Lectures at MBC
- Humphreys Biology Lecture
- Doenges Visiting Artist/Scholar
- Smyth Leadership Lecture
- Firestone Lecture Series in Contemporary Art
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The Mary E. Humphrey Biology Lecture Series
The Mary E. Humphreys Biology Lecture Series was established in 1992 to bring prominent scientists to the campus to present public lectures. Sponsoring the series are friends and former students of Dr. Mary Humphreys, professor emerita of biology, who served on the biology faculty at MBC for 25 years (1943-1968).
As one-half of the college’s two-woman biology department for most of her tenure, Mary E. Humphreys taught biology, botany, and genetics. She provided a role model for her female students working toward careers in the sciences. Humphreys is now professor emerita of biology having served on the faculty from 1943 to 1968. In 1992 friends and former students established the Mary E. Humphreys Biology Lecture Series in her honor.
Humphreys earned her bachelor’s degree from Western Maryland College and her master’s and doctorate from Duke University. She received grants for post-doctoral studies from the National Science Foundation and from MBC while working here as a professor. Humphreys also participated in Mary Baldwin’s first international faculty exchange, teaching at Isabella Thoburn College in India in 1964-65. During World War II, she also led the college’s student group, Victory Corps, which coordinated student volunteer efforts such as the sale of war bonds, collecting supplies, and blood donations.
This lecture series brings prominent scientists to campus to interact with students, faculty, and staff, and talk about their work. It has provided rich learning opportunities for our academic community.
Past Humphreys’ Lecturers
2007 Dr. Roy Ogle
Professor of Medicine at University of Virginia
2006 Dr. Michael Pelton
Professor Emeritus of Wildlife Science at University of Tennessee
2005
Dr. Sarah J. Parsons
Professor of Microbiology at University of Virginia
2004 Dr. Paul Cabe
Associate Professor of Biology at Washington and Lee University
2003 Dr. Lincoln Pierson
Brower
Research Professor of Biology at Sweet Briar College
2002 Dr. Scherer P. Sanders
Associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine
2001 Dr. Nancy E. Davidson
Director of the Breast Cancer Program at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
2000 Dr. Francis S. Collins
“Gene Hunter” -- geneticist
1999 Dr. D. Holmes Morton
Pediatrician and geneticist
1998 Dr. John R. Horner
“Dinosaur Hunter” -- paleontologist
1997 Dr. Sheila M. Galloway
Molecular cytogeneticist
1996 Sara J. Nicholas
Director of the Wetlands and Private Lands Initiative at the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation
1995 Dr. Charles “Stormy” Atkins
Mayo III
Marine biologist
1994 Mary Murrin Painter ’71
Founder of the Virginia Native Plant Society
1993 Bill Akers
President of the Virginia Society of Ornithology
1992 Dr. Lois Lundie Spence ’68
Biologist