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What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
Ongoing:
Design for Resilience Exhibition
12/10/2014 to 02/06/2015
Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com is the web version.
If you wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to Energy (and Other) Events email gmoke@world.std.com
What I Do and Why I Do It: The Story of Energy (and Other) Events
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html
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Event Index - full Event Details available below the Index
Ongoing:
Design for Resilience Exhibition
12/10/2014 to 02/06/2015
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Monday, January 26
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12pm Grounds for Engagement: Design, Landscape and Environmental Health
1pm Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Connecting Theory with Data
1pm Climate 101: Elements of the Climate System
1:30pm Physics Lecture Series: Frontiers in Superconductivity
2:30pm Modelfest 2015
3pm A House is a House: Increasing synergies between low-income weatherization work and the private sector home performance industry
4pm Loeb Library Exhibit Opening: Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular Culture
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
7pm Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter and Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State
7pm The Best of The European Short Film Festival at MIT
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Tuesday, January 27
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12:30pm #StopEbola: How social networks & mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola
1pm Climate 102: The Nonlinear Climate System
2pm Entropy and Society
3pm BCSEA Webinar: Tracking the Clean Energy Revolution - Boutique Goes Big
4pm Introduction to Making: Rapid 3D Fabrication at MIT... and Beyond
4pm Oil, Politics and the Violence Linking Paris and Yemen? A General Discussion of Major Middle East-related Events
4pm APC's 6th Annual Open House
5pm Innovation through Visual Thinking Strategies
6pm The Resilience Dividend
6pm Boston Green Drinks - January Happy Hour
6pm Startup Rounds - Final Showcase & Awards
6pm Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, society
7pm Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences
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Wednesday, January 28
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9am Socially Influencing Systems for Improved Urban Mobility
10am Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
12pm Molecular Evolution before the Domain Ancestors: Indications for Dramatic Planetary Changes during Life's Early Evolution
12pm A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer confusion and food claims
1pm What do we know about earliest life on Earth? Does biology constrain the early planetary narrative?
1pm Climate Policy 101
1pm Climate Policy 102
4pm Once Upon a Revolution: What's Left of Egypt's Uprising?
4:10pm Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
5pm Conversation and Clinic with Branford Marsalis
5:30pm Askwith Forum: The Future of America's Teachers' Union Movement
6pm Cambridge Getting to Net Zero Task Force
6pm Complexity Salon: Ethnic Violence
7pm Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
7pm The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media
7pm Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
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Thursday, January 29
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9:30am Arts and a Changing Boston
12pm MIT's Climate CoLab: using collective intelligence to address climate change
12pm The Statistical Crisis in Science
12pm A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims
5pm Violence, Freedom of Expression, and Justice: A Public Forum on Recent World Events
5:30pm Women's Clean Energy Intern Social
6pm SVP Boston’s Think Tankathon
6:30pm LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room: So you think you can TED?
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Friday, January 30
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8am Entertainment & Media Conference at Harvard Business School
8:30am Innovation Breakfast
9am Role of Future Socially Influencing Systems in Shaping Cities
12pm Starr Forum Friday Flicks: "A Forgotten Crime"
12:30pm Investment Projects from Alternative Points of View
12:30pm Fourth Annual Computational Science Ventures Mini-symposium
1pm How to Read Climate Science and Policy News
3pm War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
4:10pm #Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress
5:30pm Hitachi Speaker Series : Joi Ito - How the internet has changed the world
7:30pm Pete Seeger Sing Out Tribute
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Saturday, January 31
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8:30am Come to a Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
9:30am Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation Event
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Monday, February 2
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3pm John Eliot Gardiner Lecture
6pm Designing Boston: Olympics 2024
7pm Hard Times: Leadership in America
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Tuesday, February 3
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Gov-Savings.com, theThings.biz, Rennzer, and More!
9am Sustainable Business Strategies: Lessons from Local Businesses & Non-Profits
12pm What's ahead for education innovation? Lunch panel with Harvard i-lab EIRs
12:30pm Development in the Digital Age: The role of online platforms & payments in enabling entrepreneurship in emerging markets
3:30pm Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About That Just Might Work
4pm Building the Green Economy: Jobs and Climate Change
4:15pm The Thousands: Lecture by Author ZZ Packer
5:30pm Promoting the Practice of Peace in the 21st Century
6pm The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
6pm BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports
6:30pm TechHub Boston Demo Night - February 2015
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My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
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Ongoing:
Design for Resilience Exhibition
12/10/2014 to 02/06/2015
McCormick Gallery, Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Boston
Design for Resilience asks us to think, discuss, and take action as we consider how to better connect ourselves to our ecology and our infrastructure to ready ourselves for the future. What will Boston look like in 2050? What will our coastal cities look like in 2115?
Rebuild by Design has been answering these questions of resilience - the ability to withstand, adapt, and recover from shock - with an innovative process that relies on unprecedented collaboration to create unique solutions for a stronger tomorrow.
In response to Hurricane Sandy's catastrophic landfall in October 2012, President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force launched Rebuild by Design as a design competition to generate solutions to not only the storm's devastation, but also to long-standing physical and social vulnerabilities now exposed and exacerbated. Rebuild by Design connects design teams with researchers and policymakers as well as residents, businesses, and community-based organizations whom the storm affected. These collaborations enable the teams to develop socially, environmentally, and economically rigorous interventions that better prepare us for a future impacted by climate change. This exhibition showcases the competition's ten finalists and their detailed design proposals for creating a more resilient region.
We bring this exhibition to Boston to engage and educate ourselves and our fellow citizens about our own urban vulnerabilities; to showcase the power of collaborative problem solving and community engagement; and to highlight the forward-thinking work that local organizations are producing to protect us from increasing risk, intensifying storms, and rising seas. Exploring the Rebuild by Design proposals, along with new work from Terreform ONE, opens a window that suggests how Boston could arrive at a safer tomorrow.
These transformational designs and the process that generated them are a call to action. Join us in taking control over our destiny and creating a resilient future for the City of Boston.
Join the conversation @theBACboston using #RebuildBoston
Funding for this exhibition is generously provided by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Boston Architectural College
Contact: shaun.orourke@the-bac.edu
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Monday, January 26
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Grounds for Engagement: Design, Landscape and Environmental Health
Monday, January 26
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EST)
Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, McLeod Suites, Curry Student Center, 3rd Floor, Boston
This micro-conference presents a forum to discuss design tools and strategies for visualizing, making and interacting with the environmental and health impacts of our working landscapes.
Schedule
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Welcome and Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm - Introduction and Speaker Presentations
3:30pm - 4:30pm - Reception and Gallery tour of Petrochemical America with Kate Orff at Gallery 360
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"A House is a House: Increasing synergies between low-income weatherization work and the private sector home performance industry"
Monday, January 26
Monday, January 26
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12pm Grounds for Engagement: Design, Landscape and Environmental Health
1pm Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Connecting Theory with Data
1pm Climate 101: Elements of the Climate System
1:30pm Physics Lecture Series: Frontiers in Superconductivity
2:30pm Modelfest 2015
3pm A House is a House: Increasing synergies between low-income weatherization work and the private sector home performance industry
4pm Loeb Library Exhibit Opening: Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular Culture
5:30pm Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
7pm Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter and Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State
7pm The Best of The European Short Film Festival at MIT
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Tuesday, January 27
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12:30pm #StopEbola: How social networks & mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola
1pm Climate 102: The Nonlinear Climate System
2pm Entropy and Society
3pm BCSEA Webinar: Tracking the Clean Energy Revolution - Boutique Goes Big
4pm Introduction to Making: Rapid 3D Fabrication at MIT... and Beyond
4pm Oil, Politics and the Violence Linking Paris and Yemen? A General Discussion of Major Middle East-related Events
4pm APC's 6th Annual Open House
5pm Innovation through Visual Thinking Strategies
6pm The Resilience Dividend
6pm Boston Green Drinks - January Happy Hour
6pm Startup Rounds - Final Showcase & Awards
6pm Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, society
7pm Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences
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Wednesday, January 28
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9am Socially Influencing Systems for Improved Urban Mobility
10am Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
12pm Molecular Evolution before the Domain Ancestors: Indications for Dramatic Planetary Changes during Life's Early Evolution
12pm A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer confusion and food claims
1pm What do we know about earliest life on Earth? Does biology constrain the early planetary narrative?
1pm Climate Policy 101
1pm Climate Policy 102
4pm Once Upon a Revolution: What's Left of Egypt's Uprising?
4:10pm Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
5pm Conversation and Clinic with Branford Marsalis
5:30pm Askwith Forum: The Future of America's Teachers' Union Movement
6pm Cambridge Getting to Net Zero Task Force
6pm Complexity Salon: Ethnic Violence
7pm Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
7pm The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media
7pm Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
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Thursday, January 29
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9:30am Arts and a Changing Boston
12pm MIT's Climate CoLab: using collective intelligence to address climate change
12pm The Statistical Crisis in Science
12pm A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims
5pm Violence, Freedom of Expression, and Justice: A Public Forum on Recent World Events
5:30pm Women's Clean Energy Intern Social
6pm SVP Boston’s Think Tankathon
6:30pm LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room: So you think you can TED?
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Friday, January 30
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8am Entertainment & Media Conference at Harvard Business School
8:30am Innovation Breakfast
9am Role of Future Socially Influencing Systems in Shaping Cities
12pm Starr Forum Friday Flicks: "A Forgotten Crime"
12:30pm Investment Projects from Alternative Points of View
12:30pm Fourth Annual Computational Science Ventures Mini-symposium
1pm How to Read Climate Science and Policy News
3pm War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
4:10pm #Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress
5:30pm Hitachi Speaker Series : Joi Ito - How the internet has changed the world
7:30pm Pete Seeger Sing Out Tribute
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Saturday, January 31
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8:30am Come to a Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
9:30am Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation Event
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Monday, February 2
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3pm John Eliot Gardiner Lecture
6pm Designing Boston: Olympics 2024
7pm Hard Times: Leadership in America
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Tuesday, February 3
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8am Boston TechBreakfast: Gov-Savings.com, theThings.biz, Rennzer, and More!
9am Sustainable Business Strategies: Lessons from Local Businesses & Non-Profits
12pm What's ahead for education innovation? Lunch panel with Harvard i-lab EIRs
12:30pm Development in the Digital Age: The role of online platforms & payments in enabling entrepreneurship in emerging markets
3:30pm Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About That Just Might Work
4pm Building the Green Economy: Jobs and Climate Change
4:15pm The Thousands: Lecture by Author ZZ Packer
5:30pm Promoting the Practice of Peace in the 21st Century
6pm The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
6pm BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports
6:30pm TechHub Boston Demo Night - February 2015
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*************************
My rough notes on some of the events I go to and notes on books I’ve read are at:
http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*******************************************
Ongoing:
Design for Resilience Exhibition
12/10/2014 to 02/06/2015
McCormick Gallery, Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Boston
Design for Resilience asks us to think, discuss, and take action as we consider how to better connect ourselves to our ecology and our infrastructure to ready ourselves for the future. What will Boston look like in 2050? What will our coastal cities look like in 2115?
Rebuild by Design has been answering these questions of resilience - the ability to withstand, adapt, and recover from shock - with an innovative process that relies on unprecedented collaboration to create unique solutions for a stronger tomorrow.
In response to Hurricane Sandy's catastrophic landfall in October 2012, President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force launched Rebuild by Design as a design competition to generate solutions to not only the storm's devastation, but also to long-standing physical and social vulnerabilities now exposed and exacerbated. Rebuild by Design connects design teams with researchers and policymakers as well as residents, businesses, and community-based organizations whom the storm affected. These collaborations enable the teams to develop socially, environmentally, and economically rigorous interventions that better prepare us for a future impacted by climate change. This exhibition showcases the competition's ten finalists and their detailed design proposals for creating a more resilient region.
We bring this exhibition to Boston to engage and educate ourselves and our fellow citizens about our own urban vulnerabilities; to showcase the power of collaborative problem solving and community engagement; and to highlight the forward-thinking work that local organizations are producing to protect us from increasing risk, intensifying storms, and rising seas. Exploring the Rebuild by Design proposals, along with new work from Terreform ONE, opens a window that suggests how Boston could arrive at a safer tomorrow.
These transformational designs and the process that generated them are a call to action. Join us in taking control over our destiny and creating a resilient future for the City of Boston.
Join the conversation @theBACboston using #RebuildBoston
Funding for this exhibition is generously provided by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Boston Architectural College
Contact: shaun.orourke@the-bac.edu
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Monday, January 26
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Grounds for Engagement: Design, Landscape and Environmental Health
Monday, January 26
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EST)
Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, McLeod Suites, Curry Student Center, 3rd Floor, Boston
This micro-conference presents a forum to discuss design tools and strategies for visualizing, making and interacting with the environmental and health impacts of our working landscapes.
Schedule
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Welcome and Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm - Introduction and Speaker Presentations
3:30pm - 4:30pm - Reception and Gallery tour of Petrochemical America with Kate Orff at Gallery 360
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Connecting Theory with Data
Monday, January 26
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E25-117, 45 Carleton, Cambridge
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building E25-117, 45 Carleton, Cambridge
Speaker: Heidi Williams (MIT)
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Economics IAP
For more information, contact: economics calendar
econ-cal@mit.edu
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Climate 101: Elements of the Climate System
Monday, January 26
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Jareth Holt, Daniel Gilford
History of climate science; radiation and the greenhouse effect; the hydrological cycle; land ecology and carbon storage; ocean ecology and heat transport; sea ice and ice sheets.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Physics Lecture Series: Frontiers in Superconductivity
Monday, January 26
1:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Inna Vishik - Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics=
Frontiers in Superconductivity
Condensed matter physics examines the science of many: when one-billion-quadrillion atoms are assembled in a solid material, new phenomena can emerge. Just when it seems that the phenomenon is fully understood, new superconductors are discovered to challenge this understanding. In this talk, I will give an overview of superconductivity science and technology with a focus on current research directions.
Inna Vishik - Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics
Physics IAP Lecture Series
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns272.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
denisew@mit.edu
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Modelfest 2015
Monday, January 26
2:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/modelfest-2015-tickets-15141394318
Novel analytical tools to interpret large and complex data sets are reshaping the foundations of several fields of science, and, simultaneously, many commercial enterprises. Shared statistical and computational concepts underlie this trend. Cross-fertilization between data-intensive scientific fields and data-intensive industries could yield powerful discoveries. With this in mind, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and partners in the financial and internet industries are organizing a “Modelfest” to discuss how to harness the rich set of algorithms and infrastructures available to accelerate progress in precision cancer medicine. The event will include short TED-talk like presentations from the scientific and corporate worlds, panel discussions, and an opportunity for networking. Participation from graduate and undergraduate students is especially welcome.
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Climate 101: Elements of the Climate System
Monday, January 26
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Jareth Holt, Daniel Gilford
History of climate science; radiation and the greenhouse effect; the hydrological cycle; land ecology and carbon storage; ocean ecology and heat transport; sea ice and ice sheets.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Physics Lecture Series: Frontiers in Superconductivity
Monday, January 26
1:30p–2:30p
MIT, Building 4-370, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Inna Vishik - Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics=
Frontiers in Superconductivity
Condensed matter physics examines the science of many: when one-billion-quadrillion atoms are assembled in a solid material, new phenomena can emerge. Just when it seems that the phenomenon is fully understood, new superconductors are discovered to challenge this understanding. In this talk, I will give an overview of superconductivity science and technology with a focus on current research directions.
Inna Vishik - Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics
Physics IAP Lecture Series
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns272.html
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
denisew@mit.edu
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Modelfest 2015
Monday, January 26
2:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/modelfest-2015-tickets-15141394318
Novel analytical tools to interpret large and complex data sets are reshaping the foundations of several fields of science, and, simultaneously, many commercial enterprises. Shared statistical and computational concepts underlie this trend. Cross-fertilization between data-intensive scientific fields and data-intensive industries could yield powerful discoveries. With this in mind, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and partners in the financial and internet industries are organizing a “Modelfest” to discuss how to harness the rich set of algorithms and infrastructures available to accelerate progress in precision cancer medicine. The event will include short TED-talk like presentations from the scientific and corporate worlds, panel discussions, and an opportunity for networking. Participation from graduate and undergraduate students is especially welcome.
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"A House is a House: Increasing synergies between low-income weatherization work and the private sector home performance industry"
Monday, January 26
3 p.m. EST / Noon PST
Webinar at http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001cKGLEf_JzXWmFpqAqqHhOMWpVPZTCa0xAw8UnvrZN_vUzXNltxLebio8TPdaPOPyAQ57Ws2OK1MiekyyN7cLTDfIFi37xBq0CvVSuIPNHi59gJGx1yG3hz7IXVBZ2arc1hrUQXTjy104N0Dz1BzdKRHOX2APUMlMRVT2d37eI_HaKm8z4GVxu0c_tNvRXQlK20mQqHzNjdB2-8EpJ6aLgUg7BsFAfz3I&c=iwl08UzWMRaxaWRfhNgPj4UvH7MrbvOqaSHwV9o7ww8X0uuocoGk1w==&ch=Qt63iUb9gVJQScxdoKdGnvql2FHSy8ps1RV3vfXqc20g1x1VtTHTRw==
Participants will:
Panelists include:
If you have trouble accessing the webinar, email info@efficiencyfirst.org
Participants will:
Learn about the Weatherization Assistance Program and how this program undertakes retrofits.
Look at the benefits and challenges that private contractors have seen through low-income work.
Discover best practices within WAP and the private sector HP industry and their synergies.
Discuss the future for WAP and models for WAP-industry partnerships that can lead to more low-income homes weatherized and greater success for private market companies.
Panelists include:
Bob Adams, WAP Supervisor, US Department of Energy
Damian Hodkinson, Co-Founder, True Energy Solutions
John Redmond, CEO, Home Energy Solutions of the Triad, LLC
Kara Saul Rinaldi, VP for Policy and Government Affairs, Home Performance Coalition
If you have trouble accessing the webinar, email info@efficiencyfirst.org
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Loeb Library Exhibit Opening: Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular Culture
Monday, January 26
4:00 pm
Harvard, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Spalding Room, Music Building, North Yard, behind 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
A student-curated exhibit focusing on blackface minstrelsy drawing on materials from the Harvard Theatre Collection. READ MORE
Exhibit opens with a symposium beginning at 4:30 pm
Keynote: Louis Chude-Sokei, University of Washington
author of The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Performance by Rhiannon Giddens, singer and banjoist, Carolina Chocolate Drops
Free and open to the public.
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Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
WHEN Mon., Jan. 26, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL roger_falcon@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists include:
Tiffany Anderson, Ed.D., Superintendent, Jennings School District, Jennings, MO
Tracey Benson, Ed.L.D.’16, co-author of case study on Ferguson, MO
Ni'Cole Gipson, parent and social media activist, Florissant, MO
Valeria Silva, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN
This forum explores the educational implications of the crisis most recently manifested in Ferguson and several other U.S. cities Educators have a critical role to play in addressing issues of racism, injustice, inequity, and diversity. How can educators use this moment in history as an opportunity to craft educational approaches for achieving a just society?
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter and Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State
Monday, January 26
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cass R. Sunstein, author
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The Best of The European Short Film Festival at MIT
Monday, January 26
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Please join us for the very best of the 10th Annual European Short Film Festival at MIT!
As in past years, ESFF 2014 offered a unique selection of recent short films from all over Europe, most of them screened for the first time in the US. The weekend of film included ground-breaking cinematic experiments, unconventional comedies, imaginative animation, original documentaries and tense dramas.
