A Conversation with Judy Woodruff: DuBridge Distinguished Lecture

Television news journalist Judy Woodruff, formerly of NBC and CNN, has beenworking most recently on a PBS documentary about young people and their thoughts on world events titled Generation Next: Stand Up, Be Heard. Woodruff also serves as a special correspondent on the News Hour on PBS, typically as a moderator for discussions on politics and economics.

From 1993 to 2005, Woodruff hosted Inside Politics on CNN. She hosted PBS's award-winning weekly documentary series Frontline from 1984 to 1990, and served as the chief White House correspondent for NBC from 1977 to 1982.

Woodruff will be interviewed for the DuBridge Lecture by Colleen Williams, the coanchor of the award-winning 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday editions of the Channel 4 News with Paul Moyer. Williams coanchored the live coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games Centennial Park bombing. The NBC4 footage of the event was seen around the world and won a Golden Mike and an Associated Press Award for Best Live Coverage of a News Story.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including multiple Emmy and Golden Mike Awards. In 2002, she won an Emmy and a Golden Mike Award for her work on the KNBC news special LA Riots: Rubble to Rebirth and for 4th of July Shooting at LAX, which won in the category of Best Live Coverage of an Unscheduled Event.

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About the Series
Lee A. DuBridge (1901-1994), internationally acclaimed scientist and administrator, was Caltech's president from 1946 to 1969, when he became science advisor to President Nixon. Called America's "senior statesman of science" by Time magazine in 1955, DuBridge was considered an exemplary research-university president in an era of vast scientific, societal, and educational change; he guided the growth of the modern Caltech, while maintaining a breadth of view, an understanding of and an interest in national affairs that was rare among university presidents. He was also a first-rate physicist, a leader in research that was of immense importance to the Allied victory in World War II.

As a memorial to DuBridge and his numerous contributions to Caltech, Southern California, and the nation, Caltech has established the Lee Alvin DuBridge Distinguished Lecture Series to bring to campus prominent speakers of national and/or international importance. Prior lecturers in the series have been veteran journalist Walter Cronkite, financier Warren Buffett, Nobel Peace Prize-winner John Hume, and Jack Valenti, longtime head of the MPAA.