The Mary E. Humphreys Biology Lecture Series was established in 1992 in honor of Dr. Mary Humphreys, the late professor emerita of biology, who served on the biology faculty at Mary Baldwin University for 25 years (1943-1968). The series brings prominent scientists to the campus to present public lectures and talk about their work and interact with students, faculty, and staff. The program is sponsored by friends and former students of Dr. Humphreys.
Current Lecture
7 p.m. October 21, 2015
“Alteration of the Vitamin D Endocrine System in Obesity: The Role in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery”
Dr. Leigh Frame Peterson ’06
Past Humphreys Lecturers
2013
Dr. Louise Temple
James Madison University (JMU) professor of Integrated Science and Technology
2012
Dr. Todd Scanlon
Associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia
2011
Dr. Robert Fleischer
Head of the Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
2010
C. Sue Carter
President of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Brain Body Center at University of Chicago
2009
Dr. Barry Condron
Associate Professor of Biology at University of Virginia
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