ChESS Series: “Resolving Host-Microbe Conflict,” with Toby Kiers
LENGTH ・ 00:44:33Toby Kiers, University Research Chair and professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Amsterdam, presented, “Resolving Host-Microbe Conflict,” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. This event was the first in PEI’s Challenges in Environmental…
Taplin Environmental Lecture: “The Future of Water” by Peter Gleick
LENGTH ・ 01:20:19Tuesday, September 26, 2017 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm Peter Gleick, President Emeritus of the Pacific Institute and a renowned expert on water and climate issues, will present, “The Future of Water,” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, in Guyot…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Lead Exposure and the Black-White Test Score Gap
LENGTH ・ 00:55:21We consider a new source of racial disparities in test scores: African American students’ disproportionate exposure to environmental toxins, and, in particular, lead. Using a unique individual-level dataset of children’s preschool lead levels linked with future educational outcomes for…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease
LENGTH ・ 00:53:11“Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination” by Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as…
Demography and Dynamics of Acute Childhood Infections
LENGTH ・ 00:55:07Bryan Grenfell – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. We analyze the impact of birth seasonality (seasonal oscillations in…
Interactions Between Climate and Regional Air Quality in the U.S.
LENGTH ・ 01:00:37Interactions Between Climate and Regional Air Quality in the U.S.: How Changing Climate May Affect Smog and How Cleaning Up Smog May Affect Climate Loretta J. Mickley – Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Loretta Mickley co-leads the Atmospheric…
The Challenge of Introducing New Vaccines: The UK Perspective
LENGTH ・ 00:58:03Professor David Salisbury CB – Associate Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security.Before joining Chatham House, David Salisbury was director of immunisation at the Department of Health until the end of 2013. He was responsible for the national immunisation programme and led…