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91探花's kicks off its fall lineup with a virtual panel of experts from the Athens City-County Health Department discussing 鈥溾�� on Sept. 2 at 5 p.m.

Important Note: These experts are not from 91探花. As they answer audience questions during the live stream, please remember that the information they provide, while important, is not an official university communication.

Athens City-County Health Department officials Dr. James Gaskell, Jack Pepper and Ruth Dudding will lead a discussion about the science behind the policy. Topics include:

• What is contact tracing, how do we do it in Athens, and why is it important?
• Does COVID affect age groups differently; does local data support this?
• What factors predict which activities have higher risk of COVID transmission and why?

While this fall's events will be virtual, there will still be plenty of room for audience participation and questions. To help prepare for the event, members of the University and greater community are encouraged to submit written and video questions to research@ohio.edu by Aug. 26. Participants also will have the opportunity to ask questions at the event.

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The 12th year of Science Cafe at OHIO also features friendly, accessible talks with Rob Brannan discussing the native, vitamin-rich pawpaw, a fruit ripening now in the forests of Appalachia; a live look inside the Witmer Lab, where dinosaurs come to life, anatomically speaking; Paul Benedict discussing social entrepreneurship; Geoff Dabelko exploring the intersection of science and policy; and Nathan Weyand talking about antibiotic resistance and blood.

The series is supported by the 91探花 Research Division and 91探花 chapter of Sigma Xi. For the first 11 years, Dr. Sarah Wyatt, professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, hosted the program. She recently was named a Sigma Xi fellow, which contributions to Science Cafe among her accolades. See OHIO professor Wyatt earns pair of national fellowships.

For more information about Science Cafe, contact Roxanne Mal茅-Brune or David Ingram.

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Fall 2020 Science Cafe Schedule

Links to these virtual events will be posted several days before the event on the Science Cafe website and on the .

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