LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
Schedule
Thu Feb 19 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Weiser Hall, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
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Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture featuring Professors Meghan A. Duffy, Richard D. Gonzalez, and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz.This event will take place both in person in Weiser Hall on the 10th Floor and virtually at https://umich.zoom.us/j/91573913010
Additional details regarding each lecture can be found below.
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Professor Meghan A. Duffy
Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lecture Title: How Ecological Interactions Influence Infectious Diseases
Abstract: Parasitism is the most common lifestyle on Earth. What determines whether an infection occurs and how sick the host gets? Many people might think about cellular processes when trying to answer this question, but ecological interactions with other organisms can have profound impacts on infectious diseases. I will cover some of the ways in which other members of the food web—including predators, plants, and other parasites—can influence levels of infection.
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Professor Richard D. Gonzalez
Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Statistics
Lecture Title: From Invariance to Insight: A Michigan Approach to Modeling Behavior
Abstract: Behavioral science advances when we turn messy human behavior into a set of reliable observations, and then ask what hidden structure must be present for those observations to occur. In this talk I describe a “Michigan approach” to behavioral modeling that I learned in graduate school through my academic lineage: a way to think so that assumptions become clear, implications become testable, and structure can be inferred rather than asserted. I will give two examples of this approach from my research on how people make decisions. I will discuss why this way of thinking matters now. As our tools for estimation and representation become more powerful, the limiting factor is conceptual clarity. How do we choose the right invariances and the right structures to test in order to advance understanding?
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Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Lecture Title: Aging as a Life’s Work: Resilience and Compensation to Counter Cognitive Decline
Abstract: This lecture examines the aging brain's adaptive nature. Moving beyond the view of inevitable decline, I present neuroimaging evidence for functional reorganization and compensatory scaffolding to sustain cognition in later life.
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