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Check out UCTV's UCLA Faculty Research Lectures webpage to view lectures from this decade!

2018-2019 Faculty Research Lectures

126th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Stephanie Jamison
Asian Languages & Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Looking For Women Between the Lines in Ancient India"

125th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Jack Feldman
Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Breathing Matters"

2017-2018 Faculty Research Lectures

124th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Ellen DuBois
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Surprising Road to Women's Suffrage"

123rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Michael Green 
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"The Human Social Brain: How It Works and How it Goes Awry in Schizophrenia and the General Population"

2016-2017 Faculty Research Lectures

122nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
John Agnew 
Geography
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Is There A Post-Place Politics?"

121st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Edward De Robertis
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Evolution and Development from Simple Animals to Human via Ancestral Gene Networks"

2015-2016 Faculty Research Lectures

120th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Robert Bjork
Psychology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn"

119th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
J. Arch Getty 
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Dead Man Talking: Lenin's Body and Russian Politics"

2014-2015 Faculty Research Lectures

118th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Efrain Kristal
Comparative Literature
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Jorge Luis Borges on War"

117th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Uptal Banerjee
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Oncogenes, Metabolism, Development, Cancer and the Little Fruit Fly That Could"

2013-2014 Faculty Research Lectures

116th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Katherine Stone
Law
UCLA School of Law
"Rupture and Invention The Changing Nature of Employment, the Vanishing Middle Class, and the Implications for Social Policy"

115th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Richard Kaner
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"A Quest for New Materials: Superhard Metals, Conducting Polymers and Graphene"

2012-2013 Faculty Research Lectures

114th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Francoise Lionnet
European Languages & Transcultural Studies
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Perilous Crossings: Shipwrecks, Migrations and Global Pursuit of Hope"

113th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Rodger Detels
Epidemiology
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
"Hang-In and Have Smart Friends - The Road to HIV Resistance"

2011-2012 Faculty Research Lectures

112th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Teofilo Ruiz
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Kings and Knights at Play: Festive Martial Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain"

111th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
James A. Lake
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Using Genomes to Track the Evolution of Life on Earth and Beyond"

2010-2011 Faculty Research Lectures

110th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Anthony Seeger 
Ethnomusicology
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
"Who Own Music and Why Should You Care?"

109th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Seth Putterman
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Fiat Lux: Light from Gas Bubbles, X-Rays from Peeling Tape, and Fusion from Crystals"

Check out UCTV's UCLA Faculty Research Lectures webpage to view select lectures from this decade!

2009-2010 Faculty Research Lectures

108th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Robert Winter
Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
"A Fugue and a Waltz: Performance, Technology and [Post-] Postmodern Engagement"

107th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Steven Clarke
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Aging & Rejuvenation: Chemistry and Biochemistry at Work"

2008-2009 Faculty Research Lectures

106th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Gregory Schopen
Asian Languages & Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"The Buddha as a Businessman: Economics and Law in an Old Indian Religion"

105th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Edward L. Wright
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Observing the Origin of the Universe: A Century of Progress in Cosmology"

2007-2008 Faculty Research Lectures

104th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture 
Thom Mayne
Architecture & Urban Design
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
"Heritage Transformed"

103rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Owen Witte
Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"A Delicate Balance: Stem Cells, Cancer and the Immune Response"

2006-2007 Faculty Research Lectures

102nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Stephen Yeazell
UCLA School of Law
"What's Not Wrong With The Civil Legal System - And What Is"

101st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Ernest Wright
Physiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Symporters: Marvelous Molecular Machines"

2005-2006 Faculty Research Lectures

100th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Karen Orren
Political Science
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"A Single French Fry: The Supreme Court and the Depletion of Constitutional Law"

99th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Eli Yablonovitch
Electrical and Computer Engineering
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
"The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics and Sociology"

2004-2005 Faculty Research Lectures

98th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Carroll B. Johnson
Spanish & Portuguese
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Is There An Author In This Text? Sidi Hamid Benengeli, Don Quijote and the Metafictional Conventions of Chivalric Romance"

97th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
H. Ronald Kaback
Physiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"The Passion of the Permease: From Membrane to Molecule to a Mechanism of Active Transport"

