[act-ma] Energy (and Other) Events - March 15, 2015
George Mokray
gmoke at world.std.com
Sun Mar 15 11:05:34 PDT 2015
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Monday, March 16
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12pm MASS Seminar - Changes of Midlatitude Blocks and Wave Amplitude with Reduced Meridional Temperature Gradient: Arctic Amplification versus Arctic
4:30pm Dr. Temple Grandin: Helping Different Kinds of Minds to Succeed
7pm Am I allowed? Game Live-Streaming Between Spectatorship and Regulation
7pm proposition for reclaiming a space
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Tuesday, March 17
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7:45am Boston Going for the Gold in 2024: Transportation and Infrastructure Opportunities and Hurdles
8am Webinar: Creating Evidence-based Healthy and Energy-Efficient Housing
11am Media Lab Conversations Series: Dr. Temple Grandin
12pm Introduction to the Living Building Challenge
3pm Food Development Meeting: w/Backyard Farms Farmer
4pm Mapping, Localization, and Self-Driving Vehicles
4pm Fertility Surveillance and the Production of Families for the Nation: Russian Demographic Science and the Search for a Liberal Biopolitics
5pm Sexuality and Youth Alienation in Modern Iran
5:30pm authors at mit - Max Tegmark - Our Mathematical Universe
6pm Cambridge Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Public Meeting
6:30pm e4Dev Speaker Series: Qorax Energy-Renewables in Post-Conflict Regions
6:30pm Embedded Research, Design Sprints, and Failing Fast!
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Wednesday, March 18
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7:30am March Boston Sustainability Breakfast
12pm The Critical Technologies for the 3rd Wave of Information and Communication Systems
12pm 2015 Valerie Gordon Lecture: "Guantanamo and the Legacy of Torture"
12pm Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
1pm Enhancing Learning and Memory: Current Status
4pm Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling
5pm Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting
5pm Big Data in Medicine: Potential, Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities
5pm The Art, Ethics and Technology of Documentary Co-Creation
6pm Designing with Water
6pm Changing How Cities Work: Ashoka Synapse Event with Sascha Haselmayer
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Thursday, March 19
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9:30am Build Smarter Digital Strategies: A Breakfast Gathering with Google, Nonprofits & City Departments
12pm A phase-field approach to modeling fate of methane bubbles in ocean water column
4pm China's Natural Gas Strategy
5:30pm Farm Share Fair 2015
5:30pm 2015 Boston Kickoff Party! Cleantech Open Northeast
6pm The Future of Wearable Tech & Technical Fashion
6pm What's for Dinner? Film-screening & discussion of food systems in US and China
6pm IDB Ideas: What It Means to Be a Maker in the Digital Age
6pm Boston New Technology March 2015 Product Showcase #BNT51
6:30pm Citizen Journalism: A People's History of Ferguson
7pm Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
7pm Provocative Question Forum: Nanotech and Consumer Products
7pm Startup Night With MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne
7pm Salon in the Suburbs: Ellen Parker, State of Hunger in Massachusetts
7:30pm Mapping the Universe
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Friday, March 20
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8:30am Innovation Breakfast at Danger!Awesome
6pm Design Showdown with Design New England
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Saturday, March 21
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9am Robot Race: Build-a-Bot Workshop
9am Libre Planet
11am 40th Annual Gardeners Gathering
1pm End Drone Warfare And Endless US War in the Middle East
1pm Fixing Our Broken Democracy Workshop
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Sunday, March 22
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9am Libre Planet
2pm BeCause Water Hosts World Water Day Celebration
2:15pm 'Of Many' Film Screening and Panel Discussion
3pm Workshop on Personal Divestment from Fossil Fuels
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Monday, March 23
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9am ReSourcing Big Data: A Symposium & Collaboration Opportunity
12:15pm Mobilizing Mutations: New Kinds of People at the Intersection of Genetics and Patient Advocacy
4pm Computer Vision that is changing our lives
4pm The Decline of Marriage: Family Systems, Economic Opportunity, and Relative Income
5:30pm Beyond Samba: The Musical Others of Brazilian Counterculture; Raul Seixas: O Inicio, O Fim e O Meio
5:30pm Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change
6pm The Resilience Dividend
6pm Gas Leak Campaign Kickoff Meeting
7pm Music and the Brain
7pm China, Biodiversity, and the Global Environment
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Tuesday, March 24
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10am 3rd Annual Mass. Water Forum - Water: Right or Privilege?
12pm America's Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty: Understanding Everyday Americans at the Core of Civic Innovation
1pm Planning and Design Health Assessment Tools
2pm Coastal Area Restoration
6pm Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Written in Stone - Reading Earth’s Planetary History
6:30pm Growing Local
7pm Preparing for the Rising Tide on Boston's Waterfront
7pm Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault
7pm Start Up Boston
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Monday, March 16
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Changes of Midlatitude Blocks and Wave Amplitude with Reduced Meridional Temperature Gradient: Arctic Amplification versus Arctic Oscillation
Monday, March 16
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Pedram Hassanzadeh, Harvard
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Dr. Temple Grandin: Helping Different Kinds of Minds to Succeed
Monday, March 16
4:30p–6:30p
MIT, Building E14-674, MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr. Temple Grandin
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2015/03/16/dr-temple-grandin-helping-different-kinds-minds-succeed
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact:
wellbeing-events at media.mit.edu
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Am I allowed? Game Live-Streaming Between Spectatorship and Regulation
Monday, March 16
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Northeastern University, 120 Forsyth Street, Raytheon Amphitheatre, Egan Research Center 440, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/am-i-allowed-game-live-streaming-between-spectatorship-and-regulation-tickets-16004815835
Listen to MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor report from the trenches of her fieldwork into twitch, e-sports, and other phenomena of game live-streaming.
Computer gaming has long been a social activity, complete with spectatorship. The growth of game live-streaming – the online broadcasting of real-time play to a remote audience – is not only extending, but deeply reworking play within a larger media ecology. Professional e-sports players and amateurs alike are broadcasting their gaming online to communities of fellow avid players. The living room sofa is getting extended out via this new form of “networked broadcast.” While many speculate about the future of television, “second screen” experiences, or “social TV,” a dynamic, often unruly, group of gamers and companies are remaking the future of what it means to play, and watch media, right now and solely online. For many, live-streaming involves a complex mix of transforming ones private play to public entertainment. Amidst it all, large issues loom about the economics of this new form of broadcasting, intellectual property concerns, and the growing algorithmic regulation of content in online broadcasts. Game live-streaming offers a compelling look into the continued networked production of play and the future of spectatorship.
Biography
T.L. Taylor is Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She is a qualitative sociologist working in the fields of internet and game studies. Her work focuses on the interrelations between culture, social practice, and technology in online leisure environments. Her most recent book, Raising the Stakes (MIT Press, 2012), explored the world of professional e-sports; she is currently at work on a book about live-streaming. For more information: http://tltaylor.com. She can also be found on Twitter: @ybika.
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proposition for reclaiming a space
Monday, March 16
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
LIESBETH BIK and JOS VAN DER POL
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2015-spring/mar-16-liesbeth-bik-jos-van-der-pol-proposition-reclaiming-space/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACT, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm at mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 17
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Boston Going for the Gold in 2024: Transportation and Infrastructure Opportunities and Hurdles
Tuesday, March 17
7:45 AM to 9:45 AM (EDT)
C. Walsh Theatre - Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-going-for-the-gold-in-2024-transportation-and-infrastructure-opportunities-and-hurdles-tickets-13781349387
How does Boston leverage its Olympics proposal to ensure that much-needed housing, transportation, and infrastructure improvements will be addressed for lasting benefits?
Panelists:
Richard Davey, CEO, Boston 2024
Peter Zuk, Principal, Zuk International, Inc.
Jeanne DuBois, Strategic Advisor, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Chris Dempsey, Co-Chair, No Boston Olympics
Alex Krieger, FAIA Principal, NBBJ, Professor of Urban Design Harvard Graduate School of Design
James Aloisi, Principal, Pemberton Square Group
Moderated by:
Peter Howe, Business Editor, NECN
This event is free and open to the public; however, RSVP is required.
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Webinar: Creating Evidence-based Healthy and Energy-Efficient Housing
Tuesday, March 17
8 am
To join this webinar, log in to Adobe Connect via this URL: https://gsd-fll.adobeconnect.com/hapi031715/ as a “Guest”. Then enter your full first and last names to help the administers of the webinar better identify you.
Presenter: Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, Ph.D., MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Description: Modern indoor environments can directly affect human health. This is partly driven by the dramatic increase in the quantity and diversity of chemical exposures from household furnishings and consumer products over the past 50 years. While some exposures are difficult to estimate in the general population, many of the dominant pathways can be understood and modified.
This webinar will present findings from a ten-city housing study in China, in order to understand the key housing-based drivers of occupant health. The China, Children, Homes, and Health (CCHH) study will provide a unique and valuable evidence base, and provides a model for future studies of the linkages between urbanization and health.
The first phase of this study, conducted from 2010 through 2012, involved the completion of a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of nearly 50,000 families with children aged 1-8 years. This session will also elaborate on best practices to reduce indoor environmental exposures in newly-constructed residences; selection of materials which minimizes exposure to key pollutants including known and suspected endocrine disruptors; and the creation of a model of future energy demands for residences in Chinese cities based on anticipated climatic change.
Instructions at http://research.gsd.harvard.edu/hapi/overview/activities-and-events/webinar-series-2015/creating-evidence-based-healthy-and-energy-efficient-housing/
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/webinar-creating-evidence-based-healthy-and-energy-efficient-housing#sthash.B9JpF34P.dpuf
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Dr. Temple Grandin
Tuesday, March 17
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E14-3, MIT Media Lab, 3rd floor atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Dr. Temple Grandin in Conversation with Rosalind Picard
Web site: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2015/03/17/media-lab-conversations-series-dr-temple-grandin-conversation-rosalind-picard
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
For more information, contact: Laura Seretta
events-admin at media.mit.edu
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Introduction to the Living Building Challenge
Tuesday, March 17
12:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/censsareqauth?p_url=evtssarsvp.display_page%3Fp_cust_id%3D__CUSTID__%26p_event_id%3D1542%26p_item_id%3DCTE_RSVP
Meetings are free and open to all, but rsvp's are required.
The Living Building Challenge is the built environment's most rigorous performance standard. It calls for the creation of building projects that operate as cleanly, beautifully and efficiently as nature's architecture. Participants will gain a basic understanding of the Living Building Challenge - a philosophy, advocacy tool and certification program that addresses development at all scales. To be certified under the Challenge, projects must meet a series of ambitious performance requirements, including Net Zero Energy, Waste and Water, over a minimum of 12 months of continuous occupancy. Participants will learn to describe the key components of the program and discuss the rationale for restorative design principles.
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Food Development Meeting: w/Backyard Farms Farmer
Tuesday, March 17
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
Clover Food Lab, 1075 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-development-meeting-31715-wbackyard-farms-farmer-tickets-16076629632
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Mapping, Localization, and Self-Driving Vehicles
Tuesday, March 17
4:00pm
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
John Leonard
ABSTRACT: This talk will discuss the critical role of mapping and localization in the development of self-driving vehicles. After a discussion of some of the recent amazing progress and open technical challenges in the development of self-driving vehicles, we will discuss the past, present and future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in robotics. We will review the history of SLAM research and will discuss some of the major challenges in SLAM, including choosing a map representation, developing algorithms for efficient state estimation, and solving for data association and loop closure. We will also present recent results on real-time dense mapping using RGB-D cameras and object-based mapping in dynamic environments.
Joint work with Tom Whelan, Michael Kaess, John McDonald, Hordur Johannsson, Maurice Fallon, David Rosen, Mark VanMiddlesworth, Ross Finman, Paul Huang, Liam Paull, Dehann Fourie, and Seth Teller.
BIOGRAPHY: John J. Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (1994). Prof. Leonard joined the MIT faculty in 1996, after five years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award (1998) and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2006). He is an IEEE Fellow (2014).
RECEPTION INFORMATION
Reception to follow.
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Fertility Surveillance and the Production of Families for the Nation: Russian Demographic Science and the Search for a Liberal Biopolitics
Tuesday, March 17
4:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill
The talk will outline how key shifts in demographic research on fertility reveal broader contestations over the scope and type of biopolitics from the Soviet to Putin eras. The systematic surveillance and analysis of demographic trends was a major preoccupation of Soviet governance and continues to be so for Russia. For both the Soviet and Russian regimes, moderate population growth was a sign of national vitality, and public policy-- a vehicle for engineering population dynamics to achieve this collective good. Thus, when steady trends of gradually declining fertility during the 1970s and 1980s became stark drops in the birth rate during the chaotic 1990s, politicians and conservative demographers urged using state resources to increase fertility.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
617 324-2793
mit-russia at mit.edu
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Sexuality and Youth Alienation in Modern Iran
Tuesday, March 17
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 3-133, 33 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Shahla Haeri
Iranian Studies Group (ISG) of MIT is pleased to host Prof. Shahla Haeri who will speak on Sexuality and Youth Alienation in Modern Iran mostly focusing on the topic of her book titled as "Law of Desire, Temporary marriage in Shi'i Iran" which recently had a new edition. There will be a book signing following the event. The talk will be held at MIT Bldg. 3, Room 133. Light refreshments will be served.
This is part of a lecture series aiming at presenting work of female Iranian scholars engaged in humanities research to the MIT community and people of greater Boston area.
Dr. Haeri is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. She has conducted research in Iran, Pakistan, and India, and has written extensively on religion, law, and gender dynamics in the Muslim world. She is the author of No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women, and Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage, Mut???a, in Iran. Dr. Haeri was also the director of the Women???s Studies Program from 2001-2010.
Web site: https://www.facebook.com/events/419773041516471/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Persian Students Association, GSC Activities
For more information, contact: Poorya Hosseini
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authors at mit - Max Tegmark - Our Mathematical Universe
Tuesday, March 17
5:30p–7:00p
MIT, Building 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Speaker: Max Tegmark
Please join us as we welcome theoretical physicist and MIT Professor Max Tegmark to celebrate the paperback release of his bestselling book "Our Mathematical Universe," a mind-blowing mix of physics and philosophy probing the mathematical structure of our own universe, and others.
"Daring, Radical. Innovative. A game changer. If Dr. Tegmark is correct, this represents a paradigm shift in the relationship between physics and mathematics, forcing us to rewrite our textbooks. A must read for anyone deeply concerned about our universe." --Michio Kaku, author of "Physics of the Future"
authors at mit is a lecture series cosponsored by MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/index.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): The MIT Press Bookstore
For more information, contact: The MIT Press Bookstore
253-5249
books at mit.edu
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Cambridge Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Public Meeting
Tuesday, March 17
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
MIT, Building 32, Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
The public meeting to present and discuss the interim results of the climate change vulnerability assessment, which was originally planned for February, has been rescheduled. The meeting will focus on the physical and social vulnerabilities identified by the assessment based on scenarios for inland flooding and increasing temperatures. Preliminary coastal storm surge modeling results for 2030 will also be presented. Coastal storm surge modeling with sea level rise for 2070 is in progress. The vulnerability assessment for storm surge risks will be completed in the spring.
The City would like to hear responses to the interim results and draft findings to inform the vulnerability assessment report, which will provide a basis for the forthcoming Climate Change Preparedness & Resilience Plan, and discuss the community's thoughts about the direction of the plan. The meeting is open to all. Please see the draft agenda http://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/~/media/BA85CC740207455B8AEC02A63F9766D6.ashx
For more information on the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, please look to the project page
http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Projects/Climate/climatechangeresilianceandadaptation.aspx
or contact John Bolduc, jbolduc at cambridgema.gov, or 617/349-4628.
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e4Dev Speaker Series: Qorax Energy-Renewables in Post-Conflict Regions
Tuesday, March 17
6:30p–7:30p
MIT, Building E19-319, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Christian Desrosiers, MIT Legatum Fellow and co-founder of Qorax Energy
Qorax Energy is a renewable energy products and services channel that works in post-conflict regions. It was founded in late 2012 to address market inefficiencies in Somaliland, the autonomous province in northwest Somalia, and is currently scaling throughout Somalia and moving into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The three co-founders (two Americans and a Somalilander) iterated through several approaches, failing twice, before identifying an effective, scalable model. Christian will speak about the tricks of the trade in social enterprise via lessons learned from (1) honing in on the right strategy, (2) attracting funding to a startup social enterprise, and (3) the process of going from no traction and almost no budget to having an operational business. He will also speak about the role of social enterprise in the broader international development conversation.
Web site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rUKkGDRaI6Gyi7_Bt9NYnc5IdgsnyQBhsC-13MsJFpk/viewform
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): e4Dev, MIT Energy Initiative
For more information, contact: e4Dev
e4dev-request at mit.edu
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Embedded Research, Design Sprints, and Failing Fast!
Tuesday, March 17
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Google, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Enter the glass doors, smile and wave, turn left, and head up to Floor 5.
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/uxboston/events/219100898/
Cost: $1.00/per person
1. The Benefits of Failing Fast & Quick (6:45-7:05)
by Stacey Dyer
Trial & error is a commonly used phrase, but perhaps it's used half-heartedly. We always hear praises for the success behind a 'trial' but rarely do we hear about the 'errors'. Let's talk error, failure, and ask 'how could this fail?' together – early and often. From emails to feature work, this tech talk will combine an in depth look at how software development can apply the "fail fast" mantra along with a quick workshop where everyone will experience the benefit of conducting a project pre-mortem.
About Stacey. iZotope’s Product Design Director, Stacey Dyer manages a team of product designers and pushes the team to go beyond their usual boundaries. Previously, Stacey worked with a variety of brands such as Force Factor, Oliva Cigars, Shields MRI, and Kidcity Children's Museum. You can find her branding expertise published in Logo Lounge 5, Initials & Crests: LogoLounge Master Library Series, and Type & Calligraphy Logos: LogoLounge Master Library Series, as well as insights behind the land of freelance in Cathy Fishel's Freelance Design In Practice. Prior to moving up to Boston in 2013, Stacey was an active member of the creative culture within Connecticut, acting as co-chair for the Arts & Industries Council as well as speaking regularly at her alma mater, the Hartford Art School.
2. Design Sprints! (7:10-7:30)
by CTodd Lombardo
To be successful at creating digital products you have to reduce the risk of failure though it’s almost impossible to do that. Traditionally design leads have tried planning their way out of that conundrum, only to find that no amount of planning can guarantee an outcome. Our grey hairs should stand testimony to the failure of waterfall and even Agile project management methodologies. The traditional approach to product design is broken. So what’s the alternative? The answer lies in people and process, not in new project management tools. Design Sprints are time-boxed mechanism that have evolved to meet these needs. This talk will cover how to can adopt this practice in a team as well as share case studies on how others have had found success using design sprints.
About CTodd. In a world of hyper-specialization, C. Todd stands in the intersections and sees the connections that revolve around us. As an Innovation Architect at Constant Contact's InnoLoft, he facilitates product and service design sprints for a wide range of external startups and internal product teams. C. Todd is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Madrid's prestigious IE Business School where he teaches courses on Creativity, Innovation, Design-Thinking and Communication.
3. Embedded Research! (7:35-7:55)
by Dani Nordin - tzk-design.com
In cultural ethnography, researchers go into communities and live among them for months or years, learning the local language and customs. In organizational ethnography, a researcher goes on site visits and observes meetings, trying to simply observe the patterns of behavior expressed by the workers. In both cases, the ethnographers are disconnected from the subjects of study, positioning themselves primarily as unbiased observers.
But what about when you’re already part of the culture you're studying? How do you continue as an active participant in this culture while still making space and time for observation? In this presentation, UX Designer and active Drupal contributor Dani Nordin will discuss her experience conducting Master’s thesis research on the roadblocks to collaboration in the Drupal project. You will learn:
Benefits of the embedded approach
Moving from “I’m noticing this” to an actual research question
Making time for both participation and reflection
Strategies for keeping bias in check
About Dani. Harvard Business Review's Senior UX Designer, Dani Nordin works with a cross-functional team of designers, technologists and product managers to integrate UX into an Agile development process. She is also an accomplished speaker, teacher and writer, teaching courses for General Assembly - Boston and Skillsoft International. Her book, Drupal for Designers, is available from O'Reilly Media.
Show Schedule
6:40 - 6:45: UX Opener by Akshat
6:45 - 7:05: Embedded Research by Dani
7:10 - 7:30: Failing Fast by Stacey
7:35 - 7:55: Design Sprints by CTodd
8:00+ Kika Tapas across from the CIC
Why are you charging one dollar?
