Guest Speaker: Temple Grandin
Different Diverse Minds Will be More Effective in Solving Problems
Temple Grandin will speak at the Plenary Session on Monday, February 2, 2015
"In my lecture I will discuss how people with different approaches to problem solving can complement each other's skills to do innovative research and solve problems. I am a visual thinker and another person may be a more quantitative mathematical thinker. There is research that shows that these different types of thought processes are real. My talk will help both research scientists and people in the field to understand each other and work together more effectively. I will also discuss how visual thinking helped me understand animal behavior."
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Grandin, who is autistic and didn’t speak until she was three and a half years old, has become possibly the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. Through her books and speeches, she is a strong advocate of overcoming the diagnosis.
Her talk at the SRM meetings will focus on her current career as a livestock-handling equipment designer (one of very few in the world) and a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She has designed the facilities in which half of all cattle in the United States are handled, and has consulted for firms such as Burger King and McDonald’s.
Grandin has been featured on National Public Radio, Primetime Live, The Today Show, Larry King Live, 48 Hours, and 20/20. She has also been written about in Time, People, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, and the New York Times. The BBC featured Grandin in “The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow,” and Claire Danes starred as her in the 2010 HBO movie about Grandin’s life.
Plenary Session
Henry Giacomini - A Livestock Producer's Perspective on Managing for Diversity
Jaymee Marty - Managing Rangelands to Protect Biodiversity
Chuck Striplen - A Contemporary Native View on the Diversity and Management of California's Range Ecosystems
