The Multicultural Center and Lifespan invite you to attend the Keynote Address of URI’s 12th Annual Diversity Week
Presented by
Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes
Professor, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
From ‘Silent Spring’ to Silent Night: The Silent Attack of Pesticides on the Human Immune System.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
7:30pm
Memorial Union Ballroom
When Syngenta, the world’s largest multinational chemical corporation commissioned Tyrone B. Hayes and his lab to conduct research on the effects of environmental exposure to atrazine, the nation’s most widely used pesticide and the firm’s top selling product in 1997, it set the stage for a classic David and Goliath struggle, pitting the young professor and his allies in the academic world and non-profit worlds against the giant corporation and its researchers. Hayes holds a B.S degree in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard University in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree in integrative biology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. Hired in 1995, he attained tenure at UC Berkeley in 1997, rising to full professor in 2002 at age 36.
For more information, please contact the MCC at 874-2851 or visit our website at www.uri.edu/mcc
