Recent Initiation Speakers

Spring Initiation 2023 – May 4, 2023

Spring Initiation 2022 – May 5, 2022
Professor Raka Ray, Sociology and South Asian Studies

Spring Initiation 2021 – May 6, 2021
Professor R. Jay Wallace, Philosophy
R. Jay Wallace Remarks

Spring Initiation 2020 – May 6, 2020

Spring Initiation 2019 – May 9, 2019
Professor Kinch Hoekstra,  Political Science and Law
Kinch Hoekstra Remarks

Spring Initiation 2018 – May 3, 2018
University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Spring Initiation 2017 – May 3, 2017
Professor Carol Christ, Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Carol Christ Remarks

Spring Initiation 2016 – May 5, 2016
Professor Panayiotis Papadopoulos, Mechanical Engineering
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Remarks

Spring Initiation 2015 – May 7, 2015
Professor Bob Jacobsen, Physics, Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters & Science

Spring Initiation 2014 – May 8, 2014
Professor Randy W. Schekman, Molecular & Cell Biology, Nobel Laureate

Spring Initiation 2013 – May 9, 2013
Professor William J. Drummond, Journalism

Spring Initiation 2012 – May 3, 2012
Professor Shannon Jackson, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies

Spring Initiation 2011
Professor Andrew Stewart, History of Art

Spring Initiation 2010
Professor Kristie Boering, Chemistry and Earth & Planetary Science

Spring Initiation 2009
Provost and Professor of Political Science George W. Breslauer

Spring Initiation 2008
Professor Marian C. Diamond, Integrative Biology

Spring Initiation 2007
Professor Richard A. Muller, Physics

Spring Initiation 2006
Professor Daniel F. Melia, Rhetoric and Celtic Studies

Spring Initiation 2005
Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Spring Initiation 2004
Vice-Provost and Professor of Psychology Christina Maslach

Spring Initiation 2003
University Librarian Thomas C. Leonard

Spring Initiation 2002
Director of the American Studies Program and Professor of English Ron Loewinsohn

Spring Initiation 2001
Former Chancellor I. Michael Heyman

Spring Initiation 2000
Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl

Spring Initiation 1999
Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature Ralph J. Hexter

Spring Initiation 1998
Director of the Doreen Townsend Center and Professor of History Randolph Starn