More than 25 years ago Abdus Salam, a Nobel prizewinning physicist, called for a synchrotron to be built in the Middle East.

And by itself, a prizewinning idea isn’t enough for an innovation to gain acceptance, management analysts said.

Environmental studies scholar Lauret Savoy will speak about her prizewinning memoir/travelogue “Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape” at 7 p.m.