IUPUI will again host the Cutting Edge Lecture Series. Leading IUPUI professors will engage the campus and community this spring in discussions about rapidly changing fields of inquiry in this on-campus lecture series. The speakers will share their expertise and insights regarding the applications of their current research with a particular emphasis on engaging non-specialists, including faculty, staff and students from schools across IUPUI.

All lectures will be in the University Library Lilly auditorium at 4:30 p.m. and are open to the general public. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.

The speakers and topics:
March 4 – Hope & Optimism: the Effects of Beliefs about the Self and the World
                  Kevin Rand, Psychology

March 11 – Challenges for Sustaining and Improving Water Resources in Indiana
                    Lenore Tedesco, Earth Science

March 25 – What Are We Made Of? The Basic Structure of Matter
                    Uday Sukhatme, Academic Affairs and Physics

April 1 – Privacy Disruptions: What they Are and Why The Bother Us
                Sandra Petronio, Communication Studies and TRIP

April 8 – Race, Space, Crime and the African American Entrepreneur
                Bessie House-Soremekun, Political Science

For more information about the lecture series and the speakers, visit www.iupui.edu/administration/acad_affairs or email lriolo@iupui.edu.