Highlights:
Wednesday, February 17: Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton, discusses "Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time"
in the second Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global change lecture this
spring.
Thursday, February 18: The Ecologies of the Human Flourishing lecture
series continues with "A Case Study From Premodern South India,"
presented by Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard
Divinity School.
Wednesday, February 24: HUCE kicks off the Spring 2010 Future of Energy
lecture series with Aubrey McClendon, the Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake
Energy, who will present "Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy
Future."
Calendar Listings:
February 11, 2010
4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA
"Sympatric speciation in stickleback: all dressed up but nowhere to go?"
Daniel Bolnick, University of Texas at Austin.
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/greg-nickels
6:00pm MSI Thursday Evening Seminar
HUCE Seminar Room (310) 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
"Bacterial mechanics and motility: How filaments, pressure, and the cell wall
are used for physical goals." Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University, Department of
Physics.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/thursdays.html
MSI-Info(a)hms.harvard.edu
6:00pm Third Annual: Cleantech and Alternative Energy
Aldrich 112 Harvard Business School Allston, MA
Our panel of experts will provide definition, analysis and thought leadership
for us in this rapidly emerging sector. Admission: $55, with discounts available.
http://www.hbsab.org/article.html?aid=321
Contact Name: Andrew Friendly afriendly(a)atvcapital.com
6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series – RESCHEDULED for Feb. 18
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Dr. Bruce Smith,
Curator
of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Discussion moderated by Noel Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Charles
Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html
February 12, 2010 - February 13, 2010
Ivy League Student Food Movement Summit
Yale University New Haven, CT
Student leaders from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn,
and Yale for the first ever Ivy-league Student Food Movement Convergence.
Registration required.
http://realfoodchallenge.org/IvySummit
hannah.burnett(a)yale.edu
February 12, 2010
10:00am - 3:00pm HLS Valentine’s Freecycle
Harvard Law School Pound Hall 108 Cambridge, MA
Pass on unwanted items and find what you need at the HLS Valentine's Freecycle!
Items from home: books, movies, music, housewares, games, sports equipment, art
supplies, stationery, etc… Please, NO: TVs, computers, large electronics, or
large furniture. Save big items for craigslist or HLSFreecycle(a)lists.law.harvard.edu!
Contact Name: Cara Elizabeth Ferrentino cara_ferrentino(a)harvard.edu
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
Keith Nislow, USDA. Seminar title TBA.
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
February 15, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
February 16, 2010
Energy Technology Innovation Policy & Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Seminar Series
February 16, 2010 - 2:30pm
Bell Hall (5th Floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA
"The Environment and Directed Technical Change." Prof. Philippe Aghion,
Harvard University Department of Economics.
7:00pm Boston Energy Social
John Harvard's Brew House Harvard Sq Cambridge, MA
This social will bring together members of student energy clubs across Boston
for an evening of energy debate, discussion, and networking.
http://collegeenergy.org/
February 17, 2010
2:00pm - 4:00pm Green Public Diplomacy: Sustainability as Finland's Message in the
U.S.
Belfer Center Library Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Finish Ambassador to the US
5:00pm Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
"Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time." Bryan Grenfell, Professor of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
February 18, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the website
for topics of discussion. All interested researchers are welcome and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
12:00pm - 2:30pm Ecologies of Human Flourishing Lecture Series
Harvard Divinity School, 42 Francis Ave. Center for the Study of World Religions,
Common Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA
"Ecologies of Human Flourishing: A Case From Pre-modern South India"
Speaker, Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity
School. Moderated by Archana Venkatesan, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
and Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis. Registration required.
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
Contact Name: Rebecca Kline Esterson resterson(a)hds.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA
"How zooplankton find and capture prey." Thomas Kiorboe, National Institute for
Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark.
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/greg-nickels
6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series – RESCHEDULED for Feb. 18
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Where Our Food Comes From: The Origins of Agriculture." Dr. Bruce Smith,
Curator
of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Discussion moderated by Noel Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Charles
Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html
February 19, 2010
11:00am Harvard Forest Seminar
Harvard Forest Seminar Room 324 North Main Street Petersham, MA
"A new winter moth invasion in the northeastern United States." Joe Elkinton,
Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Science, University of Massachusetts.
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/research/seminars.php
Contact Name: Audrey Barker Plotkin aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu
February 22, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of dicussion.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/
Contact Name: Kate Dennis kdennis(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS Fall Colloquium
Haller Hall Geo-Museum 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
"Death of a Megapredator." Whitey Hagadorn, Amherst College.
Please join us for a reception following the talk, in the 4th Fl. lounge of Hoffman
Contact Name: Ganna Savostyanova ganna(a)eps.harvard.edu
5:50pm - 7:15pm Finding Green Energy: High Efficiency Power Production from
Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture
Lincoln Laboratory Cafeteria 244 Wood Street Lexington, MA.
Dr. Thomas Adams, Process Systems Engineering Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
http://www.ieeeboston.org/
Contact Name: Jim Ernstmeyer j.ernstmeyer(a)worldnet.att.net (781) 929-8114
February 23, 2010
12:00pm - 1:00pm Herbaria Seminar Series
22 Divinity Ave, Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA
Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo, Pierce Lab/ MCZ, Sackler Inst. for
Comparative Genomics, AMNH.
Contact Name: Erin Ciccone (617) 495-7504
6:00pm HMNH: Food for Thought Program Series
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/kids-and-families/google-calendar.html
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"From Cooking Food to Cooking the Planet." Dr. Samuel Myers, Instructor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician. Discussion
moderated by Noel Michele Holbrook, Professor of Biology and Charles
Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard.
February 24, 2010
5:00pm The Future of Energy: Aubrey K. McClendon - Chesapeake Energy
Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall D One Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
"Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future." Aubrey K. McClendon,
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Chesapeake Energy.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu 617-495-8883
February 25, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Meeting Room 318 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Reading and discussion group on diverse topics in ecology. Visit the
website for topics of disucsion. All interested researchers are welcome
and lunch is provided.
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
4:00pm - 5:30pm IOP Study Group - All Politics is Local: Even Global Warming
Faculty Dining Room (FDR) Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Led by IOP Fellow Greg Nickels.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/greg-nickels
4:00pm - 5:00pm OEB Seminar
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave Harvard University Cambridge, MA
"Applying Plant Population Ecology - Increasing the Suppression of Weeds by
Cereal Crops." Jacob Weiner, University of Copenhagen.
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