2003-2004 Faculty Research Lectures

96th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Margaret C. Jacob
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Science and the Origins of Western Cosmopolitanism"

95th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Andrea M. Ghez
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Unveiling a Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way"

2002-2003 Faculty Research Lectures

94th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Christopher B. Donnan
Anthropology
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru"

93rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
S. Lawrence Zipursky 
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Building the Brain: How Nerve Connections Are Formed During Development"

2001-2002 Faculty Research Lectures

92nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Susan McClary
Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
"Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjective, and Music"

91st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Michael Phelps
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Imaging the Living Biology of our Bodies in Health and Disease"

2000-2001 Faculty Research Lectures

90th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Carole Pateman
Political Science
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Equivalent of the Right to Land, Life and Liberty? Democracy and the Idea of a Basic Income"

89th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Harvey R. Herschman
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Finding New Genes, Determining Their Functions, and Watching Their Expression in Living Individuals"

1999-2000 Faculty Research Lectures

88th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Peter H. Lee
Asian Languages & Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Higher Narratives in Korea"

87th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Robert B. Goldberg
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: Super Plants for the 21st Century"

1998-1999 Faculty Research Lectures

86th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Giorgio Buccellati
History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences (History) and Humanities Division (NELC)
"The Discovery of Ancient Urkesh and the Question of Meaning in Archaeology"

85th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Kendall N. Houk
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Seeing Molecules React: Computational Explorations from Cosmochemistry to Chemical Biology"

1997-1998 Faculty Research Lectures

84th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Michael J.B. Allen
English
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Life as a Dead Platonist"

83rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Margaret Galland Kivelson
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"From Outer Space to the Ocean Floor: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System"

1996-1997 Faculty Research Lectures

82nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Elizabeth Neufeld
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Three Decades on the Track of Some Rare Genetic Diseases"

81st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Judea Pearl 
Computer Science
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
"The Art and Science of Cause and Effect"

1995-1996 Faculty Research Lectures

80th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Jared Diamond
Geography
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents For the Last 13,000 Years?"

79th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
M. Frederick Hawthorne
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"From Mummies to Rockets and on to Cancer Therapy"

1994-1995 Faculty Research Lectures

78th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages & Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Indo-European Migrations: A linguistic Reconstruction of Pre-History"

77th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Leonard Kleinrock
Computer Science
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
"The Internet and Beyond"

1993-1994 Faculty Research Lectures

76th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Gary B. Nash
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Hidden History of Mestizo America"

75th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Charles F. Kennel
Physics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Plasma Physics of the Aurora Borealis"

1992-1993 Faculty Research Lectures

74th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Harold H. Kelley
Psychology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"The Logic of Interpersonal Relations System"

73rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William Oldendorf, M.D.
Neurology and Psychiatry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Changing Images of Mind and Brain"

1991-1992 Faculty Research Lectures

72nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"On the Conversion of Solar to Electric Energy by the Other Photosynthetic"

71st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Philippa R. Foot
Philosophy
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Nietzsche's Immoralism"

1989-1990 Faculty Research Lectures

70th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Raymond L. Orbach
Physics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"This Not - so-crazy World: Order in Randomness"

Details about the 68th and 69th UCLA Faculty Research Lectures are unavailable. 

1988-1989 Faculty Research Lecture

67th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Joyce Appleby
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Clio in the Service of Patria: Writing the History of One's Own Country"

66th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
David Eisenberg
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Protein Structure and Design"

1987-1988 Faculty Research Lecture

65th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Peter Ladefoged
Linguistics
UCLA College Humanities Division
"The Two Sides of Phonetics"

64th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
W.G. Ernst
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Circumpacific Ring of Fire - Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics"

1986-1987 Faculty Research Lecture

63rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Ralph H. Turner
Sociology
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Paradox of Social Order"

62nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Eugen Weber
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"French Revolutions"

1985-1986 Faculty Research Lecture

61st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Arnold B. Scheibel, M.D.
Neurobiology and Psychiatry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"As the Brain Grows Up and Grows Old"

1984-1985 Faculty Research Lecture

60th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Henrik Birnbaum
Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Lord Novgorod the Great: Sociopolitical Experiment and Cultural Achievement"

