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SUMMARY:[CANCELED due to inclement weather] Welcome Back Lunch | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nCANCELED due to inclement weather – Welcome Back Lunch \nDue to the impending inclement weather conditions expected to arrive early this afternoon\, we will be canceling our 12pm welcome back lunch today. We will be offering Neomonde catering at our first Colloquium of the semester next Tuesday\, 1/16\, at Dr. Katie Barnhill’s presentation on Public Engagement. \nWe look forward to catching up with everyone and seeing you there! Stay safe! \nDownload Interactive PDF \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and Twitter for updates.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-01-09/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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SUMMARY:Katie Barnhill – Public Engagement: Missing the Mark? | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nPublic Engagement: Missing the Mark? \nKatie Barnhill\, PhD\, Senior Research Scholar\, GES Center\, NC State | Profile | Google Scholar\nScholars and funders alike have increasingly recognized engagement as an important dimension of innovation\, but is engagement accomplishing what we think it is? \nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nEmerging environmental biotechnologies such as gene drives have often been called for to respond to wicked environmental problems\, including applications that have the potential to protect land and water (pesticide reduction)\, species protection\, and human health. As gene drives are advancing at a rapid pace\, myriad STS scholars have called for broad and inclusive community\, stakeholder\, and public engagement practices as a critical part of the epistemic landscape that should shape the innovation of these technologies. But in practice\, how have these engagement practices contributed meaningfully to the responsible and just innovation of gene drives\, particularly in the context of gene drives for vector control? \nDrawing on an analysis of 73 documents related to more than 20 projects\, groups\, and institutions that have conducted some form of engagement about gene drives for vector control\, we demonstrate that the vast majority of engagement activities’ outcomes have minimal measurable impact on gene drive innovation. In fact\, most engagement outcomes (1) feed directly into further engagement scholarship and practice or (2) measure and/or encourage community acceptance of the technology. A minority of our findings included outcomes that were intended to shape governance or innovation practices themselves. If engagement practices that are normatively described as relational and co-productive\, what do these results say about true politics of involvement in shaping shared futures? \nIn addition to expanding upon the measured outcomes of these engagement activities\, I suggest reasons for why there is such a notable mismatch between what the STS engagement literature calls for and what outcomes are generated from engagement practices. Finally\, I offer a potential solution to this mismatch\, inviting social scientists and other engagement practitioners to turn the framework of responsible innovation onto ourselves. \nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Katie Barnhill: Drawing on interdisciplinary fields such as Environmental Science & Policy and Science\, Technology\, & Society studies\, Dr. Barnhill primarily focuses on stakeholder engagement as an important mechanism for the governance of emerging environmental biotechnologies. She has worked on the governance and social science of biotechnology projects that have included applications such as invasive species management\, species restoration\, sustainable agricultural pest management\, and public health. Dr. Barnhill has international research experience\, has managed international research teams\, and has experience collaborating with Indigenous community leaders in the U.S. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and Twitter for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-01-16/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop: The Mechanics of Graduate Research
DESCRIPTION:Professional Development Workshop: Managing Your Graduate Research\n\nJanuary 19\, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am\, Talley Student Center\, Room 3210\n\n\n\nThe Genetics and Genomics Scholars\, AgBioFEWS trainees\, and Global One Health Fellows are joining forces to host monthly Interdisciplinary Professional Development Workshops to help graduate students prepare for a career in interdisciplinary research. We are pleased to bring you the first of our spring 2024 topic: The Mechanics of Graduate Research. We’ll discuss how best to conduct systematic searching\, citation management\, data management\, and scholarly communication. \n\nPresenters: Danica Lewis and Dave Provost (Research Librarians)\nSchedule:\n\n9:30: Food and beverages served\n10am-11: Presentation\n11am-11:30: Q&A\n\n\n\nPlease pass this along to fellow colleagues and students. Attendance is open to all NC State graduate students! \nRegister
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/gga-pro-dev-2024-01-19/
LOCATION:Talley Student Union\, Room 3210\, 2610 Cates Avenue\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27606\, United States
CATEGORIES:AgBioFEWS,Training
