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Kyoto Prize Laureate Graham Farquhar To Speak on March 21

UC San Diego is pleased to join with the University of San Diego, San Diego State University and Point Loma Nazarene University in hosting The 2018 Kyoto Prize Symposium. As part of the symposium, recipients of the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, will present lectures that are free and open to the public.

One of the world’s most distinguished plant physiologists and recipient of the 2017 Kyoto Prize in “Basic Sciences,” Graham Farquhar, Ph.D., will speak at UC San Diego from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21, in the Price Center West Ballroom. Dr. Farquhar has created process-based models of photosynthesis that have led to advances in drought resistant crops, as well as furthered understanding of how water evaporation in plants affects climate change.

At a reception immediately following the talk, Dr. Farquhar will meet attendees and high school students—many from underserved communities— who are invited to campus to explore the possibility of careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.

For more information and to register for the free lecture, please visit http://www.kyotoprizeusa.org.

Pradeep K. Khosla Chancellor