Plants, People and Beyond returns:

July 16, 2015

The OSU Library and Department of Botany promote scientific savvy with the annual lecture, Plants, People and Beyond. This year, Nicholas Money presents "The Amoeba in the Room: Why Animals and Plants Don't Matter Very Much."

The event is April 12 in the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library. Refreshments are served at 3 p.m.; the program begins at 3:30 p.m.; a book sale and signing follow.

This is the fifth annual Library-Botany lecture series. This year's topic is microbial science. Money will deliberate on how microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways previously unimagined and how it is inspiring a new view of what it means to be human.

Money is a Professor of Botany and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on fungal biology. He also authored four books, including, "Mushroom," described by Nature magazine as a "brilliant scientific and cultural exploration."

"Plants, People and Beyond" is co-sponsored by the OSU departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Entomology and Plant Pathology, as well as the Oklahoma Native Plant Society-Cross Timbers Chapter and the OSU Botanical Society.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Bonnie Cain-Wood at bonnie.cain@okstate.edu or 405-744-7331. 

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/archived-news/spring-2013/plants-people-and-beyond-returns

Last Updated: 10 August 2018