We're not looking to make money from this. Making you go through the checkout process is really an extra gyration to verify your attendance. We get a pretty accurate headcount and a much better networking experience this way too!
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Wednesday, March 18
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March Boston Sustainability Breakfast
Wednesday, March 18
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM (EDT)
Pret A Manger, 185 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-boston-sustainability-breakfast-tickets-15880940320
Join us for the March Boston Sustainability breakfast, an informal breakfast meetup of sustainability professionals together for networking, discussion and moral support. It’s important to remind ourselves that we are not the only ones out there in the business world trying to do good!
So come, get a cup of coffee or a bagel, support a sustainable business and get fired up before work so we can continue trying to change the world.
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The Critical Technologies for the 3rd Wave of Information and Communication Systems
Wednesday, March 18
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 34-401, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sam Fuller, Analog Devices
MTL Seminar Series
Light lunch at 11:30am
Web site: http://www.mtl.mit.edu/seminars/spring2015.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Microsystems Technology Laboratories
For more information, contact: Valerie DiNardo
617 253-9328
valeried at mit.edu
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2015 Valerie Gordon Lecture: "Guantanamo and the Legacy of Torture"
Wednesday, March 18
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)
Northeastern School of Law, 65 Forsyth Street, Dockers Hall, Room 240, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-valerie-gordon-lecture-tickets-15222780747
Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and Director of its Human Rights Program, has for years been at the center of the national and international debate around the detainment center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In this 22nd Valerie Gordon Memorial Lecture, Jaffer discusses the ways in which the treatment of Guanatnamo prisoners is contributing to a legacy that will influence the global image of the US for decades to come.
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Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
Wednesday, March 18
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: James Steinberg (Syracuse University)
Wednesday Seminar Series, Security Studies Program
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Elina Hamilton
617-253-7529
elinah at mit.edu
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Enhancing Learning and Memory: Current Status
Wednesday, March 18
1pm – 5pm
Boston University School of Education, 2 Silber Way, Room 130, Boston
Contact harmin.karen at gmail.com
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Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling
Wednesday, March 18
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 1-131, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Yonggang Huang
Complex, three dimensional (3D) structures in biology (e.g. cytoskeletal webs, neural circuits, vasculature networks) form naturally to provide essential functions in even the most basic forms of life. Compelling opportunities exist for analogous 3D architectures in man-made devices, but design options are constrained by existing capabilities in materials growth and assembly. Here we report routes to previously inaccessible classes of 3D constructs in advanced materials, including device-grade silicon. The schemes involve geometric transformation of two dimensional (2D) micro/nanostructures into extended 3D layouts by compressive buckling. Demonstrations include experimental and theoretical studies of more than forty representative geometries, from single and multiple helices, toroids and conical spirals to structures that resemble spherical baskets, cuboid cages, starbursts, flowers, scaffolds, fences and frameworks, each with single and/or multiple level configurations.
Yonggang Huang is the Joseph Cumming Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. He is interested in mechanics research with applications to many branches of engineering science, where mechanics provides the scientific and engineering foundations and design guidelines. He is the Editor of Journal of Applied Mechanics, and was the President of the Society of Engineering Science in 2014
Mechanics and Infrastructure
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Markus Buehler
617 253-7101
mbuehler at mit.edu
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Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee & Public Meeting
Wednesday, March 18
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Boston Public Library - Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-urban-ag-visioning-steering-committee-public-meeting-tickets-16058151363
The next meeting of the Boston Urban Ag Visioning Steering Committee will be held at the Boston Public Library in the Commonwealth Salon on Wednesday March 18, 2015. This meeting is open free to the public, but RSVP is requested by 3/17/2015.
Agenda
The Steering Committee will meet from 4-5 PM and then the public is welcome to join from 5-6 PM. The focus of these meetings will be on potential metrics and goals to support the visioning process.
Background
In December 2013, the City of Boston passed Article 89, a new addition to the city’s zoning code that allows for urban agriculture. Since this time, the support for urban agriculture in the city has been tremendous, but there has been limited collaboration between the multitude of public, private, and non-profit sectors on how to create a vision for its future in Boston.
In support of a Boston Urban Ag Visioning process, the City of Boston has received a $25,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP). The goal of this process will be to bring diverse organizations to the table to create a vision for Boston around food production and distribution, which will enable farmer livelihoods, provide multiple access points for food, and determine how to create food access for low-income constituents. Representatives from all aspects of urban growing in the city will be engaged, including community gardeners, traditional farmers, gleaners, edible forest developers, farmers’ market reps, traditional and rooftop farmers, as well as food production folks.
Holly Fowler of Northbound Ventures will facilitate and a Steering Committee has been selected to guide and to inform the process. The Steering Committee will meet the third Wednesday of each month from January to August 2015. All meetings are open to the public. The location of each meeting will vary. The existence of this group will allow every area of urban growing in Boston to have a role in determining this vision, and to collaborate as one entity to achieve this goal.
Please visit the Boston Urban Ag Visioning blog for more information: https://bostonurbanag.wordpress.com
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Big Data in Medicine: Potential, Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities
Wednesday, March 18
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (EDT)
Tufts University, 145 Harrison Avenue, Sackler 216, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-data-in-medicine-potential-challenges-risks-and-opportunities-registration-16026411428
Please join us for a seminar on "Big Data in Medicine: Potential, Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities". Joe Corkery, MD is a Senior Product Manager Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences at Google. He will give a talk on the current landscape and future vision of big data in healthcare.
Tufts Biomedical Business Club
TBBC's goal is to inspire its members, to expand their network, recognize their translational skills, build a foundation in core business principles, and clarify a career path to engagement and success. Our membership spans the Tufts campuses, alumni and biomedical experts worldwide.
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The Art, Ethics and Technology of Documentary Co-Creation
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge
Katerina Cizek, Filmmaker and MIT Visiting Artist
Andrew Lowenthal, Open Documentary Lab Research and Executive Director of EngageMedia
Mandy Rose, Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England, Bristol UK
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Mediaa
As new forms of media, networks and devices emerge throughout history, documentarians are always at the forefront of discovering how to tell stories with them. From the first newsreels, to the latest Virtual Reality installations, non-fiction creators are the first to introduce their audiences and users to novel ways of interacting, immersing and collaborating in new environments while interpreting reality. How can these new technologies change the documentary creator's relationship to the "people formerly known as subjects"? How can new models of co-creation redefine not just the form of the story itself but the methods by which we create them? How can documentaries be made "with" people instead of "about" them? This panel examines the history and potential for documentarians to co-create with citizens, social scientists, technologists and performing artists, with the aim to both create artful meaning and foster concrete political action.
Web site: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/katerina-cizek/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Open Documentary Lab
For more information, contact: Meg Rotzel
mrotzel at mit.edu
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Designing with Water
Wednesday, March 18
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at https://online.architects.org/bsassa/censsareqauth?p_url=evtssarsvp.display_page%3Fp_cust_id%3D__CUSTID__%26p_event_id%3D1517%26p_item_id%3DCTE_RSVP
Waterfront cities face increasing challenges due to their relationship with water and the increasing threats of climate change, sea level rise, and more frequent and violent storms. Jason will present some of Sasaki's recent work combining research and practice of addressing these challenges and creating innovative solutions for the future, including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rebuild by Design Competition, NY Rising, the HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition, and the Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery. Jason will highlight work from the Sea Change: Boston exhibit and symposium, including Boston’s vulnerabilities to coastal storm surge and inland flooding, adaptation strategies to address these vulnerabilities, the need for regional collaboration, and opportunities for architects to get engaged.
Jason Hellendrung is one of the leaders in the Urban Studio at Sasaki Associates directing landscape architecture, planning and urban design work on a wide range of complex, urban and public infrastructure projects. Much of Jason’s work involves re-shaping cities through public infrastructure improvements, and in particular, waterfront redevelopment and preparing cities to adapt to climate change, the integration of transit into the city, and parks planning and public access in urban areas.
To learn more about the Sustainability Education Committee, visit architects.org/committees/sustainability-education-committee.
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Changing How Cities Work: Ashoka Synapse Event with Sascha Haselmayer
Wednesday, March 18
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Impact Hub Boston, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-how-cities-work-ashoka-synapse-event-with-sascha-haselmayer-tickets-16134640143
Are you interested in a bold rethink of how we solve urban problems in Boston?
Come for an evening of brainstorming and dot-connecting with one of the world’s leading innovators in the field of urban “mechanics”. Reimagine a city of changemakers, working across sectors and silos to get stuff done.
Ashoka Fellow Sascha Haselmayer is the founder of Citymart, an organization that is already helping more than 50 global cities open their procurement to small businesses, social organizations, start-ups and citizen entrepreneurs. With support from the Knight Foundation, Citymart has now launched in the US, to help cities source more innovative solutions to their infrastructural and social needs.
With over $1 trillion in annual public procurement spend, US cities have a unique mandate to improve the quality of life of their citizens. Citymart helps cities achieve better return on investment for their communities on their spending by opening up their problems and creating a more participatory procurement process. To-date, Citymart has completed 100 programs addressing a variety of problems such as bicycle theft, childhood obesity, traffic noise, urban services, and integration of disabled citizens. 98% of the winning solutions have been presented by small businesses, social entrepreneurs, citizens or organizations – pointing toward a transformative impact in how we manage our budgets and communities.
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. We work with our fellows and partners to support the world in transitioning to an everyone is a changemaker mindset and system. See http://joinnow.ashoka.org/
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Thursday, March 19
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Build Smarter Digital Strategies: A Breakfast Gathering with Google, Nonprofits & City Departments
Thursday, March 19
9AM - 11:30AM
Cambridge Community Television, 438 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-smarter-digital-strategies-a-breakfast-gathering-with-google-nonprofits-city-departments-tickets-15875844077
Connect with the Google team. Learn how to reach new donors and volunteers, work efficiently and get supporters to take action.
Agenda
9:00-9:30am: Breakfast and Networking
9:30-11:00am: Google For Nonprofits Presentation by Curt Fennell of Google
11:00-11:30am: An Overview of CCTV’s Nonprofit Resource Center
Google for Nonprofits
This seminar, taught by Google team member Curt Fennell, will cover Google products and services that are free for nonprofit organizations, through Google for Nonprofits. Learn how to communicate your agency’s mission, impact and solicitations in the clearest and most powerful way, using these free digital tools.
Google for Nonprofits provides organizations with:
Free access to the Google Apps suite including Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive
Storage in the cloud: 30GB of storage across Gmail and Google Drive
The ability to stay connected from anywhere; and securely access data anywhere
24/7 support; no hardware, no updates
You will learn how to reach and engage supporters with Google Adwords. With Google Ad Grants (AdWords for nonprofits), you can:
Promote your organization’s website on Google with in-kind AdWords advertising
Raise awareness by choosing relevant keywords and creating unique ads to highlight your work
Track online donations, newsletter sign-ups, volunteer registrations and more, so you can craft more effective communications
CCTV’s Nonprofit Resource Center
Using media and technology to promote your nonprofit can be an expensive investment, and it can be a nerve wracking one if you can’t guarantee results. We know the feeling – CCTV is a nonprofit, too. Unlike many media options, we are tailored specifically to nonprofits. We will train you to produce your own content, or produce it for you, cost-effectively. CCTV’s Nonprofit Resource Center offers training and production services for Cambridge nonprofits and organizations. Learn more about how your organization can better reach and engage members of the community through CCTV.
Questions? Contact Clodagh Drummey at 617 401 4005 or clodagh at cctvcambridge.org.
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A phase-field approach to modeling fate of methane bubbles in ocean water column
Thursday, March 19
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 48-308, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu
Environmental Fluid Mechanics/Hydrology
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
For more information on this speaker, Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, see http://juanesgroup.mit.edu/rubyfu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Noriko Endo
617 253-7101
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China's Natural Gas Strategy
Thursday, March 19
4:00PM
Harvard, Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with Guy C.K. LEUNG, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geopolitics of Energy Project, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
China Project Seminar
http://chinaproject.harvard.edu/event/Leung150319
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen
nielsen2 at fas.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-19-200000/china-project-seminar#sthash.h5V5LDAQ.dpuf
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Farm Share Fair 2015
Thursday, March 19
5:30-8:30 PM
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Support local farmers. Buy direct. Compare all the great Farm Share (CSA) programs available in the Boston area. Veggies. Fruit. Meat. Poultry. Cheese. Herbs. Flowers. Chocolate. Wine. Meet awesome local food producers with distribution spots in the Boston area.
The Farm Share Fair is the Boston area’s direct-to-consumer marketing event for food producers across Massachusetts.
FREE. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
www.farmsharefair.com
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2015 Boston Kickoff Party! Cleantech Open Northeast
Thursday, March 19
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 28 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-boston-kickoff-party-tickets-15543390700
Cost: $10 - $20
Help Cleantech Open Northeast celebrate its 10th anniversary!
#KickoffCleanTech
Join us for an awesome night of cleantech community networking leading up to the Cleantech Open 2015 Accelerator program.
Entrepreneurs, students, savvy technologists, investors, professionals, and other interested parties all welcome!
At the launch party you'll be able to:
Connect with Boston's top innovators, supporters, and thought leaders in the cleantech space.
Get exposure by giving your 1 minute elevator pitch in front of judges and potential teammates (if you're ready!).
Listen to past competitors as they share their experience with Cleantech Open.
Celebrate our amazing clean tech community!
Are you a cleantech entrepreneur?
Attend this event for free! Please contact Sanah at sahmed at cleantechopen.org to receive your promo code. In addition, come prepared to pitch your company. We will be hosting an elevator pitch competition and the top three winners receive free applications to the Cleantech Open (worth $100+).
Learn more and submit your application!
Super Early Bird Deadline is March 1st.
Keynote Speakers ...will be announced soon! Stay tuned.
Featured Speakers
Alicia Barton, CEO, Mass CEC
As Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Alicia Barton is responsible for leading MassCEC’s efforts to accelerate the success of the clean energy technology sector in Massachusetts. Since her appointment as CEO in August 2012, Alicia has driven MassCEC’s efforts to provide support for all aspects of the sector from early stage technology innovation, to clean energy project deployment and workforce development. Working in close coordination with the clean energy, environmental and economic development efforts of the Commonwealth, MassCEC’s programs have helped deliver record job growth in the clean energy technology sector, while seeing rapid expansion of clean energy projects throughout Massachusetts.
Host Speakers, Emily Reichert
Executive Director, Greentown Labs
As Executive Director, Emily Reichert sets Greentown Labs’ strategic direction, focusing on increasing the organization’s impact on clean and energy efficient technology commercialization through entrepreneurship. She also directs Greentown’s efforts to engage new corporate and foundation partners, to expand recognition and education programs for clean technology entrepreneurs, to leverage the local community of entrepreneurs, investors, universities, government agencies and NGOs striving to build our clean energy future, and to maintain greater Boston’s competitiveness in clean technology nationally and internationally.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Emily was the Director of Business Operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, where she helped grow the company from an angel-funded start-up to a sustainable contract R&D business with a mission to minimize environmental impact of chemical processes and products. She has over fifteen years of experience serving in R&D, business development and operations leadership roles. Emily holds a PhD in physical chemistry and earned an MBA from MIT.
Alumni Speaker, Ryan Wright
Founder and CEO, Sol Power LLC
Ryan attended Northeastern University, graduating with a BS in Industrial Engineering. After Northeastern, he spent 3 years in an Operations Leadership Development Program for BAE Systems, a defense contractor, in their Electronic Systems division, holding roles in Continuous Improvement, Recruiting, Sustainability, Strategy Deployment and Strategy Execution. During this time at BAE, Ryan also enrolled in an evening MBA program at Babson College, where he discovered his true passion for entrepreneurship and sustainability. It was out of this evening MBA program that the idea for a solar cell phone charging station was born. After completing his 3 year requirement at BAE Systems, Ryan took a role as Engineering Project Manager at Skyworks Solutions, a commercial semiconductor company before leaving to pursue Sol Power (now WrightGrid) full time.
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The Future of Wearable Tech & Technical Fashion
Thursday, March 19
6:00 PM
Ministry of Supply, 299 Newbury Street, Boston
RSVP at https://generalassemb.ly/education/the-future-of-wearable-tech-technical-fashion-with-ministry-of-supply/boston/11242
Curious about the future of fashion technology? That just so happens to be our favorite topic – so we're teaming up with our friends at General Assembly to host a panel session on technical clothing and how it's transforming the fashion industry as a whole. Speakers include Scott Kirshner of the Boston Globe and our very own co-founder Kit Hickey, with more panelists to be announced in the next couple of weeks. With great discussion – and great cocktails – on the agenda, it promises to be a can't-miss event.
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What's for Dinner? Film-screening & discussion of food systems in US and China
Thursday, March 19
6:00 PM
Boston University College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Cultural-Nomads/events/221039616/
Concerned about the corporate takeover of our food systems? Join us for a screening of “What's For Dinner?” Jian Yi's short (27 minutes) documentary about the climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts of rising meat consumption in China. Given that every fifth person in the world is Chinese, what the Chinese eat and how China produces its food, affects not only China but the world, too.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's producer Mia MacDonald, executive director and founder of Brighter Green, public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action on issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainability, and Alex Blanchette, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Tufts University and author of the forthcoming Porkopolis: Standardized Life, American Animality, and the "Factory" Farm.
Mia's an amazing and inspiring speaker and the film is excellent. This will be a great event.
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IDB Ideas: What It Means to Be a Maker in the Digital Age
Thursday, March 19
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MassChallenge, 23 Drydock Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/idb-ideas-what-it-means-to-be-a-maker-in-the-digital-age-tickets-15747226378
The Innovation and Design Building
Share IDB Ideas: What It Means to Be a Maker in the Digital Age
Co-hosted by The Innovation and Design Building and MassChallenge, IDB Ideas is a new speaker series that focuses on the intersection of design, technology, and innovation in a variety of fields. The inaugural event coincides with Boston Design Week and will focus on what it means to be a maker in the digital age. Engage in thoughtful conversation with Rick Rundell, Senior Director at Autodesk; Ted Acworth, Founder and CEO of Artaic; and other innovation community leaders from in- and outside the IDB.
A reception and tours of Artaic and MADE at MassChallenge will take place immediately following the conversation.
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Boston New Technology March 2015 Product Showcase #BNT51
Thursday, March 19, 2015
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Bouelvard, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston_New_Technology/events/220504931/
Free event! Come learn about 7 innovative and exciting technology products and network with the Boston/Cambridge startup community! Each presenter gets 5 minutes for product demonstration and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please follow @BostonNewTech and use the #BNT51 hashtag in social media posts: details here.
Products & Presenters:
Presenters to be announced soon!
Agenda:
6:00 to 7:00 - Networking with dinner and drinks
7:00 to 7:10 - Announcements
7:10 to 8:30 - Presentations, Q&A
8:30 to 9:00 - More Networking
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Citizen Journalism: A People's History of Ferguson
Thursday, March 19
6:30pm
Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
PEN-New England recognizes Ferguson activistis and bloggers Johnetta Elzie and DeRay McKesson with its 2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write award for their work as activists, organizers, and citizen journalists in the Ferguson protest movement. Their reporting and This Is the Movement newsletter engaged and unified disparate voicesa in the wake of the August 9, 2014, shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri. Jabari Asim, editor-in-chief of The Crisis, leads this discussion of the role of citizen
journalism and activism in our changing media landscape. What role did these citizen journalists expect to play in Ferguson?? How did their expectations change as their actual role evolved?? What lessons does their experience carry for other citizen journalists?
This program is organized and co-sponsored by PEN-New England.
617-495-2727
www.cambridgeforum.org
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Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
Thursday, March 19
7pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Benjamin E. Schwartz
Harvard Book Store welcomes national security specialist BENJAMIN E. SCHWARTZ for a discussion of his first book, Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism.
A nuclear weapon explodes in a major American city and no one can prove who is responsible. The devastation is horrifying, but even more alarming is the limited options available for the United States government to respond. What happens next?
In Right of Boom, Benjamin Schwartz looks at what could happen after a nuclear explosion takes place in the United States, the event that Presidents Obama and Bush, as well as would-be Presidents Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, have acknowledged as the greatest single national security threat we face. Hypothesizing an explosion in downtown Washington, D.C., Schwartz maps out the likely ramifications while going deep into history to explore the limited range of options available to a Commander in Chief. Drawing from his experience as an analyst at the Departments of Defense, State, and Energy, Schwartz offers a fully panoramic view of a terrifying reality.
