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SUMMARY:Corn Maze: From Teosinte to Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Part of the upcoming Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures art exhibit\, the 100’ x 100’ corn maze has its opening event on Sunday\, Aug. 11 at 3:00 p.m. Locopops and the El Molcajete food truck will have refreshments for sale. The event is free and open to the public. After this opening event\, the corn maze will remain open and accessible during museum park hours. The maze will be open through the end of October.\nThis corn maze is a time machine. \nAt the heart of From Teosinte to Tomorrow\, a quarter-acre stand of non-GMO tropical field corn\, you will find an interior room with a raised bed of teosinte\, the wild grass thought to be an ancestor of modern corn. \nOnce there\, you will have traveled thousands of years into civilization’s agricultural past\, through generations of cultivation practices developed by farmers across the American continents as well as by contemporary biotechnologists. Through countless harvests\, the skinny\, hard kernels of teosinte grass were gradually hybridized into today’s juicy and sweet corn on the cob. \nAs humanity struggles with challenges like global population growth and climate change\, there is a growing disconnect between first-world populations\, the sources of our food\, and the people who labor to grow it and deliver it. As one of the earliest cultivated grains in the western hemisphere\, the cultural significance of maize (Zea mays) invites conversations about these issues as well as about issues of class\, identity\, community\, and genetics in society. \nFrom Teosinte to Tomorrow was inspired by artist Josef Albers and based on his photographs and drawings during the years he and Anni Albers traveled extensively in Mexico (1930s–60s). The Albers’ deep connection to Mesoamerican art\, together with their importance to the growth of art and design in North Carolina\, made these reflective works an apt inspirational source for NC State University Libraries exhibit designer Molly Renda and design collaborator William Dodge. \nFrom Teosinte to Tomorrow is funded by the NC State University Libraries’ Goodnight Educational Foundation Endowment for Special Collections with additional support from the Genetic Engineering and Society Center\, and in-kind donations from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences\, the JC Raulston Arboretum\, Hanbury\, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. \nThis exhibit is part of the multi-site exhibition Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures (October 17\, 2019–March 15\, 2020)\, an art-science exhibition organized by the NC State University Libraries and the Genetic Engineering and Society Center\, and shown at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design\, in the physical and digital display spaces of the Libraries\, and here at the North Carolina Museum of Art Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. For more information visit go.ncsu.edu/artswork \nThe corn maze is located near the new entrance to the museum parking along Blue Ridge Road\, at the end of the parking lot farthest from the museum buildings. Please wear comfortable shoes.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/corn-maze-from-teosinte-to-tomorrow/
LOCATION:NC Museum of Art\, 2110 Blue Ridge Road\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Federico Ciliberto - Valuing product innovation: genetically engineered varieties in US corn and soybeans | GES Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home  |  Fall 2019 MediaSite Live-Stream  |  YouTube Library (Past Colloquia) \nValuing product innovation: genetically engineered varieties in US corn and soybeans\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: There will be no live-stream this week as the video will be embargoed until a later date. \n×\nSpeaker: Federico Ciliberto\, Ph.D.\, Professor\, University of Virginia\nProfile | CV & Publications | ciliberto@virginia.edu \nAbstract\nWe develop a discrete-choice model of differentiated products for US corn and soybean seed demand to study the welfare impact of genetically engineered (GE) crop varieties. Using a unique data set spanning the period 1996–2011\, we find that the welfare impact of the GE innovation is significant. In the last five years of the period analyzed\, our preferred counterfactual indicates that total surplus due to GE traits was $5.18 billion per year\, with seed manufacturers appropriating 56% of this surplus. The seed industry obtained more surplus from GE corn\, whereas farmers received more surplus from GE soybeans. \nRelated Publications:\n\nEDWARD D. PERRY\, FEDERICO CILIBERTO\, DAVID A. HENNESSY\, GIANCARLO MOSCHINI\, Genetically engineered crops and pesticide use in U.S. maize and soybeans\, Science Advances\, 31 AUG 2016\nSee also the working paper: Ciliberto\, Federico and Moschini\, Giancarlo and Perry\, Edward. Valuing Product Innovation: Genetically Engineered Varieties in U.S. Corn and Soybeans (December 15\, 2017). Working Paper 17-WP 576\, December 2017\, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Iowa State University.\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Federico Ciliberto is a Professor at the University of Virginia\, and also served in 2016 as an economist at the Antitrust Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Ciliberto is the author of a variety of articles in empirical industrial organization\, with most of his work related to the antitrust and competition policy dynamics in industry. He has received research grants from the NIH and the USDA\, and has been the Program Chairman of the International Industrial Organization Conference since 2017. He is a fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)\, London\, and the German Institute for Economic Research\, Berlin. He has taught topic classes in empirical industrial organization at the German Institute for Economic Research\, Berlin; the University of Zurich (Switzerland); and Aarhus University (Denmark)\, where he was the VELUX Visiting Professor (Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation)
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-10-1-2019/
LOCATION:Poe 202 (North Campus)\, 2310 Katharine Stinson Dr.\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27607\, United States
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