Events

We host events to promote engaging ideas on campus and in our community.

Spring 2025 Events

Memorial Union, Oceti Sakowin Ballroom, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

 

March 25

Leen Weijers | Vice President of Engineering at Liberty Energy

Topic: Energy, Human Progress, and the Shale Revolution

 

April 8 

Robert Zoellick | Former President of the World Bank Group, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and Former U.S. Trade Representative

Topic: America in the World: U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

 

April 30

Steve Kaplan | Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Topic: A Fireside Chat with Steve Kaplan

*This speaker is part of Financial Markets Day and the event will be held in Barry Hall in the Louise Auditorium from 3-5pm. 

 

Seminars on Fridays from 10-11 a.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall
 
The Regional Labor Force

February 7

Erick Garcia Luna | Director of Regional Outreach at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve

Topic: Immigrants and the Midwest Labor Force

February 21

John Winters | Professor of Economics at Iowa State University

Topic: Regional Human Capital and Higher Education

 
Land Use/Housing Policy

March 7

Oudom Hean | Assistant Professor of Finance and Challey Scholar at North Dakota State University 

Topic: Regulation and Housing Affordability

May 2

Emily Hamilton | Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Topic: Land Use Policy

 
Healthcare Issues

March 28

Michael Cannon | Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute

Topic: Reforming U.S. Healthcare

April 11

Phillip Phan | Alonzo and Virginial Decker Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

Topic: An Honest Debate During Public Health Crises

Archives

You can find videos of our past events and speakers here

 

 

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