Next Scientia lecture slated for Feb. 19

Next
Scientia lecture slated for Feb. 19
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The 2001-2002
Scientia Colloquia will return with a talk by Larry McIntire,
Rice’s E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering and
Chemical Engineering, who will speak on “A World View
of Tissue Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges.”

McIntire, who
also is chair of the bioengineering department and chair
of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, will
deliver his talk at 4 p.m. Feb. 19 in the Kyle Morrow Room
on the third floor of Fondren Library. A wine-and-cheese
reception will follow.

The abstract
for McIntire’s Scientia talk states, “Tissue engineering
is an emerging interdisciplinary area of research and technology
that has the potential to revolutionize our methods of health
care treatment, with dramatic improvement in the quality
of life for millions of people throughout the world.

“This seminar
will evaluate different strengths and strategies employed
in Europe, North America and Japan with regard to the development
of tissue engineering. The role of government policy and
stem cell technology also will be discussed.”

The theme for
the 2001-2002 Scientia program is “Health and Welfare
Policy.” Speakers in the series address the prospects
for human health and welfare in the new century, focusing
on such key areas as behavioral and social factors in health,
ethical issues in medicine, biotechnology and its implications
for extending and improving human life and health and the
environment.

Scientia is
an institute of Rice University faculty founded in 1981
by the mathematician and historian of science Salomon Bochner.
Scientia provides an opportunity for scholarly discussion
across disciplinary boundaries; its members and fellows
come from a wide range of academic disciplines.