Date: February 12, 2020
Where: Global Resource Center on the WNMU campus
Title: The Evolution of Human Breast Milk: It’s More Than Just a Meal
Description: Human breast milk differs significantly from our nearest primate ancestors and is a complex fluid containing over 1000 bioactive substances.
In addition to the obvious importance as nutritional substrate and mother/infant bonding, the roles of initiating immune processes, signaling neurodevelopment, presenting growth factors for organ systems, establishing the infants healthy microbiome, as well as other functions, all with lifelong implications for health and disease, will be discussed.
Presenter: Fred Fox, MD
Biography: Fred obtained a degree in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. A Family Medicine residency and brief faculty position at Duke followed his MD at UNM. He and Patty Reed, his spouse, have lived in Silver City since 1987 where he has done family practice, emergency medicine, geriatrics, and public health.
All Lunch and Learn Presentations are free and open to the public.
Date: February 19, 2020
When: noon-1:00 pm
Title: “The Wisdom of the Crowd: The Role of Prices, Profits and Losses in a Market Economy”
Description: When it comes to an economy, societies are faced with three questions: What to produce? How to produce it? And, who gets it? This lecture will discuss how the decisions of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people can be conveniently summarized and acted upon to produce what society wants and what can happen when societies depart from that.
Presenter: Dr. Steven M. Chavez
Biography: Steven M. Chavez is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Dean of the College of Professional Studies at Western New Mexico University. He formerly served as Professor of Economics and Finance and MBA Program Director in the School of Business. He is currently in his 19th year at the university.
Location: Global Resource Center on the Western New Mexico University campus, Kentucky and 12th Street.
All Lunch and Learn Presentations are free and open to the public.
Date: February 26, 2020
Where: Global Resource Center on the WNMU campus
Title: Mac Schweitzer: One Woman’s Southwest
Description: This presentation explores the adventure-filled art career of Mac Schweitzer (1923-1962), an amazing free spirit and pioneering artist in the American Southwest. Known as one of Tucson’s “early modernists,” she experimented with realistic, impressionistic, and abstract styles. Her artwork depicts Navajo and Hopi families, other neighbors and friends, Sonoran Desert animals and plants, and Four Corners landscapes and ancient sites. The talk will be richly illustrated with images of Mac’s paintings, prints and sculptures.
Presenter: Ann Hedlund
Biography: Ann Lane Hedlund, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist interested in living artists and their creative expression. Since the mid-1970s she has undertaken collaborative fieldwork with Navajo weavers and other craftspeople and art-makers. Ann retired in 2013 as curator of ethnology and professor of anthropology at Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson.
All Lunch and Learn Presentations are free and open to the public.