Dr. Yadong Qi, professor of urban
forestry, was selected to give two oral presentations at the International
Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) XXIV World Congress, in Salt
Lake City, Oct. 5-11, 2014. Her first talk entitled “Greenspace infrastructure
and Public Perception of representative Country Parks in Beijing, China” was
given at the Technical Session A-04(88) Resilience and Identity with Urban
Forests: A Landscape Approach, which featured eight international talks from
Japan, Turkey, Australia, Korea, Thailand, USA, and Italy. Qi’s second talk entitled “Novel
Nanotechnology for Forest and Forest Product Protection” was given at the
Technical Session F-15(259) Application of Nanotechnology and Biotechnology in
Forest Product Research, which featured five international talks from
China-Taipei, Malaysia, USA, and Germany. The abstracts have been published in
The International Forestry Review Vol.16(5),2014;
p29, p309.
Also, Dr. Qi attended the International Union of Photobiology
(IUPB) 16th International Congress on Photobiology, from September
8-12, 2014 in Cordoba, Argentina. Dr. Qi was selected to give one oral
presentation entitled “UV Radiation and Its Impact on Skin Cancer in the United
States” at the Technical Session of UV-Induced Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis.
The session featured five international talks from France, Japan, Poland,
Canada, and USA. In addition Dr. Qi had a poster presentation entitled “UV-B
Tolerance Properties Exhibited in Diverse Broadleaf Trees” at the Congress. The
abstracts were published in the 16th International Congress on
Photobiology Abstract Book: p277, p614.
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Contact:
Bridget Udoh
(225) 771-5714
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