Pease Family Scholar

Due to Covid-19, we did not have a Pease Family Scholar this year. We hope to resume this event in Fall 2021.

History

The Pease Family Scholar endowment was established by Dean A. and Sally C. Pease in 1991. Dean Pease was a long-time faculty member in the department and chaired what was then the Department of Health and Human Performance (now Kinesiology and Health) from 1987 until 1990. Prior to his untimely death in 1994, Dean and Sally established an endowment in memory of Dean’s parents, Harvey and Bomell Pease. This endowment supports three programs that benefit students and faculty at Iowa State University in perpetuity.

The greatest proportion of the Pease gift was used to create a “scholar-in-residence fund” for the department. The annual earnings from this fund allows the department to bring a leading scholar in kinesiology and health to campus each year for extensive interactions with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The Pease Family Scholar Lecture is the featured event during the scholar’s visit and is one of the major highlights in the Department of Kinesiology and Health each academic year.

Cosponsored By:

  • Kinesiology and Health
  • Pease Family Scholar-in-Residence and Scholarship
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

Past Scholars

Head over to our archive to view previous years’ Pease Family Scholars and lecture series.