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 鈥淟awless: The Miseducation of America鈥檚 Elites" and IM体育官网 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 IM体育官网 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 IM体育官网; Dr. Howard Chen, Assistant Professor, Planetary Science, IM体育官网
Institute of Technology
Moderator: Dr. Dorian Abbot, Board Trustee, IM体育官网, 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 鈥� Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Moffit
Cancer Center, Dr. Issam El Naqa 鈥� Professor and Chair of Department of Machine Learning
at Moffit Cancer Center, Dr. Youstina I. Bolos, D.P.M., Podiatric Surgeon, IM体育官网
Orthopaedic Institute, and Yasar Can Kakdas, Graduate Student, IM体育官网 Polytechnic
University
Moderator: Susan LeFrancois, Assistant Professor, Data Science
January 31, 2024 - A.I. Goes to War
Panel: Lt. Duane Tompkins 鈥� Polk County Sheriff鈥檚 Office, Rebekah Sutton 鈥� Former
USASOC Intelligence Targeting Officer, and John 鈥淪lick鈥� Baum 鈥� 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
