Biology Department Hosts Sustainability Symposium March 26

Contact: (336) 334-4314

Posted 3-2-10

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Department of Biology, with financial support from Syngenta, has organized an afternoon symposium – Practical Steps toward Sustainability – for 1-5 p.m. Friday, March 26, in Sullivan Science Building.

Free and open to the public, the symposium will be held in the building’s Jaylee Montague Mead Auditorium and will feature four internationally recognized speakers:

• Dr. Robert Jackson, director of Duke University’s Center on Global Change, will discuss the problems of nitrogen pollution.

• Dr. Patricia Gober, co-director of the National Science Foundation’s Decision Center for a Desert City, will discuss water resource sustainability.

• Dr. Susan Smalley, director of the Michigan State University C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems, will discuss community-based food systems.

• Mr. Frank Harmon, award-winning architect and leader in the field of sustainable design, will discuss sustainable architecture.

Free parking will be available in the McIver Street Parking Deck. To find the location of the parking deck and the Sullivan Science Building, visit www.uncg.edu/online_map/.

For more information about the symposium, call (336) 334-5391.