Dear HUCE Faculty and Friends,
This will be the final Environmental Events email of 2006. I will resume
sending calendar listings in the second week of January. Seasons
greetings to one and all.
Please refer to the Center website for complete details on these and
other environmental events taking place at and near Harvard. If you
would like to add an event to the calendar, or unsubscribe from this
list, please contact Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu
<mailto:jenny_macgregor@harvard.edu>, 617-495-8883.
*Highlights:*
TODAY -- The Future of Energy Lecture Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/FOE06.htm> continues
with Professor John Holdren at 5 PM in the Yenching Auditorium on 2
Divinity Ave.
The first 'Future of Energy' presentation by *Mark Little *is now
available for viewing on the Center's website
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/video/future_of_energy/little/presentation.html>.
Please note that you will need the latest version of Real Player to view
this and other presentations on our site. Click here
<http://www.real.com/> for free download.
12/15/06 -- Photovoltaics with Harry Atwater, Director, Caltech Center
for Sustainable Energy Research
12/19/06 -- China's Atmospheric Challenges with Kenneth A. Rahn,
Professor Emeritus, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies, URI
*Calendar Listings:***
*Thursday 12/14/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Weekly Seminar Series
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61818488>
- Gene networks and natural selection
Andreas Wagner, University of New Mexico
Bio Labs Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
5:00p - 6:15p
The Future of Energy Lecture Series - Meeting the Energy-Environment
Challenge ...and How Harvard Can Help
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=60710706>
John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental
Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental
Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
and Director, The Woods Hole Research Center
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
6:00p - 7:00p
The Puzzle of Uncultured Bacteria
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61538997>
Geoff McFadden, Northeastern University, Dept of Biology
Microbial Sciences Initiative Thursday Evening Seminar Series
Harvard University Center for the Environment Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*Friday 12/15/2006 *
Ongoing
Cambridge Science Festival, Call for Entries
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61569624>
12:30p - 1:30p
Aresnic Exposure and Birth Outcomes
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62198066>
Karen Huyck, MD, PhD, MPH Resident, Occupational and Environmental
Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
12:30p - 1:30p
Patterns of Pulmonary Dysfunction in Asbestos Workers
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62198065>
Belayneh Abate Abejie, MD,MPH Chief Resident, Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
4:00p - 5:15p
Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62040655>
Harry Atwater, Director, Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research;
Director, Caltech Center for Science and Engineering of Materials
Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute
of Technology
Pierce 209, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*Saturday 12/16/2006*
10:00a - 11:00a
Science by Candlelight: A Holiday Lecture for Children and Their Parents
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61787142>
Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Recommended for ages 7 and up Kids, families, students, teachers, and
the curious are invited to spend an hour observing candles and learning
about the scientific ideas they inspire
*Monday 12/18/2006*
12:00p - 1:00p
The Importance of Health Reform in Reaching a Harmonious Society
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62232521>
Dr. Henk Bekedam, WHO Representative in China Presented by Harvard
Initiative for Global Health & Harvard Center for Population and Development
104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor
12:30p - 1:30p
Integrating Occupational Health and Safety and Worksite
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62198074>
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH Professor of Society, Human Development and
Health, HSPH Director, Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute
Kresge 502, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
*Tuesday 12/19/2006 *
4:00p - 5:00p
Cycles, Sources, and Distances of Aerosols and Trace Gases in Beijing
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62232617>
Kenneth A. Rahn, Professor Emeritus, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry
Studies, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island;
research affiliate of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, and Dep't of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Tsinghua University
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
*Wednesday 12/20/2006 *
7:00a - 8:00a
Looking for Life without a Known Chemical Core
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=62040223>
Professor Neville Woolf, University of Arizona
The Origins Forum
Main Lecture Hall, Bio Labs Building
*Thursday 12/21/2006*
12:30p - 2:00p
AIDS Research in Africa: Solutions to the Global Pandemic
<http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=61570198>
Saidi Kapiga, associate professor of reproductive health, Department of
Population and International Health; Phyllis Kanki, professor of
Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and
Infectious Diseases
Building FXB G-12, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
--
Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883