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SUMMARY:Eli Hornstein – Using Agbiotech to Cool the Climate by Removing Gigatons of Methane | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nUsing Agbiotech to Cool the Climate by Removing Gigatons of Methane: A Start-up Story \nEli Hornstein\, Founder\, Elysia Creative Biology | LinkedIn | Google Scholar\nAnimal feed is our number one use of agriculture; Elysia engineers all of those feed crops to vastly suppress carbon emissions from the animals that eat them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: There will be no Zoom option for this week’s colloquium. Please plan to attend in person. \n\nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nMethane from livestock accounts for about 6% of global warming–more than shipping\, air travel\, and deforestation put together. These emissions result from digestion of feed by the animals\, and are a pure waste product; it has been known for decades that with certain treatments we can eliminate almost all enteric methane emissions without losing any meat or milk. But almost no farms use technology to do so\, because the treatments are expensive\, hard to produce\, and inconvenient for farmers to use in real-world settings. Elysia solves this by genetically engineering existing crop plants like corn and sorghum to produce anti-methane agents\, in a way that is as cheap and seamless as buying the grain they already do and feeding to cows the way they always have. In my talk\, we will have an interactive discussion about Elysia’s current and in-development technology\, the commercialization process as a very early startup with a complicated biotechnology\, and the social and regulatory factors that will determine whether our product becomes reality. \nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Eli Hornstein – A field conservationist turned genetic engineer\, Eli believes that biotechnology holds the key to sustainable agriculture practices that benefit both the environment and real people. Recognizing the urgent need for action\, Dr. Hornstein founded Elysia to develop commercially viable and practical biotech solutions designed to meet the growing demand for environmental stewardship within the agricultural sector. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-01-23/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Make-A-Thon
DESCRIPTION:Make-A-Thon\nFriday\, Jan. 26 – Sunday\, Jan. 28\, Centennial Campus\nMake-A-Thon is NC State’s sustainability innovation competition. Students research\, design and prototype solutions to solve a sustainability challenge and then pitch their ideas to community and industry judges. All NC State undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to participate in Make-A-Thon and can register through Jan. 18\, 2024. \nMake-A-Thon kicks off Friday\, Jan. 26\, and will end Sunday\, Jan. 28. The NC State community and the general public are welcome to attend the final presentations of sustainable solutions from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday\, Jan. 28\, in Hunt Library. Parking is free. \nLearn more about Make-A-Thon and how to get involved as a student\, mentor and/or judge on the Make-A-Thon website. The full schedule for Make-A-Thon also is available on the website. \nSchedule of Events\nFriday\, Jan. 26 at James B. Hunt Jr. Library \n\nCheck-In\, 3:00-4:30 pm (required\, at least one member from each team must check in\, pick up information packets\, maker kits and t-shirts)\nMake-A-Thon Networking\, 4:00-5:00 pm\nMake-A-Thon Kickoff\, 5:00-6:15 pm\n\nincludes a workshop on Responsible Innovation presented by Katie Barnhill\, senior research scholar for the Genetic Engineering and Society Center\n\n\nMake-A-Thon Dinner with Teams\, 6:30 pm\n\nSaturday\, Jan. 27 on Centennial Campus \nMakerspaces and mentors will be in person at the following locations: \n\nPlant Sciences Building\, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm\nHunt Library\, Duke Energy Hall\, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm\nThe Garage in Partners I\, 12:00-4:00 pm\n\nTeam meeting spaces will also be available in Duke Energy Hall\, Hunt Library throughout the day. A pizza dinner will be provided in Duke Energy Hall at 6:00 pm. \nSunday\, Jan. 28 at James B. Hunt Jr. Library \n\nDeadline to submit team solution\, 9:00 am via virtual form (required)\nCheck-In and presentation set up\, between 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (required)\nLunch\, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm\nWelcome and Science Fair-style Judging\, 1:00-2:30 pm (required)\nAwards Presentation\, 3:00-3:15 pm
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/make-a-thon/
LOCATION:James B. Hunt Library\, Auditorium\, 1070 Partners Way\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:University
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SUMMARY:Grace Wiedrich – From Plants to People: Mendelian Eugenics in NC in the 20th Century | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES Video Library (current) | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nFrom Plants to People: Mendelian Eugenics in NC in the 20th Century \nGrace Wiedrich\, CRDM PhD Student\, NC State University \nThe Mendelian eugenics movement in NC provides a useful case study into the lasting impact of over-generalized genetic theory on governments\, medical professionals\, and activists. \nDownload seminar poster \nAbstract\nThe history of eugenics in the United States is deeply entwined with theories about plants and animals arising in the 19th century. By the early 20th century\, selective breeding of humans became a popular concern around the country. It was believed that all traits\, from hair color to intelligence to morality\, were passed on through the blood. However\, even after geneticists had proven eugenics to be a pseudoscience by the 1930s\, the popular culture of eugenics deeply impacted public policy\, education\, and activism into the 1970s. North Carolina provides a useful case study into the lasting impact of over-generalized genetic theory on governments\, medical professionals\, and activists. \nSpeaker Bio\nGrace Wiedrich is currently a PhD student in Communication\, Rhetoric\, and Digital Media and an instructor in the English department at NC State. Her research focuses on eugenics rhetoric during the 20th century in the United States\, with a special interest in the interplay among race\, gender\, and ability. \n\nGES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Jen Baltzegar and Dawn Rodriguez-Ward\, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium will be held in person in the 1911 Building\, room 129\, and live-streamed via Zoom. \nPlease subscribe to the GES newsletter and LinkedIn for updates. \nDownload Interactive PDF
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2024-01-30/
LOCATION:1911 Building\, Room 129 (North Campus)\, 10 Current Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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