The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in partnership with the Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation and the World Food Prize Foundation, invites you to attend the 2022 AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture.
The annual AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture was established to honor Charles Valentine Riley’s legacy and vision for enhancing agriculture through scientific knowledge. This year’s lecture will focus on emerging opportunities and challenges in agricultural pest management and technological innovations to support agricultural productivity and food security in the face of changing environmental conditions and feature a keynote address by Dr. Douglas Landis, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University.
Dr. Landis’s remarks will be followed by a Q&A session and a panel discussion with noted leaders Dr. Steven Bradbury, Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Ecology Management and Entomology at Iowa State University, Dr. Megan Fritz, Assistant Professor of Department of Entomology and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland and Dr. Linda Kinkel, Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota. The discussion will be led by Dr. Fred Gould, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agriculture at North Carolina State University. A reception will follow for the in-person attendees.
Agenda
4:30 pm Registration Opens
5:00 pm Keynote
5:45 pm Panel
6:30 pm Reception
For more information, please visit https://www.aaas.org/riley-lecture or contact the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues at epicenter@aaas.org
In association with FFAR, CAST, APLU-BAA and NCFAR.