This two hour program will include ESFF prize-winning entries and a selection of audience and jury favorites. Visit esff.mit.edu for a full listing of the films.
Web site: esff.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Hyperstudio
For more information, contact: Gabriella Horvath
617-715-4480
hyperstudio@mit.edu
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Tuesday, January 27
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#StopEbola: How social networks & mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola
Tuesday, January 27,
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/01/Corrigan#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/01/Corrigan at 12:30 pm.
Aimee Corrigan will discuss how social networks and mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola at the Berkman Center Tuesday Luncheon Series. Description Forthcoming.
About Aimee
Aimee Corrigan is the Co-Director of Nollywood Workshops, a hub for filmmakers in Lagos, Nigeria that supports and delivers movie production and distribution, training, and research. She is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Aimee's passion for Nollywood sparked during her participation in the production of the documentary This Is Nollywood.
Aimee completed her Masters in Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
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Climate 102: The Nonlinear Climate System
Tuesday, January 27
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Daniel Gilford, Jareth Holt
Structure and detection of climate change; metrics of climate change and irreversible warming; climate sensitivity and feedbacks; weather extremes and other impacts; climate and earth system modeling; uncertainties and current research trends.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Entropy and Society
Tuesday, January 27
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 13-2137, 105 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Sophia Sklan, Michelle Tomasik
Come learn how the science created to explain steam engines is being used to explain the dynamics of social systems. We??ll examine the four major interpretations of entropy and how they relate to the new fields of econophysics and sociophyiscs. Concepts will be illustrated with simple and sugary demonstrations. No prerequisite knowledge required.
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns272.html
Open to: the general public
This event occurs on Tuesdays through January 27, 2015.
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
denisew@mit.edu
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Loeb Library Exhibit Opening: Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular Culture
Monday, January 26
4:00 pm
Harvard, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Spalding Room, Music Building, North Yard, behind 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
A student-curated exhibit focusing on blackface minstrelsy drawing on materials from the Harvard Theatre Collection. READ MORE
Exhibit opens with a symposium beginning at 4:30 pm
Keynote: Louis Chude-Sokei, University of Washington
author of The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Performance by Rhiannon Giddens, singer and banjoist, Carolina Chocolate Drops
Free and open to the public.
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Askwith Forum: Ferguson and Beyond: Educational Strategies to Address Racism and Social Injustice
WHEN Mon., Jan. 26, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Diversity & Equity, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL roger_falcon@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP REQUIRED No
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Introduction: James E. Ryan, Dean of the Faculty and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists include:
Tiffany Anderson, Ed.D., Superintendent, Jennings School District, Jennings, MO
Tracey Benson, Ed.L.D.’16, co-author of case study on Ferguson, MO
Ni'Cole Gipson, parent and social media activist, Florissant, MO
Valeria Silva, Superintendent, Saint Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, MN
This forum explores the educational implications of the crisis most recently manifested in Ferguson and several other U.S. cities Educators have a critical role to play in addressing issues of racism, injustice, inequity, and diversity. How can educators use this moment in history as an opportunity to craft educational approaches for achieving a just society?
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter and Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State
Monday, January 26
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Cass R. Sunstein, author
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The Best of The European Short Film Festival at MIT
Monday, January 26
7:00p–9:00p
MIT, Building 32-123, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Please join us for the very best of the 10th Annual European Short Film Festival at MIT!
As in past years, ESFF 2014 offered a unique selection of recent short films from all over Europe, most of them screened for the first time in the US. The weekend of film included ground-breaking cinematic experiments, unconventional comedies, imaginative animation, original documentaries and tense dramas.
This two hour program will include ESFF prize-winning entries and a selection of audience and jury favorites. Visit esff.mit.edu for a full listing of the films.
Web site: esff.mit.edu
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT Hyperstudio
For more information, contact: Gabriella Horvath
617-715-4480
hyperstudio@mit.edu
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Tuesday, January 27
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#StopEbola: How social networks & mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola
Tuesday, January 27,
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/01/Corrigan#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/01/Corrigan at 12:30 pm.
Aimee Corrigan will discuss how social networks and mobile technology helped Nigeria contain Ebola at the Berkman Center Tuesday Luncheon Series. Description Forthcoming.
About Aimee
Aimee Corrigan is the Co-Director of Nollywood Workshops, a hub for filmmakers in Lagos, Nigeria that supports and delivers movie production and distribution, training, and research. She is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Aimee's passion for Nollywood sparked during her participation in the production of the documentary This Is Nollywood.
Aimee completed her Masters in Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
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Climate 102: The Nonlinear Climate System
Tuesday, January 27
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Daniel Gilford, Jareth Holt
Structure and detection of climate change; metrics of climate change and irreversible warming; climate sensitivity and feedbacks; weather extremes and other impacts; climate and earth system modeling; uncertainties and current research trends.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Entropy and Society
Tuesday, January 27
2:00p–3:30p
MIT, Building 13-2137, 105 Massachusetts Avenue (Rear), Cambridge
Speaker: Sophia Sklan, Michelle Tomasik
Come learn how the science created to explain steam engines is being used to explain the dynamics of social systems. We??ll examine the four major interpretations of entropy and how they relate to the new fields of econophysics and sociophyiscs. Concepts will be illustrated with simple and sugary demonstrations. No prerequisite knowledge required.
Web site: http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns272.html
Open to: the general public
This event occurs on Tuesdays through January 27, 2015.
Sponsor(s): Physics IAP
For more information, contact: Denise Wahkor
617-253-4855
denisew@mit.edu
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BCSEA Webinar: Tracking the Clean Energy Revolution - Boutique Goes Big
Tuesday January 27
Tuesday January 27
3:00 PM EST, 20:00 UTC
Webinar https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8967879983286746625
Clean energy jobs are growing incredibly quickly. In 2013 37% more Canadians worked in the renewable energy industry than in 2009. As a result, by 2013 the clean energy sector—encompassing manufacturing, power production, energy efficiency, and biofuels—accounted for more direct Canadian jobs than the oil sands.
At the end of 2014 Clean Energy Canada released a pair or reports titled Tracking the Energy Revolution Global and Tracking the Energy Revolution Canada. The reports are full of maps, charts and graphics that tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and water. During the webinar, Jeremy Moorhouse – Clean Energy Canada’s Senior Analyst and co-author of both reports – will review the findings of each report and answer audience questions.
Jeremy focuses on British Columbia’s sustainable transportation and renewable energy sectors. He is a professional engineer with eight years experience improving the environmental performance of energy systems across Canada. He served as a technical analyst with the Pembina Institute between 2006 and 2011 before pursuing a masters in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, studying with Mark Jaccard. He has authored and supported numerous reports on energy systems in Canada, addressing transportation, electricity, and heat energy systems. Recently he co-authored Lock In Jobs, Not Pollution, and The Cleanest LNG in the World? a pair of reports on British Columbia’s proposed LNG industry and Tracking the Energy Revolution Canada.
There is no charge for this Webinar, but you must register to attend.
See BCSEA's previous webinars at http://www.bcsea.org/webinars
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Introduction to Making: Rapid 3D Fabrication at MIT... and Beyond
Tuesday, January 27
4:00p–5:15p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nancy Ouyang, John Hart, Martin Culpepper, Nadya Peek, Alban Cobi, Jonathan Hunt
Do you want learn more about 3D printing, rapid fabrication and 'maker spaces'. This joint IS&T and ODL xTalks event will give you an overview of what is happening at MIT as well as a look into how alums are taking it out into the world.
We will begin with a crash course on the basics and key concepts by IS&T's Sr. Education & Sustainability IT Project Manager Jonathan Hunt, followed by a series of short examples of its use at MIT from a panel of pioneers active in this area. John Hart, Nancy Ouyang, Martin Culpepper, Nadya Peek, and Alban Cobi from the Edgerton Center will be sharing presentations and demos. After the presentations will be a panel discussion with Q&A.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/introduction-to-making
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Information Services and Technology (IS&T), OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Webinar https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8967879983286746625
Clean energy jobs are growing incredibly quickly. In 2013 37% more Canadians worked in the renewable energy industry than in 2009. As a result, by 2013 the clean energy sector—encompassing manufacturing, power production, energy efficiency, and biofuels—accounted for more direct Canadian jobs than the oil sands.
At the end of 2014 Clean Energy Canada released a pair or reports titled Tracking the Energy Revolution Global and Tracking the Energy Revolution Canada. The reports are full of maps, charts and graphics that tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and water. During the webinar, Jeremy Moorhouse – Clean Energy Canada’s Senior Analyst and co-author of both reports – will review the findings of each report and answer audience questions.
Jeremy focuses on British Columbia’s sustainable transportation and renewable energy sectors. He is a professional engineer with eight years experience improving the environmental performance of energy systems across Canada. He served as a technical analyst with the Pembina Institute between 2006 and 2011 before pursuing a masters in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, studying with Mark Jaccard. He has authored and supported numerous reports on energy systems in Canada, addressing transportation, electricity, and heat energy systems. Recently he co-authored Lock In Jobs, Not Pollution, and The Cleanest LNG in the World? a pair of reports on British Columbia’s proposed LNG industry and Tracking the Energy Revolution Canada.
There is no charge for this Webinar, but you must register to attend.
See BCSEA's previous webinars at http://www.bcsea.org/webinars
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Introduction to Making: Rapid 3D Fabrication at MIT... and Beyond
Tuesday, January 27
4:00p–5:15p
MIT, Building 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Nancy Ouyang, John Hart, Martin Culpepper, Nadya Peek, Alban Cobi, Jonathan Hunt
Do you want learn more about 3D printing, rapid fabrication and 'maker spaces'. This joint IS&T and ODL xTalks event will give you an overview of what is happening at MIT as well as a look into how alums are taking it out into the world.
We will begin with a crash course on the basics and key concepts by IS&T's Sr. Education & Sustainability IT Project Manager Jonathan Hunt, followed by a series of short examples of its use at MIT from a panel of pioneers active in this area. John Hart, Nancy Ouyang, Martin Culpepper, Nadya Peek, and Alban Cobi from the Edgerton Center will be sharing presentations and demos. After the presentations will be a panel discussion with Q&A.
xTalks: Digital Discourses
This series provides a forum to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences through online learning environments and other digital technologies.
Web site: http://odl.mit.edu/events/introduction-to-making
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Information Services and Technology (IS&T), OEIT- Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
For more information, contact: Molly Ruggles
617-324-9185
ruggles@mit.edu
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Oil, Politics and the Violence Linking Paris and Yemen? A General Discussion of Major Middle East-related Events
WHEN Tue., Jan. 27, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for Middle Easter Studies
SPEAKER(S) Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A General Discussion of Major Middle East-related Events During the Winter Break
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3824
WHEN Tue., Jan. 27, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Center for Middle Easter Studies
SPEAKER(S) Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO Liz Flanagan, elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
DETAILS A General Discussion of Major Middle East-related Events During the Winter Break
LINK http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3824
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APC's 6th Annual Open House
Tuesday January 27
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Metropolitan Area Planning Council, 60 Temple Place, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ea9b50cye56af96e&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
Join us on January 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. for our 6th Annual Open House! Meet MAPC's staff, learn about our projects and region, and connect with old and new friends.
This year's Open House will celebrate our new Strategic Plan for the years 2015 through 2020. The strategic plan reaffirms MAPC's mission and commitment to the vision outlined in MetroFuture, the long-term regional policy plan for Metropolitan Boston.
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Innovation through Visual Thinking Strategies
Tuesday, January 27
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
CIC-Cambridge, Havana Room, 5th Floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-through-visual-thinking-strategies-tickets-15202428874
EXPERIENCE VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES AT THE CIC-CAMBRIDGE
Join us to tap into your visual thinking skills and consider how they might impact your work and your company's culture!
5:00: Mingling + Snacks
5:30 - 6:30: Program
During this session, consultant and arts educator Dabney Hailey will guide an open analysis of a work of art. You'll become part of an authentic learning culture under her expert stewardship, as we experience a discussion method called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). Rooted in research from cognitive psychology and arts education, VTS is currently used in business, healthcare, and education.
What does VTS have to do with innovation in the workplace? To foster and sustain innovation, companies must cultivate growth mindsets, open communication and emergent leadership skills across team members. In other words, a healthy, productive workplace is one in which people are organized to learn and grow, not merely to execute. Visual Thinking Strategies models and teaches skills fundamental to teams that are structured to learn, break new ground, and achieve personal and organizational success.
Studies on VTS show that it:
Enhances skills in observation, critical thinking, and collaboration
Increases the value team members place on communication, and
Develops comfort with ambiguity, which is key to preventing premature decisions in the face of complex problems.
Experience how developing visual thinking and facilitation skills can cultivate a healthy, productive discussion, within which everyone is accountable and focused, adaptable and creative, secure and open.
ABOUT DABNEY HAILEY
Dabney Hailey is a management consultant, curator, and educator. She is a pioneer in implementing Visual Thinking Strategies as a leadership, team-building and problem-solving tool within businesses and nonprofits. She has lead VTS discussions and trained facilitators in a range of contexts (companies, large and small; museums; universities; and the medical world) since 2001. Her clients include Harvard Business School, Fidelity Investments, a range of software companies, and many other enterprises; she's taking VTS to Stanford's d.school next month. Hailey is also an established curator, writer and educator specializing in modern and contemporary art. Learn more and contact Dabney at www.haileygroup.com.
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Q: What kind of socially influencing systems has greater potential to shift people's attitudes and behavior?
This session will concentrate on reviewing the existing solutions for motivating low-energy mobility and building prototypes of new SIS for sustainable urban mobility, including the assessment of their effectiveness and future applicability.
Dr. Agnis Stibe - Practical Scientist at MIT Media Lab: City Science, Jinhua Zhao - Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor, DUSP at MIT, Emily G. Martin - Assistant at MIT Education Arcade
What do we know about earliest life on Earth? Does biology constrain the early planetary narrative?
Wednesday, January 28
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
EAPS IAP Lecture Series 2015: Origin of Life
Panel Discussion, moderated by Greg Fournier, MIT
Noam Prywes, Harvard University
Betul Kacar, Harvard University
Peter Gogarten, University of Connecticut
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/iap-2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Climate Policy 101
Wednesday, January 29
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Paul Kishimoto
Evaluating policy, basic economic concepts, policy instruments, technology, side effects.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Climate Policy 102
Thursday, January 29
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Amanda Giang
History, status and future of international (multi- and bi-lateral) policy negotiations, the road to Paris, sub-national discussions and other fora for making policy happen.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Q: How can SIS improve city living and other aspects of modern times?
This session will envision the future of SIS and how they can be helpful in transforming various aspects of cities and societies in the future. A brainstorming session will be set around the future of SIS and benefits they can bring to cities and mankind in general.
Dr. Agnis Stibe - Practical Scientist at MIT Media Lab: City Science, Dr. Sebastian Deterding - Assistant Professor, Game Design, Northeastern University, Emily G. Martin - Assistant at MIT Education Arcade
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Starr Forum Friday Flicks: "A Forgotten Crime"
Friday, January 30
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, The Lucian Pye Conference Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Tirman
Film screening and discussion with John Tirman, executive director and principal research scientist, MIT Center for International Studies. Author of "Deaths of Others," and many other books and publications.
We will be screening "A Forgotten Crime"
(Elli Safari, Remmelt Lukkien, The Netherlands, 2014, color)
During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) Saddam Hussein bombarded Iran with chemical weapons, while the world looked on without interfering. In A Forgotten Crime political and military leaders, medical experts and contaminated people relate how this drama was experienced in isolated Iran. The film irresistibly drags the viewer into the ever increasing humanitarian, military and political drama of this chemical warfare, which has determined Iran's position in the international political arena until this very day. Former UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar and Joost Hiltermann, author of A Poisonous Affair provide additional information. Contains unique archive material. Mostly filmed in Iran.
Light refreshments will be served
Web site: http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=2958897d-386d-4dbf-9b60-d1b4e37ca0fd&tab=dfs%23sthash.7Hq3K5Ff.dpuf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Investment Projects from Alternative Points of View
Friday, January 30
12:30-2:00 pm
MIT, Building E17-128, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
DUSP Research Fellow, Carlos de la Torre, highlights the importance of going beyond the engineering and financial points of view to increase the likelihood of successful and sustainable investment projects in energy and infrastructure. The activity provides a framework that captures the project from the point of view of the private sector or government sponsor, looks into its impact on society and key stakeholders, and determines actions needed to make it more sustainable.
Contact: Carlos de la Torre Salcedo, 617-259-9435, cdlt@mit.edu
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Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Decrease its use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy? Mass. Interfaith Power & Light’s Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more.
You will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint;
How to find no-cost & low-cost projects with big impacts on your energy bills;
How to know when heating & electrical equipment needs to be updated;
How to get solar panels with no upfront costs; and
Rebates and financial help available through utility companies
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Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation Event
Saturday, January 3
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/technovation-2015-kickoff-orientation-event-registration-15007791709
Interested in taking part in the Technovation Challenge?
Come to the Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation!
Get the info, find a team, and learn some AppInventor!
Here's the agenda (subject to change):
9:30 am Sign In
10:00 am Welcome: greetings, name tags, find your team
10:15 am Introduction to the Technovation Challenge: roles of Industry Mentor, Teacher/Coach, University Mentor
10:30 am Inspiration: presentation by a Tech Professional
11:00 am Inspiration: presentation by past National Competitors
11:30 am Break Outs:
Industry Mentors - introduction to the Mentor role in the program
University Mentors - lead the first AppInventor tutorial for the entire audience of students
12:15 Lunch: cheese pizza & soda
1:15 pm Student Workbooks: presentation & activities
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm App Idea Reviews: teams present ideas to CS Undergrads for review and feedback
2:45 pm Technovation Tutorials Intro
3:45 pm Re-Group: Closing & Questions
4:00 pm Close
FAQs
What is the Technovation Challenge?
The Technovation Challenge is a technology entrepreneurship program and competition for young women. Through our intensive 3-month, 50-hour curriculum, teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to judges.
Almost 3,000 young women from 28 countries have created mobile apps through Technovation, thanks to dedicated local volunteers on the ground worldwide. No prior programming experience is necessary for students, for teachers, or for mentors. The program is free to all participants.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
The Microsoft NERD Center is easily accessed via the T - take the Red Line and get off at the Kendall/MIT stop. Parking is available at NERD for $10 on Saturdays. Free parking is available at MIT's Hayward St lot on weekends.
What's for lunch?
We will have cheese pizza and soda for lunch. If you cannot eat cheese pizza, please make sure to bring your own lunch.
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Monday, February 2
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John Eliot Gardiner Lecture
WHEN Mon., Feb. 2, 2015, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music with support from the Christoph Wolff Fund for Music
SPEAKER(S) John Eliot Gardiner
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html
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Designing Boston: Olympics 2024
Monday, February 2
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Register at rsvp@architects.org
Join us on February 2 for our next Designing Boston conversation, this time on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision to back Boston as the host for the 2024 Olympics.
As former Boston city councilor Mike Ross said during a recent interview with WBUR’s Radio Boston, “[The Big Dig] changed the shape and face of Boston and... the Olympics will do the same thing.”
Focusing on the role that architecture has (or has not) played in making previous Olympics successful, Ross will moderate this panel discussion and dive into lessons learned by architects and planners with past Olympic experience in such cities as Barcelona, Beijing, Sydney, and London. This event launches a series of conversations and debates related to potential roles, responsibilities, and opportunities available to architects, planners, and developers as this huge and exciting undertaking unfolds.
