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The River Oaks Garden Club
Invites you to the 13th Annual Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental Seminar |
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| "Can the Rainforests Save You?" | ||||||||||
| The 2003 Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental Seminar will examine the role of tropical plants in the health profession. The lectures, entitled “Can the Rainforests Save You? Using Tropical Plants in Medicine,” will take place on Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 9:30 a.m. in the IMAX Theater at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Dr. Donald Stone and Sr. Luis Diego Gomez will speak at the seminar. Both these men have had long-term affiliations with the Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS). Established forty years ago, OTS is an international consortium of 65 universities and research institutions (including Rice University, The University of Texas-Austin, Harvard University, and Yale University) that provides graduate and undergraduate training, facilitates scientific research, and maintains three biological stations in Costa Rica. Dr. Stone served as the Executive Director of OTS for twenty years before assuming the responsibility of Chairman of the Duke University Department of Botany. Now as Emeritus Professor of Botany, Dr. Stone is active in research. Sr. Gomez is the Director of the OTS operated Las Cruces Biological Station and Wilson Botanical Garden in Costa Rica. He is a charter member of the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences and served as the coordinator of the American Botanical Council Rainforest Pharmacy Workshops in the Amazon. Mark you calendars for this fascinating presentation. Coffee will be available at 9:00 am, and the program will begin at 9:30 am. Admission is open to the public and free of cost. |
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