GES Colloquium: Tuesday 2/14/23, 12 PM ET via ZOOM ONLY
- Karletta Chief, PhD, Director, Indigenous Resilience Center; Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona
- Amy R. Sapkota, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
- Yael Perez, PhD, Development Engineering Program Director at the Blum Center and the InFEWS Program Coordinator
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Abstract
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks to explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Join us as the GES Center hosts a panel to learn about three NRT programs focused on Food, Energy and Water Systems (FEWS). Now that the programs have finished and/or are close to finishing, what future lies for their continuation? What lessons have they learned about implementing an interdisciplinary and convergent research program? We will discuss each programs’ challenges, opportunities, and sustainability with the traineeship.
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Full abstract, additional resource links, and speaker bios:
https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/event/ges-colloquium-2023-02-14/
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LOOKING AHEAD
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Dr. Fernanda Santos, Teaching Assistant Professor of Food Science at NC State will give participants some thought-provoking information on how food is generally regulated in the U.S., in addition to a general overview of the process utilized by the regulatory bodies to approve genetically engineered foods for human consumption.
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In the News
2/2/2023 - Emma Foehringer Merchant, MIT Technology Review
“Chemicals can only travel so far before they degrade in the environment,” says Jason Delborne, a professor of science, policy, and society at North Carolina State University. “If you introduce a gene-edited organism that can move through the environment, you have the potential to change or transform environments across a huge spatial and temporal scale.”
1/13/2023 - Willy Wei, Nick Loschin, and Khara Grieger
GES members attended the recent UN biodiversity conference to better understand the impacts of biotechnology on biodiversity and conservation.
12/15/2023 - Yadira Galindo, UC San Diego Today
Reporting in the Dec. 15, 2022 issue of Nature Biotechnology, 47 experts from organizations spanning national and local governmental agencies, international and nonprofit organizations, universities and local district vector control offices advanced the idea that a registry could serve a valuable coordinating function for multidisciplinary and multisector work activities in the area of gene drive.
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Tegan Armarego-Marriott, Senior Editor with Nature Climate Change for a casual conversation about your current interests related to “climate change biology”? (includes biology, ecology, ecosystem services, food security, human health).
Wednesday, February 15, 2023, Hill Library Faculty Commons, 2312N
- 10:30 - 12:00 Graduate Students (coffee & cookies provided)
- 12:00 - 1:30 Faculty Brownbag (bring your own lunch)
Hosts: the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs, the Coastal Resilience & Sustainability Initiative, and the SE Climate Adaptation Science Center. *Graduate students—a greet will admit you into the Faculty Commons and direct you to the conference room.
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Hartley, S., Stelmach, A., Delborne, J.A., Barnhill-Dilling, S.K. (2023). Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/09636625221148697. PDF
Pezzini D., Delborne J.A., and Reisig D. (2023). Plants People Planet. doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10352. PDF
Trump B, Cummings C, Klasa K, Galaitsi S, and Linkov I (2023), Front. Genet. 13:1052371. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1052371. PDF
Resnik, D.B., Medina, R.F., Gould, F., Church, G. & Kuzma, J. (2022): Pathogens and Global Health, DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2160895. PDF (requires login with Unity ID)
Kuzma, J. (2022). EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC). All workshop papers available at epfl.ch/research/domains/irgc/eset/. PDF
FAO (Kuzma, J. contributor). 2022. Rome. doi: 10.4060/cc3579en. PDF
Kuzma, J. (2023). In: Chaurasia, A., Kole, C. (eds) Cisgenic Crops: Safety, Legal and Social Issues. Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10721-4_8
Taitingfong, R.I.,... Gould, F., Delborne, J., Kuzma, J., Kuiken, T.,... et al. (2022) Nat Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01591-w. PDF
See all GES Faculty Publications at go.ncsu.edu/ges-pubs
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