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Provocative Question Forum: Nanotech and Consumer Products
Thursday, March 19
7:00 PM (EDT)
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/provocative-question-forum-nanotech-and-consumer-products-registration-15380915733
Stain-resistant pants. Odor-proof socks. Anti-bacterial toothpaste. Nanotechnology is addressing some of society's most pressing problems — energy, clean water, computing, and medicine — and now is moving outside the laboratory to the marketplace. Thousands of consumer products, such as sunscreens, cosmetics, textiles, washing machines, car wax, and adhesive bandages, are already available through nanotechnology. However, unlike medications and nano-materials used in carefully controlled laboratory research studies, these products are largely unregulated.
Are products containing nanoparticles different from other over-the-counter consumer items? Should there be warning signs or labels? Learn about the issues, discuss the trade-offs with others, and share your recommendations. This program will inform a future component in the Hall of Human Life.
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Startup Night With MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne
Thursday, March 19
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-night-with-masschallenge-ceo-john-harthorne-tickets-14939130341
Kickoff the new year right with featured speaker John Harthorne CEO of MassChallenge. In the event John will share how he started what is now the worlds largest startup accelerator and share advise for budding entrepreneurs.
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Salon in the Suburbs: Ellen Parker, State of Hunger in Massachusetts
Thursday, March 19
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Community Room, 1501 Beacon Street, Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/salon-in-the-suburbs-ellen-parker-state-of-hunger-in-massachusetts-tickets-15875563237
In the 2014 Status Report on Hunger, Massachusetts’ annual report card on hunger, Project Bread finds the rate of household food insecurity in the Commonwealth is 71% higher than it was a decade ago, with no signs of improvement.
What can we, as individuals and as members of the Jewish community do to help raise and address the issue of hunger?
Ellen Parker
Executive Director, Project Bread
What public policy initiatives can we support to fight hunger, promote better nutrition, and ensure that children, seniors and others in need have access to food?
How does the Walk for Hunger help fight hunger in Massachusetts?
Join us as we hear from Ellen Parker, Executive Director of Project Bread on her initiative of moving a traditional anti-hunger organization to a leading national model that responds to the individual crisis of food insecurity while investing in systemic changes to prevent hunger and how what we can do in our lives to address this issue.
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Mapping the Universe
WHEN Thu., Mar. 19, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SPEAKER(S) Daniel Eisenstein
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO pubaffairs at cfa.harvard.edu, 617.495.7461
DETAILS Galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe. Instead, they group into stringy filaments that span hundreds of millions of light-years. How did such structure evolve from the bland primordial soup that followed the Big Bang? New clues are coming from an ambitious mapping project, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has measured the distance to galaxies halfway across the observable universe. Daniel Eisenstein is director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
LINK http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/publicevents
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Friday, March 20
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Innovation Breakfast at Danger!Awesome
Friday, March 20
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EDT)
Danger!Awesome, 10 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-breakfast-at-dangerawesome-march-20-2015-tickets-16023411455
The moving Innovation Breakfast continues! Hosted by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Mass Innovation Nights, this Innovation Breakfast is taking place in the heart of Cambridge's Central Square at Danger!Awesome. Come and check out this super-cool maker space. They have ALL the toys!
Come out for a chance to talk with other innovators over a cup of coffee
Scolnick Prize Lecture: Dr. Charles Gilbert on "The Dynamic Brain"
Friday, March 20
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 46-3002
2015 Scolnick Prize Lecture
Speaker: Charles Gilbert, PhD of The Rockefeller University. Title: "The Dynamic Brain".
Abstract: TBA
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): McGovern Institute for Brain Research
For more information, contact: Julie Pryor
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Design Showdown with Design New England
Friday, March 20
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Boston Design Center, 1 Design Center Place, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-showdown-with-design-new-england-tickets-15637764976
Join us for the first ever Design Showdown where design students battle for a career jumpstart in a Shark Tank-style competition. Finalists present their interpretation of a live/work space on Newbury Street to our panel of esteemed judges. Results announced live by Steven Favreau, the Showdown Master of Ceremonies. Get up close and personal with the entries at a reception immediately following the program.
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Saturday, March 21
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Robot Race: Build-a-Bot Workshop
Saturday, March 21
Session 1: 9-12am
Session 2: 1-4pm
Vecna's Cambridge Research Lab, 36 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/robot-race-build-a-bot-workshop-tickets-15799614071
These sessions are designed for Robot Race participants to get hands-on advice from Vecna's team of roboticists. Three stations will be set up to workshop robot hardware, software, and electrical. Race participants are encouraged to bring their robots and their questions!
About the Robot Race
The Human 5K is a family-friendly 5K race for individuals, families and teams. Dress up as a robot or bring your unique gadgets and enhancements for special prizes.
OR register a robot for the Robot Race. Must have a driver (out of line-of-sight for part of the challenge) and a chaperone for the course. Drivers will be seated at the control center. Autonomous or teleoperated robots will complete an L-shaped course as quickly as possible. Robots will be required to receive a “Dixie” cup of confetti at the corner water stop. Robot categories and waves may be established based on the qualities of the entrants.
Register for both the Human 5K and Robot Race on Active.com
Learn more at vecnacares.org.
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Libre Planet
Saturday, March 21
9am - 6:45pm
MIT, Building 32, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=20
Cost: $0 - $90
LibrePlanet is an annual conference for free software enthusiasts. LibrePlanet brings together software developers, policy experts, activists and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments and face challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2015 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels.
http://libreplanet.org/2015/
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40th Annual Gardeners Gathering
Saturday, March 21
11am-4:30pm
Northeastern University, The Egan Center and Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street, Boston
Gardening workshops for community and residential gardeners for both beginner and experienced gardeners. Enjoy networking, info gallery, community garden awards, door prizes, and more! All invited to join with more than 400 community gardeners to welcome spring. Free event, all welcome, walk-in registration. For more information email phoebekflemming at gmail.com or call 857.366.3498
The Gardeners Gathering is an annual citywide event for community gardeners and other garden enthusiasts. Held in the spring of each year, the event is a welcome kick-off to Boston’s upcoming gardening season. The event is filled with informative and fun activities and workshops. Gardening and green space organizations are present to provide current program information. Door prizes are awarded and pre-ordered seeds (provided by The Trustees) are distributed.
One of the typical highlights of the Gardeners Gathering is the Mayor's greeting and presentation of the annual Community Gardening Awards. The Trustees is grateful to Northeastern University for hosting the event each year and to the City of Boston for its ongoing support of community gardening.
http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-1839.html
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End Drone Warfare And Endless US War in the Middle East
Saturday, March 21
1:00pm
Park Street, Boston
More at https://www.facebook.com/events/1391945577789214/
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Fixing Our Broken Democracy Workshop
Saturday, March 21
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM (EDT)
Northeastern University, 1155 Tremont Street, Room 016, Roxbury Crossing, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fixing-our-broken-democracy-workshop-tickets-16085566362
Join us for a 90-minute workshop about the legal fiction of "corporate personhood", money as protected political speech, and the growing citizen's movement to pass an amendment to the US Constitution abolishing corporate claims to We the People's Bill of Rights.
Since the 2010 SCOTUS decision of Citizens United v FEC activists across the country have rallied to the cause to abolish corporate constitutional rights and make a stand for democracy. In this workshop we will trace the history of corporations from the Roman Empire to today, discuss briefly the history of people's movements in the US, as well as how previous amendments have been won. We will also talk about what we can do locally to help pass the We the People Amendment.
The workshop is put on by volunteers from Greater Boston Move to Amend and hosted by the Northeastern chapter of Democracy Matters, a national non-partisan student organization committed to getting money out of politics and people back in. The event will be in the basement of International Village (1155 Tremont St) in Room 016. Please email democracymattersneu at gmail.com if you have any questions.
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Sunday, March 22
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Libre Planet
Sunday, March 22
9am - 6:35pm
MIT, Building 32, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=20
Cost: $0 - $90
LibrePlanet is an annual conference for free software enthusiasts. LibrePlanet brings together software developers, policy experts, activists and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments and face challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2015 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels.
http://libreplanet.org/2015/
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BeCause Water Hosts World Water Day Celebration
Sunday, March 22
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
Impact Hub, 50 Milk Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/because-water-hosts-world-water-day-tickets-15731170354
Join us in celebrating, appreciating, and learning about our planet’s most precious resource: WATER!
What To Expect:
Network with local non-profit organizations, businesses, and student groups who are devoted to water sustainability
Learn about local initiatives and ways that you can get involved
Share ideas regarding water sustainability
Discover a revolutionary mobile app that will change the way you access “water on-the-go”
Attend a free screening of the Boston premiere of the award-winning documentary "Divide in Concord"
Who's Invited:
Student Groups: Sign Up to be a featured student group. Present on your group's success over the past semester and notify attendees of your goals for this semester.
Non-Profit Organizations: Register as a featured organization. Showcase your organization's accomplishments and goals, while networking with potential volunteers or interns.
Students: Network with potenital employers, learn how to get involved in the water sustainability community, and meet with other engaged peers.
General Public: Discover ways to get involved in the water sustainability community. Enjoy the Boston premier of the award winning documentary that highlights the story of Concord's Bottle Ban.
Agenda:
2:00 - 2:30 Networking
2:30 - 4:00 Welcome & Presentations
4:00 - 5:30 Film Screening "Divide in Concord"
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'Of Many' Film Screening and Panel Discussion
WHEN Sun., Mar. 22, 2015, 2:15 – 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Film, Humanities, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Diana Eck, The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Rabbi Neal Gold, Temple Shir Tikva
Syed Razvi, Islamic Center of Boston
Usra Ghazi, Mayors Office of New Bostonians and the Memorial Church
Sarbpreet Singh, Milford Gurdwara Sahib/New England Sikh Study Circle, Inc.
COST Free and open to the public
TICKET WEB LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/1599077496972927/
TICKET INFO RSVP not required by appreciated.
CONTACT INFO Whittney Barth, The Pluralism Project
staff at pluralism.org
DETAILS "Of Many" film screening with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Diana Eck, founder and director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University (www.pluralism.org). Set against the dramatic backdrop of violence in the Middle East and the tension between Jewish and Muslim students on college campuses, Of Many focuses on the surprising and transformative relationship between an orthodox rabbi and imam, who serve as university chaplains in New York City. Through a series of voyages to communities struck by catastrophe, we witness young religious Jews and Muslims working together and overcoming long-standing divides. Timely and humorous, this short documentary offers an inspiring and hopeful narrative in the face of a seemingly irreconcilable conflict. (www.ofmanyfilm.com/trailer/)
LINK http://www.pluralism.org/events/rr
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Workshop on Personal Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Sunday, March 22
3-5 PM
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Featuring investment experts Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies; Leslie Samuelrich, Green Century; David Schreiber, Progressive Asset Mgmt; and Shelley Alpern, Green Yield Asset Mgmt. This is an opportunity for people to be part of an important movement for dealing with climate change and to align their finances with their values.
RSVP to rev.reebee at gmail.com, with subject line DIVEST.
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Monday, March 23
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ReSourcing Big Data: A Symposium & Collaboration Opportunity
WHEN Mon., Mar. 23, 2015, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Catalyst
SPEAKER(S) Paul Avillach, Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Stephen Friend, Ph.D., Sage Bionetworks
Steven E. Hyman, Harvard University and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Steven McCarroll, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Sally Okun, PatientsLikeMe
Marsha A. Wilcox, Janssen Pharmaceutical R&D
COST Free, registration required
TICKET WEB LINK catalyst.harvard.edu…
CONTACT INFO http://catalyst.harvard.edu/programs/reactor/
DETAILS You are cordially invited to attend ReSourcing Big Data: A Symposium & Collaboration Opportunity on March 23 & 24, 2015. Please register by March 18.
Extant data is an inexhaustible resource that is not yet very well understood and is underutilized. The focus of this symposium is to explore this area from various perspectives – privacy and security, policy, open clinical trial data, systems and disease-oriented synthetic efforts and individually-provided, aggregated crowd-sourced data. The goal is to engage our biomedical and public health research community in a more nuanced appreciation of these and similar issues.
Topics include: data aggregation, access, annotation, refocusing on novel or unanticipated questions, and recombination with diverse demographic/epidemiologic data.
Complete information, including speakers and registration, can be found on the website.
Even if you cannot attend the Symposium, you are still invited to participate in a working session on March 24.
LINK http://catalyst.harvard.edu/programs/reactor/
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Mobilizing Mutations: New Kinds of People at the Intersection of Genetics and Patient Advocacy
Monday, March 23
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Dan Navon, Harvard, Robert Wood Johnson Fellow
STS Circle at Harvard
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Computer Vision that is changing our lives
Monday, March 23
4:00p–5:30p
MIT, Building 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Prof. Amnon Shashua, Hebrew University
Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1993 from the AI lab at MIT working on computational vision where he pioneered work on multiple view geometry and the recognition of objects under variable lighting. His work on multiple view geometry received best paper awards at the ECCV 2000, the Marr prize in ICCV 2001 and the Landau award in exact sciences in 2005. His work on Graphical Models received a best paper award at the UAI 2008. Prof. Shashua was the head of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during the term 2003-2005. He is also well known on founding startup companies in computer vision and his latest brainchild Mobileye employs today 250 people developing systems-on-chip and computer vision algorithms for detecting pedestrians, vehicles, and traffic signs for driving assistance systems. For his industrial contributions prof. Shashua received the 2004 Kaye Innovation award from the Hebrew University.
Brains, Minds & Machines Seminar Series
(This seminar series was formerly known as "Brains & Machines Seminar Series.")This seminar series is organized by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under a Science and Technology Centers (STCs): Integrative Partnerships award, Grant No. CCF-1231216.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Web site: http://cbmm.mit.edu/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), McGovern Institute for Brain Research
For more information, contact: Elisa Pompeo
617-324-3684
CBMM-contact at mit.edu
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The Decline of Marriage: Family Systems, Economic Opportunity, and Relative Income
WHEN Mon., Mar. 23, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
SPEAKER(S) Steven Ruggles, Regents Professor of History, University of Minnesota and director, Minnesota Population Center
CONTACT INFO ksmall at hsph.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/events/pop-center-seminars/
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Beyond Samba: The Musical Others of Brazilian Counterculture; Raul Seixas: O Inicio, O Fim e O Meio
WHEN Mon., Mar. 23, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture, Music, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Romance Languages & Literature, ARTS@ DRCLAS, Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS
SPEAKER(S) Luigi Patruno
DIRECTED BY Walter Carvalho
CONTACT INFO patruno at fas.harvard.edu
shockskay at gmail.com
DETAILS Part of a film series that focuses on Samba. This film focuses on Raul Seixas.
LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYEKXBwS9A8
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Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change
Monday, March 23
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenure, ASEAN Auditorium, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/macroeconomics-in-the-age-of-climate-change-tickets-14908190800
Global Develompment and Environment Institute will award its 2015 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Duncan Foley and Lance Taylor. The award recognizes the contributions that these researchers have made to our understanding of the relationships between environmental quality and our economy.
As part of the ceremony, awardees willl lecture on the theme "Macroeconomics in the Age of Climate Change." A reception will follow the ceremony.
This event is free and open to the public.
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The Resilience Dividend
Monday, March 23
6PM
Harvard, Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
With Judith Rodin, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. In conversation with Professor Jerold S. Kayden
Judith Rodin has been president of The Rockefeller Roundation since 2005. A research psychologist by training, Dr. Rodin was the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania. She was the provost and dean of the graduate school at Yale University. She serves on the boards of corporations and nonprofit institutitions, has received nineteen honorary degrees, and is widely recognized as a global leader. Dr. Rodin's book, "The Resilience Divided" has recently been published (Public Affairs, 2014).
Jerold S. Kayden is the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Contact Name: Caroline Newton
cnewton at gsd.harvard.edu
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Gas Leak Campaign Kickoff Meeting
Monday, March 23
6:00-8:30 pm
6-6:30 for supper and socializing, 6:30-8:30 for campaign kickoff
Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine Street, Jamaica Plain (one block from Stony Brook T stop)
Boston’s century-old gas pipes are leaking methane in 3200+ places. That methane is warming our planet more than any other Boston source.
Join us to preview our ambitious 2015 campaign to replace Boston’s leaky gas pipes, stop runaway climate change, and block new gas supply pipelines across our state.
You can plug in at any level — spot a gas leak in your neighborhood, join a Gas Leaks Patrol, help coordinate, or just spread the word. See you on March 23!
Contact https://bostoncan.wordpress.com/
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Music and the Brain
Monday, March 23
7:00 – 8:00pm
MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Stan Strickland and Aniruddh Patel
Music has a unique ability to reach into our deepest self. Ever since Plato made this observation some 2,300 years ago we’ve been wondering about music’s effect on us. Over the past decade scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the quest to understand music’s course in the body, starting at the top—the brain.
After a snowy two month hiatus we are very excited to have musician and performer extraordinaire, Stan Strickland and renowned neuroscientist Ani Patel engage each other about the connections made when experiencing music, both as maker/performer and receiver/listener. They will discuss their mutual interest in the facets of rhythm and healing and how those aspects are “played out” for each of them as performer and researcher, respectively. We may even be treated to some music as part of the conversation!
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China, Biodiversity, and the Global Environment
WHEN Mon., Mar. 23, 2015, 7 – 8:15 p.m.
WHERE Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
SPEAKER(S) Peter H. Raven, president emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
COST Free, but registration required
TICKET WEB LINK https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1390&DayPlannerDate=3/23/2015
CONTACT INFO 617.384.5277
adulted at arnarb.harvard.edu
DETAILS China boasts not only the largest percentage of the world’s population (19%) but also one of Earth’s richest and most diverse floras. Yet its economic rise as an industrial nation and its population density, with the associated environmental degradation, put this biodiversity at risk. Add in climate change and it is a recipe for disaster. Professor Peter Raven, a leading botanist, advocate for the conservation of biodiversity, and one of the co-editors of The Flora of China, a joint Chinese-American census of all the plants of China, is uniquely qualified to assess the consequences of over-population, industrial pollution, economic inequalities, and natural resource exploitation in China—consequences not limited to that country but affecting the entire global environment. In this talk, he will consider what it means for humanity to lose thousands of species to extinction, many before they are known or described by scientists. He’ll present his thoughts on reversing environmental degradation in China and around the globe and what is required to move all people toward an ethic of conservation and securing sustainability.
LINK arboretum.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, March 24
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3rd Annual Mass. Water Forum - Water: Right or Privilege?
Tuesday, March 24
10 am-12 pm
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-massachusetts-water-forum-tickets-15614321857?ref=ebtnebregn
The 3rd Annual Massachusetts Water Forum will dig into issues concerning water in our commonwealth. Overall, we have plenty of water in our state, however given that many parts of the US and the world are experiencing drought, the pressure for water will increase. What does that mean for the state of Massachusetts? How do we determine right or privilege?
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Climate Change Impact on Precipitation and Sea Level Rise
Panel Moderator: Nancy Girard, Esq., Former Commissioner of Environment, City of Boston
Panelists: Earl Jones, Liberation Capital; Yvette DePeiza, MassDEP; Daniel Moss, Our Water Commons; Patricia Jones, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Senior Program Leader for Human Right to Water
Info: Call our office, 617-477-4840
Free with registration, space is limited.
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America's Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty: Understanding Everyday Americans at the Core of Civic Innovation
Tuesday, March 24
12:00 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/03/krontiris#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/03/krontiris at 12:00 pm.
Kate Krontiris will discuss "America's Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty: Understanding Everyday Americans at the Core of Civic Innovation". Description forthcoming.
About Kate
Kate is a researcher, strategist, and facilitator working to transform civic life in America. In pursuit of a society where more people assert greater ownership over the decisions that govern their lives, she uses ethnographic tools to design products, policies, and services that enable a more equitable democratic future. During her fellowship with the Berkman Center, Kate will explore two topics: 21st century girlhood, and Americans' awareness of their government's presence in their lives.
With full research support from Google’s Civic Innovation portfolio, Kate just finished traveling across the United States to ascertain what motivates everyday Americans to take civic actions and what holds them back. The goal of this research is to understand how we have become a nation of interested bystanders, and what can be done to nudge everyday people to take small actions that could radically transform the fabric of civic participation. The findings are being used to inform the design of civic products and services at Google, and will be shared with the civic tech ecosystem publicly, likely later this year.
