Published on November 12, 2019 by Sean Flynt  
Nanga Parbat
Pakistan's Nanga Parbat mountain (Tahsin Anwar Ali, Wikipedia Commons)

Samford University’s Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences will host molecular biologist Benish Ali for the department’s Esteemed Scholars Lecture in Biology Nov. 14, 2019, at 3 p.m. in Christenberry Planetarium.

Ali, a professor at COMSATS University Islamabad and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, will speak on “The Ecological Diversity of Pakistan and the Impact of Climate Change”.

The event is free and open to the public.

 
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