Fusarium, Mycotoxins, and Global Food Security Global food security is a complex topic with a Pandora’s Box of human and natural causes such as conflicts, pests, diseases, and weather that reduce yiel...

Impacts of Climate Change on Global Health: Mitigation and Adaptation Within the past year, the human population exceeded 8 billion. Some estimates suggest that we, together with the animals that feed...

Of Cows and Men: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Human Consumption of Milk Humans domesticated cattle approximately 11,000 years ago in multiple regions of the world independently. Consuming...

Closing Gaps to End HIV/AIDS as a Global Public Health Threat by 2030 and Improve Global Health Security In 2003, a staggering 36% of people in certain parts of sub-Saharan Africa had a death sentence...

Building the Embassy of the Future: Materials Matter Building an embassy in every climate, time zone, landscape, and political environment in the world requires comprehensive considerations of safety,...

Environmental Science Diplomacy for Climate Change and the Energy Transition The impacts of climate change are felt worldwide, with coastal cities bearing the brunt of sea level rise and the increasin...

The Past, the Present, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence In 2022, multiple large machine learning models were released to a broad audience and consequently, artificial intelligence received si...

NEW MODALITIES FOR U.S.–INDIA COLLABORATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION India’s National Education Policy 2020 aims to radically change the Indian education ecosystem. During the past year, new modalities ha...

LEVERAGING PARALLELISM AND DISTRIBUTION TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND RESILIENCE In this talk, we present an overview of how the techniques of parallelism and distribution have been used to improve the p...

Biodiversity's Foundational Role in Planetary and Human Security Human civilizations have developed in a time of stable climate and abundant biodiversity. These planetary conditions and resources have...

Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds: Lessons about Judgmental Forecasting The talk will describe research conducted as part of two large-scale forecasting competitions sponsored by the Intelligence Advanc...