Kate is best known for her applied research on how citizens use technology. Earlier this year, Kate led a discovery and design process on behalf of Personal Democracy Media to investigate and envision a new center for civic innovation in New York City. In spring of 2013, she led a first-of-its-kind ethnographic investigation into American elections, assessing the human motivations, technological systems, and institutional landscapes that define elections administration at the most local levels. This year, the non-profit, non-partisan civic startup TurboVote is prototyping with elections officials a series of tools whose specifications flow directly from the findings, in order to effect a wholesale re-visioning of the voter experience by 2016. Kate also spent time in the U.S. Department of State and at Google Ideas, exploring how technology might be used to improve judicial outcomes.
Prior to her graduate education, Kate built a career in problem-solving justice and mediation. Working with the Center for Court Innovation around New York City, she shepherded a multi-stakeholder task force on prison reentry in Harlem and developed meaningful community service initiatives for the Bronx Criminal Court. She also mediated over 150 conflicts through youth court and conflict resolution programs.
Kate is a graduate of Columbia University. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She serves as a member of the Harlem Justice Corps Community Advisory Board and is also an alumna of the AmeriCorps National Service Program.
http://katekrontiris.com/ || @katekrontiris
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Planning and Design Health Assessment Tools
Tuesday, March 24
1:00 PM EST
Webinar: To join this webinar, log in to Adobe Connect via this URL: https://gsd-fll.adobeconnect.com/hapi032415/ as a “Guest”. Then enter your full first and last names to help the administers of the webinar better identify you.
Presenters: Dr. Ann Forsyth, Professor, Emily Salomon, Research Associate, and Laura Smead, Research Associate, all of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Description: Drawing on the research in other parts of the HAPI project, including visits to China, this webinar will present new health assessment tools and their application to testing both existing and planned neighborhoods.
Forsyth will discuss the research and development of a scoping checklist to assess whether health impacts are likely to be large enough to warrant further analysis; a workshop-based method for interactively assessing health impacts, engaging stakeholders in modifying an initial technical assessment to take account of local conditions. This is a variation of what is commonly termed the rapid assessment; a comprehensive checklist of key issues to consider and basic indicators of better health. This would be for “desktop” use on draft proposals.
*Note: the webinar is free and open to the first 100 attendees.
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Coastal Area Restoration
Tuesday, March 24
2PM
Webinar at http://www.conservationwebinars.net/webinars/coastal-area-restoration
Christopher Miller, Manager/Plant Materials Specialist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Cape May Plant Materials Center
The three day Nor'easter storm of March 1962 devastated the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England coastline. This was the storm of record prior to Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. Coastal plant materials were not readily available in the 1960's for revegetation purposes. Consequently, the Cape May Plant Materials Center was established by the USDA Soil Conservation Service in 1965 to test, select, and release plants to the commercial marketplace for re-establishing vegetation on dunes, shorelines, streambanks and other highly disturbed sites. Participate in this training session to learn more about the selection of coastal adapted plant species, innovative uses of these plants, and opportunities for growing alternative specialty crops on marginal lands in coastal areas.
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Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Written in Stone - Reading Earth’s Planetary History
Tuesday, March 24
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolution-matters-lecture-series-reading-earths-planetary-history-tickets-15452556011
We live on a mature planet shaped by four billion years of evolution and environmental change. But what was Earth like in its youth and adolescence? To find out, Harvard Professor of Natural History, Andrew Knoll travels to remote locations in search of rocks that reveal the deep history of Earth and the life it supports. Focusing on 600–800 million-year-old rocks exposed on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, Knoll will discuss the importance of documenting and analyzing ancient sedimentary rocks, highlighting what they can tell us about the evolution of the earliest living organisms and the planet’s early environmental transitions.
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Growing Local
Tuesday, March 24
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Haley House Bakery Café, 12 Dade Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-local-tickets-15983838090
Join us for a free film screening night at Haley House Bakery Café on March 24, 2015 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm and have a discussion with Amanda Beal, of Maine Farmland Trust, whose family is featured in the film after!
Growing Local is a collaboration between Maine Farmland Trust and Seedlight Pictures. The film points to the vibrancy and the growing pains of the local food movement in Maine, and the uncertain fate of the farmers and farmland that keep it alive.
The film contains three short vignettes: “Seeding A Dream,” “Pig Not Pork,” and “Changing Hands.” Each focuses on a different challenge hindering the growth of the local food movement, and points toward possible solutions.
These stories give us a snapshot into what growing local means not only for farmers and farmland in Maine, yet across our region. What can we do as eaters to support their efforts to provide us local product?
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Preparing for the Rising Tide on Boston's Waterfront
Tuesday, March 24
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Conference Center A, 300 1st Avenue, First Floor, Charlestown
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/preparing-for-the-rising-tide-on-bostons-waterfront-tickets-16133626110
The Flagship Wharf Residents Association has invited Julie Wormser, Executive Director of The Boston Harbor Association to discuss sea level rise and the future of Boston's waterfront.
Accompanied by a graphically-rich presentation, she will explain the causes of coastal flooding and what Charlestown Navy Yard residents might do to decrease damage from coastal flooding from today's storms and tomorrow's higher sea levels. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
All are welcome to this free event, but space is limited, so please RSVP if you plan to attend. See you there!
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Techne, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault
WHEN Tue., Mar. 24, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Cognitive Theory and the Arts, Mahindra Humanities Center
SPEAKER(S) Sean Kelly, Philosophy, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Anna Henchman (henchman at bu.edu)
DETAILS Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cognitive-theory-and-arts
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Start Up Boston
Tuesday, March 24
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Vault, 105 Water Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-institute-boston-spring-2015-open-doors-celebration-siopendoors-tickets-15869987560
We’re building a community of awesome people here in Boston. Together we are making huge contributions to the tech ecosystem and building great companies. Our seasonal Open Doors Celebration is an opportunity for us to come together to celebrate this growing community.
What’s this all about?
Well, this is sure to be a killer networking opportunity with students, alumni, partners, instructors, and friends of SI all on our invite list. It’s about celebrating community, making new connections, and enjoying time together.
Know someone interested in getting to know Boston’s startup community?
Bring them along. No pressure, just the opportunity to check out what we’re all about and meet members of the network.
Our Open Doors Party is being held at The Vault in the Financial District.
Tell your friends, connect with others, and say hello with #SIOpenDoors on Twitter.
info at startupinstitute.com
http://www.startupinstitute.com/boston
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Wednesday, March 25
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Arts Matter Advocacy Day
Wednesday, March 25
9:00AM-2:00PM
Citi Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont Street and Massachusetts State House, Boston
RSVP at http://www.mass-creative.org/amadrsvp
When the creative community comes together, it’s always a good time. And together, we always make a bigger impact.
That’s why I want to personally invite you to Arts Matter Advocacy Day on March 25, to show our state political leaders that arts matter in Massachusetts.
Join arts, cultural, and creative leaders and supporters from across the Commonwealth for the half-day event, featuring speakers, performers, connecting with colleagues, and an “Arts Matter March” to the State House to meet with our legislators.
Join us for a morning at the Citi Wang Theatre in downtown Boston and an early afternoon at the State House. After a morning of mingling, celebrating arts & culture, and sharpening our advocacy skills at the Wang, we will travel together in an “Arts Matter March” to the State House. When we arrive, we will meet with our legislators about arts and cultural issues, including the state budget. Together, let’s send the message: arts matter in Massachusetts.
Please help spread the word to your networks. Check out our Arts Matter Advocacy Day toolkit for sample materials: http://www.mass-creative.org/amadtoolkit
Keep up the good work and see you in March,
Matt Wilson, MASSCreative
http://www.mass-creative.org/
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Critical Issues Confronting China: Challenging Myths About China's One-Child Policy
WHEN Wed., Mar. 25, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South, S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
SPEAKER(S) Martin K. Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
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Synthetic ecology: using microalgae and bacteria for biotechnology
Wednesday, March 25
4:00p–5:00p
MIT, Building 48-316, Parsons, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Elena Kazamia, University of Cambridge
Microbial Systems Seminar
Web site: microbialsystems.wordpress.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Kathryn Kauffman
k6logc at mit.edu
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Voting on Prices vs. Voting on Quantities in a World Climate Assembly
WHEN Wed., Mar. 25, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Martin Weitzman, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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"Back to the Future: Will we create enough new technology to sustain our society?"
Wednesday, March 25
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Harvard, Science Center Lecture Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Peter Thiel, Palantir Technologies; Thiel Foundation; Founders Fund; PayPal co-founder
With Discussants:
Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School
Moderated by:
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Recent discussions about the role of technology in society have oscillated between very short term worries ("what are smart phones doing to our brains?") and very long term nightmares ("will artificial intelligence replace humanity?"). Left out of these discussions are the next twenty years: our horizon for making concrete plans. The most important question for this medium term might be: will we create enough new technology to sustain our society? Instead of taking it for granted (or doomed), we must go back to the future and build it ourselves.
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the “PayPal Mafia.” He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future. Despite his criticism of the education bubble, in Spring 2012 Peter taught a class in the Computer Science department of his alma mater Stanford University. He has now revised and rewritten that class to make the new book called Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. For more information on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit: www.sts.hks.harvard.edu/. This lecture and discussion is free and open to the public.
Contact: Lisa Matthews
Assistant Director of Events and Communications
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425
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Askwith Forum: The Digital Ecosystem and Higher Education’s Future
WHEN Wed., Mar. 25, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: Diana Oblinger, President and CEO, EDUCAUSE
Discussant: Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, HGSE
Information technology in higher education is clearly here to stay. While information technology in higher education has long offered many alternatives to the residential on-campus experience, such as MOOCs, adaptive learning, game-based environments, competency-based education, badging, intrusive advising, and education-as-a-service, the rising costs of higher education, consumer demand, and dwindling time for degrees are all adding pressure for educators to discover additional technology solutions. This guarantees that the future of higher education’s technology will continue to grow at vast rates. Join Professor Chris Dede and EDUCAUSE President and CEO Diana Oblinger as they discuss which parts of the digital ecosystem will suit Harvard’s future, what parts are better suited elsewhere, and the potential consequences of higher education technology on society.
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Wednesday, March 25
6:00PM ET
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/03/Schneier#RSVP
Join the Berkman Center for a special event celebrating the release of Bruce Schneier's new book, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.
About the book: You are under surveillance right now.
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you’re unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.
The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.
Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us exactly what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day. You’ll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. RSVP required. more information on our website>
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Speed Coaching: Fast Talk for Slow Money in Food
Wednesday, March 25
6:00-8:30pm.
Workbar, 45 Prospect Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/speed-coaching-fast-talk-about-slow-money-tickets-15375086297
Cost: $11.54
Entrepreneurs, food enthusiasts and eaters of all kinds are welcome to join us for an evening of "Speed Coaching". This event is a great opportunity for both participating entrepreneurs, and the general public, to get expert advice and insights about the food, agriculture and sustainability sectors.
Who? You! Entrepreneurs, sector professionals, and anyone who is curious about the inside of the food, agriculture and sustainability industries.
What?
a group of mentors with a wide range of expertise, available to answer your questions in 4 rounds of "speed" coaching; 10 minutes per round
fill out this application for a “seat at the table”! Priority will be given to entrepreneurs who are actively launching or running a business and have specific questions for the mentors. - applications due March 11th!
any remaining slots will be filled first-come, first-serve via sign-up sheet the night of the event
opportunities for all (no application needed) to listen in on any session of your choice
networking opportunities before and after formal speed coaching
Why? We are aiming to create an opportunity for entrepreneurs in all phases of their venture to access expertise to help them continue to grow their Slow Money businesses. We hope that all of our community can benefit from the insights provided by our mentors.
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UX Expert-a-thon: Special Event
Wednesday, March 25
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
LearnLaunch Accelerator, 31 Saint James Avenue, #920, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ux-expert-a-thon-special-event-tickets-15805490648
Help education startups at LearnLaunch Accelerator refine their UI and UX strategy, and make connections in the Boston tech community during this fast-paced and fun event.
What's LearnLaunch Accelerator?
The LearnLaunch Accelerator program is designed to help early stage edtech entrepreneurs successfully grow their startups. Founders participate in a three month residential program in Boston, Massachusetts, where they are immersed in a community of like-minded professionals committed to helping them grow their businesses. We believe our companies will create enormous value in the education sector, which is 9% of the U.S. economy and growing rapidly around the world. Our entrepreneurs are passionate about student engagement and learning, as well as empowering educators with great tools and solutions.
How can I help?
The startups are in the process of refining their products, and they need your help. They'll bring their elevator pitch demos, you'll bring advice on UX strategy, user research, and taking their designs to the next level. You’ll be able to give feedback to 1-2 companies in need of your expert advice!
The schedule:
6-6:40pm: Networking & Refreshments & Food
6:45-7pm: Introductions
7pm-7:45pm: Round-Robin Mentoring/UX Feedback Sessions
7:45pm-8:30pm: Round-Robin Mentoring/UX Feedback Session II
8:30pm - 9:00pm: More Networking
Please note: for this event, we are asking for the participation of mid to senior level UX professionals to share their knowledge. Hence, the additional RSVP info requested.
Participating startups:
Authess - Assessment templates that enable scenario-, simulation- and problem-based assessment that evaluate knowledge and skill mastery, and deliver personalized data to the learner.
Education Modified - A platform that empowers teachers who serve students with special needs using the latest research-based strategies and Learning Biographies for seamless collaboration.
Knowledge to Practice - An education technology firm improving patient-centered care through personalized, mastery-based postgraduate medical education.
NI-O Toys - NI-O Toys makes Hardware Development Kits that enable designers, engineers, kids and practically anyone to create 3D Printable smart educational toys.
PIP Learning Technologies - Trust Platform® identity service connects educators to innovators, protects student privacy, and includes parents.
Quill - Quill.org a literacy tool that builds students’ grammar skills through personalized writing and proofreading activities.
Hstry - Hstry is a digital learning tool that enables teachers, students and historians to create and explore interactive historical timelines.
Listen Current - Public radio stories, lesson plans and activities that enliven STEM and social studies curriculum, foster critical thinking and listening skills, and align with Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
uConnect: uConnect is changing the way career services professionals – at private institutions to public universities – manage and promote their career services
For more information, please visit www.learnlaunch.com
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Steve Reich in Conversation
WHEN Wed., Mar. 25, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Steve Reich, hosted by Mohsen Mostafavi
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events at gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS “Greatest living composer”; “most original musical thinker of our time”; Steve Reich is normally described in superlatives such as these. From early compositions in taped speech to digital video opera, Reich has evolved a distinctive style marked by simple melodies and pronounced rhythm, repetition, and variation. Reich will speak about his work and play samples from his oeuvre, then Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, will join him in conversation.
LINK http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/steve-reich-in-conversation.html
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Old North Speaker Series: Michael Greenburg - Paul Revere: Beyond the Midnight Ride
Wednesday, March 25
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/old-north-speaker-series-michael-greenburg-paul-revere-beyond-the-midnight-ride-tickets-15504360961
Much of what we know about the iconic Paul Revere actually begins about 43 years after his death on the eve of the Civil War with the publication of Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride. Written to galvanize the Union cause, the poem replaced fact with legend and immediately propelled Revere to enduring fame. Though indisputably patriotic and loyal to the Revolutionary cause, Revere, like so many others, possessed a personality far more complex than a single defining moment would suggest. Mr. Greenburg will speak about the historical record of Paul Revere, from the Midnight Ride through his lesser-known travails and ultimate trial by court-martial following the doomed Penobscot Expedition – a troubling and often ignored chapter in the life of this beloved American icon. Join us for a reception and book signing after the lecture. Greenburg’s book, The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty & America’s Forgotten Military Disaster will be available for purchase.
Michael Greenburg is a practicing attorney in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. He is a 1983 graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law. He was a member and editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and was admitted to the practice of law in June of 1984. He has been engaged in private practice since then.
Michael is the author of the following nonfiction books: Peaches and Daddy, A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, and the Courtship that Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public; The Mad Bomber of New York, The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt that Paralyzed a City;and The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America’s Forgotten Military Disaster. He has appeared as a guest on NPR Radio, The Bloomberg Network, The Smithsonian Channel, and The Travel Channel.
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The Future of American Superpower: Security, Politics & Markets
Wednesday, March 25
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-american-superpower-security-politics-markets-registration-15638972588
The Future of American Superpower and Its implications for Security, Politics, and Markets
Join us for an enlightened evening Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group and James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School, as they discuss the future of American superpower and explore its implications for global security, politics, and markets. The evening is co-sponsored by the Tufts Financial Network and The Fletcher School’s SovereigNET, housed in the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC).
SCHEDULE:
6:30 pm -- Welcoming Remarks
6:45 pm -- Moderated Session
7:45 pm -- Networking Reception
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Potluck & Politics: Community Convo on 2024 Olympics
Wednesday, March 25
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
ArtRoxHub!, 22 Warren Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/potluck-politics-community-convo-on-2024-olympics-tickets-15877855092
Future Boston Alliance
There are vibrant discussions taking place in our city around culture, access to space & mobility, local economics, and of course its election season. With that said, Future Boston would like to invite community members to come together around some of these discussions.
This session will be an open dialogue on the 2024 Olympic Bid.
Check Back For More Details!
We believe there is no better way to bring folks together than around food so we ask that everyone bring a favorite dish to share with the group. Wine & Beer is BYOB.
Where: ArtRoxHub!
22 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
When: Wednesday, March 25th 6:30pm - 9pm
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Fed Up: Free March Museum of Science Movie and Talk
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston
RSVP at http://www.mos.org/public-events/fed-up; register online
Weight loss is the most common New Year's resolution. What is sabotaging this goal? How can we still lose weight? Traditional wisdom prescribes a relatively simple course for weight loss: eat less and exercise more. But what if the modern food industry has learned to manipulate the prescription? FED UP takes on industrial food giants and the products causing millions of Americans to become obese, diabetic, and difficult to treat.
Join Mark Hyman, a physician featured in the film, for a screening and discussion of the defining public health issue of our time.
Mark Hyman, MD, physician and New York Times bestselling author is founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center and director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Additional funding provided by the Richard S. Morse Fund.
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The Health of Democracy: Economic Inequality
Wednesday, March 25
7 pm
First Parish (UU), 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Taxes! Nobody likes taxes, but they have, famously, been called the price we pay for civilization. Since the earliest days of the Republic, taxes have played a controversial part in our democracy and the ideal of equality that underlies it. HistorianColin Gordon explores the growth of economic inequality in late 20th and early 21st century United States and its implications for a healthy democracy. Michael Widmer, former president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, examines how tax policy can support or lessen economic inequality. During previous eras of great economic inequality, government programs attempted to level the playing field. What can citizens do to spur a more equitable distribution of wealth today?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Thursday, March 26
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Climate Change and the Future of Plant Life
Thursday, March 26
9:00am - 4:30pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.newenglandwild.org/sym
Cost: $65 - $100
Plants are the foundation of global ecosystems, creating the habitats that nurture all other living beings. How will plants respond to the predicted changes in temperature and precipitation from a warming climate?
At this symposium, hosted by New England Wild Flower Society, five noted botanists and ecologists will discuss new findings and current research on the state of New England's plants; the historical patterns and current evidence of climate-induced adaptation, migration, and loss; and strategies for conserving and managing plant species and natural communities in the face of climate change.
Symposium Presentations
Keynote: State of the World’s Plants and the Development of Global Systems for Their Conservation and Use, Dr. Paul Smith, newly appointed Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
State of the Plants: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation of the New England Flora,
Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist, New England Wild Flower Society.
Whither New England? Scenarios for the Future and Perspectives from the Past, Dr. David R. Foster, Director of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University.
Identifying Species at Risk from Climate Change and Considering Alternative Conservation Strategies,
Dr. Dov F. Sax, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University and the Deputy Director for Education of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.
Options: The Key to a Resilient Future,
Andy Finton, Director of Conservation Programs for The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts.
For more information about the symposium and to register,
go to www.newenglandwild.org/sym or contact Lana Reed, New England Wild Flower Society Public Programs Coordinator, at lreed at newenglandwild.org, 508-877-7630, ext. 3303.
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Drowning in Benefit Costs: New Jersey Case Study
Thursday, March 26
11:45-1
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Thomas Healey, Founder and managing partner, Healey Development
Business & Government Seminar
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection: protecting American agriculture
Thursday, March 26
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Sean D. Smith, Public Affairs/Border Community Liaison, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
It's never a dull day in the life of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agriculture Specialist. Combining expertise in the natural sciences with the discipline of working in a fast-paced law enforcement environment, Agriculture Specialists are trained to serve as experts in the area of agricultural inspection, border intelligence, analysis, examination and enforcement activities.
