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Public Lectures in Science Speakers Announced

ARDMORE, Okla. — The Noble Foundation is sponsoring a second season of Public Lectures in Science. The series is designed to present news about the fascinating work going on in the science world in plain, easy-to-understand language

It will begin on Oct. 30 with a lecture on the geology of the Arbuckle Mountains and the Ardmore Basin by Robert "Bob" Allen. Allen attended the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. He has worked in the Ardmore area and studied the local geology since 1954.

Joe Bouton, director of the Foundation's Forage Biotechnology Division will present the Jan. 15, 2004, lecture. He will discuss improvement of forage crops with a focus on local needs in a presentation titled "Crop Improvement: From Primitive Man to the Noble Foundation."

On April 8, 2004, Marilyn Roossinck, staff scientist in the Foundation's Plant Biology Division, will present a lecture on biodiversity and what it means for ecology and the health of our planet. She will draw on her involvement in a biodiversity inventory in northwestern Costa Rica in a lecture called "What's All This Talk About Biodiversity?"

All lectures will be held at 7 p.m. in the Kruse Auditorium of the Noble Foundation, located at 2510 Sam Noble Parkway. The lectures will be followed by a reception.

For more information, call the Foundation at (580) 223-5810.

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The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a non-profit organization conducting agricultural, forage improvement, and plant biology research; providing grants to numerous non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs.

To learn more, visit the Noble Foundation Web site at http://www.noble.org.

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