CBR Hosts Workshop on Risk Assessment

The Center for Biological Risk organized a workshop on quantitative risk assessment on May 8 – May 10, 2018. Chris Field, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, led workshop participants through lectures, discussion, and hands-on analysis of biological risks. The session covered current and emerging methods for quantifying risk across a range of scales, including both Bayesian and frequentist approaches, as well as software programs available for analyses.

John Holdren Lecture

John Holdren, science advisor to President Obama, to deliver opening lecture for Center of Biological risk entitled “What Obama Did. What Trump is Doing. What Can We Do.” See the lecture on Monday, October 9th at 4 pm in Student Union Theater.