PA/BCL Smith joined CBP in 2005 as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialist and was promoted to Supervisory CBPAS in 2008. He has served CBP in the following ports of entry: San Diego, San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, and Boston Logan Airport. In 2011 and 2012, Mr. Smith was designated as the Public Affairs Liaison and Border Community Liaison, respectively, for CBP in New England, covering ME, VT, NH, MA, CT and RI. PA/BCL Smith has also participated in past domestic and international disaster recovery operations, including: Hurricane Ike (2008) and 'Operation Safe Return' (Haitian Relief Effort- 2010).
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Internet of Things Immersions
Thursday, March 26
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://arrow.com/iotimmersions
The IoT Immersions event is about simplifying the Design, Development, and Deployment of solutions from the “Edge to the Enterprise.” Intellectual playgrounds for thought leaders.
Arrow brings together the industry’s most comprehensive IoT building blocks and expertise. From individual components, data services, and enterprise grade solutions and application, we comfortably traverse between the micro and macro levels to enable innovations that are Five Years Out.
Solution Sessions …Come away with a comprehensive understanding of the IoT landscape. Learn about our lineup of structured educational courses and open settings for free thinking. There are also sessions for the non-technical professional to better understand the direction of this subject matter.
Innovator’s Showcase……After a day of classroom immersion on IoT, immerse yourself with the latest technology and solutions on the showcase floor. Speak and interact with like-minded innovators and leading suppliers about your IoT ideas.
Immersive Agenda……It’s hard to believe everything from health sensors to smarter city apps can be covered in a single day. See the schedule to get the most out of every minute.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving the next wave of innovation unlike anything the world has ever experienced. At Arrow’s IoT Immersions, you will find the latest in technology, services and business advice from industry thought-leaders to help you design, develop and deploy winning IoT solutions and systems.
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Louis C. Elson Lecture: Laurie Anderson
WHEN Thu., Mar. 26, 2015, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard Department of Music, Behind 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Humanities, Lecture, Music, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music
SPEAKER(S) Laurie Anderson, "Music and Images in Performance and Film"
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO musicdpt at fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html
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The Awakening of Muslim Democracy
WHEN Thu., Mar. 26, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
DETAILS Professor Jocelyn Cesari will discuss her recent publication, The Awakening of Muslim Democracy, with two respondents. Cesari is Lecturer on Islamic Studies (HDS), Research Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (FAS), and Director of the Islam in the West Program (FAS).
Respondents: Liah Greenfeld, Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology at Boston University, and Ousmane Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard Divinity School.
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2015 Climate Ride: Info Party
Thursday, March 26
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Lir Irish Pub and Restaurant, 903 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/bike-207/events/220800808/
Have you heard? This year's Climate Ride will end right here in Boston! Never has this amazing ride been so accessible to the New England cycling community. This is an exciting opportunity to take part in what is one of the most impactful events toward raising both awareness & funding for organizations like the Boston Cyclists Union that are committed to advocating for sustainable & environmentally responsible living.
We would be honored to have YOU to be a part of Team Bike Union. Join us for an information party where you can learn more about the ride, talk about the amazing life changing experience with last year's Climate Ride team, and meet some of the riders who have already signed up for the upcoming ride. This is also a great chance to hear all about fundraising strategies, training rides, and how sore you're hands will be after all the high-fives you will get when you roll into Boston after 5 days & 320 scenic miles & a whole slew of new best friends.
Come anytime between 6:00pm - 9:00pm, we wrap up around 9:30.
Get some basics about the ride in advance by visiting the Climate Ride website
We also have a Facebook Event Page to help you share this with your other bike friends.
This is a NO PRESSURE event. Just come, raise a glass with us & learn about the Climate Ride. If you can't make the ride, that's OK you can always support another rider, share the info with your friends, or put it on your to-do list for next year. Just get informed & get excited about this amazing ride!
See you at LIR Irish Pub & Restaurant!
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"Lively Infrastructures" with Ash Amin
WHEN Thu., Mar. 26, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Graduate School of Design
SPEAKER(S) Ash Amin, 1931 chair of Geography at Cambridge University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events at gsd.harvard.edu
DETAILS This lecture examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, Ash Amin argues that infrastructures — visible and invisible — are deeply implicated not only in the making and unmaking of individual lives but also in the experience of urban community, solidarity and struggle.
LINK www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/ash-amin-lively-infrastructures.html
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Friday, March 27
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The Role of Social Media + News
Friday, March 27
7:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Omni Parker House, 60 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-role-of-social-media-news-tickets-15847705915
Jennifer Saragosa, Tim Ragan, Brian Moore
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Friday Morning Seminar: Operating the Social Body: Cancer 'Previvorship' in Australia and the United States
Friday, March 27
10:00a–11:50a
Harvard University, 1550 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alison Witchard, Australian National University
The Friday Morning Seminar, as it is widely known, has been meeting every year since 1984, when it was launched as the foundational seminar for a postdoctoral fellowship program in culture, psychiatry, and mental health and the predoctoral program in medical anthropology. Since that time, the seminar has brought together an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and clinicians, including faculty, fellows, students, and visiting scholars from across the University and the teaching hospitals, and universities across greater Boston.
The seminar features presentations of new research and writing by faculty, fellows, and students, and by invited guests. Its perspective is global and international, with a focus on comparative and cross-cultural studies. Some seminars have led to edited books (recently, Postcolonial Disorders; Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations; and Shattering Culture), and special issues for journals such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Research.
The seminar will take place on Friday, 3/27/15, and will feature Alison Witchard who will be giving a presentation entitled, Operating the Social Body: Cancer 'Previvorship' in Australia and the United States.
We hope you will be able to join us!
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, Anthropology Program, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Program in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
For more information, contact: Brittany Peters
bapeters at mit.edu
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Inured to Suffering: Ferguson as a Failure of the Humanities
WHEN Fri., Mar. 27, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Robinson Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Charles Warren Center
SPEAKER(S) George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
CONTACT INFO lkennedy at fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramschedule.html
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Making: The (Hands-on) Opening of the Makers Guild at the IDB
Friday, March 27
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Fort Point Cabinetmakers at the Makers Guild, 25 Drydock Avenue, 2nd floor, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-the-hands-on-opening-of-the-makers-guild-at-the-idb-tickets-15676687394
Part of Boston Design Week -
Join us and become a Maker, if only for a night. No experience required, just an interest in design, execution and a willingness to open your eyes to what MIGHT be possible!
You will leave with an appreciation of the Art of Making and, (if you wish to participate in the Hands-on), a hand-crafted and personalized item that you created.
And a much better idea of just what the high-end maker community is all about – collaborations, technology, design, history and innovation. Discussions on the Maker community with Miguel Gomez-Ibanez and Richard Oedel start at 6:15. followed by a reception open to all attendees.
Fort Point Cabinetmakers In collaboration with the Innovation and Design Building, the North Bennet Street School, and the IDB Makers Guild. Spaces are limited.
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Hacking iCorruption: Opening Panel and Reception
Friday, March 27
6pm – 9pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eaici7jf2834cf4b&llr=xf5bt9nab
A multidisciplinary event to fix the systemic, legal corruption that is weakening our public institutions around the world. Organized by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Friday, March 27
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Harvard Book Store welcomes lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund GERNOT WAGNER and professor of economics at Harvard University MARTIN WEITZMAN for a discussion of their book Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet.
If you had a ten percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a ten percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a ten percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future—why not our planet?
In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance—as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.
Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with—and what could happen if we don't do so—Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.
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Saturday, March 28
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The 3rd Annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference: “Cultivating Lands, Nourishing Communities, Building Businesses”
Saturday, March 28
Worcester, Mass
8:00-5:00 pm
Hosted by: City Growers, Urban Farming Institute, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
Rose Arruda
Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator
MA Dept. of Agricultural Resources
251 Causeway St., Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114
617-626-1849 (office)
617-851-3644 (cell)
Rose.Arruda at state.ma.us
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Just Food? Forum on Justice in the Food System
Saturday, March 28–29
8am - 5:20pm
Harvard Law School
Everybody eats, but do you eat just food?
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice and the food system. Featuring Ricardo Salvador, Director, UCS Food and Environment Program
Call for proposals.
Submit a proposal.
Pass the word.
http://foodbetter.squarespace.com/food-justice-conference#
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/just-food-forum-justice-food-system#sthash.RvVugxQM.dpuf
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Hacking iCorruption: Hackathon Day 2 and Presentations
Sunday, March 29
9am – 6pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eaici7jf2834cf4b&llr=xf5bt9nab
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Resistance to the Vietnam War – The history the Pentagon does not want you to know or remember
Saturday, March 28
10:00am - 4:30pm
MIT, Building 32, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Resistance to the Vietnam War
featuring Noam Chomsky, Louise Bruyn, Carl Davidson and other resisters
The history the Pentagon does not want you to know or remember on the 50th anniversary of the 1965 teach-ins on the Vietnam War
Voices from the Movement to End the Vietnam War – Speaking out Then and Now
A People’s History - covering Draft Resistance, Resistance within the Military, a Vietnamese Perspective, SDS, Agent Orange, Vietnam today, building a movement, persevering and working for peace, justice and social change
10 AM Panels/Discussions in 32-141
Paul Shannon, American Friends Service Committee, Carl Davidson, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Louise Bruyn, author, She Walked For All Of Us, Nguyen Ba Cheung, Association of Vietnamese Patriots, Wayne Smith, Vietnam Veteran, Pat Hynes Traprock Peace Center
Lunch Break – 12:30 – 1:30 - Lunch places are nearby, a list will be posted and available at the event or you can bring your own, food is not provided by the organizers!
2 PM Panel on Resistance to the Vietnam War in 32-123
Professor Noam Chomsky, MIT. Noam Chomsky is one of the foremost public dissidents in the U.S. and has been for more than 50 years. His books and articles criticizing U.S. policies are read around the world.
John Bach – draft resistance. In 1967 John Bach dropped out of college to lose his student deferment which he considered racist and classist. He spent three years in federal prison which he views as three of the freest years of his life. A very committed Quaker, he has tried to be faithful to that trajectory ever since.
Susan Schnall – resistance within the military. Susan Schnall was an active duty Navy nurse during the American conflict in Vietnam. In 1969 she was tried and found guilty by general court martial for: conduct unbecoming an officer for dropping anti war flyers over military bases in the San Francisco Bay area and wearing her uniform in the GI and Veterans March for Peace demonstration in San Francisco. She has been active in the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Medical Aid for Indochina and the GI coffeehouses of the 1960s. Susan Schnall is a member of the core of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Judy Norsigian – linking in the Women’s Movement of the era. Judy Norsigian is a co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves – the book that revolutionized women’s health care. She is an internationally renowned speaker and author on a range of women’s health concerns, her areas of focus include women and health care reform, abortion and contraception, childbirth (especially the role of midwifery), genetics and reproductive technologies, and drug and device safety.
Anti war music of the time with Chris Nauman, a long time peace activist who lately has been leading standing room only Pete Seeger singalongs!
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/778897638861410
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Design Carnival
Saturday, March 28
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Harvard University- Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-carnival-tickets-15225966275
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Earth Hour
Saturday, March 28
8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
From 8:30-9:30pm, turn off your lights to see the stars and heal the Earth
https://www.earthhour.org/
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Sunday, March 29
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Just Food? Forum on Justice in the Food System
Sunday, March 29
8am - 4:15pm
Harvard Law School
Everybody eats, but do you eat just food?
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice and the food system. Featuring Ricardo Salvador, Director, UCS Food and Environment Program
Call for proposals.
Submit a proposal.
Pass the word.
http://foodbetter.squarespace.com/food-justice-conference#
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/just-food-forum-justice-food-system#sthash.RvVugxQM.dpuf
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Hacking iCorruption: Orientation and Hackathon Day 1:
Saturday, March 28
9am – 6pm
MIT Media Lab, Building E14, 3rd Floor Atrium, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eaici7jf2834cf4b&llr=xf5bt9nab
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"Made in the Future" With Matt Weiss of IDEO
Sunday, March 29
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT)
The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/made-in-the-future-with-matt-weiss-of-ideo-tickets-15837127274
Note: Complimentary Pass is only valid starting at 1:00pm on Sunday, March 29 until the program begins. Not valid for any other days or for re-admission.
Made in the Future
We may not all have flying cars or intelligent ape chauffeurs today, but so much of what we take for granted—the Internet, touchscreens, the cubicle—was once a shiny figment of the future.
Sci-fi writers and technologists make a profession of beaming this stuff up. But designers have a place in the transporter too.
Join Matt Weiss, Portfolio Director and Business Designer at IDEO Boston, as he shares IDEO's musings on what a not-so-distant tomorrow might look like. What new tools or technologies might be created? How will they change the way we behave and learn? How will they shape our world? Made in the Future will explore where design is heading with five exciting themes: Meaning Economy, Outer Skills, Making Exchanges, Raw Systems, and New Matter.
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Visionaries in the Field of Hunger Relief
Sunday, March 29
3:30 - 5 pm
The Fenn School, Ward Hall, 516 Monument Street, Concord
A multi-generational panel discussion with three Visionaries who turned hunger awareness into hunger action:
Doug Rauch, Founder, Daily Table; former President of Trader Joe's
Katie Stagliano, Founder, Katie's Krops; high school student, winner of Clinton Global Citizenship Award
Ashley Stanley, Founder of Lovin' Spoonfuls; one of Boston's most innovative leaders under 40, TEDx speaker
Come prepared to be inspired and join the discussion.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
Please register. Carpool if you can!
Questions: Contact Program Manager, Fan Watkinson at fan at gainingground.org
Hosted by Gaining Ground 341 Virginia Road Concord MA 01742 978 610 6086.
Backgrounds of the panelists:
Doug Rauch spent 31 years with Trader Joe's, the last 14 years as President, helping grow the business from a small, nine-store grocery chain in California to a nationally acclaimed retail success story with over 340 stores in 30 states. Doug is currently the Founder/President of Daily Table, an innovative retail concept designed to bring affordable nutrition to the food insecure in cities by utilizing the excess, wholesome food that would otherwise be wasted at growers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Katie Stagliano is the 16-year-old Founder & Chief Executive Gardener of Katie’s Krops, a nonprofit organization with the mission to create vegetable gardens of all sizes and donate the harvest to help feed people in need, as well as to assist and inspire others to do the same. Katie's Krops currently has over 80 kid-run gardens in 29 states that have produced thousands of pounds of healthy, fresh food for families in need. Katie also runs a soup kitchen in her community. She is the the youngest recipient of the Clinton Global Citizenship Award for her leadership in civil society, is featured in the award-winning documentary film "The Starfish Throwers," and is the author of "Katie's Cabbage."
Ashley Stanley is a born and bred Bostonian. Since founding Lovin’ Spoonfuls in 2010, Ashley and her team have rescued and distributed over two million pounds of fresh, healthy food into the social service stream. She has created unparalleled awareness for food rescue, with dedication to addressing the significant consequences of food waste. In 2012, Lovin’ Spoonfuls was a two-time winner of the Mass Challenge competition, the largest global startup accelerator. In 2013, Ashley was selected by Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s most innovative business leaders under age 40. She serves on the Boston Food Policy Council and is one of Oxfam International’s Sisters of the Planet Ambassadors, as well as a TEDx community speaker.
Fan Watkinson, Program Manager
Gaining Ground, P.O. Box 374, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742
(978) 610-6086
www.gainingground.org
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Monday, March 30
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Going Further With Ford: Info Session on Ford-MIT Alliance's Annual Request for Proposals
Monday, March 30
11:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building 32-D463, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ed Krause, Global Manager of External Alliances, Ford Motor Company
Ford's global manager of external alliances, Ed Krause, will discuss Ford's areas of interest: mobility 2025+; automated driving technology; cybersecurity; vehicle electri
cation; vehicle connectivity; vehicle light-weighting; powertrain fuel e
ciency technologies; business analytics and enterprise modeling; and invehicle health and wellness. Prof. Jonathan How, Ford-MIT Alliance director, and Ed Krause will be available to answer questions.
Web site: ssrc.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
For more information, contact: Jacqueline Paris
jparis at mit.edu
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MASS Seminar/Houghton Lecture- David Battisti (UW)
Monday, March 30
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: David Battisti
The first lecture by our spring Houghton Lecturer, David Battisti.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu
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ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar: Managing Arctic Resources
Monday, March 30
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building,79 JFK Street, Cambridge
William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Susan Hackley, Managing Director, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School; HKS Student Panelist TBA
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/
Contact Name: Louisa Lund
Louisa_Lund at hks.harvard.edu
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A New Literacy for the Information Age: Children, Computers, and Citizenship
Monday, March 30
12:15PM - 2:00PM
Harvard, Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Margo Boenig-Liptsin, Harvard, STS/History of Science
STS Circle at Harvard
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
Sandwich lunches are provided. Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Wednesday at 5PM the week before.
Contact Name: Shana Rabinowich
sts at hks.harvard.edu
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-30-161500-2015-03-30-180000/sts-circle-harvard#sthash.rcUOhGdj.dpuf
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Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books
Monday, March 30
2:00p–4:30p
MIT, Building E62-450, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Sara Ellison (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): IO Workshop
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Asymmetric War: A Symposium
WHEN Mon., Mar. 30, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences, Lecture, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence.
SPEAKER(S) Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
Noah Feldman, chair, Harvard Law School
Moshe Halbertal, New York University School of Law
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law
Homi Bhabha, chair, Harvard University
Faisal Devji, Oxford University
Lital Levy, Princeton University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-0738; humcentr at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
LINK http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/asymmetric-warfare-symposium
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Future of Nature Boston Speaker Series: The Future of the City: Can Cities be the Key to a Greener World?
Monday, March 30
Reception 5:30 pm; talk at 6:30 pm
Boston Center for the Arts, Calderwood Pavilion, Wimberley Theatre, 527 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at https://support.nature.org/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=6781
Cost: $25-$40
Join The Nature Conservancy and leading thinkers from Boston and beyond for a discussion about solutions to some of the most pressing environmental challenges we face.
As the world becomes increasingly urban and populations rise, living in denser cities may be part of the solution to humanity’s resource challenges. Can urban areas be environmentally sound? Where do the cities of the future exist today? How can Boston become a leader in green design?
Contact Name: Emma Colburn
More at: http://environment.harvard.edu/events/2015-03-30-213000-2015-03-30-223000/future-nature-boston-speaker-series#sthash.IkyZAiAo.dpuf
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Science in Policy and Politics
WHEN Mon., Mar. 30, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S) The Honorable Jane Lubchenco, U.S. science envoy, professor and advisor in Marine Studies, Oregon State University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-3045, hmnh at hmnh.harvard.edu
DETAILS Jane Lubchenco was the first woman to be appointed under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Drawing on her experience at the helm of NOAA from 2009 to 2013, Lubchenco will discuss how this government agency advances and utilizes scientific research on weather, climate, and oceans to guide its services and improve environmental stewardship in the United States. She will also highlight new scientific advances that are transforming attitudes, behaviors, and policies that affect ocean health and the future of humanity, and discuss her role as the Department of State’s first U.S. Science Envoy for the Ocean.
Free event parking available at 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/prather-lecture-series-science-policy-and-politics
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Askwith Forum - Uncovering Talent: A New Model of Inclusion
WHEN Mon., Mar. 30, 2015, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, GSE, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law; member, Harvard University Board of Overseers; author, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.
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Tuesday, March 31
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Germany’s Energy Transition: Model or Disaster?
WHEN Tue., Mar. 31, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, Room S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Transatlantic Relations Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Studies.
SPEAKER(S) R. Andreas Kraemer, founder and director Emeritus, Ecologic Institute, Berlin
COST none
CONTACT INFO Ann Townes/atownes at wcfia.harvard.edu
DETAILS This event is co-sponsored by the Boston Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany.
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Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design
Tuesday, March 31
2:30p–4:00p
MIT, Building E62-650, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Gary Charness, UCSB
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Organizational Economics
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal at mit.edu
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Sound, Music, and Ecology: Post-Katrina New Orleans
Dr. Kinh T. Vu and Dr. Marié Abe
Tuesday, March 31
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
BU, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 219 (tentative), Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sound-music-and-ecology-post-katrina-new-orleans-tickets-15947372019
Dr. Matt Sakakeeny from Tulane University will host a talk regarding sound, music, and ecology in post-Katrina New Orleans. Attendees are urged to read Chapter One of Sakakeeny's book Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (2013); it is available to students, staff, and faculty at the BU Library website as an online book. This event is sponsored by the College of Fine Arts departments of ethnomusicology and music education and the College of General Studies.
