Fall 2025

December 2: Charlotte Biltekoff, American Studies + Food Science and Technology

Trusting Science in Food Systems and Vaccine Technology

Additional Resources:

Real Food, Real Facts by Charlotte Biltekoff

Esculent Podcast


November 18: Kari E. Watkins, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Examining Public Health through Transportation Safety

Additional Resources:

Article: Using value sensitive design to understand transportation choices and envision a future transportation system by Kari E. Watkins

Article: The Safe Systems Pyramid: A new framework for traffic safety by David J. Ederer, et. al.

Article: Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States? by Gregory D. Erhardt, et. al.


November 4: Brett Milligan, Human Ecology

Moral and Human Ecology of Fire

Additional Resources:

Design by Fire: Resistance, Co-creation, and Retreat in the Pyroscene by Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan

Tending the Wild by Kat Anderson


October 21: Simon J. Atkinson, Vice Chancellor for Research

Discussing Attacks on Higher Education and Research