December 9, 2010 6:00pm MSI Seminar Haller Hall Geological Museum Rm 102 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA Patrick Schloss, University of Michigan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology. "The only constant is change: temporal dynamics of host-associated microbiota" http://www.msi.harvard.edu December 11, 2010 9:00am - 4:30pm Housing and Urbanization: What Housing Scholars Think about the Present and Future of the Field Stubbins Room (112) Graduate School of Design Gund Hall Harvard University Cambridge, MA A day-long symposium hosted by the Department of Urban Planning and Design. 10:00am - 11:00am and 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SEAS Holiday Lecutre - Good Vibrations: How We Communicate Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall B 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Princeton Professor Howard Stone and Harvard Professor Peter Girguis will explore how we communicate through live demos, colorful slides, and plenty of audience participation. Free and Open to the Public. *Recommended for ages 7 and up Contact Name: Kathryn Hollar sciencetix(a)seas.harvard.edu December 13, 2010 12:00pm MCZ Lunchtime Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA "The evolution of defensive weaponry and aposematic coloration in mammals." Ted Stankowich, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, MCZ, Hoekstra Lab, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst. Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu (617) 495-2460 4:30pm Confronting Climate Change in Poor Countries 9 Bow Street Cambridge, MA Mark Montgomery, professor of economics, Stony Brook University and senior associate, Population Council. December 14, 2010 2:30pm - 4:00pm Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building, HKS Cambridge, MA Richard Nelson, Columbia University. "What Kind of Public R and D Support Makes Sense?" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/cepr/events.html Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)hks.harvard.edu (617) 495-8693 December 15, 2010 10:15am - 11:45am ARPA-E Visit: Energy Research Seminar Maxwell Dworkin Building 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA ARPA-E was created to fund high risk, high reward transformational research to reduce energy related emissions, reduce imports of energy from foreign sources, improve energy efficiency in all economic sectors, and ensure American technological lead in advanced energy technologies. This lecture will describe the history and mission of ARPA-E, how the Agency and its projects differ from other branches of the Department of Energy, and highlight some of the revolutionary technologies currently supported by ARPA-E. Contact Name: Lisa Matthews 617-495-8883 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu December 16, 2010 10:00am - 3:00pm New England Green Chemistry Forum Contact Name: Jeri Weiss epane.greenchemistry(a)epa.gov 617-918-1568 MIT Faculty Club 6th Floor 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA Join Curt Spalding, EPA New England Regional Administrator and Green Chemistry leader, Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Science Advisor to the Agency, and John Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, to create a sustainable green chemistry future for New England. http://www.epa.gov/region1/gcforum2010/index.html December 16, 2010 7:00pm Expanding Computing Power to Support Research Needs while being environmentally sensitive and energy efficient MIT Building E51 (Tang Center) Room 345 Cambridge, MA James Cuff, Harvard University, Director of Research Computing and Chief Technology Architect December 17, 2010 9:00am - 12:30pm New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable Foley Hoag LLP 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor Boston, MA 02210 "Patrick Administration's Second Term Energy Vision" & "Changes to New England's Forward Capacity Market." Fresh from Governor Patrick's recent election victory, Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary, Ian Bowles will lay out the Administration's energy vision and plans for its 2nd term. http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp?sel=103 --- Always check the calendar on the website for updated information. If you would like to submit an event to the calendar, contact Lisa Matthews at the Center for the Environment: lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu. Be sure to sign up to receive the HUCE newsletter. Become a Fan of HUCE on Facebook! You are receiving this email because you indicated interest in Harvard University Center for the Environment events. [26]Unsubscribe aspuru-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu from this list. Links: 26. http://harvard.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7532d1fbf18f39219ac742ebe&… Our mailing address is: 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (T) 617-495-0368 www.environment.harvard.edu Copyright (C) 2008 Harvard University. All rights reserved.