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Dreaming Europe in the Wake of the Arab Revolts: Causes and Consequences of Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe
Tuesday, March 31
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute
Population movements and political movements in the Arab countries are linked in many ways. First, they share common determinants as both emigration and revolts are rooted in the radical demographic changes which peoples of the region are currently going through. Second, political unrest has generated new waves of forced but also voluntary migration. Third, migrants convey ideas that have a bearing on political developments in their homeland. At the doorstep of the Arab region, Europe is a destination for the largest number of Arab migrants. It is also a magnet for would-be migrants who do not qualify for entry documents and resort to smugglers who have made the Mediterranean one of the world's most dangerous seas. In Europe, immigration has become a highly contentious issue against the backdrop of a protracted economic crisis and rising home-grown terrorism.
A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Inter-University Committee on International Migration
For more information, contact: Phiona Lovett
253-3848
phiona at mit.edu
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Reconciling Energy Security, Climate Policy and Prosperity? An Assessment of the German Energy Transition
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-395, 2 Ames Street, Cambridge
Speaker: R. Andreas Kraemer and A. Denny Ellerman
Modern energy policy tends to pursue three central objectives: energy security, affordability, and sustainability. Usually these objectives are seen as competing with each other to some extent, requiring trade-offs and balancing priorities. And yet, R. Andreas Kraemer, currently a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and a well-known expert on German energy and climate policy, argues that the German energy transition (Energiewende) provides a case study on how these three objectives can be reconciled: evidence from Germany suggests that German energy security has improved, greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants have fallen, and overall costs incurred by the energy system have remained stable or fallen. He takes into account co-benefits such as innovation, tax revenue and balance of trade effects. A. Denny Ellerman, formerly of the European University Institute in Florence and the MIT Sloan School of Management, will serve as a discussant.
Web site: http://mitsha.re/1ExIp7e
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, German Consulate General of Boston
For more information, contact: MIT CEEPR
617-253-3551
ceepr at mit.edu
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The Metaphysics of Ecology: What Makes Our Environment Worthy of Care
WHEN Tue., Mar. 31, 2015, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Religion
SPONSOR Center for the Study of World Religions
CONTACT Lexi Gewertz, 617.495.4476
DETAILS This lecture will be delivered by Caner Dagli, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.
This event is part of the Junior Fellowship Series "Religion and Nature."
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Was It Something I Ate? Understanding Food Allergies
Tuesday, March 31
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Are the foods we eat making us sick? The occurrence of allergic disease is skyrocketing and some estimate that as many as one in five Americans have an allergic condition, including reactions to foods. This seminar aims to improve our understanding of food allergies and intolerances, and explain how our modern diet may be contributing to a rise in these kinds of autoimmune disorders.
More information: seminar at hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Architecture Lecture Series: Rania Ghosn, "Geostories"
Tuesday, March 31
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building 7-429, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Anne Simunovic
617-253-4412
annesim at mit.edu
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Updates from Tohoku
Tuesday, March 31
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
The Red Room @ Cafe 939, Berklee College of Music, 939 Boylston Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/updates-from-tohoku-tickets-2630742622
Join us for a night of remembrance and presentations by speakers on
Updates from Tohoku ~ A Journey to New Life ~
Free and open to the public
EVENT PROGRAM:
6:00 - 6:15: Registration & Opening Remarks
6:15 - 7:15: Presentations by speakers & performance by TOMODACHI Berklee scholars
7:15 - 8:00: Reception
SPEAKERS:
Shun Kanda, Director, MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
Anne Nishimura Morse, William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Megumi Ishimoto, Founder, Women's Eyes
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Transnational Urbanism and Post-colonial Challenges in South-East Asia
WHEN Tue., Mar. 31, 2015, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
WHERE CGIS South, S050, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR South Asia Institute/India GSD
SPEAKER(S) Maristella Casciato, associate director of research, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal
Rahul Mehrotra, professor of Urban Design and Planning and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO sainit at fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/event/transnational-urbanism-and-post-colonial-challenges-planning-and-design-processes-under-the-aegis-of-transnational-organizations-case-studies-in-india-and-in-the-south-east-asia-region/
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Wednesday, April 1
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King v. Burwell and the Future of the Affordable Care Act
WHEN Wed., Apr. 1, 2015, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Cristine Hutchison-Jones: chutchisonjones at law.harvard.edu
DETAILS This term, in King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Affordable Care Act permits the government to extend tax-credit subsidies to citizens of states that have chosen not to establish their own insurance exchange. If the Court rules that these subsidies are not permitted under the law, the fallout will be extensive and possibly devastating to state insurance markets, and countless local, state, and federal actors will have to decide how to move forward. This event will bring together scholars and practitioners in the fields of law, public health, and economics to evaluate the oral argument in the case and consider how the Court is likely to rule before exploring the likely impacts of a decision against the government and finally beginning to build groundwork for politically-viable fixes at all levels of public and private involvement.
To register for this event, and see a full agenda, please visit our website. Sponsored by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/king-v.-burwell-and-the-future-of-the-affordable-care-act
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Remaking American Liberty: Race and Due Process from Abolitionism to Civil War
WHEN Wed., Apr. 1, 2015, 12 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
SPEAKER(S) Kate Masur, associate professor of history and African American studies, Northwestern University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hutchevents at fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A Q+A will follow the lecture.
LINK http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/april-1-2015-1200pm/spring-colloquium-kate-masur
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Human Rights: From Morality to Law
WHEN Wed., Apr. 1, 2015, 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) John Tasioulas, 2014–'15 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-john-tasioulas-fellow-presentation
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Renewable Fuel Standards
Wednesday, April 1
4:10-5:30
Harvard, Room L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
James Stock, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
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Tea @ Eliot with Michael P. Brenner
Wednesday, April 1
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Harvard, Eliot House (Senior Common Room), 101 Dunster Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-eliot-with-michael-p-brenner-tickets-14120543927
Attire: We don’t care about serious attire, we care about serious experimentalists, so come as you are and bring friends!
Quick RSVP & Questions: Tea at xfund.com
More about Experiment Tea @ Eliot House
The Experimental Tea @ Eliot House is a intergenerational tradition that invites scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and designers to share bold ideas. A special collaboration between the Co-Masters of Eliot House and the Co-Founders of Xfund.
Experimental Teas are hosted every other Wednesday during term in the Eliot House Senior Common Room, conveniently located at 101 Dunster Street. Doors open at 4:30pm and our founder or faculty kicks off brief remarks with invited guests at 5pm. The tradition is open to all experimentalists in Cambridge, MA as well as any visiting faculty, alumni, and student founders.
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Civic Innovation for the Neighborhoods
Wednesday, April 1
5:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://vencaf.org/civicinnovation/
Our urban neighborhoods provide the foundation of our personal and work based communities. Lively, interactive neighborhoods foster healthy lives and innovative new businesses.
Our April Civic Innovation Conversation will focus on what new approaches can be taken to create a richer community experience in our neighborhoods. We will have six speakers provide five-minute perspectives on how to augment neighborhood activities, spaces and lives. We will then follow with a breakout sessions where small groups can brainstorm on initiatives that they would like to see pursued, and perhaps lead the efforts.
Schedule:
5:30 – 6:00 Registration and networking
6:00 – 6:45 Short Intro followed by six speakers at five minutes each
6:45 - 7:30 Breakout into six small discussion groups
7:30 – 7:45 Group readouts
7:45 – 9:30 Post event networking
We are bringing together people from various parts of the public and private communities to kick off the conversation.
Invited speakers include:
MODERATOR: Kevin Wiant - Venture Cafe Foundation
CONFIRMED: Malia Lazu - Future Boston
CONFIRMED: Vicky Wu Davis - Youth Cities
CONFIRMED: Milton Irving – Timothy Smith Network
CONFIRMED: Damon Cox - The Boston Foundation
Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center New England & Venture Café Foundation
Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center New England & Venture Café Foundation
About Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center New England
The Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center aims for Microsoft to be “of” the community, not just exist within it.
Through the Innovation and Policy Center, we are extending beyond the tech community to:
Connect stakeholders from tech to the broader business, academic and government communities;
Catalyze important technology and public policy discussions, and;
Contribute more directly with the health and vitality of greater New England.
The Venture Café Foundation is a non-profit whose mission consists of three pillars:
Building and connecting communities of innovation
Expanding the definition of innovation and entrepreneurship
Building a more inclusive innovation
The Venture Café Foundation enhances and accelerates the innovation process through:
Spaces for individuals and organizations to gather, tell stories, and build relationships, such as Venture Café at CIC in Cambridge, District Hall and soon the Roxbury Innovation Center.
Programs that create connections, such as Captians of Innovation andthe Innovation Visitor Bureau.
Conversations and events that expand an understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship, such as the Innovation and the City conference and Civic Innovation Series.
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Herman's House: Documentary Screening and Discussion on Solitary Confinement
WHEN Wed., Apr. 1, 2015, 6 – 8 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Café, Rockefeller Hall, 47 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film
SPONSOR HDS Prison Education Project and HDS Nuestra Voz
CONTACT studentlife at hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in the United States—he's spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery he admits, he was subsequently sentenced to life for a killing he vehemently denies. Herman's House is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell. Imagining Wallace's "dream home" began as a game and became an interrogation of justice and punishment in America. The film takes us inside the duo's unlikely 12-year friendship, revealing the transformative power of art.
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Non-Violent Resistance in Palestine
Wednesday, April 1
6:30pm
Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
Iyad Burnat, born in 1973 in Bil`in, Palestine, heads the Bil`in Popular Committee. Since 2005, citizens of Bil`in, joined by Israeli and international peace activists, have held weekly non-violent demonstrations against the Israeli separation wall and the encroachment of illegal settlements. The protesters? have maintained a commitment to non-violent resistance in the face of armed? military opposition. The demonstrations are the subject of the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary film 5 Broken Cameras, which was made by Iyad?s brother, Emad Burnat. Burnat discusses strategies for non-violent popular resistance with social justice activist Trina Jackson. How has he brought potential adversaries to share his goal of peace and prosperity for all people?
617-495-2727
www.cambridgeforum.org
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What Global Warming Means for Boston
Wednesday, April 1
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Beacon Hill Friends House, 8 Chestnut Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-global-warming-means-for-boston-tickets-15214701582
Julie Wormser of The Boston Harbor Association leads conversation and takes questions on how global warming will affect Boston.
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Thursday, April 2
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Cambridge Talks IX: "Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis"
Thursday, April 2
10:30am - 08:00pm
Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Event Description
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars will explore the relationship between physical and institutional structures. How is institutional power manifested in the built environment? How does space bear the mark of bureaucratic networks, typological assumptions, lived experiences? How are different forms of power—aesthetic, political, economic, even insurgent—made manifest across boundaries and scales? The keynote lecture, at 6:30 on 4/2, is by Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2001). Cambridge Talks is the annual conference organized by students in the PhD Program at Harvard GSD.
Free and open to the public
For accessibility accommodations, please contact the events office two weeks in advance at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
Contact events at gsd.harvard.edu
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/cambridge-talks-ix-inscriptions-of-power-spaces-institutions-and.html
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Science and conservation
Thursday, April 2
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
John Hagan, President, Manomet
Dr. John Hagan established Manomet's Forest Conservation Program, based in Brunswick, Maine, in 1997. He has led a variety of field studies on forestry and biodiversity in the region and has helped transform how the forestry sector thinks about protecting biodiversity. His early work on birds and forestry showed that clearcuts can be important habitat for many species of conservation concern. He has also shown that modern forest management threatens the persistence of many less charismatic species, such as lichens and mosses that depend on late-successional or old-growth forest. He has worked closely both with timber companies and environmental groups. With a series of grants from the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, he has helped develop a simple, science-based approach to selecting sustainability indicators that include society's economic, social, and environmental values. Dr. Hagan received a B.S. in Environmental Science from Texas Christian University, an M.S. in Wildlife Management from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. in Zoology, also from North Carolina State.
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Methane Fluxes in a Tropical Peatland - the Importance of Lateral Flow
Thursday, April 2
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 48-308, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Alison Hoyt
Environmental Fluid Mechanics/Hydrology
Join us for a weekly series of EFM/Hydrology topics by MIT faculty and students, as well as guest lecturers from around the globe.
For more information on this speaker, Alison Hoyt (Harvey group), see http://cee.mit.edu/blogs/alison-hoyt-peat-forests-of-borneo
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering
For more information, contact: Noriko Endo
617 253-7101
enori at mit.edu
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Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series: Sustainability of the Amazon: Tradeoffs Between Environmental Change, Hydropower and River Alterations
WHEN Thu., Apr. 2, 2015, 12 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
SPEAKER(S) Mauricio E. Arias, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department
COST Free
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"A FORCE FOR GOOD: The Dalai Lama’s Call to Action" by Daniel Goleman (2015 Sonnabend Lecturer)
Thursday, April 2
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
Lesley University, Washburn Auditorium (Lesley University's Brattle Campus), 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-force-for-good-the-dalai-lamas-call-to-action-by-daniel-goleman-2015-sonnabend-lecturer-tickets-15379809424
Lesley University welcomes Daniel Goleman, Psychologist, Author of Emotional Intelligence and Co-Author of The Creative Spirit to deliver the 2015 Sonnabend Lecture
A FORCE FOR GOOD: The Dalai Lama’s Call to Action
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., was trained as a psychologist at Harvard University, and became a science journalist at the New York Times. His 1995 best-seller Emotional Intelligence has been translated into 40 languages, and ‘EQ’ has been added to vocabularies around the world. A co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, his most recent book, co-authored with Peter Senge, was The Triple Focus: A New Approach to Education. A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, his article “The Leader’s Focus” won the 2013 McKinsey Award for best article of the year. His next book, A FORCE FOR GOOD: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World, will be published in June 2015, in time for the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday.
The Sonnabend Lecture honors the memory of Elsa Sonnabend, former Chair of the Lesley University Board of Trustees. The Sonnabend Lecture brings to Lesley’s campus bi-annually a distinguished practitioner in the field of human services to work with Lesley’s students and faculty and enrich the academic community.
Walk-ins welcome, but space is limited, so please RSVP.
This lecture is taking place during Lesley University's Creativity Forum, a series of presentations on creativity by renowned experts from synergistic fields such as the arts, education, and the sciences, as well as interdisciplinary studies. In addition, throughout the Forum week, the University will present the creative work of faculty, students, and alumni through lectures, exhibitions, performances, readings, and more. For more information about other lectures May 30-April 2, please visit http://www.lesley.edu/the-creativity-forum/
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George Yudice: "Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata"
Thursday, April 2
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge
George Yudice's The Expediency of Culture (2003) repositioned culture in connection with governmentality and biopower. The full force of social media, Internet platforms and megadata was not yet evident at the time. The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, Yudice thinks, been borne out. Culture understood as the "terrain of struggle for interpretive power" needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in the new media and technologies. In that relocation key concepts of Cultural Studies need to be updated. This talk seeks to maps the requisite changes.
George Yudice is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami.
Join our mailing list for an event reminder: http://cmsw.mit.edu/signup
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/cultural-studies-expediency-culture-rethought/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Global Studies and Languages
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw at mit.edu
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Black Votes Matter: The Mississippi Theater of the Civil Rights Movement and the Voting Rights Act
Thursday, April 2
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Museum of African American History, 46 Joy Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-votes-matter-the-mississippi-theater-of-the-civil-rights-movement-and-the-voting-rights-act-tickets-15770961370
Cost: 0 - $6.24
Bob Moses’ vision of grass roots organizing led him to become a leader in the civil rights movement and Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. He initiated and organized voter registration drives, sit-ins, and Freedom Schools for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Nearly 40 years later, the renowned activist began organizing again, this time as teacher and founder of the national math literacy program called the Algebra Project. His work was recognized with a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, which he used to found the Algebra Project. He argues that the crisis in math literacy in poor communities is as urgent as the crisis of political access in Mississippi in 1961.
Moses earned a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, and received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions. His book, Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project, is featured in the Museum's current exhibit entitled Freedom Rising, Reading Writing and Publishing Black Books.
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Sustainability Collaborative
Thursday, April 2
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Venture Cafe – Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, 5th floor, Cambridge
The Venture Café Foundation has partnered with EcoMotion to bring the Sustainability Collaborative to monthly Venture Café gatherings.
Stay tuned for more information about this month’s Sustainability Collaborative.
Questions? Contact Sierra at sflanigan at ecomotion.us
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Friday, April 3
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Fluid Boundaries: Integrated Solutions to Today's Water Challenges
Water: Systems, Science, and Society
Friday, April 3
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Tufts, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fluid-boundaries-integrated-solutions-to-todays-water-challenges-tickets-15886933245
WSSS is proud to present the 6th Annual Water: Systems, Science, and Society Symposium!
The quality and quantity of available water has implications for human and environmental health. Technological innovation can improve water quality and use efficiency; however, policy and behavior change are often necessary to realize technological potential. This year's Water: Systems, Science, and Society Symposium will bridge the fields of technology, policy, and behavior change to engage in a dialogue about the way water is used and valued.
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Cambridge Talks IX: "Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis"
Friday, April 3
9:30am - 5pm
Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Event Description
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars will explore the relationship between physical and institutional structures. How is institutional power manifested in the built environment? How does space bear the mark of bureaucratic networks, typological assumptions, lived experiences? How are different forms of power—aesthetic, political, economic, even insurgent—made manifest across boundaries and scales? The keynote lecture, at 6:30 on 4/2, is by Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2001). Cambridge Talks is the annual conference organized by students in the PhD Program at Harvard GSD.
Free and open to the public
For accessibility accommodations, please contact the events office two weeks in advance at (617) 496-2414 or events at gsd.harvard.edu.
Contact events at gsd.harvard.edu
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/events/cambridge-talks-ix-inscriptions-of-power-spaces-institutions-and.html
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MASS Seminar/Houghton Lecture- David Battisti (UW)
Friday, April 3
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: David Battisti
MASS Seminar
The MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar (MASS) is a student-run weekly seminar series within PAOC. Seminar topics include all research concerning the atmosphere and climate, but also talks about e.g. societal impacts of climatic processes. The seminars usually take place on Monday from 12-1pm followed by a lunch with graduate students. Besides the seminar, individual meetings with professors, post-docs, and students are arranged. The seminar series is run by graduate students and is intended mainly for students to interact with individuals outside the department, but faculty and post docs certainly participate.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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MIT African Investment Forum
Friday, April 3
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-africa-investment-forum-aif-2015-tickets-16105179024
Africa is experiencing its longest economic boom in the last 30 years. Despite the global economic crisis, Africa’s GDP has grown rapidly, averaging almost 5% annually over the past decade. Is the continent the next growth frontier? The IMF estimates that 7 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies in the next 5 years will come from Africa; Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Zambia and Nigeria are expected to expand by more than 6% per year. Leading this growth is a generation of young innovators, leaders and risk-takers equipped with the required skills to tackle economic challenges in Africa.
The 2015 African Investment Forum (AIF) is built around a cross-generational dialogue on the benefit of investing in youth and the role of the African Diaspora in driving innovation and change in Africa.
The forum is held parallel to the 2015 MIT Africa Innovate Conference. MIT Forum Delegates get 10% to the conference. ( Please email us for details)
About the MIT Africa Investment Forum (AIF)
Inaugurated in 2013, the MIT Africa Investment Forum (AIF) is the brainchild of MIT Sloan Fellows. In continuation of this legacy, AIF is nurtured by ProNiche Network in partnership with the MIT Think Tank and a plethora of non-profit organizations around the globe.
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Saturday, April 4
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African and Diasporic Religions Film Festival
WHEN Sat., Apr. 4, 2015, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Center for African Studies, Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS, WEB Du Bois Graduate Society, WGBH Boston
SPEAKER(S) Eliciana Nascimento
Adimu Madyun
Funlayo E. Wood
COST Free
TICKET WEB LINK http://www.adrsa.org/conference.php
CONTACT INFO info at adrsa.org
Funlayo E. Wood, EZWood at fas.harvard.edu
Khytie K. Brown, KKB804 at mail.harvard.edu
DETAILS
Join the African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association for it's third Film Festival, featuring films highlighting the traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora. The filmmakers and/or featured subjects of each film will be present for questions and discussion.
