Highlights:
September 9: Kenneth Rahn, Professor, Center for Atmospheric Studies, University of Rhode
Island and Visiting Scholar, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua
University, discuses his research on large-scale air pollution at the first China Project
Seminar this fall.
September 15: The Frontiers in Sustainable Development and Harvard Project on
International Climate Agreements Speakers Series present "How to spend $100 billion
sensibly: Principles and pathways for the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund," a talk by
Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian
National University.
Save the Date! September 21: Steven Koonin, the Under Secretary for Science, US Department
of Energy, is the first HUCE Future of Energy speaker this fall.
Calendar Listings:
September 2, 2010
6:30pm - 8:30pm Regulation of Energy Production and Consumption: A Potential Remake for
the U.S.?
Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag LLP Bay Colony Corporate Center, North Entrance
1000 Winter St, Suite 4000 Waltham, MA
Free registration. Adam Wade and Amy Boyd, attorneys at Foley Hoag LLP, will discuss
current and pending changes in state and Federal law that have the potential to remake the
regulation of energy production and consumption in the U.S.
http://www.ypenergy.org/en/cev/631
September 3, 2010
8:45am - 9:30am MSI Chalktalk Breakfast
HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA
Peter Girguis, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. "Can we cultivate the
uncultivable?"
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/
September 6, 2010
7:00pm Science On Screen: The Man in the White Suit
Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA
Guest speakers for this event are Marc Abrahams, The Annals of Improbable Research and The
Ig Nobel Prizes, and chemist Daniel Rosenberg.
http://www.coolidge.org/science
September 7, 2010
5:00pm - 7:00pm MSI Undergraduate Fellows Poster Symposium
Harvard Center for Environment 24 Oxford St, Geological Museum, 3rd floor, Rm 310
Cambridge, MA
Please come support our young scientists. Find out more about their individual research
projects in the labs of MSI faculty and cast a ballot for a vote on the best poster.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu
Contact Name: Karen L. Lachmayr, PhD klachmay(a)fas.harvard.edu
September 8, 2010
11:00am OEB Seminar
Biolabs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Yun Zhang, Harvard University.
“Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans”
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
9:15pm - 10:45pm Freshman Green Fair
Annenberg Dining Hall Memorial Hall Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Various environmentally related initiatives at Harvard are represented at this event for
Freshmen. With Richardson's homemade ice cream!
Contact Name: Annie Baldwin abaldwin(a)college.harvard.edu
September 9, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
HUCE Seminar Room 310 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
3:30pm China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Kenneth Rahn, Professor, Center for Atmospheric Studies, University of Rhode Island;
Visiting Scholar, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua
University. "From Rivers, Lakes, Gyres, and Floods in the Air over China to a
National Framework for Efficiently Investigating Large-Scale Air Pollution."
Contact Name: Chris Nielsen nielsen2(a)fas.harvard.edu
September 13, 2010
11:45am - 12:45pm 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
12:00pm - 2:30pm CCS: A transitional solution for the climate and energy challenge?
Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor Cambridge, MA
Remarks by: Chris Henderson, Deputy Consul-General, British Consulate-General Boston and a
panel discussion. RSVP required.
Contact Name: Bridget Gildea Bridget.Gildea(a)fco.gov.uk
12:15pm - 2:00pm Science, Technology, and Society Circle
124 Mt. Auburn St Suite 100, Room 106 Cambridge, MA
I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School
"Well, What about the Children?: Best Interests Reasoning, the New Eugenics, and the
Regulation of Reproduction."
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts
sts(a)hks.harvard.edu
4:00pm EPS First-Year Symposium
Haller Hall Geomuseum 24 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA
Presentations by second-year graduate students of their first year's research.
September 15, 2010
11:00am OEB Weekly Seminar
Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA
Gunter Wagner, Yale University.
"Transcription factor protein evolution and the origin of evolutionary
novelties." Host: Abzhanov Lab
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html
12:00pm - 1:30pm Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series and Harvard Project
on International Climate Agreements Speaker Series
Center for International Development Perkins Room (Rubenstein-415) Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian
National University.
"How to spend $100 billion sensibly: Principles and pathways for the Copenhagen Green
Climate Fund."
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci
Contact Name: Mary Anne Baumgartner maryanne_baumgartner(a)harvard.edu
September 16, 2010
11:45am - 1:00pm Ecology Journal Club
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/journalclub.htm
Contact Name: Primrose Boynton pboynton(a)fas.harvard.edu
HUCE Seminar Room 310 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.
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