LIST OF PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
Year	Speaker
2007/2008	Jeff Elman Professor of Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego ”On Dinosaur Bones and the Meaning of Words”
2005/2006	Stephen J. Suomi Chief, Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH "How gene X environment interactions shape the development of emotional regulation in rhesus monkeys."
2004/2005	Les Cohen Professor of Psychology University of Texas
2003/2004	Dedre Gentner Professor of Psychology Northwestern University
2002/2003	Linda Smith Chancellor's Professor of Psychology Indiana University
2001/2002	Richard Aslin William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester
2000/2001	Megan Gunner Professor of Psychology Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota "The Psychobiology of Stress in Human Development"
1999/2000	Judy DeLoache Professor of Psychology University of Illinois "Becoming Symbol-Minded"
1998/1999	Kurt W. Fischer Professor of Human Development and Psychology Harvard University "The dynamics of cognitive and brain development"
1997/1998	Elizabeth Bates Professor of Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego "Rethinking innateness: How the brain gets organized for language and other complicated things"
1996/1997	Robert S. Siegler (Co-sponsored by the Sunleaf Lecture Fund) Professor of Psychology Carnegie-Mellon University "Microgenetic studies of cognitive development"
1995/1996	Esther Thelen Professor of Psychology Indiana University "Origins of an embodied cognition: The dynamics of moving, perceiving, and thinking in infancy"
1994/1995	Sheldon H. White Professor of Psychology Harvard University "A politics of science for psychology"
1993/1994	Lewis P. Lipsitt Professor of Psychology Brown University "Advances in the study of infant behavior and development: A hawkeye view"