{"id":121500,"date":"2022-03-29T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=121500"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:02:13","slug":"carmichael-lecture-to-highlight-state-of-bee-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/29\/carmichael-lecture-to-highlight-state-of-bee-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmichael Lecture in Environmental Sciences to highlight state of bee health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christina Grozinger is the Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State.<\/p><\/div>\n

Without bees, humanity would be in trouble. We are seeing a decline in bees and other pollinators due to pesticides, habitat destruction and a variety of other stressors.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Wayne Carmichael Lecture in Environmental Sciences<\/a>, \u201cPredicting and Managing Bee Health in a Changing World,\u201d is a way that Wright State University hopes to bring awareness to the stressors that can affect bees and other pollinators.<\/p>\n

The lecture features Christina Grozinger, Ph.D., the Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State University.<\/p>\n

Grozinger will present her lecture on Thursday, April 7, at 4 p.m. in 101 Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Before the lecture, the Wright State College of Science and Mathematics<\/a> will recognize recipients of the West Rock Scholarship in Sustainability. The students who received the competitive scholarship will have their names and pictures on display before the lecture begins.<\/p>\n

Don Cipollini, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and director of the Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program<\/a>\u00a0at Wright State, said he is personally interested in the health of pollinators and is interested to hear Grozinger\u2019s expert opinion on environmental effects on pollinators.<\/p>\n

Cipollini said there is debate among scholars on the rate of decline among pollinators, as well as discussion on how a variety of stressors affect native bees relative to honeybees or other insects and animals that pollinate plants.<\/p>\n

He said that the health of bees can affect everyone and he is looking forward to hearing an expert\u2019s opinion on the current state of bee health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t just an issue for farmers, it\u2019s an issue for everyone who eats food,\u201d Cipollini said.<\/p>\n

Grozinger is a fellow of the Entomological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<\/p>\n

Her studies on pollinator health evaluate the impacts of a variety of stressors and how bees can build resistance to stressors through management practices and environmental contexts, particularly by improving nutrition. Grozinger has received several awards for her research efforts.<\/p>\n

Cipollini encourages anyone who is interested to attend Grozinger\u2019s lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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