[Plantsci] FW: DESPOMMIER TO SPEAK AT SHORT COURSE

Tue Mar 6 11:56:47 MST 2012

On Behalf of the CEAC:

DICKSON DESPOMMIER TO SPEAK ON VERTICAL FARMING

as part of the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture
Center Short Course, April 9-13, 2012. 

Dickson D. Despommier is a microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public
Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. He conducts
research on intracellular parasitism and teaches courses on Parasitic
Diseases, Medical Ecology and Ecology. In recent years, Despommier has
received considerable media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming. He
developed his concept of vertical farming with graduate students in a
medical ecology class in 1999.

Full Press Release Attached.

Short Course Information: http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date:          March 6, 2012

Contact:     Liz MacLellan, Events Coordinator

Phone:       520-626-9566

email:          <mailto:lizmac at email.arizona.edu> lizmac at email.arizona.edu

DICKSON DESPOMMIER TO SPEAK ON VERTICAL FARMING

as part of the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture
Center Short Course, April 9-13, 2012.

Dickson D. Despommier is a microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public
Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. He conducts
research on intracellular parasitism and teaches courses on Parasitic
Diseases, Medical Ecology and Ecology. In recent years, Despommier has
received considerable media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming. He
developed his concept of vertical farming with graduate students in a
medical ecology class in 1999.

The University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC)
2012 Short Course will focus on Controlled Environment Agriculture for food
production within traditional rural and non-traditional urban farms, with
special concerns for water, energy use and environmental stewardship.

Tuesday, AZ March 6, 2012: The University of Arizona's Controlled
Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) presents the 2012 Crop Production &
Engineering Design Short Course on April 8-12, 2012 at the Westward Look
resort. It was just announced that Dr. Dickson D. Despommier will be the
Guest Speaker at the Mission Award Dinner on Wednesday Evening, April 11,
2012 at the Westward Look Resort.

Dr. Despommier was born in New Orleans in 1940, and grew up in California
before moving to the New York area, where he now lives and work. He earned
his Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the University of Notre Dame, and for
27 years, conducted laboratory-based biomedical research with NIH-sponsored
support at Columbia University. He is now Emeritus Professor. Dr. Despommier
has always been interested in the environment and the damage we have caused
by the simple act of encroachment. At present, he is engaged in a project
whose mission is to produce significant amounts of food crops in tall
buildings situated in densely populated urban centers (see:
<http://www.verticalfarm.com/> www.verticalfarm.com and The Vertical Farm:
feeding the world in the 21st century, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's
Press, New York, 2010; paperback, Picadore Pubs. 2011). This initiative has
grown in acceptance over the last few years to the point of stimulating
planners and developers around the world to incorporate them into their
vision for the future city. It is very likely that some form of the vertical
farming will soon become part of the skyline of the built environment. There
are now five vertical farms up and running: Korea, Japan, Holland and two in
the U.S.A). Dr. Despommier has received numerous teaching awards, including
the national American Medical Student Golden Apple Award for Teaching
Excellence in 2003. He has published three books, over 70 peer-reviewed
scientific papers, and numerous review articles on a wide variety of
subjects. He has lectured on the subject of vertical farming at MIT,
Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Columbia University, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Brigham Young University, The Singularity University, and to various city
(Chicago; New York City; Seattle; Newark, New Jersey; Los Angeles; Seoul,
Korea; Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Bangalore and Coimbatore, India) and
federal government agencies, including the IMF, USDA and USAID. He has been
on the Colbert Report, and given a TED talk, PopTech, PINC, Ars Electronica,
and five TEDx talks (Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, and Bermuda). He
lives with his wife Marlene Bloom in Fort Lee, New Jersey. 

For more Short Course details and information, visit our website at
<http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac> http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac or contact Liz
MacLellan at 520-626-9566  <mailto:lizmac at email.arizona.edu>
lizmac at email.arizona.edu

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Liz MacLellan

Administrative Assistant/Events Coordinator

Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC)

The University of Arizona

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering

1951 E Roger Rd, Tucson AZ 85719

Phone: 520-626-9566  Fax: 520-626-1700

Email:  <mailto:ceac at ag.arizona.edu> ceac at ag.arizona.edu  Web:
<http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/> http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/

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