2016

Robb Wolf

Darwinian Medicine: Maybe there IS something to this evolution thing

October 13, 2016

Leonard Wong

Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession

September 7, 2016

James Briscione

Who teaches the cooks to cook?

August 11, 2016

Mac Stone

A Journey Through America’s Everglades

May 18, 2016

Joan Vernikos

Gravity is Our Friend: Health & Aging

April 6, 2016

Kerry Emanuel

Hurricane Risk: Past, Present and Future

March 24, 2016

PROF. John F. Hartwig

Chemical Catalysis: How to Make Everything

February 23, 2016

Harrison Schmitt

1903-1969 Wrights to Armstrong

February 18, 2016

Dr. Richard Moon

From the Ocean Depths to the Mountain Tops: How do Humans Adapt?

January 21, 2016

Jay Dean

Your Body in Flight During World War II: How American Physiologists Learned to Protect the Health of Airman in the World’s First High Altitude, High Speed Air War

December 3, 2015

Mark Reifkind

Energy, Mobility and Strength: Creating and maintaining them as we age

November 5, 2015

Shirley Pomponi & Bill Clancey

Telepresence and Robotics: New Paradigms for Exploration of Inner and Outer Space

October 29, 2015

Brian Shul

From Butterflies to Blackbirds

September 24, 2015

Grant Petersen

Evolution, Slump, and Comeback

May 20, 2015

Rhonda Patrick

Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics, and Stress Tolerance: A New Heuristic for Lifestyle Strategy

April 8, 2015

Leon Krier

The Architectural Tuning of Settlements

March 25, 2015

Tony Ryan

The Solar Revolution: Providing the food and energy for 10 billion people depends on harnessing sunshine

February 26, 2015

Roger Smith

Seeing the World through the Eyes of a Raptor

February 5, 2015

Apollo Lupescu

The Science Of Investing

January 15, 2015

Jonathan Clark

Surviving a Supersonic Stratospheric Freefall: The Red Bull Stratos Project

December 11, 2014

Alessio Fasano

The Gut is Not Like Las Vegas: What Happens in the Gut Does Not Stay in The Gut

November 19, 2014

Otis Brawley

Cancer Control in the 21st Century

October 9, 2014

Esther Gokhale

Sitting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

September 11, 2014

J. David Waggonner

Watershed Planning - Framework and Scales

July 16, 2014

Dominic D’Agostino

Metabolic Therapies: Therapeutic Implications and Practical Application

April 9, 2014

Bill Shepherd

Flying the First Expedition to International Space Station

March 27, 2014

Bruce Ames

Vitamin and Mineral Inadequacy Accelerates Aging-associated Disease

March 13, 2014

Geri Richmond

Surf, Sink or Swim: Understanding Environmentally Important Processes at Water Surfaces

February 19, 2014

Tom Dayspring

Arteriosclerosis: It’s the cholesterol, stupid—or is it?

February 6, 2014

Larry Smarr

The Human Microbiome and the Revolution in Digital Health

January 22, 2014

Paul Kaminski

STEALTH — An Insider’s Perspective

December 12, 2013

Jeff Volek

The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation: Health, Performance, and Beyond

November 7, 2013

Michael Anastasio

The National Security Laboratories — from nuclear weapons to an HIV vaccine; from Mars to climate change

October 30, 2013

Allen Josephs

The Quest for God in The Road

October 9, 2013

Todd Clear

The Great American Incarceration Experiment: What Has It Cost Us?

September 17, 2013

William Davis

Wheatlessness: A 21st Century Health Strategy

September 5, 2013

Peter Attia

An Advantaged Metabolic State: Human Performance, Resilience and Health

May 30, 2013

Lewis “Lou” Von Thaer

Cyber resiliency of DOD systems and the need for response at NET-SPEED

April 25, 2013

Michael Holick

The D-Lightful Vitamin D for Good Health

February 28, 2013

Mim (Miriam) John

Defending the Homeland Against Weapons of Mass Destruction

January 30, 2013

Gary Taubes

Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity

December 12, 2012

Joel Salatin

Folks, This Ain't Normal

November 14, 2012

Roy Baumeister

Willpower: Self-Control, Decision Fatigue, and Energy Depletion

October 18, 2012

Steve Squyres

Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet

September 13, 2012

Thomas Roberts

THE FLEET FOOTED FAUNA: What animal athletes can teach us about efficiency, evolution, and how to build a better robot.

May 23, 2012

Steve A. Mouzon

Sprawl Recovery: America’s Greatest Place-Making Challenge

May 3, 2012

Margaret Leinen

Our Changing Oceans

April 11, 2012

Thomas D. Jones

Getting to Know the Asteroid in Your Future: Risks and Opportunities from Near-Earth Objects

March 8, 2012

Ted McPherson

Character and Results: The Value of Soul and Unreasonableness

February 8, 2012

Dan Britt

Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate

January 26, 2012

Wes Huntress

Roving the Solar System: Looking for Signs of Life

December 15, 2011

Kenneth N. Raymond

The Human/Bacterial Arms Race for Iron

November 7, 2011

Charlie Kennel

NASA at mid-life: The future of human space exploration

October 25, 2011

Lars Perkins

"Honey Can You Help Me Turn on the TV?" Why today's products make us feel stupid

September 22, 2011

Rob Spanier

Beyond the Buildings

May 12, 2011

Michael F. Summers

The molecules of HIV-1: What they look like and how they can be inhibited

April 7, 2011

Loren Cordain

Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century

March 10, 2011

Glenn Sturm

The Art of Building Lasting Organizations

February 17, 2011

Quint Studer

Being an informed healthcare consumer. How to know the quality of care you will receive.

