DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS 2015-17 ACC ACADEMIC CONSORTIUM
The year 2016-17 marks the end of our first round of distinguished lectureships. Each year 5 universities are invited to name one of their faculty members as an ACCAC Distinguished Lecturer. Each Lecturer receives a $5000 award funded by the ACC. Each year all 15 universities receive $2500 to enable them to host a visiting Lecturer. By the end of 2016-17 each university will have been funded to host three visiting lecturers.

NEWLY APPOINTED – September 2016

JODI MAGNESS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL. [magness@email.unc.edu … 919-962-3928 … Department of Religious Studies, CB #3225, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3225] An archaeologist working in Israel who is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. Published ten books (two of them award-winning) and dozens of articles. A popular public speaker who has produced two courses with The Teaching Company. Featured in numerous documentaries including the National Geographic giant-screen film “Jerusalem” and the television series “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.” For more information: www.JodiMagness.org

KELSEY JOHNSON, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. [kej7a@virginia.edu…434-924-4349…P.O. Box 400325, Astronomy Department, UVa, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325] Associate Professor of Astronomy. Founding director of Dark Skies Bright Kids. Her research spans galaxy evolution, with a focus on ancient star formation in the universe. Winner of NSF CAREER Award and Packard Fellowship. Press ranging from Washington Post to Huffington Post. “All University Teaching Award” recipient and elected to the UVa Academy of Teaching. For more information: http://people.virginia.edu/~kej7a/

LAURA CADONATI, GEORGIA TECH. cadonati@gatech.edu 404-385-3980. 837 State Street, Atlanta., GA 30332-0430. Professor Cadonati is part of the LIGO team that made the exciting and timely discovery of gravitational waves. She joined Georgia Tech’s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics in 2015. Recipient of an NSF CAREER award and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Research interests include gravitational waves and particle astrophysics. For more information: http://cadonati.gatech.edu

KEITH BYBEE, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. kjbybee@syr.edu 315-443-9743. Law College, Dineen Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244. Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science. Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media. Specialties include public law, the judicial process, the politics of race, legal theory, and political philosophy. Publications include books by both the Stanford and Princeton university presses. A frequent lecturer on civility and the Supreme Court. For more information: http://law.syr.edu/profile/keith-bybee1

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ANTHONY ATALA, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY.  [aatala@wakehealth.edu …336-716-5701 …Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157)]
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine; W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair, Dept. of Urology.  practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. Focuses on growing replacement cells, tissues and organs in the laboratory. His team has successfully implanted multiple engineered tissues/organs into patients. For more information: http://www.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/Atala-Anthony-J.htm or http://www.wakehealth.edu/Research/WFIRM/Anthony-Atala,-MD,-Director-and-Chair.htm

GREGORY BOEBINGER, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY.  [gsb@magnet.fsu.edu … 850-544-0851 … National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab), 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310]
Director of the MagLab and FSU Professor of Physics. Research utilizing magnetic fields centers on new materials with revolutionary new properties. Outreach includes public lectures/demonstrations on the History and Discovery channels, at Aspen, Bell Labs, Los Alamos, and the Getty Museum. Also articles in Physics Today and Scientific American, commencement addresses, and public lectures. Special interest in the historical development of materials research and the interplay of the Arts and Sciences. For more information: https://nationalmaglab.org/component/maglabdata/?view=personnel&id=GregoryBoebinger

RORY A. COOPER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. [rcooper@pitt.edu, (412) 822-3700, Suite 400, 6435 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206]
FISA & Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehab, and Orthopedic Surgery. Books include “Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation.” Lectures include the National Academies of Sciences Distinctive Voices Lecture and many international venues. Bronze medalist (1988 Paralympic Games). For more information:http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/people/bios/Cooper1.asp#

STEFAN DUMA, VIRGINIA TECH. [duma@vt.edu, 540-231-8191, 313 Kelly Hall Stanger Street (MC 0298) Blacksburg, VA 24061]
Harry C. Wyatt Professor and Department Head, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. Landmark studies in sports biomechanics, military restraints, and automobile safety.  Created the Virginia Tech Helmet Rating system that has become the industry standard for football and hockey helmets designed to reduce the risk of concussion. For more information– http://www.beam.vt.edu/about/person.php?name=Stefan.Duma  and http://www.beam.vt.edu/helmet/

ROB R. DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, [Rob_Dunn@ncsu.edu 919-5213-7569. David Clark Labs 231, Raleigh, NC 27695]
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Evolutionary biologist. Speaks both to scientific colleagues and broader audiences on topics such as the role of public science in democratizing the process of making knowledge, the importance of evolutionary biology to modern medicine, the question of how much life (and of what sort) remains to be discovered, future of evolution. For more information: http://robdunnlab.com/.

ROBIN FLEMING, BOSTON COLLEGE. [robin.fleming@bc.edu…617-372-1848…45 Grozier Rd, Cambridge, MA 02138]
Medieval Historian. 2013 MacArthur Fellow. Cambridge University Press books Kings and Lords in Conquest England (1991) and Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (1998).  Also Britain After Rome (Penguin Press: London, 2011). From Provost Quigley: “…a brilliant scholar and a terrific speaker.” For more information:
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/people/faculty/alphabetical/fleming_robin.html and http://www.macfound.org/fellows/891/ andhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2525693/Fleming.docx

PETER HOLLAND, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY. [pholland@nd.edu…574-631-8827…230 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556]
McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and Associate Dean for the Arts. Shakespeare Survey editor. Former president of the Shakespeare Association of America. Former Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon. English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s. For more information: http://ftt.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/alphabetical-directory/peter-holland/ 

ERIC JOHNSON, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY. [ejohns8@clemson.edu…864-656-5763…215 Riggs Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-0915]
PalmettoNet Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.   Research spans the areas of micro-optics and nano-photonics, with particular emphasis on active and passive photonic devices. NSF Career Awardee. Over $15 million in funded research. For more information:http://www.clemson.edu/ces/departments/ece/faculty_staff/faculty/ejohnson.html

NEIL F. JOHNSON, MIAMI. [njohnson@physics.miami.edu, 305-333-6920, Knight Physics Building, Coral Gables, FL 33124]
Professor of Physics. Formerly Professor at Oxford University. Heads an interdisciplinary research group on complexity dealing with such seemingly unrelated phenomena as quantum entanglement in nanostructures, the evolution of human disease, financial market crashes, and traffic jams. Published more than 200 research articles and 2 books. Presented the 1999 BBC Royal Institution Lectures that were broadcast worldwide. For more information—http://www.as.miami.edu/physics/people/faculty/neil-johnson/

MAUREEN McCALL, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE. [mo.mccall@louisville.edu…502-852-3386… 301 E. Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Louisville KY 40202]
Kentucky Lions Eye Research Endowed Chair.  Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences with joint appointments in the departments of anatomical sciences and neurobiology and in psychological and brain sciences. McCall’s research uses electrophysiological techniques to evaluate normal visual function, dysfunction caused by blinding retinal diseases and the restoration of function using a variety of therapeutic strategies. For more information:  http://www.louisvilleeyedocs.com/member/maureen-mccall-ph-d/research-faculty/