Films:
"The Summer of Gods" a film by Eliciana Nascimento
"Search for the Everlasting Coconut Tree" a film by Adimu Madyun
"Sacred Journeys: Osun-Osogbo" a film by Mayavision for WGBH Boston/PBS
LINK http://www.adrsa.org/conference.php
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Monday, April 6
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Energy: the World and MIT
Monday, April 6
11:30a–1:00p
MIT, Building W20-306, Twenty Chimneys, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Dr Robert Stoner, Deputy Director, MIT Energy Initiative
MIT Energy Initiative Deputy Director Robert Stoner will give an overview of the world's most pressing energy challenges and how MITEI approaches energy research and education. Three energy researchers will describe major areas of energy research at MIT such as solar energy and electrical grids. This session will provide important background and resources for MISTI students doing energy-related internships around the world.
This event is part of the MISTI-wide training series.
Robert J. Stoner is an inventor and technology entrepreneur who has worked extensively in academia and industry throughout his career, having built and managed successful technology firms in the semiconductor, IT and optics industries. From 2007 through 2009 he lived and worked in Africa and India while serving in a variety of senior roles within the Clinton Foundation. Stoner also serves as co-Director of the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT, and is a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, which manages the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His current research relates to energy technology and policy for developing countries. He earned his Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Queen's University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in condensed matter physics.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MISTI
For more information, contact: Caroline Knox
258-0385
cfickett at mit.edu
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MASS Seminar - Mitch Moncrieff (NCAR ESL)
Monday, April 6
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Mitch Moncrieff
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu
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MIT Water Innovation Prize
Monday, April 6
5:30p–9:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Join us for the Final Pitch Night of the inaugural MIT Water Innovation Prize, MIT's first solutions-to-market competition for water startups.
Discover more at www.mitwaterinnovation.com
MIT teams will pitch their water startups before a panel of judges, competing for $20K+ in Innovation grants.
Web site: www.mitwaterinnovation.com
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Water Club
For more information, contact: waterinnovation at mit.edu
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Public Place in its Meltdown Area
Monday, April 6
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
RIKKE LUTHER
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art. The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2015-spring/apr-6-rikke-luther-public-place-meltdown-area/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACT, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm at mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 7
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Boston TechBreakfast Presented by Colliers: April 2015
Tuesday, April 7
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215003092/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Fundraising in Energy: How to get VCs to invest in your science startup
Tuesday, April 7
11:45a–1:00p
MIT, Building E62-250, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
Thinking about starting a science-based startup? Join the MIT Joules to learn how to get VCs to invest in you. Incredible speakers Leslie Dewan and Sarah Kearney will share with us their secrets for success, and they will be moderated by internationally renowned entrepreneurship expert Prof. Fiona Murray. Don't miss it! Lunch will be served and many thanks to the MassCEC for sponsoring this event.
*Leslie Dewan is the founder and CSO of Transatomic Power, and recently raised A Round financing from the Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's San Francisco based Venture Capital firm known for investments in Facebook and Spotify.
*Sarah Kearney is the founder and executive director of PRIME, an innovative fund that allows non-profit foundations to invest in for-profit cleantech startups.
*Prof. Murray is an international expert on the transformation of investments in scientific and technical innovation into innovation-based entrepreneurship. She is the Associate Dean for Innovation, Co-Director of the Innovation Initiative, and the Faculty Director at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Club
For more information, contact: MIT Joules
womeninenergy at mit.edu
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The Black Box Society
Tuesday, April 7
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A (second floor)
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Pasquale#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Pasquale at 12:00 pm.
Frank Pasquale and David Curran in conversation on the implications of big data for the future of law, compliance, and business. Moderated by Jonathan Zittrain.
Does the increasing velocity, variety, and volume of data make regulators' jobs harder or easier? Some say we are entering a "golden age of surveillance," enabling perfect enforcement of laws. But Frank Pasquale's book "The Black Box Society" argues that, at least in areas like privacy, antitrust, and financial regulation, big data can also enable obfuscation, stonewalling, and even fraud. At this talk, Pasquale and David Curran, Global Director, Risk & Compliance, at Thomson Reuters, will discuss the risks and opportunities that arise out of the new information environment.
About Frank
Frank Pasquale’s research addresses the challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology, particularly in the health care, internet, and finance industries. He is a member of the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, and an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. He frequently presents on the ethical, legal, and social implications of information technology for attorneys, physicians, and other health professionals. His book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015) develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance.
Pasquale has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Cardozo Law School. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. He has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, appearing with the General Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He has also presented before a Department of Health & Human Services/Federal Trade Commission Roundtable and panels of the National Academy of Sciences. He served on an American Academy of Arts and Sciences working group on the future of mobile health (mHealth) regulation. He has received a commission from Triple Canopy to write and present on the political economy of automation.
Pasquale serves on the Advisory Boards of the Data Competition Institute, Patient Privacy Rights and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Legal Education and the Oxford Handbooks Online in Law. He has served on the executive board of the Health Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), and has served as chair of the AALS section on Privacy and Defamation. He has been quoted in the Financial Times, New York Times, Economist, CNN, and many other media outlets.
About Dave
Dave is currently Global Director, Risk & Compliance with Thomson Reuters where he advises the world’s largest companies on the design and implementation of technology solutions that help mitigate major reputational risk. Prior to TR, Dave was CEO and Co-Founder of Risk Readiness Corp., a technology and advisory business focused on proactive risk elimination for complex organizations – tackling risk challenges with modern-day processes and a realistic focus and attitude. Dave served as EVP, Business and Legal Affairs with IntraLinks, Inc. (NYSE: IL), a high growth SaaS technology business focused on management of secure document exchanges. He was Chief Legal and Ethics Officer and Corporate Secretary at IL and had responsibility for the newly public company’s corporate development initiatives and the establishment and oversight – at the Board level – of foundational governance and compliance programs.
Prior to IntraLinks, Dave was President and CEO and Director of Integrity Interactive Corporation (i2c.com), a private equity controlled, technology-powered company that helps global organizations measure, manage and mitigate the risks of compliance and ethics failures. Before joining Integrity, Dave was President and CEO and Director of DCI, Inc. (datacom-usa.com), a SaaS compliance and marketing services subsidiary of Havas, the global communications and media giant. DCI helped financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare, consumer goods and other companies manage their complex data and communications needs through user-friendly software tools. At Big Flower Holdings, Inc. (now Vertis Communications), Dave served as Group President, where he led the company’s digital communications business.
Earlier in his career, Dave held General Counsel and business leadership positions with a variety of global organizations. At Webcraft, Inc. a subsidiary of Vertis, he was Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for that company’s Direct Marketing Division. At Campbell Soup Company, Dave served as the general counsel to the company’s North American, European (based in Belgium) and Asian businesses. In addition to general corporate, M&A, intellectual property, commercial and litigation responsibilities, he was also heavily involved in the development and implementation of Campbell’s global ethics and compliance program and launched the company’s Worldwide Standards of Conduct. Dave also served as Senior Attorney for The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., where he focused on the company’s new media and home entertainment products as well as core magazine and book offerings.
Dave is very active in the entrepreneur community and serves as adviser and mentor to early stage businesses through MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service and Boston University’s Kindle program. He is a frequent industry speaker and writer and has developed innovative e-learning and web-based programs.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia, and as part of the OpenNet Initiative co-edited a series of studies of Internet filtering by national governments: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering; Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace; and Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. He has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society and as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which named him a Young Global Leader. He was a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal Communications Commission, and previously chaired the FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee. His book The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop Itpredicted the end of general purpose client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers. That and other works may be found at <http://www.jz.org>.
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Is the American Century Over?
WHEN Tue., Apr. 7, 2015, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
SPEAKER(S) Joseph Nye, distinguished service professor, Harvard Kennedy School,
moderated by Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
LINK http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/calendar/upcoming
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Cleantech Open Northeast Boston Business Briefing at Greentown Labs
Tuesday, April 7
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
Greentown Labs, 58 Dane Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cleantech-open-northeast-boston-business-briefing-at-greentown-labs-tickets-15652266350
Come learn how to help cleantech startups get going and growing
with Cleantech Open Northeast and our partners at Greentown Labs!
Emily Reichert
Executive Director, Greentown Labs
As Executive Director, Emily Reichert sets Greentown Labs’ strategic direction, focusing on increasing the organization’s impact on clean and energy efficient technology commercialization through entrepreneurship. She also directs Greentown’s efforts to engage new corporate and foundation partners, to expand recognition and education programs for clean technology entrepreneurs, to leverage the local community of entrepreneurs, investors, universities, government agencies and NGOs striving to build our clean energy future, and to maintain greater Boston’s competitiveness in clean technology nationally and internationally.
Prior to Greentown Labs, Emily was the Director of Business Operations at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, where she helped grow the company from an angel-funded start-up to a sustainable contract R&D business with a mission to minimize environmental impact of chemical processes and products. She has over fifteen years of experience serving in R&D, business development and operations leadership roles. Emily holds a PhD in physical chemistry and earned an MBA from MIT.
Katie MacDonald
Director, Cleantech Open Northeast
Katie is an organizer, project manager, and innovation enthusiast with a high level understanding of the organizational management and clean energy spaces. Through her experience working with communities, students, and stakeholders in the cleantech ecosystem, Katie has developed a top notch ability to motivate teams, manage campaigns, and develop high level operational and strategic plans for organizations. In past roles Katie has taught and designed leadership development curriculum for public and private universities, served as a regional organizer for the world's largest climate advocacy organization, written and collaborated with policy makers on renewable energy legislation, worked to develop cleantech solutions in the United States and Central America, and co-founded a regional youth climate advocacy organization. Katie graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.S in Environmental Science.
Are you an energy or environmental entrepreneur looking for ways to accelerate your startup, expand your cleantech network, and explore funding opportunities?
Join us for an intimate briefing to hear from the Northeast Region of the Cleantech Open business accelerator program and competition and learn more about how the program can help you grow your cleantech venture, or mentor entrepreneurs looking to solve our biggest environmental and energy challenges.
Come and ask questions of Cleantech Open staff and volunteers learn about the program and explore what the Cleantech Open can offer you, whether you are an entrepreneur, prospective mentor, or simply wish to learn more!
About the Cleantech Open
The Cleantech Open runs the world’s largest accelerator, providing entrepreneurs and technologists the resources needed to launch successful cleantech companies. Cleantech Open’s mission is to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The program provides a number of key activities; extensive mentoring, training, business clinics, access to investors and capital, numerous opportunities to showcase to the media and the public, and the competition itself. Since its inception in 2006, the Cleantech Open has awarded over $5 million in cash and services to support cleantech growth companies. The 727 participating companies of the Cleantech Open’s accelerator programs have raised more than $800 million in external capital.
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Supply Chain Logistics, Big Data, and Megacities
Tuesday, April 7
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe - 5th Floor, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-april-7-supply-chain-logistics-big-data-and-megacities-tickets-15975157125
Cost: $10-12
The Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) once again changes up its format to bring you a very special guest speaker in April. Dr. Edgar Blanco is a leading researcher at the intersection of sustainability, supply chains logistics, emerging markets, and innovation. His work at MIT spans diverse industries and the insights he will share, gleened from slicing big data, will inpsire awe. This is a conversation you won't want to miss!
About Our Speaker
Dr. Edgar Blanco is a Research Director at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and is the Executive Director of the MIT SCALE Network in Latin America. His current research focus is the design of environmentally efficient supply chains. He also leads research initiatives on supply chain innovations in emerging markets, disruptive mobile technologies in value chains and optimization of humanitarian operations.
Dr. Blanco has over thirteen years of experience in designing and improving logistics and supply chain systems, including the application of operations research techniques, statistical methods, GIS technologies and software solutions to deliver significant savings in business operations.
Prior to joining MIT, he was leading the Inventory Optimization practice at Retek (now Oracle Retail). He received his Ph.D. from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background includes a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and a M.S. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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New Ventures in Energy Storage
Tuesday, April 7
6:30 PM
Biolabs 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Bostons-Entrepreneurs-And-Advanced-Degrees-Group/events/221072657/
Boston Entrepreneurs and Advanced Degrees will be hosting a panel discussion on starting a company in the energy storage/clean technology space.
We are thrilled to have four great panelists and a terrific moderator for this event.
Moderator: Ben Hemani (Braemer Energy Ventures)
Panelists:
Yingchao Yu, Ph.D. (Lionano Inc.)
Bryan McGowan (OpenWater Power)
David Bradwell (Ambri)
Rick Chamberlain (Boston Power)
Ben Hemani is an analyst on the investment team at Braemer. Prior to joining Braemar, Ben worked as a consultant in the Energy practice at Charles River Associates, an economics consultancy. At CRA Ben worked on a variety of topics including commercialization strategy for a renewable energy startup, power asset valuation, energy market forecasting, regulatory proceeding support and energy procurement strategy for a major industrial consumer. Ben holds a Master of Engineering Management (M.E.M.) from Dartmouth with a focus in Energy & The Environment, an A.B. from Dartmouth College in Engineering Science modified with Economics and a B.E. in Environmental Engineering. While an undergraduate Ben raced on the Men’s Varsity Lightweight Crew Team and the Cycling Team.
Dr. Alex Yu is the CEO and co-founder of Lionano Inc. He is the co-inventor of several battery technologies, and has 10+ years research experience in renewable energy prior in founding Lionano. Since 2013, he has been leading Lionano team to commercialize advanced battery technology. He has published 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers and filed 4 US patents, all of which are exclusively focused on clean technology. He has received more than 850 citations and served as a peer-reviewer for 20 international journals, and has a H-index of 14 (Google Scholar). He is the recipient of 4 international and 2 national awards in nanomaterial research and clean technologies such as Material Research Society Gold Medal. Dr. Yu graduated with a PhD degree in the field of electrochemistry from the Abruña group in Cornell University and has a B.S. degree from Xiamen University, China.
David Bradwell leads the technical team at Ambri to develop the liquid metal battery technology, with a focus on creating a low cost and effective storage technology to meet the performance and cost requirements for large-scale energy storage applications. The project has raised over $60M in funding, including early funding from The Despande Center at MIT, ARPA-E (DoE), and three round of venture financing for Ambri Inc. from Bill Gates, Total SA, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB.
David earned a BSc in Engineering Physics from Queen's University, and an MEng and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2010, he received a TR35 award for being a top innovator under 35 from Technology Review Magazine.
Dr. Chamberlain is a recognized expert in lithium-ion batteries with 15 years of experience in the industry. Part of the original Boston-Power team, Dr. Chamberlain leads intellectual property development focused on the commercialization of lithium-ion cell and battery technology and products, including development of lithium-ion batteries for application into electric vehicles. At Boston-Power, Dr. Chamberlain has led efforts building infrastructure to establish and maintain high quality manufactured products. Dr. Chamberlain’s research includes work on a wide range of technologies for lithium-ion batteries, including materials, mechanical designs, safety components and manufacturing processes. Prior to Boston-Power, Dr. Chamberlain served as a technical leader at Arthur D. Little/TIAX LLC where he led activities focused on the lithium-ion industry and including technology development, market analysis, and business strategy. Dr. Chamberlain routinely participates in leading lithium-ion conferences, is the author of numerous research articles appearing in leading academic journals, and has been granted multiple worldwide patents. Dr. Chamberlain earned his BS in Chemistry from the College of William & Mary; and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chamberlain joined Boston-Power in 2006.
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Wednesday, April 8
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Automatically Green
Wednesday, April 8
4:10-5:30
Harvard, Room L-382 (3rd Floor Littauer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Cass Sunstein, Harvard University
Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
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The Unruly Mystic: Film Screening
WHEN Wed., Apr. 8, 2015, 4:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Film, Religion
SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School
CONTACT Kristin Gunst
DETAILS Following a screening of the film The Unruly Mystic by Michael Conti, a panel discussion will take place and include Conti; Beverly Mayne Kienzle, John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School; Robert Hensley-King, film critic and historian, Ghent University and Harvard Divinity School.
The Unruly Mystic is an inspirational documentary of how the filmmaker reaffirmed his life's work when he fell in love with a 12th century saint. Saint Hildegard of Bingen evokes a calling, that sweet spot of creativity that we all yearn to play in, which is also spiritual in nature. She is venerated for her widely recognized impact on today’s theologians, artists, musicians, doctors, and educators. She is indeed the unruly mystic. Her story invites us all to embrace the connection between God, nature, and art. This is the story of a powerful muse who invites us to create magic in our own lives by letting the ordinary touch the divine.
Reception to follow in Andover Hall.
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The Furniture Trust Fifth Annual Eco-Carpentry Challenge
Wednesday, April 8
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-furniture-trust-fifth-annual-eco-carpentry-challenge-tickets-15979281461
As The Furniture Trust's annual signature event, the 2015 Eco-Carpentry Challenge Showcase will take place on April 8, 2015 in Boston, MA. Increasingly successful every year, The Eco-Carpentry Challenge promotes resourcefulness and recycling and provides an opportunity for students to develop their creative carpentry skills while demonstrating their commitment to recycling by creating new products from used office furniture.
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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
Wednesday, April 8
6:30–8 pm
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lentil-underground-renegade-farmers-and-the-future-of-food-in-america-tickets-15224213031
A protégé of Michael Pollan tells the remarkable story of an unheralded group of Montana farmers who have defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable food movement. Join Dr. Liz Carlisle ’06, the author of the new book Lentil Underground, and main character David Oien, Founding Farmer of Timeless Seeds, for an interactive talk on climate change and agriculture, and lentil tasting. Signed books will be available at the event.
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The Health of Democracy: Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement
Wednesday, April 8
7 pm
First Parish (UU), 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Political scientist Erin O’Brien explores current efforts to restrict access to the ballot, through both legislative and judicial changes in states across the nation. Journalist Phillip Martin responds with examples from the Civil Rights Movement of citizen actions, including civil disobedience, that opened ballot access to previously disenfranchised African Americans. How can citizens respond when the ideals of democracy come into conflict with the policies of government?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Science by the Pint: Gravitational Waves
Wednesday, April 8
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville
MIT Professor Scott Hughes and his group from the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research will be settling in at Aeronaut Brewing Company to discuss the phenomenon of gravitational waves, how they arise from the movements of supermassive objects, and the great lengths at which physicists go to detect them. Come grab a seat and a beer, and if you’re lucky, someone will explain the plot of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar to you.
Organized in collaboration with Science in the News. For more details, visit sitn.hms.harvard.edu/science-by-the-pint.
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Thursday, April 9
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RISE:2015
Northeastern University
Thursday, April 9
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Cabot Physical Education Center, Boston
Awards Reception
3:00-5:00
Raytheon Amphitheater
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise2015-registration-15334809829
Each year, in an effort to support Northeastern University’s commitment to use-inspired research and solution focused innovation, hundreds of students and faculty members embark on an exciting opportunity to showcase the research and innovative thinking of the Northeastern community at the Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo (RISE). This exhibit is a large sample of the breadth and depth of innovative thinking at Northeastern University as well as a celebration of scholarly research and fundamental discoveries that can be translated into real-world applications. Since its inception in 2012, RISE continues to break records and attract unprecedented visibility for the University’s innovation community.
Continue to experience RISE at the Reach Awards Reception where you can further network with presenters, judges and attendees while enjoying the notorious RISE dessert bar! The Reception continues with the presentation of the Outstanding Student Research Awards as well as the RISE Awards for Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship.
Visit the RISE Website at http://www.northeastern.edu/rise/
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Lessons From the Financial Crisis
Thursday, April 9
11:45-1
Harvard, Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lewis B. Kaden, M-RCBG senior fellow, Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Regulatory Policy Program Seminar
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The future of agriculture: ecology, biotechnology and sustainability
Thursday, April 9
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
John Pickett, Scientific Leader of Chemical Ecology, Rothamsted Research
Professor John A. Pickett is a world authority on semiochemicals in insect behavior and plant defense, and plays a leading role in the move away from the traditional use of wide-spectrum pesticides to more precise control through compounds targeted against specific pests at crucial stages in their life cycles. His work centers on the chemical ecology of interactions between insects, between insects and their plant or animal hosts, and between plants. John Pickett's contributions to the field of chemical ecology have been acknowledged with numerous awards including the Rank Prize for Nutrition and Crop Husbandry, election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, International Society of Chemical Ecology Medal, the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture and the Millennium Award among many other international measures of esteem. He is also a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and he has over 450 publications and patents.
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"Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media"
Thursday, April 9
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-231, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Kevin Driscoll
For fifteen years before the graphical Web, thousands of personal computer owners encountered the pleasures, promises, and challenges of online community through networks of dial-up bulletin-board systems (BBS). While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life. From chatting and flirting to shopping and multiplayer games, it was on these locally-run systems that early modem users grappled with questions of trust, identity, anonymity, and sexuality. In this talk, Kevin Driscoll will map out the generative conditions that gave rise to amateur computer networking at the end of the 1970s and trace the diffusion of BBSing across diverse cultural and geographic terrain during the 1980s. This history provides lived examples of systems operated under vastly different social, technical, and political-economic conditions than the centralized platforms we inhabit today. Indeed, remembering the grassroots past of today's internet creates new opportunities to imagine a more just, democratic tomorrow.
