Check out this new blog piece on our work! Here is an excerpt quote in the piece: “A lot of international attention has been focused on the Balkans to try to support reconciliation and development. If you really want to help local communities in a way that’s sustainable and culturally…
Attention Emory students: The syllabus for HLTH440: Botanical Medicine and Health is now available here. More info on the course can also be found on the etnobotanica.us website here.
Photos from the October 2014 fieldwork with students from the University of Prishtina are now up! Visit this link to view the pictures : https://etnobotanica.us/photos/fieldwork-in-kosovo
Save the Date- Thursday, August 21st! I’ll be giving the Science Cafe talk in the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Plants and Human Health Series. This will be a fun, interactive evening, with hands-on activities that coincides with Cocktails in the Garden! So, plan on coming at 6pm to enjoy a cocktail,…
I have just completed an ethnobotanical field study on the volcanic island of Pantelleria n collaboration with Dr. Alessandro Saitta, mycologist and Asst. Professor at the University of Palermo, Italy and with support from the Emory Center for the Study of Human Health. Dr. Saitta and I examined the local…
A new playlist “Food Monographs” is available on Dr. Quave’s TeachEthnobotany YouTube Channel. These videos were created by students enrolled in Dr. Quave’s “Food, Health and Society” course as a final project. Click here to access the free videos. Remember to subscribe to the channel to get updates as new…
Dr. Quave will be attending an international conference on “Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM)” in Abu Dhabi, UAE on December 10th, 2013. The conference, which is hosted by the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine, has a theme of “Sustainable TCAM Development Strategies for the 21st Century”.…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture titled “Medicines from nature: Ethnobotany and the science of human health” as part of the Emory University Anthropology Department Seminar series on November 11th, 2013 in the Anthropology building, room 303 at 4:15 pm. Dr. Quave is an Associated Faculty member with the department.…
Dr. Quave will present an invited lecture on the role of ethnobotanical research to anti-infective drug discovery at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL on February 21st, 2014. This lecture is open to the public as part of the Frontiers in Science Public Lecture series. More details will be…
On October 31, 2013, Dr. Quave will visit Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands) as a guest of the Leiden BioScience Initiative to give an invited lecture in the van Leeuwenhoek Lecture series on BioScience. Quave will present on research progress being made in her lab and with collaborators in drug…
