Lectures & Seminars
About James Holland
Endocrinologist James Holland earned over two dozen teaching and service awards during his 31-year career at IU. Among his many awards, he received the Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty, the Herman B Wells Lifetime Achievement Award, Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Award, the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Chancellor’s Medallion for his “transcendent service to the Bloomington campus.” Between 1979 and 1998, Professor Holland was also a seven-time recipient of the Senior Class Award for Teaching Excellence in Biology and Dedication to Undergraduates, an award voted on by senior biology majors.
He worked tirelessly to address the needs of minority students on the Bloomington campus. Professor Holland joined forces with Professor Herman Hudson to found the Minority Achievers Program and the Mathematics and Science Scholarship Program. The programs were renamed in 2003 to honor the efforts of these two men: MAP became the Herman C. Hudson Scholars Program, and MASS is now the James P. Holland Scholars Program. Holland worked with other biology staff members to create the Summer Enrichment Program, which was designed to interest Indiana minority high school students in science by bringing them to campus for classes and hands-on laboratory experience. He led the program, which was renamed in his honor in 2000, from its inception. Prior to his death in 1998, a one-time-only minority fellowship was created in Holland’s name. This award was used as the model for the endowed fellowship that exists today.
James P. Holland Lecture Series
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Upcoming Lecture
Check back during the summer of 2010 for information on the next Holland Lecture.
About the Lecture Series (top)
The James P. Holland Memorial Lecture Series was initiated in fall 2000 by the Office of the Vice President for Student Development and Diversity, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Department of Biology. It honors one of the most beloved faculty members on the Bloomington campus, James P. Holland, who died of cancer in 1998. This lecture is now organized by the Hudson and Holland Scholars Programs and the Department of Biology.
The lecture series honors Holland’s legacy as a gifted teacher and a skilled scientist at IU. It is intended to bring awareness and support of diversity in the life sciences.
Past Holland Lectures (top)
October 19, 2009
Dr. Harmit Malik Singh, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. "The High-Stakes Evolutionary Game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' Between Primates and Viruses."
October 20, 2008
Dr. Rick Kittles, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Chicago. "Personalized Genetic History: Science and Cynicism."
October 15, 2007
Dr. Paul Turner, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University. “Virus Evolution.”
October 9, 2006
Dr. Erich D. Jarvis, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University. "The Evolution of Brain Pathways for Vocal Learning."
October 10, 2005
Dr. Ivette Perfecto, Associate Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. "Brewing Biodiversity: Birds, Ants, & Beetles in Coffee Farms."
October 11, 2004
Dr. Maydianne Andrade, Assistant Professor in the Divison of Life Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough and Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum's Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Evolution of Self-Sacrificial Male Mating Strategies."
October 13, 2003
Dr. Scott V. Edwards, Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. "From Archaeopteryx to Modern Birds: A DNA Trail."
October 7, 2002
Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley. "From Silent Spring to Silent Night: The Impact of Modern Day Pesticides on Amphibians."
Nov. 12, 2001
Dr. S. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation, Neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital School, and a Scientific Explorer. "Matthew Henson and the North Pole Secret."
October 16, 2000
Homer A. Neal, the Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics and Director of the ATLAS Project, University of Michigan. "Science in the New Millennium." Hear a broadcast of Professor Neal's talk.
The Holland Graduate Fellowship (top)
Holland always sought funding opportunities for Biology’s students, and it seemed fitting that the Department of Biology created the James P. Holland Graduate Fellowship in Biology. This fellowship exists to support the training of a first-year Ph.D. student from groups under-represented in the life sciences. More »