Shenggen Fan Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Understanding the challenges associated with reliably providing food and nutrition in the context of a growing population and changing climate is integral when considering the global food system. The Future of Food Lecture Series, organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, highlights the interactions between agriculture and climate and their consequences for health and stability in an ongoing series of discussions with speakers from...
Geological Lecture Hall (100), 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
Panelists
Carrie Lambert-Beattie, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and History of Art and Architecture; Director of Graduate Studies, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Christina Seely, Artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Dartmouth College
Ross Virginia, Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science; Director, Institute of Arctic Studies, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
Roy Scranton Assistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame Author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (2015)
The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities,...
.... Symbiosis and the Evolution of Life in the Ocean [1]
*Peter R. Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University*
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The discovery of microscopic life forms in the seventeenth century led to
humankind’s understanding of microbes as the biochemical innovators of our
world. Microbes have evolved exotic metabolisms that enable them to live in
seemingly inhospitable places, and they inhabit nearly every animal and
plant on Earth. Peter Girguis will lead a virtual tour of ocean microbial
life and... Read more about HMNH Evolution Matters Lecture Series with Peter Girguis