Simpson College graduate and current Stanford University postdoctoral research scholar Heidi Arjes will present the first annual Anita Zahs Memorial Lecture Series on Friday, lecturing on Adaptation of Soil Bacteria to Imposed Stresses, which explains the correlation between bacterial response to stress and maintaining healthy soils during climate change. Arjes graduated from Simpson in 2008 with degrees in biochemistry and German, and earned a Ph.D. focused in biology, genetics and microbiology from Washington University in St. Louis.

The Anita Zahs Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Anita Zahs, a 2005 Simpson graduate who died in 2019 at age 35, and is made possible through the generous donations of Zahs’ friends and family. The lecture is

The virtual lecture will be held via Zoom at 3:30pm, and is available to all. For more information on registration, go to this story on KNIAKRLS.com.

To register for the free webinar, visit simpson.zoom.us.