Suffolk Reporter

The College of Arts and Sciences is set to commence the Spring 2025 Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series on March 26. The series will begin with a lecture titled “As Our Scientific Understanding of Time Changes, Does Time Change Too?” by Jimena Canales, an associate faculty member at Harvard University and vice chairperson of the American Council of Learned Societies. This event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26, from 12:30 pm to 2 pm in Harriman Hall, Room 137. It is presented by the Department of Philosophy.

Following this, the series will continue on Monday, April 7, with a lecture on “Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis” by Shelley D. Minteer. She is a professor of chemistry and director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability at Missouri University of Science and Technology. This lecture will take place from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm at Charles B. Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2, presented by the Department of Chemistry.

Sir Run Run Shaw was known as an entertainment mogul and philanthropist who led East Asia’s largest movie studio during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1985, his foundation donated HK$1 million to Stony Brook University's College of Arts and Sciences through CN Yang and President Marburger's stewardship. This donation established one of the earliest endowments at Stony Brook Foundation that supports lectures in the college.

Applications are now open for those interested in participating in the upcoming academic year’s series for 2025-26. More information can be found on the Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series web page.