[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Update October 25 - November 7

Dear Friends of HUCE, This email contains event listings for Thursday, October 25 through Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Please check the HUCE calendar on our Web site, www.environment.harvard.edu <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/> , for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions throughout the semester. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar or unsubscribe (!) from this list, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Please distribute this email to your students, faculty, colleagues, and anyone else who may be interested in environmental events around the community. We hope to see you soon and often. Highlights: *Monday, October 29: The Canada Program presents a special seminar with Peter Irniqu, Inuit, activist and former Commissioner of the Territory of Nunavut, “An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change” *Monday, October 29: “The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric CO2 Increase?”, with Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California Berkeley. *Thursday, November 1: Family Friendly Nights at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics presents "Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes. Calendar Listings: Thursday 10/25/2007 4:00p OEB Seminar: The origins of complexity: Mechanisms of functional evolution in the steroid human receptors Joe Thornton, University of Oregon Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave., Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu 6:00p - 7:00p Student Speaker Series: Rural Community Water Systems in India: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Private Partnerships Anjalli Ravi Kumar, KSG student, will be presenting, followed by a discussion Belfer Center Library, 3rd floor Littauer, Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA 7:00p Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights "Our Place in Space," with speaker Meredith Hughes 60 Garden Street, Cambridge Contact: pubaffairs@cfa, 617-495-7461 7:30p Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Monthly Observatory Nights "Mars Phoenix: Following the Water," with Rebecca Siddons & Michael Krushinsky 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.harvard.edu, 617-495-7461 Friday 10/26/2007 8:30a - 9:30a Friday Chalktalk: "Harnessing Environmental Diversity for Improving Microbial Biofuel Production" Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dantas, The Church Lab, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Christy Herren, herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-8643 12:30p - 1:30a Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds "Considerations of Acute and Chronic effects of Chlorine Gas Exposure." Kenneth R. Spaeth Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Contact: Ann Backus, abackus(a)hohp.harvard.edu, 617-432-3327 Sunday 10/28/2007 7:00p Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast Featuring Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Will Brownsberger, State Representative Belmont High School, 221 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA Contact: sustainablebelmont(a)gmail.com Monday 10/29/2007 11:30a Canada Program Special Seminar: An Inuit Perspective on Climate Change Peter Irniq, Inuit, activist, and former Commissioner of the Territory of Nunavut RSVP: canada(a)wcfia.harvard.edu, 617 495-3671 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:30p - 1:30p Presentation: Graduate Environmental Professional Studies at Duke University Lisa Rattray, MEM, Admissions Officer, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences HUCE Meeting Room 318, 3rd floor, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Lisa Blumenthal Rattray, lisa.rattray(a)duke.edu 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia Check seminar Web site for speaker information. Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jason Miller, miller(a)eps.harvard.edu 4:15p Lectures in the Sciences: The Changing Carbon Cycle Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA. Contact: 617-495-8600 6:30p Convergence of Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Security A conversation with Mr. Theodore Roosevelt IV, hosted by Lehman Brothers The Charles Hotel, Longfellow Room, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA. RSVP required: Carey Starno, carey.starno(a)lehman.com Tuesday 10/30/2007 9:00a - 4:00p Tipping Point grassroots training day Appalachian Mountain Club, Cabot Auditorium, 5 Joy St., Boston, MA Contact: Alana Miller, amiller(a)smith.edu, 858 405-5613 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series Carol Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 6:00p Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series "Ethnobotany: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine" with Dr. Michael Balick, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu Thursday 11/1/2007 12:00p Biological Anthropology Seminar: Social learning and traditions in wild capuchin monkeys Speaker: Dr. Susan Perry, Department of Anthropolgy, UCLA HUCE Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm 4:00p OEB Seminar: Reproductive conflict, demography, and the evolution of menopause Speaker Dr. Michael Cant, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: Katie Parodi, kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu 7:00p Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Family Friendly Nights "Our Place in Space," with Meredith Hughes 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: pubaffairs(a)cfa.edu, 617 495-7461 Friday 11/2/2007 11:30a - 12:30p Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series Dominik Kulakowski – Clark University Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, 978 724-3302 12:00p Atmospheric Seminar Series Jennifer Harden, United States Geological Survey Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: Nicole Smith-Downey, nsdowney(a)fas.harvard.edu Saturday 11/3/2007 8:00a Real Food Summit: Students Mobilizing for Just and Sustainable Food Contact: Marissa Grossman, mgrossman(a)thefoodproject.org, 617 442-1322 x19 Sunday 11/4/2007 2:00p - 3:00p Sunday Family Program: ¡Descubriendo la Biodiversidad! Learning about Biodiversity! Speakers Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045 4:00p - 5:00p Transcriptional Control of Energy Homeostasis Bruce M. Spiegelman, Professor of Cell Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School KSG G-2, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA. Contact: Janice Stenger , jstenger(a)hsph.harvrd.edu, 617-432-4822 Monday 11/5/2007 12:00p - 1:00p Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Contact: Kurt House, khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00p CSRI New Directions in Regulation Seminar Series Robert Stavins, Kennedy School of Government: "Proposal for a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change." Bell Hall, 5th floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Nash, 617 384-7325 12:15p - 1:30p Cell Biology Seminar Series Speaker: Michael Skinner, Director & Professor Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University Pullman Cannon Room, Building C, Rm. 114, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Contact: Joan Ruderman , 617-432-1104 4:00p Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Colloquia Check seminar Web site for speaker information. Haller Hall, 20 Oxford St., Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA Contact: miller(a)eps.harvard.edu Tuesday 11/6/2007 9:30a - 11:00a Continental Scale Wind Power: Resources and Variations in Production Speaker: Juha Kiviluoma, ETIP Fellow L-369, Belfer Center Library, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government Contact: ETIP Coordinator, sam_milton(a)harvard.edu, 617 496-5584, www.energytechnologypolicy.org <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.energytechnologypolicy.org> 12:00p Herbaria Seminar Series Kyra N. Krakos, Washington Univ., St. Louis Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue, Harvard Campus, Cambridge Contact: www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/ 3:30p Carl Linnaeus: A 300-Year Legacy, Systema Naturae Display One day exhibit of Systema Naturae Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617 495-3045 Wednesday 11/7/2007 4:15p - 5:30p Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy Kate Emans Sims, Harvard University. “The Effects of Protected Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand.” L-382, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Contact: Jennifer Shultis, jennifer_shultis(a)harvard.edu, 617 496-8054 7:00p Harvard Climate Change Colloquium: “God and the Climate: Reaching Out to Evangelicals” Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals Institute of Politics Conference Room, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA Contact: www.greencrimson.com <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/www.greencrimson.com> Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425