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  The Romer Lecture was established to honor the late Physics Professor Emeritus Alfred Romer, who had been associated with St. Lawrence University for over 50 years.

• 2008 — Professor David Cassidy, Hofstra University: "J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Moral Complexity of Modern Science"
• 2007 — David Barash, University of Washington: "The Hare and the Tortoise: The Conflict Between Culture and Biolgy in Human Affairs, or: When Baboons Drive Hummers"
• 2006 — Dr. Michael Paesler, North Carolina State University: "The Blue Moon, Einstein, and Mie"
• 2005 — David Allen Sibley: “Birds and Bird Guides: The Universal Appeal of Birds, and the Pleasures and Challenges of Creating a Field Guide”
• 2004 — Robert Greenler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: “The NASA Shuttle-Launch, Dark-Moon-Ray Mystery”
• 2003 — Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University: “Global Warming Debate: Good Science or Bad Politics?”
• 2002 — Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: “On the Origin of Species: The Inheritance of Acquired Bacteria”
• 2001 — Jeff Weeks, Mathematician, Cosmologist and MacArthur Fellow: “The Shape of Space”
• 2000 — Eloy Rodriguez, Cornell University: “Living Longer and Healthier with Natural Medicines from the Amazon Rain Forest and Caribbean Coral Reefs”
• 1999 — Roger Stuewer, University of Minnesota: “The Case of the Elusive Particles: Nuclear Disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna Controversy”
• 1998 — Robert Richardson, Cornell University
• 1997 — Jack Horner, Montana State University/Museum of the Rockies: “Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs”

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