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  ·  Address of the BSA President-Elect - Dr. Karl Niklas
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  ·  Biogeography
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  ·  Economic Botany: Evolution of Cultivated Plants
  ·  Economic Botany: History of Plants and People
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  ·  Pollination Biology
  ·  Population Genetics
  ·  Stress Tolerance
  ·  Symbioses: Plant, Animal, and Microbe Interactions

Symposium or Colloquium Presentation

  ·  Bryophytes and Lichens of North America: Diversity, Function and Importance
  ·  Colloquium: The flora of Madagascar: research needs and research progress
  ·  Colloquium: The Utility of Pollen in Systematic and Morphological Studies: A Celebration of the Life of John J. Skvarla
  ·  Demand for Botanists on Public Lands: Challenges and Solutions
  ·  From Gels to Genomics: The Evolving Landscape of Pteridology. A Celebration of Gerald Gastony's Contributions to Fern Evolutionary Biology
  ·  Phylogeography of northern North America with insights from paleontological, geological, and molecular data
  ·  Plants and fungi--growing together
  ·  Pollination to Population Structure - How Understanding Reproductive Biology Can Inform Conservation of Rare Plants
  ·  Polyploidy: Genetics, Evolution and Ecology
  ·  President's Symposia - Understanding the Crisis in Science Literacy: The BSA is Planting Science in the 21st Century
  ·  The Future of Botany Teaching
  ·  The Future of International Botanical Research: possibilities and strategies for your International collaborations and research, especially in developing nations
  ·  Tropical Biodiversity and Food Security
  ·  Understanding plant evolution: morphology to molecules
  ·  Wollemia nobilis: Modern Studies of an Ancient Plant

Presentations for Society\Section: President's Symposia - Understanding the Crisis in Science Literacy: The BSA is Planting Science in the 21st Century

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Tuesday, July 29th

Tuesday, July 29th, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm · 182/I K Barber
Session S10: Symposium: President's Symposia - Understanding the Crisis in Science Literacy: The BSA is Planting Science in the 21st Century
Presiding: Christopher H. Haufler, University of Kansas
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S10001July 29th 1:30 pm182/I K BarberUnderstanding the Crisis in Science Literacy: The BSA is Planting Science in the 21st Century
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationHaufler, Christopher H..
S10002July 29th 1:40 pm182/I K BarberThe Multiple Meanings of Public Understanding: Why Definitions Matter to the Communication of Science
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationNisbet, Matthew C..science communication
communication research
S10003July 29th 2:25 pm182/I K BarberThe science of communication
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationScheufele, Dietram.science communication
communication research
strategic communication
ethics
S10004July 29th 3:10 pm182/I K BarberImproving the Public Understanding of Science
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationScotchmoor, Judith; Caldwell, Roy; Thanukos, Anna; Allison, Lee; O\'Grady, Richard.education
scientific teaching
literacy
public understanding
scientific method
Science Education
Year of Science
COPUS
S10005July 29th 3:55 pm182/I K BarberBotanical literacy: what should people know about plants?
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationUno, Gordon.literacy
S10006July 29th 4:40 pm182/I K BarberHistory and evolution of the BSA initiative, plantingscience.org
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Symposium or Colloquium PresentationSundberg, Marshall.Inquiry
mentoring
outreach
PlantingScience
history

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