Moderator
Michael P. Ross, attorney, Prince Lobel Tye
Panelists will include
Kyu Sung Woo FAIA, Kyu Sung Woo Architects
Dennis Pieprz Assoc. AIA, Principal, Sasaki Associates
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Hard Times: Leadership in America
Monday, February 2, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Barbara Kellerman, author
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Tuesday, February 3
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Boston TechBreakfast: Gov-Savings.com, theThings.biz, Rennzer, and More!
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215003212/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Gov-Savings.com - Royce Dennis
theThings.biz - Geordie McClelland
Rennzer: ClearSchool - Omid Jahanbin
*** OPEN ***
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Sustainable Business Strategies: Lessons from Local Businesses & Non-Profits
Tuesday, February 3
APC's 6th Annual Open House
Tuesday January 27
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
Metropolitan Area Planning Council, 60 Temple Place, Boston
RSVP at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ea9b50cye56af96e&oseq=&c=b77caa50-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4&ch=b78312f0-eace-11e3-83bf-d4ae529a7ac4
Join us on January 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. for our 6th Annual Open House! Meet MAPC's staff, learn about our projects and region, and connect with old and new friends.
This year's Open House will celebrate our new Strategic Plan for the years 2015 through 2020. The strategic plan reaffirms MAPC's mission and commitment to the vision outlined in MetroFuture, the long-term regional policy plan for Metropolitan Boston.
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Innovation through Visual Thinking Strategies
Tuesday, January 27
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
CIC-Cambridge, Havana Room, 5th Floor, 1 Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-through-visual-thinking-strategies-tickets-15202428874
EXPERIENCE VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES AT THE CIC-CAMBRIDGE
Join us to tap into your visual thinking skills and consider how they might impact your work and your company's culture!
5:00: Mingling + Snacks
5:30 - 6:30: Program
During this session, consultant and arts educator Dabney Hailey will guide an open analysis of a work of art. You'll become part of an authentic learning culture under her expert stewardship, as we experience a discussion method called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). Rooted in research from cognitive psychology and arts education, VTS is currently used in business, healthcare, and education.
What does VTS have to do with innovation in the workplace? To foster and sustain innovation, companies must cultivate growth mindsets, open communication and emergent leadership skills across team members. In other words, a healthy, productive workplace is one in which people are organized to learn and grow, not merely to execute. Visual Thinking Strategies models and teaches skills fundamental to teams that are structured to learn, break new ground, and achieve personal and organizational success.
Studies on VTS show that it:
Enhances skills in observation, critical thinking, and collaboration
Increases the value team members place on communication, and
Develops comfort with ambiguity, which is key to preventing premature decisions in the face of complex problems.
Experience how developing visual thinking and facilitation skills can cultivate a healthy, productive discussion, within which everyone is accountable and focused, adaptable and creative, secure and open.
ABOUT DABNEY HAILEY
Dabney Hailey is a management consultant, curator, and educator. She is a pioneer in implementing Visual Thinking Strategies as a leadership, team-building and problem-solving tool within businesses and nonprofits. She has lead VTS discussions and trained facilitators in a range of contexts (companies, large and small; museums; universities; and the medical world) since 2001. Her clients include Harvard Business School, Fidelity Investments, a range of software companies, and many other enterprises; she's taking VTS to Stanford's d.school next month. Hailey is also an established curator, writer and educator specializing in modern and contemporary art. Learn more and contact Dabney at www.haileygroup.com.
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The Resilience Dividend
Tuesday, January 27
6–7:30 pm
Harvard, Gund Hall, Stubbin's Room, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations, and author of the recently published book The Resilience Dividend, PublicAffairs (November 11, 2014). She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania, and provost of Yale University. Since joining the Foundation in 2005, Dr. Rodin has recalibrated its focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to expand opportunity worldwide and build greater resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses. The Foundation accomplishes these goals through work that advances health, revalues ecosystems, secures livelihoods and transforms cities.
Dr. Rodin will speak about The Resilience Dividend in conversation with Jerold S. Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/resilience-dividend#sthash.SE59IsOS.dpuf
6–7:30 pm
Harvard, Gund Hall, Stubbin's Room, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations, and author of the recently published book The Resilience Dividend, PublicAffairs (November 11, 2014). She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania, and provost of Yale University. Since joining the Foundation in 2005, Dr. Rodin has recalibrated its focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to expand opportunity worldwide and build greater resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses. The Foundation accomplishes these goals through work that advances health, revalues ecosystems, secures livelihoods and transforms cities.
Dr. Rodin will speak about The Resilience Dividend in conversation with Jerold S. Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.
More at: http://green.harvard.edu/events/resilience-dividend#sthash.SE59IsOS.dpuf
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Boston Green Drinks - January Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-january-happy-hour-tickets-15282381013
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Keep sending feedback to Lyn@bostongreendrinks.com for ideas about speakers or content for the future and mark your calendar for drinks on the last Tuesday of every month. Also, if you RSVP and can't make it, e-mail us to let us know.
Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
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Startup Rounds - Final Showcase & Awards
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 pm
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://startuproundsfinalshowcase.splashthat.com
Cost: $10-40
10 Finalists from the Startup Rounds competition will have opportunities to demo their products, and convince judges that they have a high potential and high impact startup. Winners are presented with cash and resources. Here's what Startup Rounds and partners are giving away:
$30,000 Cash (No equity, no royalty, no strings attached)
$25,000+ Real Estate Speculation and Services - Courtesy of Colliers International
$40,000+ Co-working space - Courtesy of WeWork, Workbar, NGIN Workplace, and IdeaSpace
$10,000 Press - Courtesy of Bostinno
$10,000 Book Keeping Services - Courtesy of SmartBooks
$10,000 Legal Services - Courtesy of Pepper Hamilton & Pierce Atwood
$17,500 CPA Services - Courtesy of Samuel Goldstein & Co.
$5,000 Monthly Cloud Computing Credit for 1 year to top 10 - Courtesy of Microsoft
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Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, society
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
British Consulate-General Boston, One Broadway, 7th Floor, Kendall Room, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-nations-new-communication-challenges-for-states-business-society-tickets-14751019697
Pre-registration at least 2 days in advance and a photo ID are required to enter the Consulate.
Oxford Business Alumni Lecture Series
Businesses operate in complex contexts affected by economic climates, political trends, cultural values, legal developments, and technological changes. The OBA Lecture Series seeks to explore the practice and theory of business and management across disciplines and contexts. Addressing an audience of Oxford business school graduates, Oxford alumni, and friends of Oxford based in and around Boston, the lecture series will invite speakers and experts from a wide range of fields – economics, political science, religion, technology, law, entrepreneurship, etc. – to speak to their impact on business and management in an increasingly networked and diverse world.
The OBA cordially invites you (whether you are an alumnus or not) to the second OBA Boston Lecture with a seminar entitled:
“Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, and society”
Dr. Simon Moore, Associate Professor of Information Design & Corporate Communications at Bentley College and Oxford D.Phil., specializing "in public affairs, issues and risk management, crisis planning, developing new business proposals and environmental communication. Created and taught public relations and crisis communications courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Britain, Canada and United States. Published, presented and consulted in Britain, Canada and the United States. Author of An Invitation to Public Relations and Public Relations and the History of Ideas; co-author of Effective Crisis Communication: Worldwide Principles and Practice, Global Technology and Corporate Crisis."
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Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Daniel DiSalvo, author, in a debate with Barry Bluestone, moderated by Peter Kadzis
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Wednesday, January 28
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Boston Green Drinks - January Happy Hour
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Scholars, 25 School Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-green-drinks-january-happy-hour-tickets-15282381013
Join the conversation with sustainability professionals and hobbyists. Enjoy a drink and build your connection with our green community!
Keep sending feedback to Lyn@bostongreendrinks.com for ideas about speakers or content for the future and mark your calendar for drinks on the last Tuesday of every month. Also, if you RSVP and can't make it, e-mail us to let us know.
Boston Green Drinks builds a community of sustainably-minded Bostonians, provides a forum for exchange of sustainability career resources, and serves as a central point of information about emerging green issues. We support the exchange of ideas and resources about sustainable energy, environment, food, health, education.
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Startup Rounds - Final Showcase & Awards
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 pm
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at https://startuproundsfinalshowcase.splashthat.com
Cost: $10-40
10 Finalists from the Startup Rounds competition will have opportunities to demo their products, and convince judges that they have a high potential and high impact startup. Winners are presented with cash and resources. Here's what Startup Rounds and partners are giving away:
$30,000 Cash (No equity, no royalty, no strings attached)
$25,000+ Real Estate Speculation and Services - Courtesy of Colliers International
$40,000+ Co-working space - Courtesy of WeWork, Workbar, NGIN Workplace, and IdeaSpace
$10,000 Press - Courtesy of Bostinno
$10,000 Book Keeping Services - Courtesy of SmartBooks
$10,000 Legal Services - Courtesy of Pepper Hamilton & Pierce Atwood
$17,500 CPA Services - Courtesy of Samuel Goldstein & Co.
$5,000 Monthly Cloud Computing Credit for 1 year to top 10 - Courtesy of Microsoft
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Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, society
Tuesday, January 27
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
British Consulate-General Boston, One Broadway, 7th Floor, Kendall Room, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-nations-new-communication-challenges-for-states-business-society-tickets-14751019697
Pre-registration at least 2 days in advance and a photo ID are required to enter the Consulate.
Oxford Business Alumni Lecture Series
Businesses operate in complex contexts affected by economic climates, political trends, cultural values, legal developments, and technological changes. The OBA Lecture Series seeks to explore the practice and theory of business and management across disciplines and contexts. Addressing an audience of Oxford business school graduates, Oxford alumni, and friends of Oxford based in and around Boston, the lecture series will invite speakers and experts from a wide range of fields – economics, political science, religion, technology, law, entrepreneurship, etc. – to speak to their impact on business and management in an increasingly networked and diverse world.
The OBA cordially invites you (whether you are an alumnus or not) to the second OBA Boston Lecture with a seminar entitled:
“Virtual nations: new communication challenges for states, business, and society”
Dr. Simon Moore, Associate Professor of Information Design & Corporate Communications at Bentley College and Oxford D.Phil., specializing "in public affairs, issues and risk management, crisis planning, developing new business proposals and environmental communication. Created and taught public relations and crisis communications courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Britain, Canada and United States. Published, presented and consulted in Britain, Canada and the United States. Author of An Invitation to Public Relations and Public Relations and the History of Ideas; co-author of Effective Crisis Communication: Worldwide Principles and Practice, Global Technology and Corporate Crisis."
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Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Daniel DiSalvo, author, in a debate with Barry Bluestone, moderated by Peter Kadzis
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Wednesday, January 28
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Socially Influencing Systems for Improved Urban Mobility
9:00AM-12:00PM
MIT, Building E15-359, Media Lab, 3rd floor, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Q: What kind of socially influencing systems has greater potential to shift people's attitudes and behavior?
This session will concentrate on reviewing the existing solutions for motivating low-energy mobility and building prototypes of new SIS for sustainable urban mobility, including the assessment of their effectiveness and future applicability.
Dr. Agnis Stibe - Practical Scientist at MIT Media Lab: City Science, Jinhua Zhao - Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor, DUSP at MIT, Emily G. Martin - Assistant at MIT Education Arcade
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Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E62-250, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=22469&content_id=25906
Speaker: Everardo Ruiz SM '00 and COL. (Ret.) Robert Banks
The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability. As Malware numbers, attacks, cost and time-to-fix all explode, it has become clear the advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond today's compliance approaches towards monitoring and industry partnership that shares threat information? Can we align dependent circles... and what can we do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? The presentation was based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.
Web site: http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=22469&content_id=25906
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Alumni Association
For more information, contact: Elena Byrne
617-252-1143
aa-student-services@mit.edu
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Molecular Evolution before the Domain Ancestors: Indications for Dramatic Planetary Changes during Life's Early Evolution
Wednesday, January 28
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Peter Gogarten, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut
EAPS IAP Lecture Series 2015: Origin of Life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/iap-2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
10:00a–12:00p
MIT, Building E62-250, 100 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=22469&content_id=25906
Speaker: Everardo Ruiz SM '00 and COL. (Ret.) Robert Banks
The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability. As Malware numbers, attacks, cost and time-to-fix all explode, it has become clear the advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond today's compliance approaches towards monitoring and industry partnership that shares threat information? Can we align dependent circles... and what can we do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? The presentation was based on several decades of industry, telecom and government perspectives.
Web site: http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=22469&content_id=25906
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): MIT Alumni Association
For more information, contact: Elena Byrne
617-252-1143
aa-student-services@mit.edu
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Molecular Evolution before the Domain Ancestors: Indications for Dramatic Planetary Changes during Life's Early Evolution
Wednesday, January 28
12:00p–1:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
Speaker: Peter Gogarten, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut
EAPS IAP Lecture Series 2015: Origin of Life
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/iap-2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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A "Natural" Experiment: Consumer confusion and food claims
Wednesday, January 29
12 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1565 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Efthimios Parasidis
Have you ever wondered what makes food "natural"? Do consumers understand "natural" claims on food labels? In the absence of robust federal guidelines, are state laws or class action lawsuits appropriate mechanisms for addressing false or misleading "natural" claims?
Join the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a great lecture on consumer confusion and food claims. The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be served.
More information at: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/efthimios-parasidis-on-issues-in-food-law
12 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1565 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Efthimios Parasidis
Have you ever wondered what makes food "natural"? Do consumers understand "natural" claims on food labels? In the absence of robust federal guidelines, are state laws or class action lawsuits appropriate mechanisms for addressing false or misleading "natural" claims?
Join the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a great lecture on consumer confusion and food claims. The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be served.
More information at: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/efthimios-parasidis-on-issues-in-food-law
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What do we know about earliest life on Earth? Does biology constrain the early planetary narrative?
Wednesday, January 28
1:00p–2:00p
MIT, Building 54-915 (the tallest building on campus)
EAPS IAP Lecture Series 2015: Origin of Life
Panel Discussion, moderated by Greg Fournier, MIT
Noam Prywes, Harvard University
Betul Kacar, Harvard University
Peter Gogarten, University of Connecticut
Web site: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/events/iap-2015
Open to: the general public
Cost: n/a
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Lectures
For more information, contact: Roberta Allard
617-253-3381
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Climate Policy 101
Wednesday, January 29
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Paul Kishimoto
Evaluating policy, basic economic concepts, policy instruments, technology, side effects.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Climate Policy 102
Thursday, January 29
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Amanda Giang
History, status and future of international (multi- and bi-lateral) policy negotiations, the road to Paris, sub-national discussions and other fora for making policy happen.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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Once Upon a Revolution: What's Left of Egypt's Uprising?
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Thanassis Cambanis, Fellow, Century Foundation, New York
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS A seminar with Thanassis Cambanis on his new book "Once Upon a Revolution."
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6531/once_upon_a_revolution.html
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Fainsod Room, Littauer Building Room 324, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Middle East Initiative
SPEAKER(S) Thanassis Cambanis, Fellow, Century Foundation, New York
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS A seminar with Thanassis Cambanis on his new book "Once Upon a Revolution."
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6531/once_upon_a_revolution.html
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Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Joseph Aldy, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Conversation and Clinic with Branford Marsalis
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Leverett House Library Theatre, Mill Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers
SPEAKER(S) Branford Marsalis
COST Free; tickets/RSVPs not required; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity.
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Branford Marsalis will conduct a conversation on his career and creative process and lead a clinic with students in the Harvard Jazz Bands. This event is co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=45188
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Askwith Forum: The Future of America's Teachers' Union Movement
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa, President, National Education Association (NEA)
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists include:
Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Faculty Director, International Education Policy Program Faculty, HGSE
Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa, the president of the nation's largest teachers' union, will discuss the future of teacher unionism in the United States. She will touch on current controversies including the anti-testing movement, the Common Core state standards and the Vergara case. She will comment on the education reform role of teachers’ unions and her agenda for leading the National Education Association. After her presentation, she will discuss these issues with a panel and the audience.
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Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Joseph Aldy, Harvard University
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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Conversation and Clinic with Branford Marsalis
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 5 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Leverett House Library Theatre, Mill Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Learning From Performers
SPEAKER(S) Branford Marsalis
COST Free; tickets/RSVPs not required; seating first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity.
CONTACT INFO 617.495.8676
DETAILS Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Branford Marsalis will conduct a conversation on his career and creative process and lead a clinic with students in the Harvard Jazz Bands. This event is co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston.
LINK http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/lfp/details.php?ID=45188
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Askwith Forum: The Future of America's Teachers' Union Movement
WHEN Wed., Jan. 28, 2015, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge
TYPE OF EVENT Discussion, Forum, Lecture, Question & Answer Session
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT Alumni, AskWith Forum
BUILDING/ROOM Askwith Hall
CONTACT NAME Roger Falcon
CONTACT EMAIL askwith_forums@gse.harvard.edu
CONTACT PHONE 617-384-9968
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION/DEPARTMENT Harvard Graduate School of Education
REGISTRATION REQUIRED No
ADMISSION FEE This event is free and open to the public.
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education
DETAILS Speaker: Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa, President, National Education Association (NEA)
Moderator: Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, HGSE
Panelists include:
Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and Faculty Director, International Education Policy Program Faculty, HGSE
Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa, the president of the nation's largest teachers' union, will discuss the future of teacher unionism in the United States. She will touch on current controversies including the anti-testing movement, the Common Core state standards and the Vergara case. She will comment on the education reform role of teachers’ unions and her agenda for leading the National Education Association. After her presentation, she will discuss these issues with a panel and the audience.
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Cambridge Getting to Net Zero Task Force
Wednesday, January 28
6:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M.
6:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M.
Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Avenue, 1st Floor Ballroom
More information at http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Projects/Climate/netzerotaskforce.aspx
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Complexity Salon: Ethnic Violence
Wednesday, January 28
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (COT)
NE Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway, Suite 101, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/complexity-salon-ethnic-violence-tickets-15131979157
You are invited to a Complex Problems Salon on ethnic conflict at the New England Complex Systems Institute [NECSI], January 28th from 18:00 (6p) to 20:00 (8p). We will discuss ethnic conflict, from a complexity science perspective. Please help us polish the language for this here. This eventbrite will be updated with refined language and suggested readings.
Come share ideas with our group. We include people of all demographics and interests. You are warmly encouraged to invite others who may be interested.
About NECSI: The New England Complex Systems Institute is a research and education institute based in Cambridge, MA. A pioneer in the field of complex systems science, NECSI addresses questions previously considered outside the realm of scientific inquiry. Its research draws on foundations from mathematics, physics, and computer science to solve pressing problems in economics, healthcare, education, military conflict, ethnic violence, and international development. Its goal is to expand the boundaries of knowledge and to solve problems of science and society.
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Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
Wednesday, January 28
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thanassis Cambanis, author
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The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media
Wednesday, January 28
7 pm
First Parish (UU), 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
A free press and public access to information and a broad range of ideas and opinions were considered so essential for a healthy democratic republic that the Founders included protection for freedom of the press in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alex Jones, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and Charles Sennott, founder of Global Post and The GroundTruth Project, assess how today’s press–print and electronic–is carrying out its mission. Where do current threats to a free press come from? How can citizens inform themselves in today’s media environment?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Wednesday, January 28
7:00–8:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
Cost: Free for member, $10 nonmember
Emily Monosson, PhD, Environmental Toxicologist and Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Weeds. Bed bugs. Gonorrhea. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. Emily Monosson, toxicologist and author of Unnatural Selection, shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth—the bugs, bacteria, and weeds—tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Exploring contemporary evolution, Monosson examines the species that we are actively trying to beat back, from agricultural pests to life-threatening bacteria, and those that are collateral damage—creatures struggling to adapt to a polluted world, and shows how environmental stressors are leaving their mark on plants, animals, and possibly humans for generations to come.
