History of the Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Main Content
List of Themes by Year
- (2012) Food: Strategies for Growing Enough for Everyone
- (2011) Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet
- (2010) Water: The Next Frontier
- (2009) Our Universe: From the Big Bang to Life
- (2008) Running on Empty? Strategies for our Energy Future
- (2007) Broken Brains: New Research on Brain Disease Is Revealing How the Healthy Mind Works
- (2006) Change Happens: Understanding How Living Things Evolve
- (2005) Einstein's Legacy: A centennial celebration of Einstein's "miraculous year" and its influence on science today
- (2004) It's About Time
- (2003) Beyond Earth: Living on Other Worlds
- (2002) Planet Earth: Our Role in Its Health
- (2001) Decoding Life's Instruction Book: Genetics and Genomics
- (2000) Astrobiology: Looking for Life in the Universe
- (1999) How Things Work in Science and Technology
- (1998) The Human Brain and the Human Mind
- (1997) On Becoming Human: Our Evolutionary History
- (1996) The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth and Elsewhere
- (1995) The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Members of the Planning Committee
Barbara Kennedy (chair),
Frank Pugh (biochemistry and molecular biology)

