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SUMMARY:GES Colloquium | Danesha Carley\, NC State's New Center for Excellence in Regulatory Science in Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nGES Colloquium | YouTube: LIVE STREAM \nNC State’s New Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture\nSpeaker:\nDr. Danesha Seth Carley\, Associate Professor and Director\, CERSA\, NC State University (email\, link) \nAbstract:\nCurrently\, there is a lack of university programs in regulatory science specifically related to agriculture. There is a need for a new program that can provide undergraduate\, graduate\, and continuing education opportunities in regulatory science\, and also provide a forum for the advancement of regulatory science in agriculture. With the importance of regulatory science for innovation in agriculture\, and the leadership position that NC State has established in the arena of agricultural advances and technology\, we are forming a Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture (CERSA). \nResearch and outreach projects will address regulatory science issues which are broadly relevant in agriculture. An emphasis will be placed on transparency and openness in conducting and publishing results\, along with a focus on understanding barriers to adoption of innovations and technological advances aimed at improving agricultural sustainability. Our Center will provide a platform for engagement around regulatory science issues by providing responsible discussion and translational science through research\, education\, and outreach. The Center will also benefit society by providing a forum to enhance communication among segments of the regulatory sector with a goal of increasing efficiency while protecting food and environmental safety. \nBio:\nDr. Danesha Seth Carley grew up on a small organic farm in West Virginia. After spending 4 years in the Midwest pursuing a BA in biology (studying plant ecology)\, she left the corn and soybean fields to return to the verdant and beloved hills of the South. Her MS in Entomology and Plant Pathology comes from the University of TN\, Knoxville\, and her PhD in both Plant Pathology and Crop Science was from NC State\, in Raleigh\, NC. \nDr. Carley is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State\, and the Director for the Southern IPM Center\, and the newly formed Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture (CERSA). Her area of expertise is sustainable managed urban landscapes. Recent research programs include pollen quality in commonly planted squash and wild-flowers\, pollinator ecology along roadsides in NC\, and native plant conservation and pollinator habitat establishment at historic Pinehurst No. 2 and No. 4 Golf Courses. \nDr. Carley frequently lectures at Bee Keeper Association meetings\, Master Gardener meetings\, and other events where community members are interested in learning more about pollinator habitat conservation and protection.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2019-04-02/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:GES Colloquium | Emily Pechar - Beyond Political Ideology: Attitudes Towards Government and Corporations on Trust in Science
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium | YouTube: LIVE STREAM \nBeyond Political Ideology: Attitudes Towards Government and Corporations on Trust in Science\nSpeaker:\nDr. Emily Pechar\, Research Scholar\, Environmental Policy\, Duke University (@EmilyPechar) \nAbstract:\nUnderstanding public distrust of science is both theoretically and practically important. While previous research has focused on the association between political ideology and trust in science\, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study demonstrates that two dimensions of political ideology—attitudes towards governments and corporations—can more precisely predict trust in science across issues. Using a survey in the United States and Germany on the science of climate change and genetically modified foods\, we find that an individual’s trust in science varies across issues\, and that attitudes towards government and corporations are important predictors of this trust. \nRelated publication:\nPechar\, E.\, Bernauer\, T.\, & Mayer\, F. (2018). Beyond Political Ideology: The Impact of Attitudes Towards Government and Corporations on Trust in Science. Science Communication\, 40(3)\, 291–313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547018763970 Download PDF \nBio:\nDr. Pechar began her academic career at Georgia Tech\, where she received a B.S. in International Affairs and French. After working as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting for three years\, she returned to academia and recently completed her PhD in Environmental Policy at Duke University. Her research focuses on what informs people’s attitudes on scientific and environmental issues\, and how these attitudes inform policy preferences. Specifically\, she investigates the role that identities play in driving political attitudes\, and how partisan and non-partisan identities interact on highly polarizing issues like climate change or GMOs.