UC Riverside Spring Science Lecture Series to Focus on Food Security and Nutrition
March 25, 2015 | seedstock
UC Riverside’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences in partnership with the UC Global
Food Initiative and California Agriculture and Food Enterprise (CAFÉ) present the Spring 2015 Science Lecture Series:
Location:
UC Riverside Extension Center
Conference Rooms D&E
1200 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92507
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
All lectures are free and open to the public (no charge for parking). For more information, visit http://cnas.ucr.edu/sciencelectures/.
April 9 – Feeding Botswana: From Field to Lab to Vaccine
Larry Grill (’79 Ph.D. Plant Pathology), Dean of Research, and Director, Vaccine Research Center, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA
April 23 – Food Security for Africa: The Cowpea Story from Lab to Plate
Phil Roberts, UCR Professor of Nematology; Timothy Close, UCR Professor of Genetics; and Jeff Ehlers, plant geneticist, and Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
May 7 – Seeds of Change: UCR’s Healthy and Sustainable Food Initiative
Cheryl Garner, Executive Director of UCR Dining, Conference and Catering Services; and Neal Malik, Registered Dietician, UCR Dining Services
May 21 – What You Eat Is How You Feel: Nutrition and Its Impact on Immunity and Health
Ilhem Messaoudi Powers, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, UCR School of Medicine
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