Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
Understanding and Adapting Soybean to Global Changes
Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Plant Biology Department.
Lecture: The Age of Internet Trolls
Joel Stein, author of the recent TIME magazine cover story "Why We're Losing the Internet to a Culture of Hate," will discuss how trolling on the Internet is infecting our real-life interactions, including politics. National Affairs Series
Tuesday, 01 Nov 2016
Seminar: Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
"Earth System Science Evolution: Past, Present and Future" by Dr. Ghassem Asrar, JGCRI, PNNL/UMD, College Park, MD.
Lecture: Author Margaret Atwood
"Which Future? Fiction and the Everything Change," Margaret Atwood is an author, poet and environmental activist whose more than forty books include "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Blind Assassin," and the MaddAddam trilogy featuring "Oryx and Crake."
Thursday, 03 Nov 2016
Pluralities, Publics, and Citizen Science panel
Participate in an interdisciplinary panel discussion on pluralities, publics, and citizen science. The event is sponsored by the Urban Ecosystem Project and funded by the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award.
Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Maize: Myths and Reality
Internation Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico. Head, Biotechnology for Agricultural Development