This semester, the spring Presidential Lecture will feature six-time Grammy-winning artist and founding member of the Black Eyed Peas,Apl.de.Ap.With a music career spanning over three decades and countless chart-topping hits like Where Is The Love and I Gotta Feeling, he has also dedicated himself to empowering Filipino youth through philanthropic efforts such as the Apl.de.Ap Foundation International. Apl.de.Ap is also an entrepreneur, most recently opening a new Filipino restaurant in London.
This unique lecture will be in a Q&A format, with Apl.de.Ap and Kyle Reyes, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, discussing his background and experiences together.
Date: Thursday, February 20
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Vallejo Auditorium, Keller Building
2025
This semester, the spring Presidential Lecture will feature six-time Grammy-winning artist and founding member of the Black Eyed Peas,Apl.de.Ap.With a music career spanning over three decades and countless chart-topping hits like Where Is The Love and I Gotta Feeling, he has also dedicated himself to empowering Filipino youth through philanthropic efforts such as theApl.de.Ap Foundation International.Apl.de.Apis also an entrepreneur, most recently opening a new Filipino restaurant in London.
2024
Professor Arthur Kleinman, MD, is a renowned medical anthropologist and Harvard educator. Kleinman holds positions as the Esther and Sidney Rabb professor of anthropology at Harvard University and as a professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. An author and co-author of several books, Kleinman’s “The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition” is widely taught in medical schools as one of his many contributions to educating future generations of well-rounded psychiatrists, anthropologists, and healthcare workers.
Martin "Marty" Baron retired at the end of February 2021, after eight-plus years as executive editor of The Washington Post. News staff under his leadership won 18 Pulitzer Prizes. The Post won 11 Pulitzers for coverage during his tenure, which included the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, investigations of the National Security Agency, and Donald Trump's presidential campaign. While he was top editor of the Boston Globe, it won six Pulitzer Prizes, including for its investigation into the Catholic Church’s concealment of clergy sex abuse, later portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie Spotlight.
2023
Join us to hear from legendary bassist Darryl Jones. An experienced performer who has played alongside the great Miles Davis and other famous acts, including Sting, Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel, and more, Jones is most known for touring and recording with The Rolling Stones since 1993.
In 2017, Jones was selected to participate in the Sundance Institute’s famed Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Ranch. In addition to touring, teaching, and recording, Jones continues to write music, including a score for an award-winning film.
Whitney Johnson is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author on the topics of growth and momentum for individuals and teams. She was named by Thinkers50 as one of the 10 leading business thinkers in the world (2021), and she was selected as a Top Voice on LinkedIn (2020).
The Utah Valley University Presidential Lecture Series invites esteemed experts from around the world to share their insights, experiences, and advice with UVU students, faculty, staff, and community members. Hosted by the Office of the President, this event takes place during both the fall and spring semesters.
2022
Engineering, Science, and Medicine: Partners in Translation
Utah Valley University’s Presidential Lecture Series invites esteemed experts from around the world to share their insights, experiences, and advice with UVU students, faculty, staff, and community members. Hosted by the Office of the President, this prestigious event takes place during both fall and spring semesters.
Join us on November 17, 2022, to hear from revolutionary cardiologist and bioelectrical engineer Dr. Elazer Edelman in the fall installment of Utah Valley University’s Presidential Lecture Series. He will discuss the importance and challenges in leveraging fluency in medicine and engineering, physiology and basic science to create novel interventions to improving the human conditions.
2021
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a preeminent thinker who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is a top-tier opinion-former and trusted advisor on macroeconomics, geopolitics, and technology themes. She serves on a number of global corporate boards, including 3M Corporation, Chevron, Condé Nast, and the University of Oxford’s Endowment Investment Committee. She worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs for nearly a decade. She is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. Her most recent book is How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021). Dr. Moyo holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree from Harvard University. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Graham Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making. Allison was the “founding dean” of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, which is ranked the No. 1 university-affiliated think tank in the world. As assistant secretary of defense under President Clinton and special advisor to the secretary of defense under President Reagan, he has been a member of the secretary of defense’s advisory board for every secretary from Weinberger to Mattis. He has the sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary Cap Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He has served on the advisory boards of the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and the director of the CIA. Dr. Allison’s latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (2017), is a national and international bestseller.
2020
Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. An older brother taught her to read, and after that her education was erratic and haphazard, with most of her days spent working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother. She was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom.
The lecture series, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of Engaged Learning, is an initiative to help enhance the academic exchange on campus. This event brings in some of the nation’s very best scholars and experts to speak to UVU faculty, staff, and students. Two lectures are presented each school year, typically in the Clarke Building.
2019
Kim Scott is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations at Google, and then joined Apple to develop and teach a leadership seminar. Kim has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies.
Terry Crews rose to fame from an impoverished childhood in Flint, Michigan. His titles include former NFL player, best-selling author, artist, and actor. He built a career with memorable roles in action movies (“The Expendables”) and TV (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), and as a game-show host (“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”). Crews speaks passionately for women’s rights, and human rights, and against sexism.
