Doug Matthews is a professor of neuroscience and chairman of the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. He will spoke on “Faith, Fear And Life In The Academy: Lessons From Closed Countries.”
He is the director of the Wisconsin Addiction Research Laboratory and was instrumental in establishing a neuroscience major at UWEC in 2018.
If you missed his talk… Doug has been kind enough to share an outline of his presentation:
Micah Green is associate professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M and the leader of their Christian Faculty Staff Network. He is Director of the Dispersed Nanomaterials Lab at Texas A&M University. He has a PhD from MIT in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Church History from Harvard Divinity School.
His talk is entitled: “Changing the Christian Stereotype Within the University.”
Thanks to those of you who were able to join us to start off the 2019-2020 academic year.
Each of us are members of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant churches who have a desire to know Jesus. Our events are open to all members of the UNT community.
John Brown, pastor of Denia Community Church, was the guest speaker. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Dallas Theological Seminary.
While John has always had ties to the academic community, this fall is especially meaningful — he and his wife Ngoc sent their daughter off to college.
“On May 4, 2019 over 200 family, friends, and colleagues gathered to remember Kay Hansen Littler, who had died on April 11 of complications of melanoma. Kay had recently retired from the University of North Texas, Department of Physics after 17 years of service.
“She left the teaching faculty as a highly valued and sought-after instructor who exerted a powerful influence on the future of science education as a model and a teacher of future teachers. She, in her kind and cheerful way, shared a faith founded on an appreciation of God’s beautiful creation, declaring that she was a Christ follower not in spite of being a scientist but because she was a scientist. Continue reading
Bob Bland is an endowed professor in public administration. In January he shared about lessons he has learned from being in academia for more than three decades:
“My life has not been a well planned sequence of decisions, but rather a series of events that God used to shape my character and faith.
“We lived on a small farm in Colorado, northwest of Ft. Collins, on the way to Laramie. The farm had been in my family for several generations. Though we were never particularly successful, we had a modest lifestyle. Continue reading