January 27, 2011

John Norquist

City Building and Economic Development

December 15, 2010

Chuck Carlson

How risky is this market?

December 1, 2010

Rusty Schweickart

Deflecting an Asteroid

November 17, 2010

John Logsdon

Space Policy, JFK, and Space Exploration

October 27, 2010

Tom Murphy

Building a Competitive City

September 29, 2010

Andrew Young

Balancing Individual Ethics with the American Dream

June 8, 2010

John Grunsfeld

Hubble Servicing Mission 4

May 25, 2010

Jack Burns

Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon

April 8, 2010

Daniel G. Nocera

Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion): A Solution to the Global Energy Challenge

February 18, 2010

Charles Carlson

Where is this market heading? Here's Your Roadmap for Investing in 2010

November 12, 2009

Mayor Rick Baker

Building Seamless Cities

October 22, 2009

Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ

God's Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies

September 30, 2009

Jeannette M. Wing

Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing

September 2, 2009

Alan I. Leshner

The Evolving Societal Context for Science

May 28, 2009

James P. Collins

One Biology, One Science: A Vision for the 21st Century

April 23, 2009

Eileen Collins

Leadership: Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle Era

February 25, 2009

Charles Carlson

The Smart Investor's Survival Guide

November 20, 2008

Fraser Stoddart

Mingling Art with Science

October 23, 2008

Dan Arvizu

The Role of R&D in the Age of Renewable Energy

September 9, 2008

Mike Griffin

What the Hubble Space Telescope Teaches Us About Ourselves

July 24, 2008

Thomas Jones

Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir

June 12, 2008

Isabella Dusi

Saving the Past, Accepting the Present, Forging a Future

May 15, 2008

Jerry Kerr

2012 The Coming Crisis in America: Universal Design and new technologies, common sense solutions for America's aging baby boomers and people with disabilities.

April 24, 2008

General (ret.) Lester Lyles

Responding to the Gathering Storm

April 2, 2008

Hattie Dorsey

Highchair to the Rocking Chair: The system of building successful, affordable, inclusive communities.

March 13, 2008

Harrison Jack Schmitt

Return to the Moon: Science, Energy and the Future

February 27, 2008

Gene Spafford

Insanity Rules: The Growing Cyber Security Crisis

January 30, 2008

Chris Taylor

The Private Sector in National and International Security

January 9, 2008

Bill Swartout

Toward the Holodeck

November 1, 2007

Braden Allenby

Life on a Terraformed Planet: Please Fasten Your Seatbelts for Takeoff?

October 25, 2007

Charles Landry

The Art of (Great) City Making

September 27, 2007

Dave Norton

Brand Truth: What You Have to Do Today to Differentiate

April 3, 2007

Margaret Leinen

Climate and Global Change: The challenges ahead

March 1, 2007

Michael S. Turner

The Dark Side of the Universe: How Dark Matter and Dark Energy have shaped our universe and control its destiny.

January 10, 2007

Carol Coletta

Quick! Brand My City

December 12, 2006

Stephen Grossberg

The Brain's Cognitive Dynamics: The Link Between Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness

November 8, 2006

Don Norman

Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens

November 2, 2006

Sandra Blakeslee

Sing the Body Elastic – or how your brain maps your body, the space around your body near and far, the social world, and the experience of being captivated by video games.

June 14, 2006

Jeff Parker

The Art of Serious Fun - The Keys to Entrepreneurial Success

May 31, 2006

Kathy Sullivan

Quo Vadis: The Who, What and Why of Spaceflight in the Early 21st Century

May 24, 2006

John T. Edge

Let us Now Praise Famous Cooks: Rethinking the White Trash Cookbook

November 17, 2005

Hamilton Jordan

No Such Thing As A Bad Day...

August 25, 2005

Dan Hastings

What is the future of Engineering Education in the US?

July 27, 2005

Christopher B. Leinberger

Revitalizing American Downtowns; Can and Should Pensacola Follow this National Trend?

April 14, 2005

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

The Revolution in Intelligence.

April 6, 2005

Roy Spencer

Global Warming: One Scientist's View of the Science and Policy.

March 17, 2005

Hans Bleiker

Democracy and the Art of Building Consent

January 24, 2005

Daniel Simberloff

We Can Win the War Against Introduced Species!

January 5, 2005

Walter Kulash

Stuck in (thinking about) Traffic

November 17, 2004

Jim Clifton

How to Lead a World Class City

October 6, 2004

Mayor Riley

Creating & Maintaining a Livable City: Everybody's Responsibility

June 10, 2004

Warren Washington

Modeling Historical and Future Climate Change

May 27, 2004

Barry Barish

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Sounds from the Distant Universe

May 20, 2004

John Norquist

Unlocking the Value of the Urban Form

May 6, 2004

William Hudnut

Halfway to Everywhere: A Look at America's Inner Ring Suburbs

April 22, 2004

Carol Coletta

Smart City: The Ultimate Act of Creativity

March 4, 2004

Rita Colwell

The Emerging Science of Learning

January 21, 2004

William Mularie

BACK TO THE 50'S: A Contrarian's View of Homeland Security

June 10, 2003

Malcolm Gladwell

THE KENNA PROBLEM: Why asking people what they like is sometimes a bad idea

May 16, 2003

Judith Ramaley

A Matter of Mutual Benefit: University - Community Partnerships

May 1, 2003

General Charles Horner

Men and Machines in Modern Warfare

April 8, 2003

John Appleyard

The Making of Downtown Pensacola

March 17, 2003

Jaquelin T. Robertson

A Future for American Urbanism

February 12, 2003

Ray Gindroz

Water Cities

May 1, 2002

Robert Davis

Urban Sprawl

October 26, 2001