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GES Colloquium 

Tuesdays 12-1PM, Poe 202

Next Colloquium: Tuesday, 10/22

North Carolina crop rotations and cropland use intensity

Speaker: Lyubov Kurkalova, Ph.D., Professor of Economics,
NC A&T State University

North Carolina is one of the most physio-geographically diverse states in the southern U.S, resulting in the majority of the state’s crop production the eastern Coastal Plains. We analyze the dynamics of cropland use intensity here, and are developing tools to improve the precision of environmental assessments of crop production in NC. Read more >

Professor Lyubov (Luba) Kurkalova is interested both in (a) analyzing the impacts of policy and economic factors on forest and agricultural land use, production, and the environment, and in (b) developing the tools - spatially explicit models and econometric techniques - for such analyses. Her research program has received over $10.7 million in extramural funding from USDOE, NSF, and USDA. Dr. Kurkalova has published her research in multiple peer-reviewed journals including Energy Economics, Journal and Soil and Water Conservation, Environmental Modeling and Software, Biomass and Bioenergy, and Environmental Management.

LOOKING AHEAD: 10/28 COLLOQUIUM

Preventing dengue using Wolbachia infected mosquitoes

Brandon Hollingsworth, an NC State Biomathematics Ph.D. student, will present on the framework developed in a GES course regarding an optimal release strategy for Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in an area at risk for epidemic dengue with an uncertain time horizon. Read more >

Articles & Publications

The Yogurt Industry Has Been Using CRISPR for a Decade

10/14/2019 - Nicola Twilley, Cynthia Graber, and Gastropod, The Atlantic

As Jennifer Kuzma, the co-director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at NC State, explained it to Gastropod, if DNA is a book, CRISPR is like a pen. “You can go in and you can edit the letters in a word, or you can change different phrases, or you can edit whole paragraphs at very specific locations,” she said. “Whereas with first-generation transgenic techniques, it was essentially throwing a new paragraph into a book.”
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GES Events & Activities

Art's Work/Genetic Futures

Exhibition now open at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design and at NC State University Libraries.

"Come to @greggmuseum to check out the exhibition Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures. Very “unusual” in the best way possible. @GESCenterNCSU @NCStateCALS @NCState @ncsulibraries 
http://go.ncsu.edu/artswork"

— Javier Brumos (@jbrumos7) October 18, 2019