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Emilia Tikka – EUDAIMONIA (Art’s Work/Genetic Futures) | GES Colloquium
Artist Emilia Tikka will talk about her interdisciplinary practice combining storytelling methods, feminist technoscience and speculative design, following with an introduction to her work Eudaimonia....Continue reading "Emilia Tikka – EUDAIMONIA (Art’s Work/Genetic Futures) | GES Colloquium"
Post-Atwood Event Discussion and Debriefing | GES Colloquium
Join us for a follow-up discussion to Margaret Atwood's visit to NC State. ...Continue reading "Post-Atwood Event Discussion and Debriefing | GES Colloquium"
Cami Ryan on being a social scientist in the Ag industry | GES Colloquium
Cami Ryan joins us from Bayer CropScience and explores the challenges of food, technology, and societies through the lens of a “boundary spanning” personal narrative: a social scientist working in the ag industry....Continue reading "Cami Ryan on being a social scientist in the Ag industry | GES Colloquium"
Pre-event discussion of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx & Crake | GES Colloquium
Join us for a discussion of Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake in preparation for Ms. Atwood's talks at NC State on November 15....Continue reading "Pre-event discussion of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx & Crake | GES Colloquium"
Brandon Hollingsworth on Preventing dengue using Wolbachia infected mosquitoes | GES Colloquium
Dengue is estimated to infect 390 million individuals a year worldwide, with around 3.9 billion people at risk of infection. Currently, there are no licensed vaccinations or therapeutic treatments for the disease and control of the vector species through conventional methods has proven inefficient and costly. One possible novel vector control technique to prevent outbreaks relies on infection with the bacterium, Wolbachia....
Lyubov Kurkalova – North Carolina crop rotations and cropland use intensity | GES Colloquium
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....
Pre-Opening: Lucky Mice Throwing Dice by Joe Davis (Art’s Work/Genetic Futures)
Artist Joe Davis will be conducting the Lucky Mice experiment in the D.H. Hill exhibit gallery, with a breakout brown-bag lunch to talk to students....Continue reading "Pre-Opening: Lucky Mice Throwing Dice by Joe Davis (Art’s Work/Genetic Futures)"
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Future Exhibition
Opening Reception for Art's Work/Genetic Futures, a multi-site art-science exhibit and symposium led by the NC State University libraries and the GES Center, held at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, with additional exhibits in the physical and digital display spaces of the libraries....Continue reading "Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Future Exhibition"
