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Richard B. Primack highlights how climate change is hitting famed Walden Pond during Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture

The Boston University professor delivered last week’s lecture, presented by UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Richard B. Primack highlights how climate change is hitting famed Walden Pond during Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture

The Boston University professor delivered last week’s lecture, presented by UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Richard B. Primack highlights how climate change is hitting famed Walden Pond during Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture

May 11, 2023

The Boston University professor delivered last week’s lecture, presented by UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center, at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Eye on UMSL: An international welcome

UMSL Global team members kicked off Global Triton Welcome, a weeklong orientation to help new international students get acclimated ahead of the spring semester.

Buggy Harris Lecture details all the ways humans need insects

Entomologist May Berenbaum gave the 2017 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture at the Missouri Botanical Garden on March 23.

Buggy Harris Lecture details all the ways humans need insects

Entomologist May Berenbaum gave the 2017 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture at the Missouri Botanical Garden on March 23.

Buggy Harris Lecture details all the ways humans need insects

Mar 26, 2017

Entomologist May Berenbaum gave the 2017 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture at the Missouri Botanical Garden on March 23.

Now or never, says Harris lecturer on addressing climate change

Francis Beinecke was the featured speaker of UMSL’s 2016 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture. She is a McCluskey fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a senior fellow at the NRDC.

Now or never, says Harris lecturer on addressing climate change

Francis Beinecke was the featured speaker of UMSL’s 2016 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture. She is a McCluskey fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a senior fellow at the NRDC.

Now or never, says Harris lecturer on addressing climate change

Apr 14, 2016

Francis Beinecke was the featured speaker of UMSL’s 2016 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture. She is a McCluskey fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a senior fellow at the NRDC.

Famed ecologist visits UMSL campus, awarded conservation prize

Lincoln Brower was in St. Louis to give this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture, co-sponsored by the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL.

Famed ecologist visits UMSL campus, awarded conservation prize

Lincoln Brower was in St. Louis to give this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture, co-sponsored by the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL.

Famed ecologist visits UMSL campus, awarded conservation prize

Apr 20, 2014

Lincoln Brower was in St. Louis to give this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture, co-sponsored by the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL.

Harris Lecture to feature foremost expert on monarch butterflies

Apr 8, 2014

Many of the widely known facts about monarch butterflies that are presented in biology classes and nature documentaries, have come out of Lincoln Brower’s research.

Harris Lecture to feature Audubon’s chief scientist

Mar 4, 2013

Gary Langham, vice president and chief scientist for the National Audubon Society, will be the featured speaker at this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture.

New environmentalism topic of Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture

Mar 25, 2012

A scientist who extols the controversial concept of collaboration with big corporations and agribusiness to promote environmental sustainability and habitat restoration will be the speaker at this year’s Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. on April 3 in the Ridgeway Center’s Schoenberg Auditorium at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis. The lecture is free and open to the public.