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Dear Friends of HUCE, HUCE Green Conversations Series with Gridpoint (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Join us for a conversation with representatives from GridPoint, whose innovative SmartGrid Platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 4:30p - 6:00p Diálogo Latinoamericano (DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge St., 2nd Floor, Room S-216, Cambridge, MA) "Environmental Conservation and Development in Latin America" Typical Chilean empanadas will be served starting at 4:30 pm. Contact: Katie Ferrari , kferrari@fas.harvard.edu 5:30p Documentary Screening: "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia" (Winthrop JCR, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) A 30-minute documentary, discussion led by Harvard's own recycling expert Rob Gogan, and some delicious Asian appetizers. Contact: Emily Martorano, emartor@fas.harvard.edu, 847.373.1156 Friday 3/7/2008
8:30a - 9:30a Microbial Sciences Friday Chalktalk (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) "On the Initiation of Spore Coat Assembly" with speaker Dr. Kumaran Ramamurthi, Losick Lab, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard. Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495 8643, www.msi.harvard.edu/events.html 9:00a - 5:00p Radcliffe Science Symposium (Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA) "Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond" Contact: 617-495-8600, www.radcliffe.edu/events/conferences/... 11:00a Harvard Forest Seminar Series (Seminar Room at Shaler Hall, Harvard Forest, 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA) "The complexity of river-road networks and human behavior" with speaker Todd Crowl, Utah State University and Harvard Bullard Fellow Contact: Audry Barker Plotkin, aabarker@fas.harvard.edu, 978-724-3302 x 268, harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/researc... 6:45p New England Botanical Club Meeting (Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ) "Intermountain Flora: Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Middle Rocky Mountains" with speaker Dr. Noel H. Holmgren, Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. Contact: nebc@rhodora.org, www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html Monday 3/10/2008 10:30a Efforts to Reduce the Consequences of Earthquakes in Developing Countries (Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 20 Oxford St., 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Brian E. Tucker, GeoHazards International. 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA) "Evolution: the Public's Problem, and the Scientists'" with Stuart A. Newman (Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, New York Medical College). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts 12:30p - 1:30p Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Monday Seminar Series (Kresge 502, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) "Work, Health and Well-being: New Research Opportunities at HSPS" with Glorian Gorensen, PhD, MPH; Professor of Society, Human Development and Health. Contact: Ann Backus, MS, abackus@hsph.harvard.edu 4:00p - 5:00p New Directions in Regulation Seminar Series (Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge) "Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to More Rigorous Environmental Management?" with speaker ASEEM PRAKASH, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle Contact: rpp@ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/cal_m... 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dave Nolan, University of Miami. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:30p - 5:30p Green Week Event: discussion with Rachel Webber (Aldrich 210, Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Rachel Webber, director of Energy Initiatives for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation: News Corp's efforts to become carbon neutral by 2010. Contact: Michael Ellis Tuesday 3/11/2008 9:30a - 11:00a Energy Policy Seminar Series (Littauer-324, Fainsod Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) "Demand for Fuel Efficiency and the Effects of Tighter Automotive Fuel Economy Standards" with speaker Erich Muehlegger, Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program, along with Hunt Allcott, Public Policy PhD program. Contact: Louisa Lund, louisa_lund@harvard.edu, (617) 495-8693 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Title to be announced. Speaker: Julia Morgan, Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, and visiting scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series (Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA) "The lichen genus Lecidea s. lat. (sensu Zahlbruckner): How widely are the species of this heterogeneous group distributed within the Lecanoromycetes?" with Michaela Schmull (HUH) Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Italy Halevy , ihalevy@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars.. 4:00p - 5:30p Politics of the Environment: IOP Study Group (IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Host: David Zwick, founder and former President of Clean Water Action Contact: jmckee@fas.harvard.eud, www.iop.harvard.edu/extcal/calendar.p... 4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Elucidating Mammalian Macroevolution through Phylogenetics" with speaker Dr. Samantha Price, NESCent. Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen@fas.harvard.edu , www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/ehapcoll... 5:00p Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change (Science Center Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) “Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases” with speaker Richard Ostfeld, Senior Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883 Wednesday 3/12/2008 5:30p The Future of Energy (Science Center Lecture Hall C, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Another Inconvenient Truth?" Speaker: Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer of Areva, the world leader in the nuclear energy industry. Contact: Lisa Matthews, lisa_matthews@harvard.edu, 617-495-8883, areva.com/servlet/home-en.html Thursday 3/13/2008 1:00p Materials Science Seminar (Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Battery Materials Science to Enable the Coming Electric Vehicle Revolution" with Yet-Ming Chiang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Host: Michael Aziz, Harvard University. Contact: (617) 495-9884, seas.harvard.edu/matsci/ 6:00p HMNH: Evolution Matters Lecture Series (Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA) "Maternal-Fetal Conflicts in Human Pregnancy" lecture by David Haig. Contact: 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu 6:00p - 7:00p Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series (HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA) Prof. Sallie W. Chisholm, Director, The Earth Systems Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Tiny Cells, Global Impact" Contact: Christy Herren, herren@fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495 8643 , www.msi.harvard.edu Monday 3/17/2008 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club (HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St. 