Kevin Driscoll (Ph.D., University of Southern California; S.M., MIT Comparative Media Studies) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. His research concerns the popular and political cultures of networked personal computing with special attention to myths about internet history.
Web site: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/kevin-driscoll-dial-up-history-of-social-media/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
For more information, contact: Andrew Whitacre
617-324-0490
cmsw at mit.edu
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Evolution Matters Lecture Series: Evolution in a Vortex - Fish Diversity in the Lower Congo Area
WHEN Thu., Apr. 9, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
SPEAKER(S) Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator of Fishes, American Museum of Natural History
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617-495-3045, hmnh at hmnh.harvard.edu
DETAILS Some of the most spectacular cataracts, falls, and gorges on Earth are found in the lower Congo River, in the heart of central Africa, near the twin Congolese capitals of Kinshasa and Brazzaville. This stretch of the river is also home to over 300 different species of fish, many with unique adaptations – including bizarre morphologies – that enable them to survive in an environment with intense rapids. Based on her many years collecting, documenting, and studying the fish in the lower Congo River, Melanie Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator of Fishes, American Museum of Natural History, will discuss the river’s unique hydrological and geographical characteristics and their role in driving the evolution and diversification of its exceptional fish fauna.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Presented by Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Series supported by a generous gift from Herman and Joan Suit
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/evolution-matters-lecture-series-evolution-vortex-–-fish-diversity-lower-congo-river
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2015 FREEMAN LECTURE: Shale Gas Development: A Big Environmental Experiment?
Thursday, April 9
6:00p–8:00p
MIT, Building E51, Wong Auditorium, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Cherry Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') for shale gas/ shale oil has grown rapidly in the past dozen years in the United States and Western Canada.
With emphasis on groundwater issues, this talk examines the nature of the shale gas debate and the claim that shale gas is an environmental experiment. Examination of 'evidence' includes expert panel reports from governments in USA, Canada, Europe and Australia and published 'literature' ranging from propaganda, junk science, unreproducible science, immature science and how science matures.
Reception: 6 p.m. & Lecture: 7 p.m.
Admission: Free
See the full abstract on http://cee.mit.edu/system/files/Freeman-2015-lecture_John-Cherry.pdf
The John R. Freeman Lecture is co-sponsored by the Environmental and Water Resources Group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES), the ASCE, and the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Web site: http://cee.mit.edu/annual-freeman-lecture
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Civil and Environmental Engineering, BSCES Environmental and Water Resources Group
For more information, contact: E Eric Adams
617 253-6595
eeadams at mit.edu
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Friday, April 10
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IACS Seminar: Big Data, Geospatial Computing, and My 2 Cents in an Open Data Economy
Friday, April 10
12–1 pm
Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
In this rapidly urbanizing world, unprecedented rate of population growth is not only mirrored by increasing demand for energy, food, water, and other natural resources, but has detrimental impacts on environmental and human security. Much of our scientific and technological focus has been to ensure a sustainable future with healthy people living on a healthy planet where energy, environment, and mobility interests are simultaneously optimized. Current geoanalytics are limited in dealing with temporal dynamics that describe observed and/or predicted behaviors of entities i.e. physical and socioeconomic processes. With increasing temporal resolution of geographic data, there is a compelling motivation to couple the powerful modeling and analytical capability of a GIS to perform spatial-temporal analysis and visualization on dynamic data streams. However, the challenge in processing large volumes of high-resolution earth observation and simulation data by traditional GIS has been compounded by the drive towards real-time applications and decision support. The ability to observe and measure through direct instrumentation of our environment and infrastructures, from buildings to planet scale, coupled with explosion of data from citizen sensors, brings much promise for capturing the social/behavioral dimension. Additionally, it provides a unique opportunity to manage and increase efficiencies of existing built environments as well as design a more sustainable future. This presentation will explore the intriguing developments in the world of Big Data, geospatial computing, and plausible ways citizens can all become part of the open data economy for advancing science and society.
This talk is also part of the Geography Colloquium hosted at the Center for Geographic Analysis.
Free and open to the public; no registration required. Lunch will be provided.
More at: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/81906
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"Hope in the Hinterland: Alternative Modernities and the Anthropocene"
Friday, April 10
2:30p–4:30p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Juia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor of History, Notre Dame University
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): History Office
For more information, contact: Margo Collett
253-4965
history-info at mit.edu
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Innovation Showcase
Friday, April 10
6:30-8:30pm
MIT, Building 32, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Each year we host an Innovation Showcase for this year's participating teams to share their work with the MIT community and the greater Boston area. Come join us to meet the teams, celebrate their work, check out the prototypes and hear what this year's teams are working towards.
It's one of the best chances to hear 35+ ideas that have the potential to make substantial impact around the world. We'll have light snacks to enjoy as you peruse, discover and learn. Get started meeting the teams online - and in beforehand, you can place three votes to help three teams win $1500 to support the realization of their ideas.
Who: All are welcome; spread the word!
We'll announce the winners at the 2015 Awards Celebration on April 16. More information here: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/387
Email: globalchallenge at mit.edu
Website: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/386
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2015 Boston Cleanweb Hackathon
Friday, April 10, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 10:00 PM (EDT)
WeWork South Station, 745 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
Join MassCEC for the 4th Annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon!
A two-day technology competition that brings together students, programmers, software developers, entrepreneurs, energy experts and thought leaders
Create a new user-friendly web or mobile application to help consumers and businesses use energy and natural resources more efficiently
Form a team before or onsite for the 30 hour competition
Compete and your team could win thousands of dollars in cash prizes!
Check out the hackathon challenge post website at http://cleanwebbos15.challengepost.com
The site will host the hackathon rules, judge list and judging criteria, discussion boards, and provide a place for registrants to see who the other participants are and do some team formation.
About the Hackathon:
Hosted by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in partnership with Greentown Labs, the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon is a weekend-long technology challenge to create user-friendly web and mobile applications designed to help consumers and businesses use energy and natural resources more efficiently. Teams will compete for cash prizes.
For the past three years, the annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon has spun out successful businesses including past winners Somerville-based Crowd Comfort and Beverly-based Water Hero.
Event Format:
The event begins on Friday evening with a team formation mixer and challenge presentations by event organizers. Starting Saturday morning, participants are given 30 hours to form teams and create an application that addresses energy, waste, water, transportation, food or other energy and sustainability issues using web, data analytics, and mobile technologies. On Sunday afternoon, winning teams are selected by a panel of judges drawn from industry experts, the regional business community and government leaders, and the Hackathon culminates with an award ceremony.
Cleanweb Challenge Opportunites:
This year there is a new element to the Hackathon that will incorporate feedback from the global business community and local, state and regional governments. Participants will receive a complied list of critical needs and challenges facing these groups to give teams a jump start on idea generation. Please contact MassCEC for more details.
Contact Us
To discuss sponsorship opportunities or for more information please contact Tom Reid - (617) 315-9316 / treid at masscec.com or Maeghan Lefebvre - (617) 315 9366 / mlefebvre at masscec.com. For information regarding media outreach and relations contact Matt Kakley at (617) 315-9339 / mkakley at masscec.com.
Schedule:
Friday, April 10th
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Hackathon Kickoff Mixer
Saturday, April 11th
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Hacking begins! Ideation Session & Intro to Datasets
9:00 PM | WeWork closes for the day - rest up and come back ready to hack on Sunday!
Sunday, April 12th
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Race to the finish! Submissions are due by 2:00 PM sharp.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Pitches
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Judge Deliberations & Awards Ceremony
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Saturday, April 11
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The Future of Food and Nutrition
Saturday, April 11
The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston
Registration: Early registration will open in the end of January. The early bird registration fee is $15 for students at Tufts, $20 for students at other institutions and $25 for professionals.
This student-run conference is a unique opportunity for graduate studentsinterested in food and nutrition to present their own original research or learn from their peers conducting research in fields that interest them.
Now in its 9th year, the conference attracts more than 200 attendees from over 30 different institutions across a wide range of fields including sustainable agriculture, nutritional epidemiology, food policy, public health nutrition and more!
If you have not done so already, we would appreciate if you could forward this information along to any students or colleagues who may be interested in either attending or presenting at this year's conference.
As a presenter or attendee, students will gain valuable professional experience presenting and discussing novel, multidisciplinary research and will also have the opportunity to network with fellow students and future colleagues.
Relevant research includes projects conducted as part of course work, thesis work, internships, capstone papers, or directed studies.
More information at http://studentconference.nutrition.tufts.edu
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MIT Scaling Development Ventures Conference 2015
Saturday, April 11
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Under the Dome, Room 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-scaling-development-ventures-conference-2015-registration-15788790698
Cost: 0 - $75
The MIT Scaling Development Ventures conference brings together exciting perspectives from the international development and business communities to examine the best way to bring poverty-alleviating solutions to market at scale.
SDV 2015: "Bridging Innovation and Impact"
This year's conference will explore themes around social innovation, achieving impact, and all of the work that happens in between. The conference will be anchored by keynote presentations from Ann Mei Chang, Executive Director of the USAID Global Development Lab, and Kevin Starr, Managing Director of the Mulago Foundation and the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program.
Additional sessions will put a spotlight on generating innovation from the Base of the Pyramid, how to measure social impact, approaches to design and innovation, and much more. For up-to-date details on SDV's schedule, speakers, and sessions, visit the conference website at sdv.mit.edu.
Interested in the latest innovations by MIT students seeking to have an impact around the world? Join us for the IDEAS Global Challenge Innovation Showcase, preceding the conference on Friday, April 10th, 6:30-8:30pm.
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Monday, April 13
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MASS Seminar - Nicole Riemer (University of Illinois)
Monday, April 13
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Nicole Riemer
MASS Seminar
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Atmospheric Science Seminars (MASS)
For more information, contact: MASS organizing committee
mass at mit.edu
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"Infant Science and Health Adventuring: Global Intervention around Infant Mortality"
Monday, April 13
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Harvard, Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Emily Harrison, Harvard, History of Science
STS Circle at Harvard
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McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World: Title TBD
Monday, April 13
5:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building 4-270, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Hourig Attarian, Melissa Bilal, and Veena Das
Spring 2015 McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World:
Memory Matters: Gender and Politics of Knowledge Production on the Armenian Genocide
Hourig Attarian, Concordia University, "Threading a Map, Spinning Life Stories: Tracing Fractured Memories in the Archives"
Melissa Bilal, Columbia University, "Lullaby the Irreconcilable"
Discussant: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): WGS
For more information, contact: Emily Neill
617-253-2642
wgs at mit.edu
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Rescheduled Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
WHEN Mon., Apr. 13, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL roger_falcon at gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS
This Forum has been rescheduled from January 26.
Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists:
Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Jennings School District, Jennings, MO
Tracey Benson, Ed.L.D.’16, Co-author of case study on Ferguson, MO
Ni'Cole Gipson, Parent and Social Media Activist, Florissant, MO (to be confirmed)
Valeria Silva, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN
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The quick and the dirty
Monday, April 13
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building E15-070, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Art, Culture and Technology Lecture: CLAIRE PENTECOST
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Part of the Spring 2015 Department of Architecture Lecture Series, "Experiments in Architecture".
Part of the 2015 ACT Lecture Series, Civic Art: The lecture series investigates the critical spatial practices that claim manifold definitions of public art, through a diverse array of visual forms argued by key practitioners across the disciplines of art, pedagogy, architecture, and urban studies to identify the tools, tactics and consequences of actively reclaiming public space.
Web site: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2015-spring/apr-13-claire-pentecost-quick-dirty/
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): ACT, Department of Architecture
For more information, contact: Amanda Moore
617-253-4415
amm at mit.edu
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Tuesday, April 14
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Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks
Tuesday, April 14
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2004
RSVP required for those attending in person at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/04/Taylor at 12:00 pm.
with filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, Astra Taylor
The Internet is said to be a space of democratic expression and transformation, both culturally and politically. But how true is that claim? What are some of the economic, technical, and legal obstacles in place? Drawing from my recent book, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, and my experience as an artist and an activist, this talk will address campaigns by musicians against streaming services and debtors against creditors to reflect on the larger question of how to organize and leverage change in an age of virtual networks—be they networks of cultural distribution or financial ones.
About Astra
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Athens, Georgia. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer and others. Taylor’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, and many other publications. She is the editor of Examined Life, a companion volume to the film, and coeditor of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. Taylor also helped launch the Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt and its Rolling Jubilee campaign and Debt Collective initiatives, and has helped erase over $30 million dollars of predatory medical and educational debt as part of these efforts. Most recently she is the author of the book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, which was named a New York Time Books Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Globe & Mail “Best Book of 2014.” She is currently working on a new documentary about democracy.
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The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Recent Developments and Future Challenges (Mr. Alberto Pototschnig)
Tuesday, April 14
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard, Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Lunch will be provided.
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is co-sponsoring the talk with the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.
Alberto Pototschnig is the first Director of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), established in 2010 by the European Commission. He took office in September 2010.
The mission of ACER is to complement and coordinate the work of national energy regulators at the European-Union (EU) level and work towards the completion of a single EU energy market for electricity and natural gas.
ACER plays a central role in the development of EU-wide network and market rules with a view to enhance competition. It coordinates regional and cross-regional initiatives which favour market integration. It monitors the work of European networks of transmission system operators (ENTSOs) and notably their EU-wide network development plans. Finally, it monitors the functioning of gas and electricity markets in general, and of wholesale energy trading in particular.
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Clean Energy Standard Hearings
Tuesday, April 14
1:00 pm
DEP offices, One Winter Street, Boston
The Massachusetts Department of Envrionmental Protection is proposing a new clean energy standard to increase the amount of non-fossil fuel generated electricity for consumers. The standard is part of the Commonwealth’s efforts to achieve an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions statewide by 2050.
More information at http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/massdep/climate-energy/climate/ghg/ces.html
The deadline to submit written comments is April 27.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Giora Sternberg, Antoine Lilti: "Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France"
Speaker: Giora Sternberg and Antoine Lilti
4:00p–7:00p
MIT, Building E51-095, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
MIT Global France Seminar presents
Information Networks & Celebrity in Enlightenment France
Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces
Giora Sternberg, Oxford University (UK)
In the old regime of information, centralization was only one part of the story. Studying the politics of information in the provinces does not just refocus or complement the view from Paris or Versailles. It also demonstrates how peripheral actors could build and deploy knowledge-bases to subvert that view along with the designs of their "central" counterparts.
Private Lives, Public Figures: The invention of Celebrity in the eighteenth century
Antoine Lilti, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France)
Far from being a recent phenomenon, Lilti argues that celebrity culture has its origins in the eighteenth century. In London as in Paris, the new conditions of urban life contributed to feed the fascination for the personalities and private lives of public figures.
Web site: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/information-networks-and-celebrity-enlightenment-france
Open to: the general public
Cost: 0
Sponsor(s): MIT Global Studies and Languages, MIT Global France Seminar
For more information, contact: Lisa Hickler
617-452-2676
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Ethnobotany in the 21st Century
WHEN Tue., Apr. 14, 2015, 6 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museums of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
SPEAKER(S) Michael J. Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO hmnh at hmnh.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045
DETAILS For more than four decades, Michael Balick, vice president for botanical science, The New York Botanical Garden has studied the relationships between plants and people — the field known as ethnobotany — in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and most recently in Micronesia and Melanesia. In this lecture he will discuss the relevance of working with indigenous cultures to document their knowledge of medicinal plants and evaluate their potential for broader applications. He will also highlight some of the medicinal plants used by non-Western cultures, such as ashwagandha and maca, which are becoming available and popular in the West and are discussed in his most recent book, Rodale’s 21st Century Herbal: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature’s Most Powerful Plants.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
LINK http://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/ethnobotany-21st-century
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Music as Medicine: The Impact of Healing Harmonies
Tuesday, April 14
6pm - 7:30pm
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
It's been said that music soothes the soul, but can it also help heal our bodies and help us learn? In this seminar, Harvard Medical School scientists and physicians share how they use music as a tool to help patients - from premature newborns to elderly stroke victions - survive and thrive.
More information: seminar at hms.harvard.edu
http://hms.harvard.edu/minimedschool
617-423-3038
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Wednesday, April 15
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MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, April 15
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
MIT, Building 10-250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge (or halfway down the Infinite Corridor from 77 Massachusetts Avenue)
Join the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge for a celebration of the spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship, and public service. This year, over 30 teams are working with communities around the world on challenges such as waste treatment, access to clean water, healthcare, education, transportation, disaster relief, and much more.
On Wednesday, April 15th, come meet the teams that entered this year and celebrate with us as we announce the teams that will be awarded up to $10,000 to make their ideas a reality. This is where ideas come to life!
The celebration will entail:
6:00pm - Reception with Teams
7:00pm - Awards Ceremony
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15th Annual Henry Kendall Lecture: Recent global temperature trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
Wednesday, April 15
5:00p–6:30p
MIT, Building E51-115, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Reception to follow the lecture in the Ida Green Lounge, 54-923
Speaker: Professor Jochem Marotzke, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg
The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory of Professor Henry W. Kendall (1926-1999) who was the J.A. Stratton professor of physics at MIT. Professor Kendall received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for research that provided the first experimental evidence for quarks. He had a deep commitment to understanding and finding solutions to the multiple environmental problems facing the world today and in the future. The permanently endowed Kendall Lecture allows MIT faculty and students to be introduced to forefront areas in global change science by leading researchers.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture, please contact Jen Fentress at 617.253.2127 or jfen at mit.edu. Reservations not required.
Sponsored by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Center for Global Change Science, MIT.
Web site: http://cgcs.mit.edu/events/kendall-memorial-lecture
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for Global Change Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
For more information, contact: Jen Fentress
617-253-2127
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Thursday, April 16
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The Pursuit of Sustainable Living: Community & Campus Sustainability Conference
Thursday, April 16
Devens Common Center, Devens
Register @ http://masccc.eventbrite.com
Cost: $60 before March 19
$75 after March 19
$45 Students
Groups (5 or more) use code GROUP for $5 discount
www.MaSustainableCommunities.com #MaSustain
Grassroots. Government. Education. Business.
Jane Amidon, Northeastern University
Jess Belhumeur & Dan Sullivan, Tiny House
Leo Bonanni, Source Map
Lisa Capone, MA Green Communities
Sheila Harrity, Voc Tech Education
Nancy Hazard, Greening Greenfield
Karen Hynick, North Shore Community College
Grey Lee, USGBC
Peter Lowitt, Sustainable Devens
Matthew McIntosh, Marlboro College
Lesly Medina, Groundwork Lawrence
Greg Minott, DREAM Collaborative
Jon Mitchell, Mayor New Bedford
David Narkewicz, Mayor Northampton
Susanne Rasmussen, Cambridge
Julie Rawson, NE Organic Farming Association
Dan Rivera, Mayor Lawrence
Catherine Tumber, Small, Gritty, and Green
Vesela Veleva, UMass Boston
Nelle Ward, Conway School & Holyoke Green Streets
And more!
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Photographing climate change above and below the waterline
Thursday, April 16
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
David Arnold, Photographer
Boston photographer David Arnold (www.doublexposure.net) precisely compares glacier and coral scenes to create "then and now" comparisons to illustrate the significant changes already taking place above and below the waterline of a warming planet. His Double Exposure exhibit opened at Boston's Museum of Science in 2008, then toured the country non-stop for four years. Currently he is working on a second exhibit. He will speak personally to the power of photography, and reflect with audience help about how we got into this mess - and how we can get out.
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"Decarbonizing China: Power System Strategies to Electrify Transportation and Building Heating with Renewable Sources"
Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
with CHEN Xinyu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
China Project Seminar
Astronomy in the Year 2020
Thursday, April 16
7:30 pm
Harvard, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Jeff McClintock
Travel into the future for a preview of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This cathedral-sized telescope perched on a Chilean mountaintop will, like Star Trek's Enterprise, take us where no one has gone before. Stunning developments in optics technology will deliver images 10 times sharper than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Center for Astrophysics is not only a founding partner in this grand endeavor, but also is building the premier first-light instrument that will study other earths, the first stars, and the origin of our universe. Jeff McClintock is a senior astrophysicist at the CfA and a lecturer in the Harvard University Astronomy Department.
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info at bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver at bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha at sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei at wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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