Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professorship Installations

The installations of Moriah B. Bostian as the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of Economics and Anne K. Bentley as the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Associate Professor of Science followed by their inaugural lectures.
Science at the nanoscale: How the teeny tiny could help solve big problems
Anne Bentley, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Associate Professor of Science Nanoscale particles are smaller than a biological cell and too small to see with our eyes. How can these tiny particles have an impact on global problems like energy use and medicine? And who is involved in creating the new knowledge?
Economic Productivity and Adaptation to Climate Change
Moriah Bostian, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of Economics
Moriah Bostian presents her work at the intersection of economic productivity, the environment, and economic index theory. This work involves introducing a new economic indicator to measure adaptation to climate change in terms of changing economic productivity over time as well as incorporating changing pollution to the environment from economic production, to measure productivity in terms of both economic and environmental outcomes. She has applied this new productivity-based adaptation indicator to U.S. agricultural production over the past several decades.