2022 AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture (11/30) and the RMF Leadership Breakfast Roundtable (12/1)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in partnership with the Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation and the World Food Prize Foundation, invites you to attend the 2022 AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture and the RMF Leadership Breakfast Roundtable.

If you are attending both Lecture and Leadership Breakfast Roundtable, please register twice – once for each event

Lecture: Designing Pest-Suppressive Agricultural Landscapes for a Changing World

Dr. Douglas Landis

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University

Please join us in person or virtually on: Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm ET

Reception to follow

In-person Lecture and Reception

AAAS Headquarters

Auditorium, 2nd floor

1200 New York Ave N.W.

Washington, DC 20005

(Entrance on 12th and H Street)

Virtual Lecture: Zoom link will be sent after registration


Leadership Breakfast Roundtable

Federal Funding for Agricultural R&D

Please join us in person or virtually on Thursday, December 1, 2022 8:00 am to 10:00 am ET

In-person Leadership Roundtable

AAAS Headquarters

Abelson/Haskins, 2nd floor

1200 New York Ave N.W.

Washington, DC 20005

(Entrance on 12th and H Street)

Virtual Leadership Roundtable: Zoom link will be sent after registration

The annual AAAS Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture was established to honor Charles Valentine Riley’s legacy and vision for enhancing agriculture through scientific knowledge. This year’s lecture will focus on emerging opportunities and challenges in agricultural pest management and technological innovations to support agricultural productivity and food security in the face of changing environmental conditions and feature a keynote address by Dr. Douglas Landis, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University.

Dr. Landis’s remarks will be followed by a Q&A session and a panel discussion with noted leaders Dr. Steven Bradbury, Professor in the Departments of Natural Resource Ecology Management and Entomology at Iowa State University, Dr. Megan Fritz, Assistant Professor of Department of Entomology and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, and Dr. Linda Kinkel, Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota. The discussion will be led by Dr. Fred Gould, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agriculture at North Carolina State University. A reception will follow for the in-person attendees.

The annual RMF Leadership Breakfast Roundtable is an invitation-only special event with leaders in agriculture, government, academia, and research on the panel and in the audience. The roundtable will be moderated by Andrew LaVigne, member of the RMF Board, and President and CEO of the American Seed Trade Association. Invited panelists include elected officials and agency leaders. This year’s roundtable will focus on the importance of federally supported food, agricultural and natural resources research, to meet present and future challenges of the nation. We designed this year’s agenda so that Roundtable participants will be able to engage in discussion.

Lecture Agenda

November 30, 2022 4:30 pm Registration Opens 5:00 pm Keynote 5:45 pm Panel 6:30 pm Reception

Leadership Breakfast Roundtable Agenda

December 1, 2022

7:30 am Registration/Breakfast Opens 8:00 am Introduction 8:15 am Roundtable 10:00 am Adjourn

For more information, please visit https://www.aaas.org/riley-lecture or contact the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues at epicenter@aaas.org

In association with CAST, APLU-BAA, and NCFAR.

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