Dear Friends of HUCE,
This email, the last of 2007, contains event listings for Thursday, December
13 through Wednesday, December 19. Please check the HUCE calendar on our
website, <http://www.environment.harvard.edu/>
www.environment.harvard.edu,
for the most up-to-date listings and complete event descriptions.
The HUCE Autumn Newsletter is now available! To see what HUCE has been up to
this semester, view the newsletter PDF at:
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/docs/Newsletter_Fall_07.pdf>
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/docs/Newsletter_Fall_07.pdf
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:
<mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu> 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.
Happy Holidays!
Highlights:
*Today's HUCE EVENT CANCELLED due to Winter Weather Conditions: We will
reschedule our second Green Conversations lecture series with GridPoint
Technologies in the Spring.
*Saturday, December 15: Join us at the 2007 Harvard Holiday Science Lecture
as we observe, touch, taste, and explore some of your favorite foods in
"Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza." Lectures at both
10am and 1pm.
Calendar Listings:
Thursday 12/13/2007
12:30p - 1:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331610>
Film Screenings on Global Trash Trade
"The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" and "Exporting
Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia"
CGIS Knafel Building, Room N-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Clare Putnam, <mailto:cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu>
cputnam(a)wcfia.harvard.edu, 617-495-9899, <http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/>
www.wcfia.harvard.edu/
4:00p
CANCELLED:
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87672481> HUCE
Green Conversations Series
Join us for a conversation with three representatives from GridPoint, whose
SmartGrid platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives,
increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the
adoption of renewable energy sources.
Pierce Hall, Room 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Lisa Matthews, <mailto:lisa_matthews@harvard.edu>
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883, <http://www.gridpoint.com/>
www.gridpoint.com/
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539802> OEB
Seminar: Evolutionary Biorobotics: Navigating Simulated Selection
Environments to Test Adaptation Hypotheses
Speaker Dr. John Lang, Vassar College
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge
Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu>
kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, <http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm>
www.oeb.harvard.edu/seminars.htm
4:00p - 5:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331622>
China Project Seminar
"Understanding Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from China Using Satellite
Observations" with Dr. Wang Yuxuan, Research Associate, China Project and
SEAS
Pierce Hall 100F, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://chinaproject.harvard.edu>
chinaproject.harvard.edu
4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992073>
SEAS Colloquium
"Development of a Self-Driving Car" with Seth Teller Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT.
Maxwell Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/>
www.seas.harvard.edu/
7:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88696223>
Harvard in Allston: Raising Voices for Sustainability, Students, and the
Community
Come learn about what Harvard can do to be sustainable and community
friendly in Allston.
Harvard Hall 103, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Friday 12/14/2007
8:30a - 9:30a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87446378>
Friday Chalktalk: "Germ Stories, GASPing and Microfluidics"
Roberto Kolter, Dept. MMG, Harvard Medical School.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Christy Herren, <mailto:herren@fas.harvard.edu>
herren(a)fas.harvard.edu, (617) 495-8643,
<http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html>
www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html
11:00a - 12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=82935343>
Harvard Forest 2007 Seminar Series
Tom Kunz - Boston University Aeroecology: probing and modeling the
Aerosphere
Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
Contact: Audrey Barker Plotkin, <mailto:aabarker@fas.harvard.edu>
aabarker(a)fas.harvard.edu, (978) 724-3302
11:00a
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992075>
Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar
"Making Science a Business (And You Can, too)" with speaker: Vicki Sato,
Harvard Business School.
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Helen Schwickrath, <mailto:helen@chemistry.harvard.edu>
helen(a)chemistry.harvard.edu , (617) 496-8190
12:15p - 1:30p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=89021799>
Systems Biology Theory Lunch
"Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis" with speaker Ron
Milo, Harvard Medical School. Room 563, Alpert Building, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA
Contact: Jeremy Gunawardena, jeremy(a)hms.harvard.edu, (617) 432 4839
3:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=87348286> OEB
Special Seminar: Building the Encyclopedia of Life at Harvard
Presenters: James Edwards, Executive Director, EOL, Smithsonian Institution;
and Jesse Ausubel, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair,
EOL Steering Committee
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Katie Parodi, <mailto:kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu>
kparodi(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617-495-5891
5:00p - 8:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=86682055>
HMNH: Night at the Museum
Free admission and 20% off everything in the museum store!
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, 617.495.3045
Saturday 12/15/2007
10:00a [Encore at 1:00 pm]
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88992071>
Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza. A Holiday Lecture for
Children and Their Parents
Discover the physics, chemistry, and biology of cheese and bread in this
hands-on, interactive lecture. Recommended for children ages 7 and up.
Registration is required.
Science Center, Lecture Hall B, One Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <mailto:sciencetix@deas.harvard.edu> sciencetix(a)deas.harvard.edu
Monday 12/17/2007
12:00p - 1:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=81038271>
Harvard Energy Journal Club
Visit
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/schedule.html for current topics of
discussion.
HUCE Seminar room, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Kurt House, <mailto:khouse@fas.harvard.edu>
khouse(a)fas.harvard.edu, <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html>
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hejc/index.html
6:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=83539763>
Harvard Museum of Natural History Public Lecture Series
"Life in the Valley of Death" lecture and booksigning by Alan Rabinowitz.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: <mailto:hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu> hmnh(a)oeb.harvard.edu, (617) 495-3045
Tuesday 12/18/2007
12:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=88331671>
Herbaria Seminar Series
Rfael Rubio de Casas (Donohue Lab/OEB). Title TBA.
Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
Contact: <http://www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/>
www.huh.harvard.edu/seminar_series/
3:00p - 4:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=84667708>
ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club
Visit the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics website for current
speakers and topics of discussion.
Geological Museum, Room 418, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Contact: Kate Dennis and Martin Tingley,
<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html>
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html
Wednesday 12/19/2007
7:00p - 9:00p
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/index.htm?event_id=89021803> The
Weston Observatory: Department of Geology and Geophysics (BC)
"What's New Regarding Earthquakes in New England" with John Ebel.
Reservations required.
Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Rd. Weston, MA
Contact: 617-552-8300
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425