Honors Program's Last Lecture Spotlights Favorite Professor
Utah State University professor James Evans is slated to speak at the 30th annual “Last Lecture” Thursday, April 14, at 12:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Stevenson Ballroom on campus. The event is free and everyone is welcome.
Evans, a professor with the Geology Department in the College of Science, will present “Utah 2050: of Oil, Milk and Water in a Land of Plenty.”
“This is a very big honor,” said Evans. “I feel privileged the students asked me.”
Evans has been at Utah State since 1987 and enjoys teaching because of what he learns from it.
“You never really have to know anything until you have to teach it,” he said. “I like to weave together elements of the different topics that I get to cover.”
Evans teaches the regular and honors sections of planet earth, as well as structural geology, mechanics of earth processes and petroleum systems.
“Dr. Evans was told to imagine that this lecture would be the last presentation given in his academic career,” said David Lancy, director of the Honors Program.
Sponsored by the Utah State Honors Program, the lecture allows Evans to express what is most important to him before an audience of fellow faculty members and students. It also allows students in the Honors Program the opportunity to acknowledge and award the work of an outstanding professor. It is the only award given to a professor on campus chosen entirely by students.
Geology professor James Evans will present the 30th annual Last Lecture.
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