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2019-04-09/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:GES Colloquium | Ross Sozzani and Cranos Williams on RiseEnAg for Systems Engineering and Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium | YouTube: Archives \nSystems Engineering and Agriculture – Convergent research across engineering and the plant sciences\nSpeakers:\nDr. Ross Sozzani\, Associate Professor\, Plant and Microbial Biology\, NC State (link) \nDr. Cranos Williams\, Associate Professor\, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director\, EnBiSys Research Laboratory\, NC State  (link) \nAbstract:\nThe projected global increase to 9 billion people by the year 2050 will impose significant challenges on our ability to produce enough food for the world’s population. Specific food security challenges include: 1) our inability to sense and quantify physical and chemical variables in the environment and in-planta across scales; 2) the lack of scalable data analytics and multi-scale models that transform concurrent datasets across multiple scales into decision making strategies for improving crop yield and minimizing crop loss; and 3) the lack of intelligent data cyber-infrastructures that efficiently integrate heterogeneous data\, supporting the development of complex multi-scale biological models. \nThe complexity of these challenges\, along with regional diversity and the continual pressures of a changing environment\, requires the development of integrated engineered systems for improved on-farm decision support and custom solutions. To address these challenges\, we are proposing the Engineering Research Center for Rapid Innovation in SystEms Engineering and Agricultural Sustainability (RiseEnAg). \nThe vision of RiseEnAg is to enable long-term global food security and safety through the development integrated engineered systems for improving the health of the plant (pre-harvest resilience)\, the health of the produce (post-harvest fruit quality)\, and consumer food safety. RiseEnAg will drive the fundamental research needed to enable the tools of innovation and discovery necessary in four key areas: 1) Sensors for monitoring a crop’s physical\, biochemical\, and molecular parameters; 2) Platforms that allow sensors to network over an internet-of-things backbone for data collection; 3) Multiscale crop modeling\, data mining\, and machine learning approaches\, tailored to heterogeneous agricultural datasets; and 4) Cyberinfrastructure for integrating private and public datasets to enable information exchange. \nWe have assembled a diverse team across 7 universities (NC State\, NC A&T\, UF\, UC Davis\, UCSB\, UMBC\, and Duke) with faculty that have track records of convergent research\, education\, and outreach. \nBios: \nDr. Cranos Williams is currently an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer engineering department at North Carolina State University and is the head of the EnBiSys Research Laboratory. Dr. Williams received his B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 2001\, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in 2002 and 2008\, respectively. Over his 10.5 years at NC State\, Dr. Williams has developed a highly collaborative\, multidisciplinary research program focused on advancing the comprehensive understanding of biomolecular pathways associated with plant growth\, development\, and adaptation. His research lab develops methodologies familiar to other areas of electrical and computer engineering (e.g. computational intelligence\, system identification\, nonlinear systems analysis and control\, and signal processing) to model and predict the impact that genetic and environmental perturbations have on overall plant response. \nDr. Ross Sozzani joined NC State in 2013 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Synthetic and Systems Biology. An associate professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology\, Sozzani researches the molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell fate specification and maintenance within the Arabidopsis root\, and translates this knowledge to engineering plants with enhanced agronomic function using the tools of synthetic biology. Her goal is to gain a coherent qualitative and quantitative understanding of stem cell maintenance at the system level. In addition to revealing the molecular pathways that stem cells employ\, this research will help to better understand why stem cells\, in both plants and animals\, give rise to specialized cells at all.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2019-04-16/
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SUMMARY:GES Colloquium | Lisa M. Rasmussen - What WWII Scabies Experiments Teach Us About Unregulated Research
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium | YouTube: Colloquium Archives (no live-stream this week) \nOf Mites and Men: What WWII Scabies Experiments Teach Us About Unregulated Research\nSpeaker:\nDr. Lisa M. Rasmussen\, Assoc. Professor\, Dept. of Philosophy\, UNC Charlotte (link\, email) \nAbstract:\nThe number of British soldiers suffering from scabies during WWII significantly affected the war effort. Consequently\, an entomologist named Kenneth Mellanby was given funding by the British military to study the transmission and treatment of scabies. His volunteers were British conscientious objectors\, and he detailed the experiments with these men\, conducted in the early 1940s\, in his 1945 volume Human Guinea Pigs. \nThese experiments predated the Nuremberg Code and the modern edifice of research ethics built on its foundation. It is thus worth asking how a researcher interpreted his ethical obligations to human subjects before the guidance offered by modern codes and regulations\, and what that can teach us about the ethics of new\, unregulated forms of research. \nBio:\nLisa spends a lot of her time worrying and teaching about philosophical and ethical issues in research. She is currently trying to figure out the best way to channel her worries into a book.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2019-04-23/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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