Student Sponsored Seminar Speaker - Popenoe Invited Speaker
Each year the graduate students in the department select and sponsor a guest speaker. This greatly enhances the seminar series, but specifically brings in a speaker of interest to the students.
Previous Popenoe Speakers
| Year | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 2005 | Dr. Robert Hall | University of Missouri |
| 2007 | Dr. David Andow | University of Minnesota |
| 2011 | Dr. Roger Gold | Texas A&M University |
| 2012 | Dr. Ralph E. Williams | Purdue University |
| 2013 | Dr. Alex Wild | Urbana, Illinois |
| 2014 | Dr. Yong-Lak Park | West Virginia University |
| 2015 | Dr. Diane Debinski | Iowa State University |
| 2016 | Dr. Renata Bolognesi | Monsanto |
| 2017 | Dr. Jonathan Lundgren | Ecdysis Foundation |
| 2018 | Dr. Blair D. Siegfried | University of Florida |
| 2019 | Dr. Nicholas Buchon | Cornell University |
| 2022 | Zain Syed | University of Kentucky |
| 2023 | Rachel Wilkins | Kansas Department of Agriculture |
| 2024 | Dr. Arnaud Martin | George Washington University |