More information at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1404&DayPlannerDate=1/28/2015
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Arts and a Changing Boston
Thursday, January 29
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)
Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-a-changing-boston-featuring-dr-manuel-pastor-tickets-14925691144
Barr Foundation, Klarman Family Foundation and TDC present: Arts and a Changing Boston, Featuring Dr. Manuel Pastor
Already a majority-minority city, Boston’s demographics are continually evolving. Yet, the profile of artists, producing and presenting organizations, arts audiences and supporters, has lagged this change.
What does that mean for the future of our city and our sector? And, what roles can we each play to create a more equitable, diverse and inclusive cultural sector?
Drawing on population and economic data, Dr. Pastor will explore present and future demographic scenarios for Boston, together with strategies for creating greater equity and inclusion in the arts, which we all know can be powerful contributors to economic and social sustainability.
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he currently directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC and co-directs USC’s Center for Study of Immigrant Integration. Dr. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities.
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MIT's Climate CoLab: using collective intelligence to address climate change
Thursday, January 29
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Laur Fisher, Community & Partnerships Manager, MIT Climate CoLab
Wikipedia, Linux, reCAPTCHA, FoldIt, social media — these are just a few examples of how online platforms allow large numbers of people to connect and collaborate in ways that were never possible before, producing unprecedented results in global knowledge exchange, problem-solving and mobilization. Inspired by this, the researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence wanted to know: how could the internet be leveraged to allow people to problem-solve at a massive — even global — scale? Could we harness the world's collective intelligence to solve our most complicated issues? To test this, they launched the Climate CoLab, an online platform where a growing community of 30,000 people work together to develop solutions to challenges related to arguably humanity's most pressing and complex problem: climate change.
Laur Fisher supports MIT's Climate CoLab project's 20 contests, 12,000+ members, 170+ volunteers, partnership network, and annual conference. She is also an elected civil society representative (alternate) for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) - North America, and run a project called The Civic Series (www.thecivicseries.com) where we arrange informal public presentations and conversation about major world and domestic issues. She has worked with public, private and non-government organizations in Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and the US and has experience in a wide range of fields, including carbon management and reporting, organizational recycling and waste management, renewable energy, green buildings and education. She also has training in group facilitation and has collaborated with The Natural Step and Sustainable Sweden eco-municipality tours. In Toronto, she managed and expanded regional professional education programs for the Canada Green Building Council. She holds a self-designed Bachelor's degree from Tufts University which she titled, "Engaging Sustainability as an Innovative Process".
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The Statistical Crisis in Science
Thursday, January 29
12:00pm
Harvard, William James Hall 765, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Andrew Gelman, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
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A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims
WHEN Thu., Jan. 29, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Cosponsored by the Food Law Lab and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER(S) Efthimios Parasidis
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.496.4662
petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/efthimios-parasidis-on-issues-in-food-law
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Complexity Salon: Ethnic Violence
Wednesday, January 28
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (COT)
NE Complex Systems Institute, 210 Broadway, Suite 101, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/complexity-salon-ethnic-violence-tickets-15131979157
You are invited to a Complex Problems Salon on ethnic conflict at the New England Complex Systems Institute [NECSI], January 28th from 18:00 (6p) to 20:00 (8p). We will discuss ethnic conflict, from a complexity science perspective. Please help us polish the language for this here. This eventbrite will be updated with refined language and suggested readings.
Come share ideas with our group. We include people of all demographics and interests. You are warmly encouraged to invite others who may be interested.
About NECSI: The New England Complex Systems Institute is a research and education institute based in Cambridge, MA. A pioneer in the field of complex systems science, NECSI addresses questions previously considered outside the realm of scientific inquiry. Its research draws on foundations from mathematics, physics, and computer science to solve pressing problems in economics, healthcare, education, military conflict, ethnic violence, and international development. Its goal is to expand the boundaries of knowledge and to solve problems of science and society.
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Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story
Wednesday, January 28
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thanassis Cambanis, author
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The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media
Wednesday, January 28
7 pm
First Parish (UU), 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
A free press and public access to information and a broad range of ideas and opinions were considered so essential for a healthy democratic republic that the Founders included protection for freedom of the press in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alex Jones, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and Charles Sennott, founder of Global Post and The GroundTruth Project, assess how today’s press–print and electronic–is carrying out its mission. Where do current threats to a free press come from? How can citizens inform themselves in today’s media environment?
More information at http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Wednesday, January 28
7:00–8:30pm
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain
Cost: Free for member, $10 nonmember
Emily Monosson, PhD, Environmental Toxicologist and Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Weeds. Bed bugs. Gonorrhea. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. Emily Monosson, toxicologist and author of Unnatural Selection, shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth—the bugs, bacteria, and weeds—tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Exploring contemporary evolution, Monosson examines the species that we are actively trying to beat back, from agricultural pests to life-threatening bacteria, and those that are collateral damage—creatures struggling to adapt to a polluted world, and shows how environmental stressors are leaving their mark on plants, animals, and possibly humans for generations to come.
More information at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1404&DayPlannerDate=1/28/2015
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Thursday, January 29
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Arts and a Changing Boston
Thursday, January 29
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)
Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-a-changing-boston-featuring-dr-manuel-pastor-tickets-14925691144
Barr Foundation, Klarman Family Foundation and TDC present: Arts and a Changing Boston, Featuring Dr. Manuel Pastor
Already a majority-minority city, Boston’s demographics are continually evolving. Yet, the profile of artists, producing and presenting organizations, arts audiences and supporters, has lagged this change.
What does that mean for the future of our city and our sector? And, what roles can we each play to create a more equitable, diverse and inclusive cultural sector?
Drawing on population and economic data, Dr. Pastor will explore present and future demographic scenarios for Boston, together with strategies for creating greater equity and inclusion in the arts, which we all know can be powerful contributors to economic and social sustainability.
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he currently directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC and co-directs USC’s Center for Study of Immigrant Integration. Dr. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities.
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MIT's Climate CoLab: using collective intelligence to address climate change
Thursday, January 29
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Laur Fisher, Community & Partnerships Manager, MIT Climate CoLab
Wikipedia, Linux, reCAPTCHA, FoldIt, social media — these are just a few examples of how online platforms allow large numbers of people to connect and collaborate in ways that were never possible before, producing unprecedented results in global knowledge exchange, problem-solving and mobilization. Inspired by this, the researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence wanted to know: how could the internet be leveraged to allow people to problem-solve at a massive — even global — scale? Could we harness the world's collective intelligence to solve our most complicated issues? To test this, they launched the Climate CoLab, an online platform where a growing community of 30,000 people work together to develop solutions to challenges related to arguably humanity's most pressing and complex problem: climate change.
Laur Fisher supports MIT's Climate CoLab project's 20 contests, 12,000+ members, 170+ volunteers, partnership network, and annual conference. She is also an elected civil society representative (alternate) for the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) - North America, and run a project called The Civic Series (www.thecivicseries.com) where we arrange informal public presentations and conversation about major world and domestic issues. She has worked with public, private and non-government organizations in Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and the US and has experience in a wide range of fields, including carbon management and reporting, organizational recycling and waste management, renewable energy, green buildings and education. She also has training in group facilitation and has collaborated with The Natural Step and Sustainable Sweden eco-municipality tours. In Toronto, she managed and expanded regional professional education programs for the Canada Green Building Council. She holds a self-designed Bachelor's degree from Tufts University which she titled, "Engaging Sustainability as an Innovative Process".
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The Statistical Crisis in Science
Thursday, January 29
12:00pm
Harvard, William James Hall 765, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Andrew Gelman, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
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A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims
WHEN Thu., Jan. 29, 2015, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B, 1585 Mass Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Ethics, Health Sciences, Law, Lecture, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Cosponsored by the Food Law Lab and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER(S) Efthimios Parasidis
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO 617.496.4662
petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu
LINK http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/efthimios-parasidis-on-issues-in-food-law
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Violence, Freedom of Expression, and Justice: A Public Forum on Recent World Events
WHEN Thu., Jan. 29, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Jocelyne Cesari, lecturer on Islamic Studies, and director of the Islam in the West Program
Anila Daulatzai, WSRP research associate and visiting assistant professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Studies
Charles Hallisey, senior lecturer on Buddhist Literatures
Mark Jordan, professor of Christian Thought
Ousmane Kane, professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society
Jeff Seul, MTS '97, chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation and partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO acariens@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS This forum will provide an opportunity for the Divinity School and the larger Harvard community to reflect upon the range of questions being raised in academic quarters and in the public more generally, following in particular the Charlie Hebdo event, but really bearing on many sites of conflict around the world and how we should respond and help steer our global community into the future. Short presentations will be followed by open discussion.The panelists will include: Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer on Islamic Studies, and director of the Islam in the West Program; Anila Daulatzai, WSRP research associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Studies; Charles Hallisey, Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures; Mark Jordan, Professor of Christian Thought; Ousmane Kane, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society; and Jeff Seul, MTS '97, chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation and partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight. The forum will be moderated by Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs.
LINK http://hds.harvard.edu/news/public-events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D113434010
WHEN Thu., Jan. 29, 2015, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Ethics, Law, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Divinity School
SPEAKER(S) Jocelyne Cesari, lecturer on Islamic Studies, and director of the Islam in the West Program
Anila Daulatzai, WSRP research associate and visiting assistant professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Studies
Charles Hallisey, senior lecturer on Buddhist Literatures
Mark Jordan, professor of Christian Thought
Ousmane Kane, professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society
Jeff Seul, MTS '97, chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation and partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight.
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO acariens@hds.harvard.edu
DETAILS This forum will provide an opportunity for the Divinity School and the larger Harvard community to reflect upon the range of questions being raised in academic quarters and in the public more generally, following in particular the Charlie Hebdo event, but really bearing on many sites of conflict around the world and how we should respond and help steer our global community into the future. Short presentations will be followed by open discussion.The panelists will include: Jocelyne Cesari, Lecturer on Islamic Studies, and director of the Islam in the West Program; Anila Daulatzai, WSRP research associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Studies; Charles Hallisey, Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures; Mark Jordan, Professor of Christian Thought; Ousmane Kane, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society; and Jeff Seul, MTS '97, chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation and partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight. The forum will be moderated by Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs.
LINK http://hds.harvard.edu/news/public-events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D113434010
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Women's Clean Energy Intern Social
Thursday, January 29
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-clean-energy-intern-social-tickets-14852077965
Join the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) for a night of networking with leading women in the cleantech industry, including MassCEC's CEO, Alicia Barton.
Talk with industry movers and shakers, make professional contacts, share experiences with your peers and get inspired to take the next steps in your career.
Light refreshments will be served.
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SVP Boston’s Think Tankathon
Thursday, January 29
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, Horace Mann Conference Room, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Great minds and action collide as we tackle real-world problems at this year’s winter meeting!
At SVP Boston, our investment in local nonprofits extends beyond the financial and allows YOU to engage directly using your skills and talents. Whether you’re a volunteer newbie or veteran, this event will stretch your creative and problem-solving muscles while re-introducing you to fellow Partners and the terrific organizations we support.
In rapid-fire, 1-minute presentations our six SVP Investees will each share a specific challenge that they are facing. Then, we’ll turn to the collective knowledge and talent in the room. You’ll join fellow Partners in group conversations with several Investees – tackling the challenges at hand.
Investees will walk away with new and creative ideas and YOU will leave with new connections and ways to engage with SVP.
The Evening Line-Up
6:00-7:00 PM => Appetizers, drinks, and social time
7:00-8:30 PM => Presentations and conversations
8:30-9:00 PM => Wrap and social time
Special Note
All guests must present a government issued, photo ID to building security, located in the lobby of One Memorial Drive, prior to entering Microsoft’s facility.
Email: jbowenflynn@svpboston.org
More at: http://www.socialventurepartners.org/boston/events/svp-bostons-think-tankathon/#sthash.CygLZpb8.dpuf
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LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room: So you think you can TED?
Thursday, January 29
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Harvard University, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-from-mark-zuckerbergs-dorm-room-so-you-think-you-can-ted-tickets-15346932087
Hosted by Toni Oloko, Founder of PracticeGigs and David France, Founder of Revolution of Hope
Come join us for the first "So you think you can TED" night to share ideas that challenge, inspire, and connect others.Our belief is that if you give anyone 5 minutes to talk about what they are most passionate about, it is bound to be something worth listening to. The event will have a friendly atmosphere and a diverse range of people allowing interesting conversations to break out on a range of subject matter. Our goal is to get Boston excited about thinking.
The night will consist of two events with a few selected speakers who will each speak for 5 minutes each on the subject/topic of their choice. Some talks will be funny and others informative, but they will all be thought provoking. There will also be time at both events for any attenders of the event to grab the mic and give their own SYTYC TED talk.
We hope you will join us as we give everyone a platform to share!
LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room 6:30pm @ Harvard
So you think you can TED? After Party 8:00pm @ Harvard
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Friday, January 30
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Entertainment & Media Conference at Harvard Business School
Friday, January 30
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/entertainment-media-conference-at-harvard-business-school-tickets-14892214013
Cost: $22.09 - $43.19
The HBS Entertainment and Media Club is proud to present the 2015 Entertainment and Media Summit.
Each year EMC seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common vision of advancing the landscape of Entertainment and Media. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from all walks of entertainment and media. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from around the world.
TICKET INCLUDES: Admission to conference + continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee/tea/snacks.
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Women's Clean Energy Intern Social
Thursday, January 29
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, 63 Franklin Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-clean-energy-intern-social-tickets-14852077965
Join the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) for a night of networking with leading women in the cleantech industry, including MassCEC's CEO, Alicia Barton.
Talk with industry movers and shakers, make professional contacts, share experiences with your peers and get inspired to take the next steps in your career.
Light refreshments will be served.
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SVP Boston’s Think Tankathon
Thursday, January 29
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft New England R&D Center, Horace Mann Conference Room, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Great minds and action collide as we tackle real-world problems at this year’s winter meeting!
At SVP Boston, our investment in local nonprofits extends beyond the financial and allows YOU to engage directly using your skills and talents. Whether you’re a volunteer newbie or veteran, this event will stretch your creative and problem-solving muscles while re-introducing you to fellow Partners and the terrific organizations we support.
In rapid-fire, 1-minute presentations our six SVP Investees will each share a specific challenge that they are facing. Then, we’ll turn to the collective knowledge and talent in the room. You’ll join fellow Partners in group conversations with several Investees – tackling the challenges at hand.
Investees will walk away with new and creative ideas and YOU will leave with new connections and ways to engage with SVP.
The Evening Line-Up
6:00-7:00 PM => Appetizers, drinks, and social time
7:00-8:30 PM => Presentations and conversations
8:30-9:00 PM => Wrap and social time
Special Note
All guests must present a government issued, photo ID to building security, located in the lobby of One Memorial Drive, prior to entering Microsoft’s facility.
Email: jbowenflynn@svpboston.org
More at: http://www.socialventurepartners.org/boston/events/svp-bostons-think-tankathon/#sthash.CygLZpb8.dpuf
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LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room: So you think you can TED?
Thursday, January 29
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EST)
Harvard University, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-from-mark-zuckerbergs-dorm-room-so-you-think-you-can-ted-tickets-15346932087
Hosted by Toni Oloko, Founder of PracticeGigs and David France, Founder of Revolution of Hope
Come join us for the first "So you think you can TED" night to share ideas that challenge, inspire, and connect others.Our belief is that if you give anyone 5 minutes to talk about what they are most passionate about, it is bound to be something worth listening to. The event will have a friendly atmosphere and a diverse range of people allowing interesting conversations to break out on a range of subject matter. Our goal is to get Boston excited about thinking.
The night will consist of two events with a few selected speakers who will each speak for 5 minutes each on the subject/topic of their choice. Some talks will be funny and others informative, but they will all be thought provoking. There will also be time at both events for any attenders of the event to grab the mic and give their own SYTYC TED talk.
We hope you will join us as we give everyone a platform to share!
LIVE from Mark Zuckerberg's Dorm Room 6:30pm @ Harvard
So you think you can TED? After Party 8:00pm @ Harvard
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Friday, January 30
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Entertainment & Media Conference at Harvard Business School
Friday, January 30
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Harvard Business School, Boston
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/entertainment-media-conference-at-harvard-business-school-tickets-14892214013
Cost: $22.09 - $43.19
The HBS Entertainment and Media Club is proud to present the 2015 Entertainment and Media Summit.
Each year EMC seeks to unite the community of present and future business leaders who share a common vision of advancing the landscape of Entertainment and Media. The conference draws some 1,000 attendees from all walks of entertainment and media. Participants include CEOs, CTOs, a broad range of media and press representatives, and students from around the world.
TICKET INCLUDES: Admission to conference + continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee/tea/snacks.
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Innovation Breakfast
Friday, January 30
Friday, January 30
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, Game Room, 16th Floor, 101 Main Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-breakfast-at-cambridge-innovation-center-101-main-street-tickets-15474840665
The Roving Innovation Breakfast continues! Hosted by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Mass Innovation Nights, we're partnering with Pivotal Labs Boston for a new edition of our weekly drop-in networking event. We'll be visiting Cambridge Innovation Center Check out this cool co-working space. Join us for coffee+, networking and one-on-one discussions with the software development experts from Pivotal Labs.
Meet the Experts:
Jared Cosulich is the Director of the Boston office for Pivotal Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been the technical founder or co-founder of three companies. He recently moved back to Boston after 12 years in San Francisco's startup scene and is eager to help Boston area entrepreneurs. He has extensive experience with software development, agile and XP processes, product roadmaps, and startups in general. Follow Jared on Twitter @jaredcosulich
Simon Holroyd is a product manager at Pivotal Labs. Prior to labs, Simon lead a product & development team at a successful fashion-tech startup, ran an iOS development consulting business, and worked as an developer & marketer in the digital advertising industry. After a 4 year stint living in NYC, he's recently returned to his home town in Boston and is eager to pass along as many hard-learned lessons in product development as he can!
Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing and Mass Innovation Nights (MIN), is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Bobbie and the MIN community have helped to launch more than 700 new products. Every month the group provides 10 entrepreneurs with a free 30-day marketing program, featuring the products in social media campaigns, in a weekly newsletter, on the organization's showcase website and at a live event. Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @MassInno or now, @WomenInno. Innovation Women is a new online speakers bureau for entrepreneurial and technical women, coming soon.
The Roving Innovation Breakfast continues! Hosted by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Mass Innovation Nights, we're partnering with Pivotal Labs Boston for a new edition of our weekly drop-in networking event. We'll be visiting Cambridge Innovation Center Check out this cool co-working space. Join us for coffee+, networking and one-on-one discussions with the software development experts from Pivotal Labs.
Meet the Experts:
Jared Cosulich is the Director of the Boston office for Pivotal Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been the technical founder or co-founder of three companies. He recently moved back to Boston after 12 years in San Francisco's startup scene and is eager to help Boston area entrepreneurs. He has extensive experience with software development, agile and XP processes, product roadmaps, and startups in general. Follow Jared on Twitter @jaredcosulich
Simon Holroyd is a product manager at Pivotal Labs. Prior to labs, Simon lead a product & development team at a successful fashion-tech startup, ran an iOS development consulting business, and worked as an developer & marketer in the digital advertising industry. After a 4 year stint living in NYC, he's recently returned to his home town in Boston and is eager to pass along as many hard-learned lessons in product development as he can!
Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing and Mass Innovation Nights (MIN), is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Bobbie and the MIN community have helped to launch more than 700 new products. Every month the group provides 10 entrepreneurs with a free 30-day marketing program, featuring the products in social media campaigns, in a weekly newsletter, on the organization's showcase website and at a live event. Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @MassInno or now, @WomenInno. Innovation Women is a new online speakers bureau for entrepreneurial and technical women, coming soon.
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Role of Future Socially Influencing Systems in Shaping Cities
Friday, January 30
Friday, January 30
9:00AM-12:00PM
MIT, Building E15-359, Media Lab, 3rd floor, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Q: How can SIS improve city living and other aspects of modern times?
This session will envision the future of SIS and how they can be helpful in transforming various aspects of cities and societies in the future. A brainstorming session will be set around the future of SIS and benefits they can bring to cities and mankind in general.
Dr. Agnis Stibe - Practical Scientist at MIT Media Lab: City Science, Dr. Sebastian Deterding - Assistant Professor, Game Design, Northeastern University, Emily G. Martin - Assistant at MIT Education Arcade
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Starr Forum Friday Flicks: "A Forgotten Crime"
Friday, January 30
12:00p–1:30p
MIT, Building E40-496, The Lucian Pye Conference Room, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: John Tirman
Film screening and discussion with John Tirman, executive director and principal research scientist, MIT Center for International Studies. Author of "Deaths of Others," and many other books and publications.
We will be screening "A Forgotten Crime"
(Elli Safari, Remmelt Lukkien, The Netherlands, 2014, color)
During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) Saddam Hussein bombarded Iran with chemical weapons, while the world looked on without interfering. In A Forgotten Crime political and military leaders, medical experts and contaminated people relate how this drama was experienced in isolated Iran. The film irresistibly drags the viewer into the ever increasing humanitarian, military and political drama of this chemical warfare, which has determined Iran's position in the international political arena until this very day. Former UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar and Joost Hiltermann, author of A Poisonous Affair provide additional information. Contains unique archive material. Mostly filmed in Iran.
Light refreshments will be served
Web site: http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=2958897d-386d-4dbf-9b60-d1b4e37ca0fd&tab=dfs%23sthash.7Hq3K5Ff.dpuf
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
For more information, contact:
starrforum@mit.edu
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Investment Projects from Alternative Points of View
Friday, January 30
12:30-2:00 pm
MIT, Building E17-128, 40 Ames Street, Cambridge
DUSP Research Fellow, Carlos de la Torre, highlights the importance of going beyond the engineering and financial points of view to increase the likelihood of successful and sustainable investment projects in energy and infrastructure. The activity provides a framework that captures the project from the point of view of the private sector or government sponsor, looks into its impact on society and key stakeholders, and determines actions needed to make it more sustainable.
Contact: Carlos de la Torre Salcedo, 617-259-9435, cdlt@mit.edu
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Fourth Annual Computational Science Ventures Mini-symposium
WHEN Fri., Jan. 30, 2015, 12:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard SEAS, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Colin Angle, CEO, iRobot
David Rose, CEO, Ditto Labs
Chad Jones, CEO, Virtual Potential Advisors
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eafnadu93ae8b7de&llr=odyvocsab
CONTACT INFO Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: info-iacs@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Each year, IACS hosts a mini-symposium focusing on extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities at the frontier of computational science and cyber-physical systems. This year, participants will hear from and speak with innovators who have led the charge to realize the potential of the Internet of Things. Free and open to the public; registration required. Light refreshments will be served from 12:30-1pm.
PROGRAM:
Colin Angle
CEO, iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT)
1:00 – 2:00 pm
David Rose
CEO, Ditto Labs;
Former CEO, Ambient Devices
Author, Enchanted Objects
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Chad Jones
CEO, Virtual Potential Advisors
Former VP, LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM)
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Breakout Session with David Rose and Chad Jones
4:00 - 5:00pm
Moderator: This symposium is organized by Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who serves as an Institute Fellow at IACS.
LINK http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/iacs-new-ventures
WHEN Fri., Jan. 30, 2015, 12:30 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard SEAS, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Conferences, Information Technology, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SPEAKER(S) Colin Angle, CEO, iRobot
David Rose, CEO, Ditto Labs
Chad Jones, CEO, Virtual Potential Advisors
COST Free and open to the public; registration required
TICKET WEB LINK http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eafnadu93ae8b7de&llr=odyvocsab
CONTACT INFO Phone: 617-496-2623
Email: info-iacs@seas.harvard.edu
DETAILS Each year, IACS hosts a mini-symposium focusing on extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities at the frontier of computational science and cyber-physical systems. This year, participants will hear from and speak with innovators who have led the charge to realize the potential of the Internet of Things. Free and open to the public; registration required. Light refreshments will be served from 12:30-1pm.
PROGRAM:
Colin Angle
CEO, iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT)
1:00 – 2:00 pm
David Rose
CEO, Ditto Labs;
Former CEO, Ambient Devices
Author, Enchanted Objects
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Chad Jones
CEO, Virtual Potential Advisors
Former VP, LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM)
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Breakout Session with David Rose and Chad Jones
4:00 - 5:00pm
Moderator: This symposium is organized by Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who serves as an Institute Fellow at IACS.
LINK http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/iacs-new-ventures
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How to Read Climate Science and Policy News
Friday, January 30
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Interactive Panel Discussion
Every day climate science and policy shows up in popular media articles and headlines, entering the public discussion. The result is sometimes they become the subject of controversy. Join a grad student panel to learn how to navigate past clumsy summaries, overhyped conclusions and political spin, to the details of research that advances our knowledge of climate change and the options for addressing it.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
Friday, January 30, 2015
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Nan Levinson, author
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#Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress
Friday, January 30
4:10 PM - Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 3:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack4congress-a-not-just-for-technologists-event-to-fix-congress-tickets-13856221331
Though the founders envisioned Congress as the linchpin of democracy in the United States— most Americans would argue that it is a fundamentally broken institution beset by hyper-partisanship and unresponsive to the needs of its constituents. Congress needs “fixes”—but where will these new tools and solutions come from? By bringing together political scientists, technologists, designers, lawyers, organizational psychologists, and lawmakers, #Hack4Congress will help foster new digital tools, policy innovations, and other technology innovations to address the growing dysfunction in Congress.
Opening Panel and Reception
Friday, January 30, 2015; 4:10pm – 7 p.m
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building
Orientation and Hackathon Day 1
Saturday, January 31; 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Building
Hackathon Day 2 and Project Presentations
Sunday, February 1, 2015; 8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m.
JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Building
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
Come fix Congress. Join political scientists and policy experts, technologists, architects, and designers at #Hack4Congress at Harvard Kennedy School of Government to help identify ideas and innovations to overcome the dysfunction gripping much of Congress. “Hacking” is not just for technologists. “Hacks” include innovations in policy, architecture, organizational process, art and design, and educational materials, as well as new software and technologies.
This event will focus on issues like lawmaking, deliberation, and responsiveness after the elections are over. Projects could address our suggested challenges (Improving the lawmaking process; Facilitating cross-partisan dialogue; Innovations in participation; Closing the representation gap; Repairing public trust) or one of your own. What do you think are the most important problems with the mechanics and operations of Congress as an institution? What ideas do you have to fix Congress? Solutions could draw on the fields of organizational behavior/process design, material design, policy and political science, architecture, project management approaches, education, communications, or others. Participants of all expertise are welcome.
Read more about and add your own challenges and project ideas here.
Help move our democracy forward! Solutions presented at the end of the hackathon will be evaluated by a panel of judges. After a second #Hack4Congress event in Washington, D.C. in spring 2015, the winners will be invited to Capitol Hill to present their projects to lawmakers and high-level officials inside Congress.
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How to Read Climate Science and Policy News
Friday, January 30
1:00 P.M.–3:00 P.M.
MIT, Building 4-237, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Interactive Panel Discussion
Every day climate science and policy shows up in popular media articles and headlines, entering the public discussion. The result is sometimes they become the subject of controversy. Join a grad student panel to learn how to navigate past clumsy summaries, overhyped conclusions and political spin, to the details of research that advances our knowledge of climate change and the options for addressing it.
Contact: Robert Morris
617-324-7375
rhgmorr@mit.edu
More info: http://mitsha.re/1fyU4Fp
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War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
Friday, January 30, 2015
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Nan Levinson, author
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#Hack4Congress: A “Not-Just-for-Technologists” Event to Fix Congress
Friday, January 30
4:10 PM - Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 3:00 PM (EST)
Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack4congress-a-not-just-for-technologists-event-to-fix-congress-tickets-13856221331
Though the founders envisioned Congress as the linchpin of democracy in the United States— most Americans would argue that it is a fundamentally broken institution beset by hyper-partisanship and unresponsive to the needs of its constituents. Congress needs “fixes”—but where will these new tools and solutions come from? By bringing together political scientists, technologists, designers, lawyers, organizational psychologists, and lawmakers, #Hack4Congress will help foster new digital tools, policy innovations, and other technology innovations to address the growing dysfunction in Congress.
Opening Panel and Reception
Friday, January 30, 2015; 4:10pm – 7 p.m
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building
Orientation and Hackathon Day 1
Saturday, January 31; 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Building
Hackathon Day 2 and Project Presentations
Sunday, February 1, 2015; 8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m.
JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Building
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
Come fix Congress. Join political scientists and policy experts, technologists, architects, and designers at #Hack4Congress at Harvard Kennedy School of Government to help identify ideas and innovations to overcome the dysfunction gripping much of Congress. “Hacking” is not just for technologists. “Hacks” include innovations in policy, architecture, organizational process, art and design, and educational materials, as well as new software and technologies.
This event will focus on issues like lawmaking, deliberation, and responsiveness after the elections are over. Projects could address our suggested challenges (Improving the lawmaking process; Facilitating cross-partisan dialogue; Innovations in participation; Closing the representation gap; Repairing public trust) or one of your own. What do you think are the most important problems with the mechanics and operations of Congress as an institution? What ideas do you have to fix Congress? Solutions could draw on the fields of organizational behavior/process design, material design, policy and political science, architecture, project management approaches, education, communications, or others. Participants of all expertise are welcome.
Read more about and add your own challenges and project ideas here.
Help move our democracy forward! Solutions presented at the end of the hackathon will be evaluated by a panel of judges. After a second #Hack4Congress event in Washington, D.C. in spring 2015, the winners will be invited to Capitol Hill to present their projects to lawmakers and high-level officials inside Congress.
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Hitachi Speaker Series : Joi Ito - How the internet has changed the world
Friday, January 30
Friday, January 30
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (EST)
The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, ASEAN auditorium, Medford
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hitachi-speaker-series-joi-ito-how-the-internet-has-changed-the-world-tickets-15464660215
How the Internet has changed the world: Civic Engagement, Innovation, Learning and Technology Today (and How We Got Here)
Joi Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom. As director of the MIT Media Lab, he is currently exploring how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways. Ito studied computer science at Tufts University briefly before leaving to pursue other opportunities, and has since served as both board chair and CEO of Creative Commons, and sits on the boards of Sony Corporation, Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The New York Times Company, and The Mozilla Foundation.
How the Internet has changed the world: Civic Engagement, Innovation, Learning and Technology Today (and How We Got Here)
Joi Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent democracy, privacy, and Internet freedom. As director of the MIT Media Lab, he is currently exploring how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways. Ito studied computer science at Tufts University briefly before leaving to pursue other opportunities, and has since served as both board chair and CEO of Creative Commons, and sits on the boards of Sony Corporation, Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The New York Times Company, and The Mozilla Foundation.
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Pete Seeger Sing Out Tribute
Friday, January 30
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Forum, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pete-seeger-sing-out-tribute-tickets-14707379167
Cost: $18-20
Cambridge Forum celebrates Pete Seeger and the power of music with this tribute Sing Out concert. Join host Scott Alarik and an all-star group of artists, including Sol y Canto, Catie Curtis, bluesman Guy Davis, Magpie, The Lonely Heartstring Band, Ellen Kushner, Alastair Moock, Robbie O'Connell and Fred Small for an evening of song and stories paying tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger.
This is a ticketed program. All proceeds benefit Cambridge Forum.
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Saturday, January 31
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Pete Seeger Sing Out Tribute
Friday, January 30
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Cambridge Forum, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pete-seeger-sing-out-tribute-tickets-14707379167
Cost: $18-20
Cambridge Forum celebrates Pete Seeger and the power of music with this tribute Sing Out concert. Join host Scott Alarik and an all-star group of artists, including Sol y Canto, Catie Curtis, bluesman Guy Davis, Magpie, The Lonely Heartstring Band, Ellen Kushner, Alastair Moock, Robbie O'Connell and Fred Small for an evening of song and stories paying tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger.
This is a ticketed program. All proceeds benefit Cambridge Forum.
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Saturday, January 31
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Come to a Sustainable House of Worship Workshop
Saturday, January 31
Saturday, January 31
Doors open at 8:30 am. Program begins at 9
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Avenue, Jamaica Plain
RSVP at http://bit.ly/SHOWJan31
Cost: $10
Would your congregation like to lower its utility bills? Decrease its use of fossil fuels, and the contribution they make to global warming? Are you interested in learning more about solar energy? Mass. Interfaith Power & Light’s Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) workshop covers all this and more.
You will learn:
How to track your energy use, cost and carbon footprint;
How to find no-cost & low-cost projects with big impacts on your energy bills;
How to know when heating & electrical equipment needs to be updated;
How to get solar panels with no upfront costs; and
Rebates and financial help available through utility companies
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Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation Event
Saturday, January 3
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM (EST)
Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/technovation-2015-kickoff-orientation-event-registration-15007791709
Interested in taking part in the Technovation Challenge?
Come to the Technovation 2015 Kickoff & Orientation!
Get the info, find a team, and learn some AppInventor!
Here's the agenda (subject to change):
9:30 am Sign In
10:00 am Welcome: greetings, name tags, find your team
10:15 am Introduction to the Technovation Challenge: roles of Industry Mentor, Teacher/Coach, University Mentor
10:30 am Inspiration: presentation by a Tech Professional
11:00 am Inspiration: presentation by past National Competitors
11:30 am Break Outs:
Industry Mentors - introduction to the Mentor role in the program
University Mentors - lead the first AppInventor tutorial for the entire audience of students
12:15 Lunch: cheese pizza & soda
1:15 pm Student Workbooks: presentation & activities
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm App Idea Reviews: teams present ideas to CS Undergrads for review and feedback
2:45 pm Technovation Tutorials Intro
3:45 pm Re-Group: Closing & Questions
4:00 pm Close
FAQs
What is the Technovation Challenge?
The Technovation Challenge is a technology entrepreneurship program and competition for young women. Through our intensive 3-month, 50-hour curriculum, teams of young women work together to imagine, design, and develop mobile apps, then pitch their “startup” businesses to judges.
Almost 3,000 young women from 28 countries have created mobile apps through Technovation, thanks to dedicated local volunteers on the ground worldwide. No prior programming experience is necessary for students, for teachers, or for mentors. The program is free to all participants.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
The Microsoft NERD Center is easily accessed via the T - take the Red Line and get off at the Kendall/MIT stop. Parking is available at NERD for $10 on Saturdays. Free parking is available at MIT's Hayward St lot on weekends.
What's for lunch?
We will have cheese pizza and soda for lunch. If you cannot eat cheese pizza, please make sure to bring your own lunch.
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Monday, February 2
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John Eliot Gardiner Lecture
WHEN Mon., Feb. 2, 2015, 3 – 4 p.m.
WHERE John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Music
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard University Department of Music with support from the Christoph Wolff Fund for Music
SPEAKER(S) John Eliot Gardiner
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu
LINK http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html
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Designing Boston: Olympics 2024
Monday, February 2
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
BSA Space, 290 Congress Street, Boston
Register at rsvp@architects.org
Join us on February 2 for our next Designing Boston conversation, this time on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision to back Boston as the host for the 2024 Olympics.
As former Boston city councilor Mike Ross said during a recent interview with WBUR’s Radio Boston, “[The Big Dig] changed the shape and face of Boston and... the Olympics will do the same thing.”
Focusing on the role that architecture has (or has not) played in making previous Olympics successful, Ross will moderate this panel discussion and dive into lessons learned by architects and planners with past Olympic experience in such cities as Barcelona, Beijing, Sydney, and London. This event launches a series of conversations and debates related to potential roles, responsibilities, and opportunities available to architects, planners, and developers as this huge and exciting undertaking unfolds.
Moderator
Michael P. Ross, attorney, Prince Lobel Tye
Panelists will include
Kyu Sung Woo FAIA, Kyu Sung Woo Architects
Dennis Pieprz Assoc. AIA, Principal, Sasaki Associates
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Hard Times: Leadership in America
Monday, February 2, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Barbara Kellerman, author
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Tuesday, February 3
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Boston TechBreakfast: Gov-Savings.com, theThings.biz, Rennzer, and More!
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
8:00 AM
Microsoft NERD - Horace Mann Room, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/215003212/
Interact with your peers in a monthly morning breakfast meetup. At this monthly breakfast get-together techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs share learn from their peers through show and tell / show-case style presentations.
And yes, this is free! Thank our sponsors when you see them :)
Agenda for Boston TechBreakfast:
8:00 - 8:15 - Get yer Bagels & Coffee and chit-chat
8:15 - 8:20 - Introductions, Sponsors, Announcements
8:20 - ~9:30 - Showcases and Shout-Outs!
Gov-Savings.com - Royce Dennis
theThings.biz - Geordie McClelland
Rennzer: ClearSchool - Omid Jahanbin
*** OPEN ***
~9:30 - end - Final "Shout Outs" & Last Words
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Sustainable Business Strategies: Lessons from Local Businesses & Non-Profits
Tuesday, February 3
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)
Newbury College Student Center Auditorium, 129 Fisher Avenue, Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-business-strategies-lessons-from-local-businesses-non-profits-tickets-15060100165
Learn business strategies that reduce your carbon footprint while increasing your bottom line. Join Lenox Hotel's Managing Director Daniel Donahue and CEO Jeff Saunders, Boston University’s Sustainability Director Dennis Carlberg, and Abe Faber, owner of Clear Flour Bakery and member of Local First. Sponsored by Newbury College.
Following panel discussion, pick up the tools you need at small conversation tables, including:
local funding available for sustainable capital improvements
sustainable business operations
sourcing sustainable food containers and consumer bags
NSTAR's retrofit program to reduce electricity and gas costs
Brookline's upcoming Business Recycling By-Law
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What's ahead for education innovation? Lunch panel with Harvard i-lab EIRs
Tuesday, February 3
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Harvard GSE, Larsen 106, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-ahead-for-education-innovation-lunch-panel-with-harvard-i-lab-eirs-tickets-15269857555
This lunch panel features three esteemed Harvard Graduate School of Education experts-in-residence, Greg Gunn, Joanne Weiss, and Chris Gabrieli, discussing the future of education innovation.
Greg Gunn is an investor at City Light Capital, a firm partnering with early-stage education companies and original co-founder Wireless Generation (now Amplify).
Joanne Weiss is former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan and former director of Race to the Top. She is also a former partner and COO of New Schools Venture Fund.
Chris Gabrieli is a long-time partner of a leading venture capital firm focused on healthcare software with a second career founding three education policy/innovation non-profits.
