Nov 18, 2020 2:00- 3:30 PM (PST)
Introduction By Tim Honadel Director, International Services and Programs.
Title: "Does Everything Really Cause Cancer? The Truth Behind Cancer Myths"
Presentor: Dr. Kelly Cude
College of the Canyons Presents the 2020 International Forum on Youth during International Education Week! [ Ссылка ]
For the second year in a row, College of the Canyons hosted an International Forum on Youth on November 16-19, 2020, which will highlight the challenges faced by today’s young people through lectures, scholarly presentations, and other virtual events.
Hosted by COC’s International Services & Programs, the four-day forum was designed to help foster strong scholarship among faculty, form connections with international scholars, encourage dialogue on challenging topics that are timely and international by nature, and generate interest among faculty, students, and staff for projects and education abroad.
The 2020 International Forum on Youth will feature scholars and experts from Australia, Morocco, and other nations, along with COC professors, who will provide insights into today’s youth based on their respective areas of expertise.
The forum will include a student panel that will offer COC students a chance to voice their perspectives.
For more information about the 2020 International Forum on Youth, please email cocglobal@canyons.edu.
Presentor:
Dr. Kelly Cude joined the College of the Canyons (COC) Biological Sciences Department in January 2007 and has taught a multitude of courses ranging from cell biology and microbiology to molecular genetics and cancer biology. Dr. Cude grew up in a coastal community near Monterey Bay California where she attended community college before transferring to the University of California, Davis (B.S. Genetics, 1998) and the University of Washington, Seattle (Ph.D. Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2004). Following her Ph.D. studies, Dr. Cude took a full-time teaching position at Western Washington University, before transferring to COC. One of her goals as an instructor is to help her students to change their perspective of the living world by highlighting the amazingly diverse, complex, and intricate world of cells, the smallest unit of life. In addition, she hopes to increase science literacy within her students by dispelling common science myths and by instilling an appreciation for critical thinking.
Her scientific field of study (and personal passion!) is cancer biology. While Dr. Cude has worked in many areas of cancer research, including Phase II Clinical Trials at the National Cancer Institute, gene sequencing, and in vivo assays in cultured cancer cells, one of her favorite ways to spend time is looking at cells through the microscope. In the Fall of 2013, along with her co-presenter Professor Kelly Burke, Dr. Cude exhibited a collection of photomicrographs at their collaborative art show, ‘Life as Art.” The exhibit was highlighted in their 2014 TEDx presentation and remains on permanent display in the Biological Sciences Department at COC. Although no longer performing bench research, Dr. Cude continues to present locally, nationally, and internationally on a variety of cancer topics including cancer risk factors, the biology of tumor formation, and targeted cancer therapies.
