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McCabe Lecture Series

Matthew Goldstein in a navy suit speaks at the podium for the 2024 McCabe Lecture Series.

Matthew Goldstein '04, physician-scientist and CEO of jScreen, delivers the 2024 McCabe Lecture.

The Thomas B. McCabe Lecture is an annual event that brings individuals with distinguished careers in varied fields to speak on campus. 

Past Speakers
YearSpeaker
2024Matthew Goldstein '04, a physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and CEO of jScreen (video)
2023Elizabeth Drake, director of sustainability at Swarthmore College  (video)
2022Jenny Rickard ’86, expanding college access as President & Chief Executive Officer of Common App (video)
2021Michael Greenstone ’91, economist focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality (video)
2020Brian Wong '96, entrepreneur and the first American to join Alibaba Group (video)
2019Mary Schmidt Campbell ’69, H’09, president of Spelman College (video)
2018Claudia Kawas '74, a geriatric neurologist and researcher in the areas of aging and dementia (video)
2017Paul Young '92, an Emmy-Award-winning producer (video)
2016Patrick Awuah '89, founder and president of Ashesi University (video)
2015Thom Collins Jr. '88, director of The Barnes Foundation (video)
2014Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ’66, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist and distinguished professor of education at Harvard University (video)
2013Dawn Porter '88, director and producer (video)
2012Christopher Edley Jr. '73, dean of UC-Berkeley Boalt School of Law (video)
2011Anne Schuchat '80, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service and director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control (video)
2010Cindi Leive '88, Editor-In-Chief of Glamour Magazine (video)
2009Victor Navasky '54, publisher emeritus of The Nation (video)
2008David L. Cohen '77, executive vice president of the Comcast Corporation (video)
2007Dr. John C. Mather ’68, astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Nobel Prize laureate (video)
2006Alberto J. Mora '74, former general counsel of the Department of the Navy and current vice president and general counsel for the International Department of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
2005Kurt A. Eichenwald '83, journalist and writer about white collar crime
2004Richard M. Harley '72, author
2003Clyde Prestowitz '63, president of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI) in Washington D.C.
2002Michael S. Dukakis '55, former governor of Mass. and Democratic Party presidential candidate in 1988
1997Paul Verkuil, former dean of the Tulane Law School and special master in the case New Jersey v. New York over the sovereignty of Ellis Island
1997Juan A. Williams, Washington Post writer and political analyst
1995Galina Starovoitova, member of USSR and Russian Federation legislatures
1994Michael D. McCurry, spokesman for the U.S. State Department
1992Clyde Prestowitz '63, president of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI) in Washington D.C.
1990Archibald Cox, professor of law at Harvard, head of Common Cause, and former director of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force
1988Frank A. Oski '54, physician and chief pediatrician at Children’s Medical and Surgical Center of Johns Hopkins University
1987Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense
1986Hon. William W. Scranton '67, former governor of Pennsylvania