Monday, 04 Mar 2024
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
Sarah Lohman's talk explores how American food is united by Eight Flavors: black pepper, vanilla, curry powder, chili powder, soy sauce, garlic, MSG, and sriracha. Lohman explains how these influential ingredients made their way to the American table. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food over a woodburning stove. She moved to New York in 2006 and now works with...
Tuesday, 05 Mar 2024
A History of Activism Through Cookbooks
Sarah Lohman will explore the origins of the link between food and activism with the abolitionist food writers of the Civil War; unpack suffrage cookbooks from the turn of the 20th century; share the earliest LGBTQ cooking pamphlets from the 1960s; and talk about how food is still used to connect and advocate for causes today. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at age 16, cooking historical food...
Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024
The Foundation of Modern Medicine is at Risk!
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine during World War 2 and have served as the foundation of almost every modern pillar of medicine that we take for granted, including organ transplantation, premature birth, chemotherapy, and infectious disease. However, the pipeline of new antibiotic discovery has essentially stopped, and the rate of resistance development threatens the utility of these drugs in maintaining the health of...
The Foundation of Modern Medicine Is at Risk!
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine during World War 2 and have served as the foundation of almost every modern pillar of medicine that we take for granted, including organ transplantation, premature birth, chemotherapy, and infectious disease. However, the pipeline of new antibiotic discovery has essentially stopped, and the rate of resistance development threatens the utility of these drugs in maintaining the health of...
Tuesday, 26 Mar 2024
How Stigma Derails the Help-Seeking Process
Mental health concerns affect 13% of the global population and will cost the world economy approximately $6 trillion by 2030 â€" more than the projected costs of cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease combined. Further, the rates of mental health problems have increased in recent years and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, less than 10% of those experiencing mental health concerns seek therapy each year, and...
Integrating Gender Equity in International Agriculture Research-for-Development
International Women in Agriculture Day Dr. Christie will share her experience integrating gender in international agricultural research-for-development projects. Drawing on her work with small farmers in East and West Africa, as well as Southeast and South Asia, she will describe her approach using participatory methods to understand how gender relations are key to innovation in agriculture and development. Highlighting the importance of...
Wednesday, 27 Mar 2024
Despite Advanced Technology, We Are Still Very Disaster-Prone!
This presentation uses a variety of examples of different types of disasters to point out how vulnerable American society is despite our advances in prediction, warning, and communications technologies. Much of our vulnerability arises from population growth, urban sprawl, urbanization, and expansion into disaster-prone areas. Unfortunately, some lessons that could have been learned from disasters in one part of the country have not been...
Protecting Plant Surfaces in a Changing Climate: Understanding synthesis, form and function of the plant cuticle using corn silks as a model system
To develop solutions for the agricultural sector to maintain or increase crop yields amidst extreme weather conditions often seen with climate change, it is important to understand mechanisms by which plants combat stresses in the environment. One such mechanism is the plant cuticle, which is a hydrophobic barrier that provides a first line of defense by which plants protect themselves from stresses, including extremes of temperature,...
Socially Responsible Innovation
2023-2024 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science Two-term former Ohio Governor John Kasich is a politician, a New York Times best-selling author, and a contributor for MSNBC and NBC News who believes that unity is the answer to our most common problems. He is known as a leading voice in promoting bipartisan solutions to health care reform, immigration and international trade, and has been one of the few Republicans to advocate...