Lunch will be provided.
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Development in the Digital Age: The role of online platforms & payments in enabling entrepreneurship in emerging markets
Tuesday, February 3
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/Ahmed-Colvin-Erickson#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/Ahmed-Colvin-Erickson at 12:30 pm.
featuring Usman Ahmed (ebay), Jake Colvin (Global Innovation Forum), and Althea Erickson (Etsy)
The Internet is democratizing access to the global marketplace for millions of people around the world. Thanks to online platforms, payment systems and logistics services, companies, nonprofits and individuals can embark on global journeys like never before. Join representatives from the Global Innovation Forum, eBay and Etsy to explore the opportunities for economic development that the Internet unlocks, and the specific challenges that global entrepreneurs and micromultinationals in developing countries face.
About Usman Ahmed, eBay Inc.
Usman Ahmed is Policy Counsel for eBay Inc. His work covers a variety of global Internet issues including international trade, intellectual property policy, and financial services. He has spoken at several universities on the topic of Internet-enabled international trade and has published an article in the Journal of World Trade on the subject. Prior to working at eBay, Usman worked at a number of policy think tanks in the Washington DC area. He earned his JD from University of Michigan and holds a BA from University of Maryland.
About Jake Colvin, Global Innovation Forum
Jake Colvin is Executive Director of the Global Innovation Forum @ NFTC. Through GIF, Jakeworks with startup, business, education and nonprofit leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with participating in the global marketplace in the digital age, and to assess the effect of public policies on international trade and innovation. He is also Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council, where he leads the organization's engagement with the World Trade Organization, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and its policy work on intellectual property rights, environment issues, and the digital economy. Jake has written for Business Week, blogged for Comedy Central, testified before Congress and provided analysis for outlets including CNBC, CNN and Time Magazine. Originally from Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and the University of Richmond.
About Althea Erickson, Etsy
Althea Erickson is director of public policy at Etsy, the marketplace for creative people to buy and sell unique goods. Althea leads Etsy’s government relations and advocacy efforts, focusing on educating and advising policymakers on the issues that micro-entrepreneurs and creative businesses face. She is also responsible for developing and advancing Etsy’s position on issues ranging from taxes and regulation, to open Internet and free trade, to IP and privacy policies. Prior to joining Etsy, Althea was the advocacy and policy director at Freelancers Union, where she helped build the membership into a powerful political constituency, leading its successful campaign to repeal unfair tax laws and promoting legislation to protect freelancers from unpaid wages. Previously, Althea worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she focused on strategies to build economic security within the U.S. workforce. She has a B.A in government and public policy from Wesleyan University.
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Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About That Just Might Work
Tuesday, February 3
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
ABCD Melnea Cass Room, 3rd Floor, 178 Tremont Street, Boston
Light Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/housing-access-solutions-we-dont-want-to-think-about-that-just-might-work-tickets-15192996662
Help ask the tough questions...
How can landlords help keep rents 'affordable'?
How might linkage, zoning, and other regulatory mechanisms increase the housing supply for families living in poverty?
Is micro-housing an answer for low-income individuals?
Should housing expenses be earmarked in a person's cash benefits?
... and leave with answers that lead to action!
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Newbury College Student Center Auditorium, 129 Fisher Avenue, Brookline
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-business-strategies-lessons-from-local-businesses-non-profits-tickets-15060100165
Learn business strategies that reduce your carbon footprint while increasing your bottom line. Join Lenox Hotel's Managing Director Daniel Donahue and CEO Jeff Saunders, Boston University’s Sustainability Director Dennis Carlberg, and Abe Faber, owner of Clear Flour Bakery and member of Local First. Sponsored by Newbury College.
Following panel discussion, pick up the tools you need at small conversation tables, including:
local funding available for sustainable capital improvements
sustainable business operations
sourcing sustainable food containers and consumer bags
NSTAR's retrofit program to reduce electricity and gas costs
Brookline's upcoming Business Recycling By-Law
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What's ahead for education innovation? Lunch panel with Harvard i-lab EIRs
Tuesday, February 3
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Harvard GSE, Larsen 106, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-ahead-for-education-innovation-lunch-panel-with-harvard-i-lab-eirs-tickets-15269857555
This lunch panel features three esteemed Harvard Graduate School of Education experts-in-residence, Greg Gunn, Joanne Weiss, and Chris Gabrieli, discussing the future of education innovation.
Greg Gunn is an investor at City Light Capital, a firm partnering with early-stage education companies and original co-founder Wireless Generation (now Amplify).
Joanne Weiss is former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan and former director of Race to the Top. She is also a former partner and COO of New Schools Venture Fund.
Chris Gabrieli is a long-time partner of a leading venture capital firm focused on healthcare software with a second career founding three education policy/innovation non-profits.
Lunch will be provided.
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Development in the Digital Age: The role of online platforms & payments in enabling entrepreneurship in emerging markets
Tuesday, February 3
12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge
RSVP required for those attending in person at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/Ahmed-Colvin-Erickson#RSVP
Event will be webcast live on http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/02/Ahmed-Colvin-Erickson at 12:30 pm.
featuring Usman Ahmed (ebay), Jake Colvin (Global Innovation Forum), and Althea Erickson (Etsy)
The Internet is democratizing access to the global marketplace for millions of people around the world. Thanks to online platforms, payment systems and logistics services, companies, nonprofits and individuals can embark on global journeys like never before. Join representatives from the Global Innovation Forum, eBay and Etsy to explore the opportunities for economic development that the Internet unlocks, and the specific challenges that global entrepreneurs and micromultinationals in developing countries face.
About Usman Ahmed, eBay Inc.
Usman Ahmed is Policy Counsel for eBay Inc. His work covers a variety of global Internet issues including international trade, intellectual property policy, and financial services. He has spoken at several universities on the topic of Internet-enabled international trade and has published an article in the Journal of World Trade on the subject. Prior to working at eBay, Usman worked at a number of policy think tanks in the Washington DC area. He earned his JD from University of Michigan and holds a BA from University of Maryland.
About Jake Colvin, Global Innovation Forum
Jake Colvin is Executive Director of the Global Innovation Forum @ NFTC. Through GIF, Jakeworks with startup, business, education and nonprofit leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with participating in the global marketplace in the digital age, and to assess the effect of public policies on international trade and innovation. He is also Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council, where he leads the organization's engagement with the World Trade Organization, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and its policy work on intellectual property rights, environment issues, and the digital economy. Jake has written for Business Week, blogged for Comedy Central, testified before Congress and provided analysis for outlets including CNBC, CNN and Time Magazine. Originally from Long Island, New York, he is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and the University of Richmond.
About Althea Erickson, Etsy
Althea Erickson is director of public policy at Etsy, the marketplace for creative people to buy and sell unique goods. Althea leads Etsy’s government relations and advocacy efforts, focusing on educating and advising policymakers on the issues that micro-entrepreneurs and creative businesses face. She is also responsible for developing and advancing Etsy’s position on issues ranging from taxes and regulation, to open Internet and free trade, to IP and privacy policies. Prior to joining Etsy, Althea was the advocacy and policy director at Freelancers Union, where she helped build the membership into a powerful political constituency, leading its successful campaign to repeal unfair tax laws and promoting legislation to protect freelancers from unpaid wages. Previously, Althea worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she focused on strategies to build economic security within the U.S. workforce. She has a B.A in government and public policy from Wesleyan University.
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Housing Access Solutions We Don't Want to Think About That Just Might Work
Tuesday, February 3
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
ABCD Melnea Cass Room, 3rd Floor, 178 Tremont Street, Boston
Light Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/housing-access-solutions-we-dont-want-to-think-about-that-just-might-work-tickets-15192996662
Help ask the tough questions...
How can landlords help keep rents 'affordable'?
How might linkage, zoning, and other regulatory mechanisms increase the housing supply for families living in poverty?
Is micro-housing an answer for low-income individuals?
Should housing expenses be earmarked in a person's cash benefits?
... and leave with answers that lead to action!
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Building the Green Economy: Jobs and Climate Change
WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036 B, 1565 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Robert Pollin, co-director Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), professor at University of Massachusetts – Amherst
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO john_trumpbour@harvard.edu
DETAILS Economist Robert Pollin discusses the future of environmental issues and the economy as well as his forthcoming book called "Greening the Global Economy."
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The Thousands: Lecture by Author ZZ Packer
WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Author ZZ Packer, 2014–2015 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS The author ZZ Packer will be reading from an excerpt of her novel-in-progress, titled “The Thousands.” Among its themes, the novel reflects on the interactions between a black cavalry regiment known as the Buffalo Soldiers and the Native Americans they alternately fought against and protected throughout the West in the late 1800s.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-zz-packer-lecture
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WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036 B, 1565 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Business, Law, Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
SPEAKER(S) Robert Pollin, co-director Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), professor at University of Massachusetts – Amherst
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO john_trumpbour@harvard.edu
DETAILS Economist Robert Pollin discusses the future of environmental issues and the economy as well as his forthcoming book called "Greening the Global Economy."
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The Thousands: Lecture by Author ZZ Packer
WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
WHERE Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Humanities, Lecture, Poetry/Prose
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Author ZZ Packer, 2014–2015 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
COST Free and open to the public
DETAILS The author ZZ Packer will be reading from an excerpt of her novel-in-progress, titled “The Thousands.” Among its themes, the novel reflects on the interactions between a black cavalry regiment known as the Buffalo Soldiers and the Native Americans they alternately fought against and protected throughout the West in the late 1800s.
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-zz-packer-lecture
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Promoting the Practice of Peace in the 21st Century
WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion, Special Events
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace initiative
CONTACT Elizabeth Lee-Hood
DETAILS "Promoting the Practice of Peace in the 21st Century: Mobilizing Our Resources as Global Citizens, Religious Communities, and Universities," is a public event in celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week.
5:30 pm -- Address by Dean David N. Hempton (Sperry Room)
6 pm -- Remarks by Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv candidate, and screening of documentary film on Liberian women's interfaith action for peace (Sperry Room)
7:30 pm -- Dinner dialogue and discussion moderated by Melissa Bartholomew and Professor Diana Eck (Braun Room)
If you wish to attend the dinner dialogue and discussion, please RSVP by January 28, or as soon as possible, by emailing your name and affiliation to Elizabeth Lee-Hood.
WHEN Tue., Feb. 3, 2015, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Religion, Special Events
SPONSOR Religions and the Practice of Peace initiative
CONTACT Elizabeth Lee-Hood
DETAILS "Promoting the Practice of Peace in the 21st Century: Mobilizing Our Resources as Global Citizens, Religious Communities, and Universities," is a public event in celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week.
5:30 pm -- Address by Dean David N. Hempton (Sperry Room)
6 pm -- Remarks by Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv candidate, and screening of documentary film on Liberian women's interfaith action for peace (Sperry Room)
7:30 pm -- Dinner dialogue and discussion moderated by Melissa Bartholomew and Professor Diana Eck (Braun Room)
If you wish to attend the dinner dialogue and discussion, please RSVP by January 28, or as soon as possible, by emailing your name and affiliation to Elizabeth Lee-Hood.
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The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
Tuseday, February 3
6:00 PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Mark Richards, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Berkeley
About 66 million years ago, 70 percent of all the species that existed at the time, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an apocalypse widely thought to have been caused by a meteor or comet impact on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. At approximately the same time, a series of volcanic eruptions in Western India produced torrents of lava that discharged large amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur gas into the atmosphere. Mark Richards will review these remarkable events and explain a radical new theory suggesting they may be causally related. He will also discuss how ongoing research is shedding new light on the true cause(s) of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction.
Lecture. Free and open to the public
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports
Tuesday, February 3
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center - Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-tackling-sustainability-in-sports-tickets-15296472160
Cost: $10.00 - $12.00
As Superbowl XLIX approaches and Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics advances, the Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) gathers to discuss and to debate the sustainability playbook of the sports industry.
We will take a break from the traditional format of speakers in favor of a highly interactive audience session in February. From green certified stadiums, to inaugural national league sustainability reports, to high profile partnerships, participants will examine brief case studies of the sports industry and weigh in on who's winning and second-place strategies.
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TechHub Boston Demo Night - February 2015
Tuesday, February 3
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Brooklyn Boulders Somerville, 12A Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhub-boston-demo-night-february-2015-tickets-15219972347
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech! Join TechHub Tuesday night at Brooklyn Boulders Somerville to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience.
Afterwards, stick around to have a snack, network, play ping pong or experience Brooklyn Boulders amazing selection of climbing walls for 1st timers to experts. We will have free gear (shoes, harness, chalk bags) & climbing facilitators ready. So arriving in your gym clothes or use the onsite locker room to change and be set for an amazing evening on and off the walls.
Jim Sterba, Author of Nature Wars
By the late 19th century, North American forests and wildlife were in dire straits. For nearly 400 years, arriving Europeans had removed trees and killed off wild birds and animals to the point that a few enlightened leaders sounded the alarm, and the conservation movement was born. Three slow but remarkable transformations followed. Forests reclaimed huge swaths of abandoned cropland. Many threatened wildlife populations, restocked in refuges and protected, slowly grew back to health. Then, people moved out of cities after World War II, creating a mosaic of suburban, exurban and rural sprawl where family farms once thrived. Now, this new habitat is filled with people who want to “leave nature alone,” and many wildlife populations are proliferating out of balance. We have mounting community conflicts over what to do, or not to do, about deer, beavers, Canada Geese, and other species. As the dominant player in our ecosystems, it is time for us to overcome our reluctance and embrace our stewardship role.
Jim Sterba is an internationally recognized author and correspondent who has reported for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for more than four decades. His book, Nature Wars, published in 2012, has earned critical acclaim and catalyzed an important national conversation about wildlife management.
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Thursday, February 5
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Using a One Health approach to respond to infectious disease outbreaks: USAID/RESPOND project in East and Central Africa
Thursday, February 5
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Hellen Amuguni, Center for Conservation Medicine, Tufts University
The USAID RESPOND project was part of multi-year multi-project effort to pre-empt or combat at their source, the first stages of zoonotic diseases that pose a significant threat to human health. It focused on eight countries in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, areas considered “hot spots" for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Amuguni will present an overview of the RESPOND project in the last 5 years and how it has strengthened training, educational programs, and support to universities, governments, and civil society using One Health approaches to improve their capacity to prepare and respond to outbreaks and emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin.
Dr. Amuguni trained as a veterinarian at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She went on to earn a Masters degree in International Development with a focus on participatory development and gender from Clark University, and a PhD in Infectious Diseases from Tufts University. Dr. Amuguni has worked previously as a veterinarian, community development specialist and gender consultant in the horn of Africa mostly with pastoralist communities. Most of her work involved developing gender sensitive livestock training materials and programs for men and women at grass root level, providing training and capacity building for animal health specialists at both policy and implementation levels and using participatory rural approaches to assist communities form effective alliances, build partnerships and identify solutions to their problems. She has worked and consulted for various organizations including Food for the Hungry International, Heifer Project International, Veterinarians without Borders (VSF-B) under the umbrella of the UN-Operation Lifeline Sudan, SNV Netherlands Development Organization and AU/IBAR.
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Special Seminar with Jon Krosnick
Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University, on “American Public Opinion on Climate Change: Motivated Cognition?” Dustin Tingley, the Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Dept. of Government, will moderate the discussion.
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Research Interests
Author of four books and more than 140 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally.
His attitude research has focused primarily on the notion of attitude strength, seeking to differentiate attitudes that are firmly crystallized and powerfully influential of thinking and action from attitudes that are flexible and inconsequential. Many of his studies in this area have focused on the amount of personal importance that an individual chooses to attach to an attitude. Dr. Krosnick’s studies have illuminated the origins of attitude importance (e.g., material self-interest and values) and the cognitive and behavioral consequences of importance in regulating attitude impact and attitude change processes.
Among the topics explored by Dr. Krosnick’s political psychology research are: how policy debates affect voters’ candidate preferences, how the news media shape which national problems citizens think are most important for the nation and shape how citizens evaluate the President’s job performance, how becoming very knowledgeable about and emotionally invested in a government policy issue (such as abortion or gun control) affects people’s political thinking and participation, how people’s political views change as they move through the life-cycle from early adulthood to old age, and how the order of candidates’ names on the ballot affect voting behavior.
For fifteen years, Professor Krosnick has been conducting survey research on the American public’s views of global warming. Many of his papers and public presentations on the topic can be seen on his website at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, which has provided support for much of his recent work on this topic.
His questionnaire design work has illuminated the cognitive and social processes that unfold between researcher and respondent when the latter are asked to answer questions, and his on-going review of 100 years worth of scholarly research on the topic has yielded a set of guidelines for the optimal design of questionnaires to maximize reliability and validity. His recent work in survey methodology has explored the impact of mode of data collection (e.g., face-to-face, telephone, Internet) on response accuracy and the impact of survey response rates on substantive results.
Professor Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.
Nanotechnology offers a range of opportunities to contribute to biology. Here I will present examples where nanofabrication – the ability to make confined structures with dimensions at will – is used to examine the biophysics of single molecules and cells. I will present some examples from our lab:
1. DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores [1]
Solid-state nanopores have proven to be a surprisingly versatile probe for single-molecule analysis of DNA. I will describe some of our recent findings – specifically DNA knots – as well as our efforts to expand the capabilities of solid-state nanopores even further, in the direction of single-protein detection, graphene nanopores, plasmonic nanopores, and DNA origami nanopores.
2. Exploring biophysics of bacteria with nanofabricated shapes [2]
We shape bacteria into forms that deviate from their natural phenotype. Specifically, I will show our ability to shape live E. coli bacteria into novel shapes such as rectangles, squares, triangles and circles. We study pattern formation in these geometries. I will show spatiotemporal oscillations of Min proteins – associated with cell division – in such artificial geometries of live E. coli cells.
Finally, I will briefly sketch some of our ideas to explore the building of synthetic cells, specifically our first steps to establish synthetic cell division.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
Tuseday, February 3
6:00 PM
Harvard, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Mark Richards, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Berkeley
About 66 million years ago, 70 percent of all the species that existed at the time, including the non-avian dinosaurs, became extinct in an apocalypse widely thought to have been caused by a meteor or comet impact on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. At approximately the same time, a series of volcanic eruptions in Western India produced torrents of lava that discharged large amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur gas into the atmosphere. Mark Richards will review these remarkable events and explain a radical new theory suggesting they may be causally related. He will also discuss how ongoing research is shedding new light on the true cause(s) of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction.
Lecture. Free and open to the public
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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BASG: Tackling Sustainability in Sports
Tuesday, February 3
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center - Venture Cafe, One Broadway, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/basg-tackling-sustainability-in-sports-tickets-15296472160
Cost: $10.00 - $12.00
As Superbowl XLIX approaches and Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics advances, the Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) gathers to discuss and to debate the sustainability playbook of the sports industry.
We will take a break from the traditional format of speakers in favor of a highly interactive audience session in February. From green certified stadiums, to inaugural national league sustainability reports, to high profile partnerships, participants will examine brief case studies of the sports industry and weigh in on who's winning and second-place strategies.
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TechHub Boston Demo Night - February 2015
Tuesday, February 3
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Brooklyn Boulders Somerville, 12A Tyler Street, Somerville
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/techhub-boston-demo-night-february-2015-tickets-15219972347
Demo Night is a chance to see what the top startups are working on, these are the people that are changing the future of business & tech! Join TechHub Tuesday night at Brooklyn Boulders Somerville to experience great demos from the exciting tech entrepreneur community.
