The McClure Lectures on Science and Public Policy aims to strengthen the relationship between science and public policy making by introducing University of Idaho students and the people of Idaho to significant topics in this area. 

Past McClure Lecture speakers include:   

• E.J. Dionne Jr. - author and columnist
• Thomas E. Cronin - author and presidental historian
• Professor Jack Rakove
• Pulitzer Prize winning historian Douglas Brinkley - award-winning historian and author 
• Mark Trahant - award-winning writer and Native American Journalist
• Howard Berkes, award-winning rural affairs correspondent for National Public Radio
• Vice Admiral John J. Grossenbacher, (Ret.), laboratory director, Idaho National Laboratory
• Dale N. Bosworth, former chief, U.S. Forest Service
• John A. Kitzhaber, M.D., former governor of Oregon
• Sheldon Krimsky, professor of urban and environmental policy and planning, Tufts University
• Walter Rosenbaum, professor of political science, University of Florida
• Susan F. Wood, former Food and Drug Administration assistant administrator for women’s health and director of the Office of Women’s Health