The George N. Lamb Lectureship is made possible through a bequest to the Department of Botany (now part of the School of Biological Sciences) from the estate of the late George N. Lamb. Mr. Lamb was a student at UNL where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees under the guidance of Dr. Charles Bessey. He was an authority on the woods of the world and had great influence nationally on the husbandry and use of woods, principally walnut and mahogany. Through this bequest, graduate students are able to meet and interact with an outstanding scientist.
2021 Dr. Christine Bacon, University of Gothenburg
2020 Dr. Colin Orians, Tufts University
2019 Dr. Gordon Fox, University of South Florida
2018 Dr. Susan Whitehead, Virginia Tech
2017 Dr. Christopher Balakrishnan, East Carolina University
2016 Dr. Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis
2015 Dr. James Estes, University of California Santa Cruz
1996 Drs. Jerry & Carol Baskin, University of Kentucky
1989 Dr. Michael Clegg, University of California Riverside
1988 Dr. Christopher Somerville, Michigan State University
1987 Dr. Deborah Delmer, University of California Davis
1986 Dr. Nicholas Waser, University of California Riverside
1985 Dr. Virginia Walbot, Stanford University
1984 Dr. Donald Levin, University of Texas
1983 Dr. Nam Hai Chua, Rockefeller University
1982 Dr. Janis Antonovics, Duke University
1981 Dr. William Ogren, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
1980 Dr. R. Malcolm Brown, University of North Carolina
1979 Dr. Olle E. Björkman, Carnegie Institution of Washington
1978 Dr. Ralph Lewin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1976 Dr. Gerald Prescott, Michigan State University
1975 Dr. Harry Beevers, University of California Santa Cruz
1974 Dr. Theodore Kozlowski, University of Massachusetts
1973 Dr. Kenneth Thimann, University of California Santa Cruz
1972 Dr. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts
1971 Dr. Sherwin Carlquist, Claremont University
1970 Dr. Herbert Mason, University of California Berkeley