Each startup has 5 minutes to demo their product in front of a live audience, it's not a pitch but an opportunity for each startup to explain (and show) what they have been working on. After each demo there is live Q&A with the audience.
Afterwards, stick around to have a snack, network, play ping pong or experience Brooklyn Boulders amazing selection of climbing walls for 1st timers to experts. We will have free gear (shoes, harness, chalk bags) & climbing facilitators ready. So arriving in your gym clothes or use the onsite locker room to change and be set for an amazing evening on and off the walls.
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Wednesday, February 4
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Social Media Blitz: Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Get Found, Do More & Fret Less
Wednesday, February 4
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor - Havana Training Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-blitz-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-get-found-do-more-fret-less-tickets-14884697531
Engagement. Followers. Seems like everyone is Tweeting, Liking, Pinning and ‘Tubing these days. We all know we need to incorporate social media into our marketing strategy but too often it seems like it is driving us. How can you use social media, specifically Twitter, to drive new business without organizational productivity falling down the proverbial well? This session will provide you with a number of simple Twitter tips and tricks, as well as LinkedIn and Facebook strategies you can start using today.
Speaker: Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing and Innovation Nights, and an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Bobbie speaks regularly on social media, innovation communities and product launches, and helps startups, small businesses and individuals look at social networking and marketing strategically. In addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, Bobbie previously headed marketing for the Beacon Street Girls, and global public relations at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and Cognos (now IBM). Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @MassInno or @WomenInno
Doors will open for networking at 9:30am.
This program is part of McCarter & English’s ongoing series on legal and business topics for entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Programs are held once or twice each month and are open to members of the CIC and their guests, as well as to the greater Boston entrepreneurial community. Contact: Benjamin Hron, 617-449-6584, bhron@mccarter.com, @HronEsq
About the McCarter & English Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group
McCarter’s Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build and finance their businesses and assisting angel and venture capital investor invest in early stage and emerging companies. The group is composed of tech-savvy lawyers who have helped build, grow, finance, sell and take public companies across the full spectrum of businesses, including Internet, software, medical devices, new media, life sciences, cleantech, healthcare, consumer products, biotechnology, retail, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, insurance and telecom.
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Wednesday, February 4
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Social Media Blitz: Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Get Found, Do More & Fret Less
Wednesday, February 4
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM (EST)
Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 5th Floor - Havana Training Room, Cambridge
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-media-blitz-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-get-found-do-more-fret-less-tickets-14884697531
Engagement. Followers. Seems like everyone is Tweeting, Liking, Pinning and ‘Tubing these days. We all know we need to incorporate social media into our marketing strategy but too often it seems like it is driving us. How can you use social media, specifically Twitter, to drive new business without organizational productivity falling down the proverbial well? This session will provide you with a number of simple Twitter tips and tricks, as well as LinkedIn and Facebook strategies you can start using today.
Speaker: Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing and Innovation Nights, and an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Bobbie speaks regularly on social media, innovation communities and product launches, and helps startups, small businesses and individuals look at social networking and marketing strategically. In addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, Bobbie previously headed marketing for the Beacon Street Girls, and global public relations at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and Cognos (now IBM). Follow Bobbie on Twitter as @BobbieC or @MassInno or @WomenInno
Doors will open for networking at 9:30am.
This program is part of McCarter & English’s ongoing series on legal and business topics for entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Programs are held once or twice each month and are open to members of the CIC and their guests, as well as to the greater Boston entrepreneurial community. Contact: Benjamin Hron, 617-449-6584, bhron@mccarter.com, @HronEsq
About the McCarter & English Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group
McCarter’s Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies Group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build and finance their businesses and assisting angel and venture capital investor invest in early stage and emerging companies. The group is composed of tech-savvy lawyers who have helped build, grow, finance, sell and take public companies across the full spectrum of businesses, including Internet, software, medical devices, new media, life sciences, cleantech, healthcare, consumer products, biotechnology, retail, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, insurance and telecom.
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Polymer Mechanochemistry and Self-Healing Materials
Wednesday, February 4
3:30p–4:45p
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Wednesday, February 4
3:30p–4:45p
MIT, Building 56-114, 21 Ames Street, Cambridge
Refreshments at 3pm
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois
MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Jeremiah Johnson at jaj2109@mit.edu. All talks take place on Wednesdays.
Web site: http://polymerscience.mit.edu/?page_id=2425
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
For more information, contact: Gregory Sands
(617) 253-0949
ppsm-www@mit.edu
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois
MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Jeremiah Johnson at jaj2109@mit.edu. All talks take place on Wednesdays.
Web site: http://polymerscience.mit.edu/?page_id=2425
Open to: the general public
Cost: FREE
Sponsor(s): MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
For more information, contact: Gregory Sands
(617) 253-0949
ppsm-www@mit.edu
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Strategic Policy Choice in State Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan
WHEN Wed., Feb. 4, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Knittel, MIT
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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An Innovation Series Event: The Future of Sex - or, How to Make Complex Technological Concepts Completely Irresistible
Wednesday, February 4
5:30p–8:00p
MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Speaker: Whitehead Director and McArthur Fellow Dr. David Page
Dr. David Page on the marketing of science to nonscientists
Whitehead Director and McArthur Fellow Dr. David Page (and Colbert Report guest) will join us to discuss the challenges associated with communicating esoteric science / engineering / technology concepts to potential investors, customers, partners and other target audiences who may find these ideas baffling, boring, disturbing, or even terrifying.
Web site: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/davidpage/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free For Students
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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Strategic Policy Choice in State Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan
WHEN Wed., Feb. 4, 2015, 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.
WHERE Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer-382, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Social Sciences, Sustainability
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
SPEAKER(S) Christopher Knittel, MIT
LINK http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k105744
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An Innovation Series Event: The Future of Sex - or, How to Make Complex Technological Concepts Completely Irresistible
Wednesday, February 4
5:30p–8:00p
MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Speaker: Whitehead Director and McArthur Fellow Dr. David Page
Dr. David Page on the marketing of science to nonscientists
Whitehead Director and McArthur Fellow Dr. David Page (and Colbert Report guest) will join us to discuss the challenges associated with communicating esoteric science / engineering / technology concepts to potential investors, customers, partners and other target audiences who may find these ideas baffling, boring, disturbing, or even terrifying.
Web site: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/davidpage/
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free For Students
Tickets: online
Sponsor(s): MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
For more information, contact: Amy Goggins
617-253-3937
agoggins@mit.edu
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Carbon Tax Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 4
Wednesday, February 4
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
5:30 - 6pm registration and networking
6-7:30pm panel and Q&A followed by networking
Prince Lobel Tye LLP, 100 Cambridge Street, Boston
Come join us as we learn about how carbon pricing could work in Massachusetts, and why "tax" may not be the right word for it. This timely discussion will address carbon pricing, including State Senator Michael Barrett's proposed carbon pricing legislation, and the interplay with the new Baker administration, EPA's Clean Power Plan, RGGI, and the results of DOER's recent study on a carbon fee or tax. It is sure to be a rousing and informative discussion. Drinks and light appetizers will be served. The event is complimentary and open to all, but space is limited, so please RSVP (please also RSVP so your name can be added to security and bring a photo ID, which will be required). We hope to see you there!
Moderator: Zaurie Zimmerman, Zaurie Zimmerman Associates and Climate XChange
Panelists: State Senator Michael Barrett, Wayne Davis, Harvest Power, Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University, Professor of Economics
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CryptoParty - Secure Yourself Online
Wednesday, February 4
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Akamai Technologies Inc, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/events/219275773/
Steve Revilak, Quartermaster for the Massachusetts Pirate Party, will show us how to protect ourselves online. Topics will include:
How Packet Sniffing Works and Why You're Vunerable
Securing Email (PGP)
Securing Web Browsing
Q & A for other topics of interest (e.g. chat, VOIP, etc.)
Plus, Jérémie Astori will present a quick & dirty script you can create partitions when installing Ubuntu on a fully encrypted disk.
Thank You Akamai
Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food' for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/
More Upcoming Meetings
Free Culture & Free Software (Matt Lee)
Wednesday, Jan 7
http://meetu.ps/2DhB2q
LibrePlanet 2015
Sat & Sun, Mar 21 - 22
https://libreplanet.org/2015/
Come join us as we learn about how carbon pricing could work in Massachusetts, and why "tax" may not be the right word for it. This timely discussion will address carbon pricing, including State Senator Michael Barrett's proposed carbon pricing legislation, and the interplay with the new Baker administration, EPA's Clean Power Plan, RGGI, and the results of DOER's recent study on a carbon fee or tax. It is sure to be a rousing and informative discussion. Drinks and light appetizers will be served. The event is complimentary and open to all, but space is limited, so please RSVP (please also RSVP so your name can be added to security and bring a photo ID, which will be required). We hope to see you there!
Moderator: Zaurie Zimmerman, Zaurie Zimmerman Associates and Climate XChange
Panelists: State Senator Michael Barrett, Wayne Davis, Harvest Power, Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University, Professor of Economics
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CryptoParty - Secure Yourself Online
Wednesday, February 4
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Akamai Technologies Inc, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/events/219275773/
Steve Revilak, Quartermaster for the Massachusetts Pirate Party, will show us how to protect ourselves online. Topics will include:
How Packet Sniffing Works and Why You're Vunerable
Securing Email (PGP)
Securing Web Browsing
Q & A for other topics of interest (e.g. chat, VOIP, etc.)
Plus, Jérémie Astori will present a quick & dirty script you can create partitions when installing Ubuntu on a fully encrypted disk.
Thank You Akamai
Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food' for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/
More Upcoming Meetings
Free Culture & Free Software (Matt Lee)
Wednesday, Jan 7
http://meetu.ps/2DhB2q
LibrePlanet 2015
Sat & Sun, Mar 21 - 22
https://libreplanet.org/2015/
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Humans and Wildlife: The New Imbalance
Wednesday, February 4
7:00 — 8:30 pm
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge
Jim Sterba, Author of Nature Wars
By the late 19th century, North American forests and wildlife were in dire straits. For nearly 400 years, arriving Europeans had removed trees and killed off wild birds and animals to the point that a few enlightened leaders sounded the alarm, and the conservation movement was born. Three slow but remarkable transformations followed. Forests reclaimed huge swaths of abandoned cropland. Many threatened wildlife populations, restocked in refuges and protected, slowly grew back to health. Then, people moved out of cities after World War II, creating a mosaic of suburban, exurban and rural sprawl where family farms once thrived. Now, this new habitat is filled with people who want to “leave nature alone,” and many wildlife populations are proliferating out of balance. We have mounting community conflicts over what to do, or not to do, about deer, beavers, Canada Geese, and other species. As the dominant player in our ecosystems, it is time for us to overcome our reluctance and embrace our stewardship role.
Jim Sterba is an internationally recognized author and correspondent who has reported for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for more than four decades. His book, Nature Wars, published in 2012, has earned critical acclaim and catalyzed an important national conversation about wildlife management.
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Thursday, February 5
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Using a One Health approach to respond to infectious disease outbreaks: USAID/RESPOND project in East and Central Africa
Thursday, February 5
12:00-1:00pm
Tufts, Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room, 10 Upper Campus Road, Medford
Hellen Amuguni, Center for Conservation Medicine, Tufts University
The USAID RESPOND project was part of multi-year multi-project effort to pre-empt or combat at their source, the first stages of zoonotic diseases that pose a significant threat to human health. It focused on eight countries in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, areas considered “hot spots" for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Amuguni will present an overview of the RESPOND project in the last 5 years and how it has strengthened training, educational programs, and support to universities, governments, and civil society using One Health approaches to improve their capacity to prepare and respond to outbreaks and emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin.
Dr. Amuguni trained as a veterinarian at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She went on to earn a Masters degree in International Development with a focus on participatory development and gender from Clark University, and a PhD in Infectious Diseases from Tufts University. Dr. Amuguni has worked previously as a veterinarian, community development specialist and gender consultant in the horn of Africa mostly with pastoralist communities. Most of her work involved developing gender sensitive livestock training materials and programs for men and women at grass root level, providing training and capacity building for animal health specialists at both policy and implementation levels and using participatory rural approaches to assist communities form effective alliances, build partnerships and identify solutions to their problems. She has worked and consulted for various organizations including Food for the Hungry International, Heifer Project International, Veterinarians without Borders (VSF-B) under the umbrella of the UN-Operation Lifeline Sudan, SNV Netherlands Development Organization and AU/IBAR.
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American Public Opinion on Climate Change: Motivated Cognition?
Thursday, February 5
5 pm
Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
5 pm
Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Special Seminar with Jon Krosnick
Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University, on “American Public Opinion on Climate Change: Motivated Cognition?” Dustin Tingley, the Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Dept. of Government, will moderate the discussion.
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Research Interests
Author of four books and more than 140 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally.
His attitude research has focused primarily on the notion of attitude strength, seeking to differentiate attitudes that are firmly crystallized and powerfully influential of thinking and action from attitudes that are flexible and inconsequential. Many of his studies in this area have focused on the amount of personal importance that an individual chooses to attach to an attitude. Dr. Krosnick’s studies have illuminated the origins of attitude importance (e.g., material self-interest and values) and the cognitive and behavioral consequences of importance in regulating attitude impact and attitude change processes.
Among the topics explored by Dr. Krosnick’s political psychology research are: how policy debates affect voters’ candidate preferences, how the news media shape which national problems citizens think are most important for the nation and shape how citizens evaluate the President’s job performance, how becoming very knowledgeable about and emotionally invested in a government policy issue (such as abortion or gun control) affects people’s political thinking and participation, how people’s political views change as they move through the life-cycle from early adulthood to old age, and how the order of candidates’ names on the ballot affect voting behavior.
For fifteen years, Professor Krosnick has been conducting survey research on the American public’s views of global warming. Many of his papers and public presentations on the topic can be seen on his website at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, which has provided support for much of his recent work on this topic.
His questionnaire design work has illuminated the cognitive and social processes that unfold between researcher and respondent when the latter are asked to answer questions, and his on-going review of 100 years worth of scholarly research on the topic has yielded a set of guidelines for the optimal design of questionnaires to maximize reliability and validity. His recent work in survey methodology has explored the impact of mode of data collection (e.g., face-to-face, telephone, Internet) on response accuracy and the impact of survey response rates on substantive results.
More at http://green.harvard.edu/events/american-public-opinion-climate-change-motivated-cognition#sthash.Nnnf6ZUg.dpuf
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Nanotechnology for Biology, from Single Molecules Towards Synthetic Cells
Thursday, February 5
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Harvard, Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Professor Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.
Nanotechnology offers a range of opportunities to contribute to biology. Here I will present examples where nanofabrication – the ability to make confined structures with dimensions at will – is used to examine the biophysics of single molecules and cells. I will present some examples from our lab:
1. DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores [1]
Solid-state nanopores have proven to be a surprisingly versatile probe for single-molecule analysis of DNA. I will describe some of our recent findings – specifically DNA knots – as well as our efforts to expand the capabilities of solid-state nanopores even further, in the direction of single-protein detection, graphene nanopores, plasmonic nanopores, and DNA origami nanopores.
2. Exploring biophysics of bacteria with nanofabricated shapes [2]
We shape bacteria into forms that deviate from their natural phenotype. Specifically, I will show our ability to shape live E. coli bacteria into novel shapes such as rectangles, squares, triangles and circles. We study pattern formation in these geometries. I will show spatiotemporal oscillations of Min proteins – associated with cell division – in such artificial geometries of live E. coli cells.
Finally, I will briefly sketch some of our ideas to explore the building of synthetic cells, specifically our first steps to establish synthetic cell division.
R.B. Woodward Lectures in the Chemical Sciences, Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar.
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Scott McCloud discusses his graphic novel The Sculptor
Thursday, February 5
6:00 PM
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/scott_mccloud/
Cost: $5 tickets on sale January 13 at 9am
More information at (617) 661-1515, info@harvard.com
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Truck Farm, a documentary
Thursday, February 5
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 10-150, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Film Director Ian Cheney, with an introduction by Heather Lee (MIT)
Screening of the film Truck Farm followed by Q&A with director and Knight Fellow, Ian Cheney as part of the larger event: Consuming Food, Producing Culture: Past and Present Worlds of Food and Gender
February 5-7, 2015, MIT
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): WGS, Global Studies and Languages, History
For more information, contact: Emily Neill
617-253-2642
wgs@mit.edu
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Scott McCloud discusses his graphic novel The Sculptor
Thursday, February 5
6:00 PM
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.harvard.com/event/scott_mccloud/
Cost: $5 tickets on sale January 13 at 9am
More information at (617) 661-1515, info@harvard.com
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Truck Farm, a documentary
Thursday, February 5
6:00p–8:30p
MIT, Building 10-150, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Speaker: Film Director Ian Cheney, with an introduction by Heather Lee (MIT)
Screening of the film Truck Farm followed by Q&A with director and Knight Fellow, Ian Cheney as part of the larger event: Consuming Food, Producing Culture: Past and Present Worlds of Food and Gender
February 5-7, 2015, MIT
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free
Sponsor(s): WGS, Global Studies and Languages, History
For more information, contact: Emily Neill
617-253-2642
wgs@mit.edu
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Film Screening: The Man Who Saved the World
WHEN Thu., Feb. 5, 2015, 6 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Starr Auditorium (Belfer-B200), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Film, Information Technology, Law, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Lt. Col. Brandon Parker (USAF), MTA/ISP Research Fellow
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu/6174954219
DETAILS The week of February 2-6, 2015, colleges and universities across the country will take part in a National Screening of this unreleased, award-winning movie about Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet Lt. Colonel. On September 26, 1983, Petrov was the commanding officer on duty at a Soviet nuclear early warning center, when the system falsely reported the launching of five nuclear missiles from the United States. In the harrowing moments that followed, Petrov overruled the system's warning, personally declaring that it was a false alarm. This monumental decision very likely prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. Petrov’s decision changed the fate of the world but turned his life upside down – which is poignantly told in the film.
The Project on Managing the Atom will hold a screening for the Harvard community on Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. in Starr Auditorium (Belfer B-200), followed by a discussion led by Lt. Col. Brandon Parker (USAF), a research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, and Matthew Bunn, professor of practice at HKS.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6540/film_screening.html
WHEN Thu., Feb. 5, 2015, 6 – 9 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Starr Auditorium (Belfer-B200), 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Art/Design, Environmental Sciences, Film, Information Technology, Law, Science, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Project on Managing the Atom
SPEAKER(S) Lt. Col. Brandon Parker (USAF), MTA/ISP Research Fellow
CONTACT INFO atom@hks.harvard.edu/6174954219
DETAILS The week of February 2-6, 2015, colleges and universities across the country will take part in a National Screening of this unreleased, award-winning movie about Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet Lt. Colonel. On September 26, 1983, Petrov was the commanding officer on duty at a Soviet nuclear early warning center, when the system falsely reported the launching of five nuclear missiles from the United States. In the harrowing moments that followed, Petrov overruled the system's warning, personally declaring that it was a false alarm. This monumental decision very likely prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. Petrov’s decision changed the fate of the world but turned his life upside down – which is poignantly told in the film.
The Project on Managing the Atom will hold a screening for the Harvard community on Feb. 5 at 6 p.m. in Starr Auditorium (Belfer B-200), followed by a discussion led by Lt. Col. Brandon Parker (USAF), a research fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, and Matthew Bunn, professor of practice at HKS.
LINK http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6540/film_screening.html
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Redesiging Civilization: Permaculture's Vision for a Just and Sustainable World
MIT Global IDEAS Challenge Spring Generator Dinner
Thursday, February 5
7:00-9:00pm
MIT, Building W20, Lobdell, Second Floor, Student Center
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Hear from winning MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join or pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the final chance to submit a Scope Statement less than 2 weeks away (2/18), get started!