1983-1984 Faculty Research Lecture

59th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
J. William Schopf
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Earliest History of Life: Solution of Darwin's Dilemma"

1982-1983 Faculty Research Lecture

58th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
David Mellinkoff
Law
UCLA School of Law
"The Myth of Precision and the Law Dictionary"

1981-1982 Faculty Research Lecture

57th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Paul D. Boyer
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"How Living Cells Use Energy"

1980-1981 Faculty Research Lecture

56th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Robert S. Stevenson
Musicology
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
"Caleronian Opera"

1979-1980 Faculty Research Lecture

55th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Julian S. Schwinger
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Relativity and the Common Understanding"

1978-1979 Faculty Research Lecture

54th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
John S. Galbraith
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Anti-Imperialism in an Imperial Era: A Blunt Assessment of Victorian Britain"

1977-1978 Faculty Research Lecture

53rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William N. Valentine, M.D.
Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"The Metabolically Underprivileged Human Red Blood Cell"

1976-1977 Faculty Research Lecture

52nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Robert Martin Adams
Philosophy
UCLA College Humanities Division
"What Was Modernism"

1975-1976 Faculty Research Lecture

51st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Isadore Rudnick
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Unusual Properties of Superfluid Helium: With Demonstrations"

1974-1975 Faculty Research Lecture

50th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Bernard Brodie
Political Science
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"How Much is Enough? Guns vs. Butter Revisited"

1973-1974 Faculty Research Lecture

49th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Emil L. Smith
Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Molecular Evolution"

1972-1973 Faculty Research Lecture

48th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Lynn White Jr. 
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"Engineering in Medieval Intellectual Life"

1971-1972 Faculty Research Lecture

47th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Leon Knopoff
Geophysics (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Continents Drift and the Earth Quakes"

1970-1971 Faculty Research Lecture

46th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Gerhart B. Ladner
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Middle Ages in Austrian Tradition: Problems of an Imperial and Paternalistic Ideology"

1969-1970 Faculty Research Lecture

45th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Donald J. Cram
Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Molecular Intrigues and Chemical Espionage"

1968-1969 Faculty Research Lecture

44th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
C.D. O'Malley
Medical History
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Don Carlos of Spain: A Medical Portrait"

1967-1968 Faculty Research Lecture

43rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William Matthews
English
UCLA College Humanities Division
"The Egyptians in Scotland"

1966-1967 Faculty Research Lecture

42nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Charles Henry Sawyer
Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Hormones and the Brain"

1965-1966 Faculty Research Lecture

41st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Wolf Leslau
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"The Land of Prester John"

1964-1965 Faculty Research Lecture

40th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Harold K. Ticho
Physics & Astronomy
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The New 'Elementary' Particles"

1963-1964 Faculty Research Lecture

39th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Islam: The Experience of the Holy and the Concept of Man"

1962-1963 Faculty Research Lecture

38th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Louis Byrne Slichter
Geophysics (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Gravity Observations and the Dynamics of the Earth"

1961-1962 Faculty Research Lecture

37th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Theodore H. Bullock
Zoology (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"How Can Nerve Cells Handle Information"

1960-1961 Faculty Research Lecture

36th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Earl L. Griggs
English
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge"

1959-1960 Faculty Research Lecture

35th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Donald B. Lindsley
Psychology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Brain Development and Behavior"

1958-1959 Faculty Research Lecture

No lecturer appointed

1957-1958 Faculty Research Lecture

34th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Harry Hoijer
Anthropology
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Science of Language"

1956-1957 Faculty Research Lecture

33rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Horace Winchell Magoun
Anatomy (Neurobiology)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"The Platonic Soul and the Contemporary Brain"

1955-1956 Faculty Research Lecture

32nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Edward Niles Hooker
English
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Dryden and the Atoms of Epicurus"

1954-1955 Faculty Research Lecture

31st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Saul Winstein
Chemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Outwitting the Reacting Molecule"

1953-1954 Faculty Research Lecture

30th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Carol L. Hubbs
Biology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Crossing the Species Line"

1952-1953 Faculty Research Lecture

29th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Ralph L. Beals
Anthropology
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Village in an Industrial World"

1951-1952 Faculty Research Lecture

28th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Manuel Pedro Gonzalez
Spanish American Language and Literature (Spanish & Portuguese)
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Jose Marti: An Epic Chronicler of the U.S in the Eighties"

1950-1951 Faculty Research Lecture

27th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Carl Eckart
Geophysics (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Why Study Ocean Currents?"

