Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures

The Rockefeller Institute now serves as the official home for the administration of the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures program.

The Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures program was established in 1972 by friends of Gov. Rockefeller and assists faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, University of Arkansas at Monticello, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in obtaining outstanding visiting lecturers to communicate ideas that stimulate public discussion, intellectual debate and cultural advancement.

The lectures are free and open to the public. Most speakers interact with students prior to their public lecture and mingle with the audience afterward.

Past Distinguished Lectures Programs:

April 2007 – Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History
July 2009 – Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon, authors of Plenty: Eating Locally on The 100-Mile Diet

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