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA) Visit http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of discussion. Contact: Kurt House, khouse@fas.harvard.edu, www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html 12:00p - 2:00p Science, Technology, and Society Circle (124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106, Cambridege, MA) "Modes of Public Engagement in European S&T Governance" with R. P. Hagendijk (International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam). Contact: Sang-Hyun Kim, sang-hyun_kim@ksg.harvard.edu, www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts 3:30p Science, Engineering, and US Economic Progress Seminar (Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) "Energy Policy" with Ernest Moniz, MIT. Contact: john_trumpbour@harvard.edu, (617) 495-9265, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Bill Ellsworth, United States Geological Survey. Seminar titles are posted one week in advance of each talk. Refreshments to follow, Hoffman 4th floor. Contact: miller@eps.harvard.edu, www-eps.harvard.edu/seminars/epscollo... 4:15p Program on Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar Series (One Brattle Square, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ) "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Spread of Health Phenomena in Complex, Longitudinally Resolved Social Networks" with Professor Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School Contact: (617) 496 4683, www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/ 7:00p Science on Screen: "Darwin's Nightmare" (Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA) With guest speaker: Les Kaufman, professor of biology in Boston University’s Marine Program and a chief scientific advisor on the film. Contact: 617/734-2500, www.coolidge.org/science Tuesday 3/18/2008 9:30a Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series (Belfer Center Library (L-369), Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA) "Energy R&D and Policy: 'Embracing' Failure'" with speaker Jack Johnston, Planning Executive, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (retired). Contact: Sam Milton, sam_milton@harvard.edu, www.energytechnologypolicy.org 11:30a Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series (Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "A Micro-Scale Model of Pressure Solution Creep: Stress Transfer Within and Between Neighboring Grain Contacts" with speaker Yves Bernabe Contact: esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEM... 3:00p - 4:30p Green Week Event: discussion with Gary Hirschberg (Aldrich [TBD], Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Gary Hirschberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farms, will speak about his new book, Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. Contact: Michael Ellis 3:00p - 4:00p ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club (Geological Museum, Room 418, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current speakers and topics of discussion. Contact: Italy Halevy , ihalevy@fas.harvard.edu, www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars... 4:00p Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar (Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Botanique et Bioinformatique de l'Architecture des Plantes, Montpellier, France. "Arborescence strategies of early lignophyte trees and ferns" Contact: Phoebe Cohen, pacohen@fas.harvard.edu , www.eps.harvard.edu/seminars/ehapcoll... 4:00p - 5:30p Politics of the Environment: IOP Study Group (IOP First Floor Conference Room, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA ) Host: David Zwick, founder and former President of Clean Water Action Contact: jmckee@fas.harvard.eud, www.iop.harvard.edu/extcal/calendar.p... Wednesday 3/19/2008 4:00p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy (Littauer-382, 79 JFK St., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) Speaker: Robert Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. “The Evolving Role of Economic Analysis in Regulatory Decision Making” Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis@harvard.edu, 617-496-8054, isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword... 5:30p - 6:30p Green Week Event: consumer packaging trends (Aldrich 209, Harvard Business School, Allston, MA) Representatives of Clif Bar, Peak Organic Brewing Company, and Fiji Water will lead a discussion on opportunities and trends in consumer packaged goods. Contact: Michael Ellis Thursday 3/20/2008 11:15a Harvard Museum of Natural History New Exhibit Opening (Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA) "Sea Creatures in Glass" Contact: hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-3045, www.hmnh.harvard.edu/index.php 12:00p - 1:30p Regulation and Global Climate Change Seminar (Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge) "You’re Getting Warmer! The Kyoto Path" with Jeffrey A. Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School Contact: rpp@ksg.harvard.edu, 617.384.7325, www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/rpp/contac... 4:00p - 5:00p Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series (Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA) Speaker: Hanna Kokko, University of Helsinki, Finland. "Love and Hatred in a world of feedback" Host: Pierce Lab Contact: Deborah Smiley, dsmiley@oeb.harvard.edu, 617-384-5062, www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/semin... 7:00p Center for Astrophysics Monthly Observatory Nights (Phillips Auditorium at the CfA, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) "Science News: The Good, The Bad, and The Outrageous," with Dan Vergano, USA Today. Contact: pubaffairs@cfa.harvard.edu, (617) 495-7461, www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html |
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