With sketches and symposia, UC Davis this month celebrates Nobel Prize-winning discoveries in science and offers a glimpse of what lies ahead in researching the big global challenges of food, agriculture and health.
Three events are planned. They are free and open to the public, or you can watch them live, online.
The sketches are “Sketches of Science: Photo Sessions with Nobel Laureates.” The laureates drew their Nobel-winning science, then posed with their sketches for photos. You can see them today (Jan. 6) through Jan. 28 at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, in the first and only planned showing of the exhibition in the United States.
An opening ceremony will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Speakers include two Nobel laureates whose photos and sketches are in the exhibition: Bruce Beutler, physiology or medicine 2011, and Brian Kobilka, chemistry 2012.
The program also includes the photographer, Volker Steger; Olov Amelin, director of the Nobel Museum, which produced the exhibition; and Nikolaus Turner, a member of the executive board, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which collaborated with the museum.
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Watch a live stream of the opening ceremony.
Read more about the exhibition.
Discovery and innovation
The symposia are set for next week:
• “An Exploration of Scientific Discovery, Innovation and Collaboration in Food, Agriculture and Health” — This UC Davis-Mars, Incorporated symposium marks the official launch of the Innovation Institute for Food and Health, part of the World Food Center at UC Davis.
The symposium is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts: sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a reception will follow until 6:30 p.m.
UC San Francisco’s Elizabeth Blackburn, winner of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 2009, will give a keynote address at 9:40 a.m.
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• “Disruptive Innovators: A New Look at Food and Agriculture” — Presented by The Aspen Institute and UC Davis. Kai Ryssdal, host of American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” will lead a discussion with investors and entrepreneurs thinking outside the box about challenges in the food and agriculture industry. Participants will include Ralph Jerome, vice president for corporate innovation at Mars, Incorporated, and Alex Wilcox, founding executive of JetBlue. This event runs from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in the Vanderhoef Theater.
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