Annual Call for Patten Nominations
The Patten Foundation provides generous funds to bring to the Bloomington campus people of extraordinary national and international distinction. It is the purpose of the Patten Foundation to attract men and women whose contribution to the sciences, the humanities, the arts, or to the understanding of human affairs is outstanding. Representing every field of human knowledge and endeavor, past Patten Lecturers have included Oscar Arias, Jorge Luis Borges, Noam Chomsky, Natalie Zemon Davis, Umberto Eco, John Hope Franklin, Fred Hoyle, Julian S. Huxley, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sir Edmund Leach, Geoffrey Marcy, Marvin Minsky, Toni Morrison, Amos Oz, Edwin Reischauer, Helmuth Rilling, Edward Said, Amartya Sen, Wole Soyinka, Ren Thom, Lester Thurow, and Edward O. Wilson