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- 8:45 a.m. | Check In - Summit Lounge, J.C. Penney Conference Center, UMSL
- 9:00 a.m. | Opening and Welcome
- Tom George, Chancellor of UMSL
- Diane Touliatos, Director of the Center for the Humanities, UMSL
- 9:10 a.m. | City Life: On Thinking of the City as an Artificial Organism
- Robert T. Pennock, Professor, Lyman Briggs College, Philosophy, Computer Science & Engineering, and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior, Michigan State University
- 10:25 a.m. | What the Humanities Can Tell Science that Science Could Never Have Figured Out on its Own – and Vice Versa
- Geoffrey Harpham, Director of the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
- 11:30 a.m. | Can There be a Science of Cities?
- Jose Lobo, Associate Research Professor in School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Department of Economics, Arizona State University
- 12:10 p.m. | Lunch (on your own)
- 1:10 p.m. | Science Needs a Hollywood Agent (and other simple steps toward an environmentally literate citizenry)
- Sheila S. Voss, Vice President of Education, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Deborah Frank, Vice President of Sustainability, Missouri Botanical Garden
- 2:05 p.m. Flooding, Floodplain Development, and their Impact on the Environmental and Economic Health of Communities
- Bob Criss, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University
- 3:05 p.m. | Thinking about Systems: From the Science Classroom to the City
- Elena Bray Speth, Assistant Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University
- 4:05 p.m. | Giordano Bruno—Travels in Real and Imaginary Cities
- Sonya Bahar, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UMSL
- 8:45 a.m. | Check In - Summit Lounge, J.C. Penney Conference Center, UMSL
- 9:00 a.m. | Welcome
- Glen Cope, Provost, UMSL
- Karen Lucas, Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, UMSL
- 9:10 a.m. | Access to Life’s Possibilities—An Ecological Model for Becoming Informed and Sustainable Citizens
- Carole Basile, Dean of the College of Education, UMSL
- 10:00 a.m. | Conservation Medicine in a Changing World
- Sharon L. Deem, Director of the Institute for Conservation Medicine, St. Louis Zoo
- 10:50 a.m. | The Socio-cultural Relevance of Science Education for Sustainable Development—(Re)Connecting Schools, Communities and Society
- William C. Kyle, Jr., E. Desmond Lee Family Professor of Science Education, UMSL
- 12:10 p.m. | Creating Engagement—New Opportunities for Connecting Scientists and Citizens in Our City
- Ron Giesler, Director of Travel Programs, Saint Louis Science Center
- 12:45 p.m. | Conference Close
Advance registration is needed. Call (314) 516-5974 or register online. Registration is free and open to the public, although we ask that registrants please bring canned food donations, to be delivered to s St. Louis food pantry. Parking permits will be mailed to pre-registrants for a fee of $10. Parking in Lot C. Conference accessible by MetroLink and campus shuttle. Parking and building are disabled accessible.
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