March 17, 2025 Morals, Skills & Service - A Discussion on Working in Defense and the Military
Panel: Major James Ellis, U.S. Air Force; Raymond Felderhoff, Sr. Engineer at Northrop
Grumman; and Kevin Mujica '25, Electrical Engineering
Moderator: Professor Kathleen Hardesty
February 11, 2025 - Academic Freedom and the Crisis in Higher Education
Panel: Ilya Shapiro, Senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan
Institute, author of βLawless: The Miseducation of Americaβs Elites" and 91ΒιΆΉΣ³» Poly
Trustee; Dr. R. Bruce Anderson, Associate Professor of Political Science, and The
Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government
and Civics at 91ΒιΆΉΣ³» Southern College; and Dr. Peter Lake, Professor of Law, Charles
A. Dana Chair and Director, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy
Moderator: David Fugett
November 18, 2024 -Human Settlement of Other Planets
Panel: Dr. Ramses Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University
of Central 91ΒιΆΉΣ³»; Dr. Howard Chen, Assistant Professor, Planetary Science, 91ΒιΆΉΣ³»
Institute of Technology
Moderator: Dr. Dorian Abbot, Board Trustee, 91ΒιΆΉΣ³» Polytechnic University, Professor,
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
September 17, 2024 - Guardians of Democracy: An Interactive Panel on Election Security
Panel: Senator Danny Burgess, Chairman Ethics and Elections Committee; Representative
Carlos Guillermo Smith, Senator-elect, District 17, Orange County; Alan Hays, Lake
County Supervisor of Elections; and Brad Ashwell, All Voting is Local
Moderator: David Fugett
March 28, 2024 - Paging Dr. Art(ificial) Intelligence
Panel: Dr. Aleksandra Karolak β Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Moffit
Cancer Center, Dr. Issam El Naqa β Professor and Chair of Department of Machine Learning
at Moffit Cancer Center, Dr. Youstina I. Bolos, D.P.M., Podiatric Surgeon, 91ΒιΆΉΣ³»
Orthopaedic Institute, and Yasar Can Kakdas, Graduate Student, 91ΒιΆΉΣ³» Polytechnic
University
Moderator: Susan LeFrancois, Assistant Professor, Data Science
January 31, 2024 - A.I. Goes to War
Panel: Lt. Duane Tompkins β Polk County Sheriffβs Office, Rebekah Sutton β Former
USASOC Intelligence Targeting Officer, and John βSlickβ Baum β Senior Resident Fellow, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Moderator: David Fugett
October 3, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT - its ethics and use
Panel: Kelli Stargel, Kathleen Hardesty, Onur Toker, Johanna Campbell, and Melia Rodriguez
Moderator: David Fugett
November 7, 2023 - Autonomous Vehicles and Their Safety
Panel: Senator Jeff Brandes, Joe Moye, CEO Beep, Rahul Razdan, CEO Razdan Research
Institute, and JW Taylor, a managing partner of Taylor Nelson