1949-1950 Faculty Research Lecture

26th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Max Shaw Dunn
Chemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Protein Problem"

1948-1949 Faculty Research Lecture

25th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Paul Friedlander
Latin and Greek (Classics)
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Research in Classics"

1947-1948 Faculty Research Lecture

24th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
James Gilluly
Geology (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Crustal Deformation"

1946-1947 Faculty Research Lecture

23rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William Gould Young
Chemistry
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Organic Reaction Mechanism with Allylic Compounds"

1945-1946 Faculty Research Lecture

22nd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Hans Reichenbach
Philosophy
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Philosophy and Physics"

1944-1945 Faculty Research Lecture

21st UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Jakob A.B. Bjerknes
Meteorology (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Waves and Vortices in the Atmosphere"

1943-1944 Faculty Research Lecture

20th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William H. Chandler 
Horticulture
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Trees in Two Climates"

1942-1943 Faculty Research Lecture

19th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Tracy Y. Thomas
Mathematics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"The Concept of Invariance in Mathematics"

1941-1942 Faculty Research Lecture

18th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Carl Clawson Epling
Botany (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"The Living Mosaic"

1940-1941 Faculty Research Lecture

17th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Arnold Schoenberg
Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
"The Composition with Twelve Tones"

1939-1940 Faculty Research Lecture

16th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Howard S. Fawcett
Plant Pathology (Citrus Experiment Station, now at UCR)
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Adventures in the Plant Disease World"

1938-1939 Faculty Research Lecture

15th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Knight Dunlap
Psychology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Research in Methods of Adjustment"

1937-1938 Faculty Research Lecture

14th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Harald U. Sverdrup
Oceanography (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Physics and Geophysics"

1936-1937 Faculty Research Lecture

13th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
John Elof Boodin
Philosophy
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Man in His World"

1935-1936 Faculty Research Lecture

12th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Vern Oliver Knudsen
Physics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Modern Acoustics and Culture"

1934-1935 Faculty Research Lecture

11th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Lily Bess Campbell
English
UCLA College Humanities Division
"Tudor Conceptions of History and Tragedy in 'A Mirror for Magistrates'"

1933-1934 Faculty Research Lecture

10th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Olenus L. Sponsler
Botany (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Living Matter: A Molecular Approach"

1932-1933 Faculty Research Lecture

Ninth UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Malbone W. Graham
Political Science
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"In Quest of a Law of Recognition"

1931-1932 Faculty Research Lecture

Eighth UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
William J. Miller
Geology (Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Magmatic Intrusion, or the Rise of Molten Rock into the Earth's Crust"

1930-1931 Faculty Research Lecture

Seventh UCLA Faculty Research Lecture 
John C. Parish
History
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"The Emergence of the Idea of Manifest Destiny"

1929-1930 Faculty Research Lecture

Sixth UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Bennet M. Allen
Zoology (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"Glands and Growth"

1928-1929 Faculty Research Lecture

Fifth UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Earle R. Hedrick
Mathematics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Difficulties in Logic in Mathematics and Science"

1927-1928 Faculty Research Lecture

Fourth UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Samuel J. Barnett
Physics
UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences
"Evidence on the Nature of the Elementary Magnet from Researches on Gyromagnetic Phenomena"

1926-1927 Faculty Research Lecture

Third UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Charles Grove Haines
Political Science
UCLA College Division of Social Sciences
"A Government of Laws or a Government of Men: Judicial or Legislative Supremacy"

1925-1926 Faculty Research Lecture

Second UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
Shepherd I. Franz
Psychology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"The Evolution of an Idea: How the Brain Works"

1924-1925 Faculty Research Lecture

First UCLA Faculty Research Lecture (Spring 1925)
Loye H. Miller
Biology
UCLA College Division of Life Sciences
"The Fossil Birds of California"