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Dr. Severo Ochoa spoke at UW-Parkside on October 7th, 1977. He was a joint-recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Famed editor and political figure Dwight Macdonald spoke at UW-Parkside in January of 1971.

Newscaster Joel Daly spoke at the annual dinner of the B'nai B'rith lodge in 1974, which was hosted by UW-Parkside. The topic of his talk was the Yom Kippur War, which occurred in 1973.

Environmentalist David Brower spoke at a pollution conference at UW-Parkside in 1970.

Famed author Elizabeth Janeway spoke at the UW-Parkside Women's Caucus on February 15th, 1973.

Har Gobind Khorama spoke at UW-Parkside on March 23rd and 30th, 1977. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine while a member of the faculty at UW-Madison.

Judge Christine Webster spoke on Indian affairs at UW-Parkside on March 8th, 1978.

Social activist Jerry Rubin spoke in the Student Activities Building at UW-Parkside on May 2nd, 1971.

Irish Poet James Liddy (left) presented a poetry reading at UW-Parkside on April 6th, 1971. Liddy also spent a year as a visiting professor at UW-Parkside.

Noted author and labor organizer, Victor G. Reuther, spoke at UW-Parkside as part of a public forum called "Unions and the Challenges of the '80s."