| Seminar Topics | Speaker(s) |
| February 9
Lead Exposure and the Black-White Test Score Gap |
Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Chair, Department of Economics. Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing |
| March 8
Goldilocks in Byzantium – Did More Rain Help a Struggling Empire Survive the Arab-Islamic conquest? |
John Haldon, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History. Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies |
| April 5
The Bonds We Make and the Bonds We Break; A Chemist’s View of How Metals Drive Biology |
John T. Groves, Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry. Professor of Chemistry |
| May 3
The Future of Carbon and Heat Uptake by the Ocean: Seeking Insight From the Ice Ages |
Danny Sigman, Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences. Professor of Geosciences |