MEDIA CONTACT: Patsy Jones
561-297-1307, patsyj@fau.edu

FAU Frontiers in Science Spring Series Presents ‘Understanding Plants & People: Ethnobotany in the Developing World’

WHAT:                    Dr. Maria Fadiman, assistant professor of geosciences in
                                 Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of
                                 Science, will lecture on "Understanding Plants & People:
                                 Ethnobotany in the Developing World."

WHEN:                Thursday, January 31 at 3:30 p.m.

WHERE:              Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center
                                     Room 126
                                     FAU’s Boca Raton Campus

COST:                         Free and open to the public. Parking available in Lot 4.

CONTACT:                 For information, contact Patsy Jones at 561-297-1307
                                     or patsyj@fau.edu.

FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science’s Frontiers in Science public lecture series will continue its seventh year with this one-hour lecture with Dr. Maria Fadiman. Fadiman, who was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, will discuss the research she conducted with the individuals with whom she lives, works with and studies in Ecuador’s rainforests, Africa’s savannah and the Gala?pagos Islands.

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