Speeches

August 30, 2020

"Although this is a challenging start, we will have time to make up for what we have had to forego at the beginning. I promise this will happen."

May 20, 2020

"Right now, we need a human and societal response to an elusive virus—treatments, a vaccine, care for our communities—and it is to universities that society looks. ."

Keynote Address: ESPAS Annual Conference, October 15, 2019

"We can expect the extraordinarily successful system of the American research university to continue thriving, to become more and more academically focused on very real and practical problems of the modern, global world..."

August 25, 2019

"Our essence is in the sense of wonder, curiosity, and the steadfast pursuit of understanding things better than we know now."

May 22, 2019

"The idea of the academy, as something separate and discrete, removed from ordinary daily life, is as old as human civilization."

May 14, 2019

"...and all this made him more naturally the very embodiment of a “humanist,” in the true sense of that word, as a person who relished the realities of the diversity of humanity."