TO PITCH YOUR IDEA
The evening will feature two recruitment open mic sessions to help teams form. Have an idea and looking for teammates? Sign up to pitch an idea (link will be posted closer to event date).
If you don’t want to pitch, come join to mix and mingle to meet potential teammates!
Email: globalchallenge@mit.edu
Website: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/382
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Friday, February 6
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Thursday, February 5
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
First Church, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Join the Jamaica Plain Forum in welcoming world reknown permaculture and ecology expert. This is a lecture open to the public.
It’s no secret that our society has become unsustainable. Modern agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back, and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get in this mess? And, more importantly, what can we do to help our culture get back on track?
The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of regenerative, fair ways to provide food, energy, livelihood, and other needs while letting humans share the planet with the rest of nature. This presentation will give you insight into why our culture has become fundamentally unsustainable, and offers ecologically based solutions that can help create a just and sustainable society.
BIO: Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. Toby has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. They then moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, where Toby spent six years developing urban sustainability resources. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California. His new book on urban permaculture, The Permaculture City, will be coming out in mid-2015.
The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of regenerative, fair ways to provide food, energy, livelihood, and other needs while letting humans share the planet with the rest of nature. This presentation will give you insight into why our culture has become fundamentally unsustainable, and offers ecologically based solutions that can help create a just and sustainable society.
BIO: Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. Toby has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. They then moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, where Toby spent six years developing urban sustainability resources. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California. His new book on urban permaculture, The Permaculture City, will be coming out in mid-2015.
More information at http://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/redesigning-civilization/
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MIT Global IDEAS Challenge Spring Generator Dinner
Thursday, February 5
7:00-9:00pm
MIT, Building W20, Lobdell, Second Floor, Student Center
Working on a project to help underserved communities? Need funding?
Want to recruit new members for your IDEAS Global Challenge team?
Want to get involved, but don't yet have an idea?
Join us for dinner. Hear from winning MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams. Pitch an idea. Find a team.
This is one of the best venues to find a team to join or pitch your idea to woo and recruit teammates or pitch your skills to get hired onto a team. With the final chance to submit a Scope Statement less than 2 weeks away (2/18), get started!
TO PITCH YOUR IDEA
The evening will feature two recruitment open mic sessions to help teams form. Have an idea and looking for teammates? Sign up to pitch an idea (link will be posted closer to event date).
If you don’t want to pitch, come join to mix and mingle to meet potential teammates!
Email: globalchallenge@mit.edu
Website: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/events/view/382
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Friday, February 6
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Competitive Coexistence on Shared Resources Evolves Due to Crowded Growth
Friday, February 6
8:30am – 9:30am
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
Harvard, HUCE Seminar Room 310, 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/#!programs/c18hu
2015 MassDiGI Game Challenge
Friday, February 6 at 9:30 AM - Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 5:30 PM (EST)
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-massdigi-game-challenge-general-admission-registration-14504157325
The MassDiGI Game Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition event that helps aspiring game developers launch new games. The Game Challenge will be held on February 6-7, 2015 at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. Featuring panel discussions, keynote talks and more - you won’t want to miss this! A general admission ticket gives you the chance to check out everything, hear the talks, listen to the panels, network and have a blast! The Game Challenge will feature:
Competitive Game Challenge w/ Desirable Prizes: Check out the entered games in one of three levels (Indie, College and High School) and in one of two categories (Best Entertainment Game or Best Serious Game).
Educational Programming: Day 1 of the Game Challenge will feature sessions to help teams fine-tune their pitch for the judging committee. Mini-sessions will focus on the topics of art, design, business and technology.
Indie Game Showcase: What would a Game Challenge be without a few games to play! The Massachusetts Indie community is full of extremely talented individuals with great ideas on the cutting edge of game development. Teams and general attendees will have a chance to network with and, more importantly, play some of the great Indie games created in our own backyards.
Whether you are a small developer looking to breakout or a student exploring job opportunities, after attending the 2015 MassDiGI Game Challenge you’ll be guaranteed to walk away with valuable new connections and a better understanding of this exciting industry.
REGISTER EARLY!
NOTE: The deadline for general admission registration is Friday, January 23 at 5pm ET!
Registration for both competing teams and general attendees is limited, so we encourage all interested parties to sign up as early as possible.
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The Rise and (Apparent) Fall of the "Russian Mafia"
Friday, February 6
2:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mark Galeotti
In the 1990s, the tattooed thug was a staple of Russian life and Boris Yeltsin was warning that Russia was becoming a "superpower of crime". But while that Russian gangster is still alive and well in films and airport thrillers, Moscow's streets are safer than New York's. Have the old-style thugs just died out or moved away? Are we seeing the demise of Russian organized crime, or is it simply transforming itself into something else - and if so, what, and is this an irreversible process? And how have recent events such as the annexation of Crimea affecting matters?
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and an expert on Russian security affairs. Educated at Cambridge and the LSE, he has been a special adviser to the British government and continues to work with a range of government agencies. His next book, 'Spetsnaz: Russia's special forces', is due out in 2015, and he is completing a history of Russian organized crime.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
617- 2542793
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago
Friday, February 6
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Laurence Ralph, author
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“American Public Opinion on Climate Change: Motivated Cognition?”
Thursday, February 5
5:00PM
TBD
Special Seminar with Jon Krosnick
Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University, on
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Research Interests
Author of four books and more than 140 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally.
His attitude research has focused primarily on the notion of attitude strength, seeking to differentiate attitudes that are firmly crystallized and powerfully influential of thinking and action from attitudes that are flexible and inconsequential. Many of his studies in this area have focused on the amount of personal importance that an individual chooses to attach to an attitude. Dr. Krosnick’s studies have illuminated the origins of attitude importance (e.g., material self-interest and values) and the cognitive and behavioral consequences of importance in regulating attitude impact and attitude change processes.
Among the topics explored by Dr. Krosnick’s political psychology research are: how policy debates affect voters’ candidate preferences, how the news media shape which national problems citizens think are most important for the nation and shape how citizens evaluate the President’s job performance, how becoming very knowledgeable about and emotionally invested in a government policy issue (such as abortion or gun control) affects people’s political thinking and participation, how people’s political views change as they move through the life-cycle from early adulthood to old age, and how the order of candidates’ names on the ballot affect voting behavior.
For fifteen years, Professor Krosnick has been conducting survey research on the American public’s views of global warming. Many of his papers and public presentations on the topic can be seen on his website at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, which has provided support for much of his recent work on this topic.
His questionnaire design work has illuminated the cognitive and social processes that unfold between researcher and respondent when the latter are asked to answer questions, and his on-going review of 100 years worth of scholarly research on the topic has yielded a set of guidelines for the optimal design of questionnaires to maximize reliability and validity. His recent work in survey methodology has explored the impact of mode of data collection (e.g., face-to-face, telephone, Internet) on response accuracy and the impact of survey response rates on substantive results.
Honors
Dr. Krosnick’s scholarship has been recognized by election as a fellow by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize for Research in Social Psychology, the American Political Science Association’s Best Paper Award, the American Association for Public Opinion Research Student Paper Award, the Midwest Political Science Association’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award, and the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Visiting Scholar Position.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
More information at: http://environment.harvard.edu/krosnick#sthash.37zsMunc.dpuf
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Krav Maga
7:00 pm
Friday, February 6
Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Gershon Ben Keren,
A no-nonsense approach to neutralizing attackers in close quarters. Author Gershon Ben Keren explains the philosophy behind the Krav Maga method, which is the basis of the Israel Defense Force's (IDF) devastating close-combat system. This book lays out a systematic approach to self-defense and provides illustrated confrontation scenarios paired with tailored practical responses.
Accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow photographs, practical combat skills are described in step-by-step detail, along with the movement patterns needed to make them effective in real-life settings. All of the photos in the book were shot in real-time, demonstrating what realistic movements -- both from the attacker's and defender's perspective -- look like. The situational components of such violent incidents are explained, so the reader can learn to identify, predict, and avoid violence before it occurs.
Gershon Ben Keren, the lead instructor at Krav Maga Yashir in Charlestown, is a third-degree black belt.
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Saturday, February 7
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Urban Permaculture for a Fear-Free Future with Toby Hemenway
Saturday, February 7
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan
RSVP at http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/program-catalog#program:sanctuary=21:program_code=38567
Cost: $80.00
Instructor: Toby Hemenway - Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. His new book on urban permaculture will be coming out in mid-2015.
How can we create resilient, regenerative cities and suburbs? Permaculture, an ecological approach to design, shows us how. Though land may be limited, cities are rich in other resources, especially social capital. This workshop will show how to find, harvest, and integrate the many resources in our cities in sustainable ways, including getting access to land for gardening, creating business guilds and networks, working with local government and policy makers, learning the pattern language of the city, creating public space in neighborhoods, and building urban ecovillages. This workshop will offer specific techniques and strategies for food production, energy and water security, and community resilience in metropolitan areas. We'll learn how permaculture's principles and design methods apply to the challenging yet rich environments of our cities as well as the sprawling, car-requiring spaces in suburbia, and will provide ways to leverage the special opportunities that cities and suburbs provide.
Toby Hemenway has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. He has contributed book chapters for WorldWatch Institute and to several publications on ecological design. Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. They then moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, where Toby spent six years developing urban sustainability resources. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California.
Registration is required.
Register online or call 617-983-8500 to register by phone.
For more information, contact: bnc@massaudubon.org
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Massachusetts Peace Action 2015 Annual Meeting
Saturday, February 7
12:00pm - 5:00pm
First Church in Boston Unitarian Universalist, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston
RSVP at http://mapa-2015.bpt.me
Cost: $10-20
Dennis Kucinich, former Member of Congress and presidential candidate; author, The Courage to Survive.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Pastor for Formation and Justice, First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain; author, Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the future of Democracy
We will also:
discuss and perhaps approve a version of the Foreign Policy for All document
review and approve the organization's 2015 program plan
elect board members
discuss key issues in workshops
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Pot Goes to the Ethical Society
Sunday, February 8
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The Humanist Hub, 30 JFK JFK Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/cansociety/events/219449110/
We are co-hosting a panel event in front of the Ethical Society of Boston to discuss the issue of cannabis legalization in 2016 and try and garner the support from the humanist community. Join us as we mix and mingle with the humanist community in Boston.
Information on Ethical Society of Boston: Ethical Society's aim is to build a supportive community of people who share a vision of society based on our core values: honesty, justice, compassion, responsibility, and courage. This community promotes these values by engaging in important social issues, seeking to both understand them and take action on them. http://bostonethical.org/
Panelists
Bill Downing, Treasurer of Bay State Repeal
Bill is currently Treasurer of Bay State Repeal which is working to craft a legalization initiative in 2016 and was president of the MASS CANN/NORML for 13 years and is now the editor of the members’ newsletter MASS GRASS and the treasurer. He was one of two operations managers for the Massachusetts Coalition for Medicinal Cannabis (MC2).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/billdowning
Matt Simon, Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
Matt Simon is the New England Political Director for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). He has been working since 2007 to reform marijuana laws in New England, lobbying and organizing in support of medical marijuana legislation that finally passed into law in 2013 (after having been vetoed by the governor in both 2009 and 2012).
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-simon/22/554/192
Nichole Snow, Deputy Director Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance
Nichole Snow is Deputy Director of Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance and works with medical marijuana patients, their family members, medical professionals, and other public health groups to support safe access to medical marijuana for patients. The alliance is currently working to introduce a bill for the upcoming[masked] legislative session that would fix the caregiver system and provide discrimination protections for patients.
www.linkedin.com/pub/nichole-snow/32/883/399
Laws Twentyfour, Sensational Kind Buds (SKB)
Director of Cultivation and Product Development at SKB. He is also Director of Product Development at Cannabis Society of Massachusetts, helping us reach out and develop our membership packages, events, and what we recommend to our members.
https://www.facebook.com/laws.twentyfour
Uma V.A. Dhanabalan MD, Uplifting Health & Wellness
Uma V.A. Dhanabalan, MD, MPH, FAAFP, MRO is a highly respected physician trained in Family Medicine and Occupational & Environmental Medicine. She is Board certified in Occupational Medicine, Medical Review Officer and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of Newark, New Jersey and her Master’s Degree in Public Health specializing in Occupational & Environmental Medicine from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008556311630
Elin Trinidad, Methodology Extracts
Founder and President of Methodology Extracts, Elin is a Master at extracting and develops some of the best extracts in Massachusetts.
https://www.facebook.com/ETrinidad0712
Jeremiah MacKinnon, Cannabis Society of Massachusetts
Jeremiah MacKinnon is Co-Founder & Secretary of the Cannabis Society of Massachusetts and an activist with an independent attitude challenging drug paradigms, discussing cannabis culture, and legalizing cannabis in Massachusetts and across the country.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeremiah-mackinnon/a9/b92/a3
*There will be no distribution of cannabis of any kind at this event*
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Monday, February 9
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Speaker: Evgeni Frenkel (FAS-OEB)
More information at http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/eventscal.html
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2015 MassDiGI Game Challenge
Friday, February 6 at 9:30 AM - Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 5:30 PM (EST)
Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-massdigi-game-challenge-general-admission-registration-14504157325
The MassDiGI Game Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition event that helps aspiring game developers launch new games. The Game Challenge will be held on February 6-7, 2015 at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA. Featuring panel discussions, keynote talks and more - you won’t want to miss this! A general admission ticket gives you the chance to check out everything, hear the talks, listen to the panels, network and have a blast! The Game Challenge will feature:
Competitive Game Challenge w/ Desirable Prizes: Check out the entered games in one of three levels (Indie, College and High School) and in one of two categories (Best Entertainment Game or Best Serious Game).
Educational Programming: Day 1 of the Game Challenge will feature sessions to help teams fine-tune their pitch for the judging committee. Mini-sessions will focus on the topics of art, design, business and technology.
Indie Game Showcase: What would a Game Challenge be without a few games to play! The Massachusetts Indie community is full of extremely talented individuals with great ideas on the cutting edge of game development. Teams and general attendees will have a chance to network with and, more importantly, play some of the great Indie games created in our own backyards.
Whether you are a small developer looking to breakout or a student exploring job opportunities, after attending the 2015 MassDiGI Game Challenge you’ll be guaranteed to walk away with valuable new connections and a better understanding of this exciting industry.
REGISTER EARLY!
NOTE: The deadline for general admission registration is Friday, January 23 at 5pm ET!
Registration for both competing teams and general attendees is limited, so we encourage all interested parties to sign up as early as possible.
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The Rise and (Apparent) Fall of the "Russian Mafia"
Friday, February 6
2:00p–4:00p
MIT, Building E40-496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Mark Galeotti
In the 1990s, the tattooed thug was a staple of Russian life and Boris Yeltsin was warning that Russia was becoming a "superpower of crime". But while that Russian gangster is still alive and well in films and airport thrillers, Moscow's streets are safer than New York's. Have the old-style thugs just died out or moved away? Are we seeing the demise of Russian organized crime, or is it simply transforming itself into something else - and if so, what, and is this an irreversible process? And how have recent events such as the annexation of Crimea affecting matters?
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and an expert on Russian security affairs. Educated at Cambridge and the LSE, he has been a special adviser to the British government and continues to work with a range of government agencies. His next book, 'Spetsnaz: Russia's special forces', is due out in 2015, and he is completing a history of Russian organized crime.
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MISTI MIT-Russia Program, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies
For more information, contact: Ema Kaminskaya
617- 2542793
ekaminsk@mit.edu
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago
Friday, February 6
3:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Laurence Ralph, author
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“American Public Opinion on Climate Change: Motivated Cognition?”
Thursday, February 5
5:00PM
TBD
Special Seminar with Jon Krosnick
Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, Stanford University, on
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Research Interests
Author of four books and more than 140 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally.
His attitude research has focused primarily on the notion of attitude strength, seeking to differentiate attitudes that are firmly crystallized and powerfully influential of thinking and action from attitudes that are flexible and inconsequential. Many of his studies in this area have focused on the amount of personal importance that an individual chooses to attach to an attitude. Dr. Krosnick’s studies have illuminated the origins of attitude importance (e.g., material self-interest and values) and the cognitive and behavioral consequences of importance in regulating attitude impact and attitude change processes.
Among the topics explored by Dr. Krosnick’s political psychology research are: how policy debates affect voters’ candidate preferences, how the news media shape which national problems citizens think are most important for the nation and shape how citizens evaluate the President’s job performance, how becoming very knowledgeable about and emotionally invested in a government policy issue (such as abortion or gun control) affects people’s political thinking and participation, how people’s political views change as they move through the life-cycle from early adulthood to old age, and how the order of candidates’ names on the ballot affect voting behavior.
For fifteen years, Professor Krosnick has been conducting survey research on the American public’s views of global warming. Many of his papers and public presentations on the topic can be seen on his website at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, which has provided support for much of his recent work on this topic.
His questionnaire design work has illuminated the cognitive and social processes that unfold between researcher and respondent when the latter are asked to answer questions, and his on-going review of 100 years worth of scholarly research on the topic has yielded a set of guidelines for the optimal design of questionnaires to maximize reliability and validity. His recent work in survey methodology has explored the impact of mode of data collection (e.g., face-to-face, telephone, Internet) on response accuracy and the impact of survey response rates on substantive results.
Honors
Dr. Krosnick’s scholarship has been recognized by election as a fellow by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in the Field of Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize for Research in Social Psychology, the American Political Science Association’s Best Paper Award, the American Association for Public Opinion Research Student Paper Award, the Midwest Political Science Association’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award, and the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Visiting Scholar Position.
Contact Name: Lisa Matthews
matthew@fas.harvard.edu
More information at: http://environment.harvard.edu/krosnick#sthash.37zsMunc.dpuf
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Krav Maga
7:00 pm
Friday, February 6
Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Gershon Ben Keren,
A no-nonsense approach to neutralizing attackers in close quarters. Author Gershon Ben Keren explains the philosophy behind the Krav Maga method, which is the basis of the Israel Defense Force's (IDF) devastating close-combat system. This book lays out a systematic approach to self-defense and provides illustrated confrontation scenarios paired with tailored practical responses.
Accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow photographs, practical combat skills are described in step-by-step detail, along with the movement patterns needed to make them effective in real-life settings. All of the photos in the book were shot in real-time, demonstrating what realistic movements -- both from the attacker's and defender's perspective -- look like. The situational components of such violent incidents are explained, so the reader can learn to identify, predict, and avoid violence before it occurs.
Gershon Ben Keren, the lead instructor at Krav Maga Yashir in Charlestown, is a third-degree black belt.
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Saturday, February 7
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Urban Permaculture for a Fear-Free Future with Toby Hemenway
Saturday, February 7
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Boston Nature Center, 500 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan
RSVP at http://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/program-catalog#program:sanctuary=21:program_code=38567
Cost: $80.00
Instructor: Toby Hemenway - Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. His new book on urban permaculture will be coming out in mid-2015.
How can we create resilient, regenerative cities and suburbs? Permaculture, an ecological approach to design, shows us how. Though land may be limited, cities are rich in other resources, especially social capital. This workshop will show how to find, harvest, and integrate the many resources in our cities in sustainable ways, including getting access to land for gardening, creating business guilds and networks, working with local government and policy makers, learning the pattern language of the city, creating public space in neighborhoods, and building urban ecovillages. This workshop will offer specific techniques and strategies for food production, energy and water security, and community resilience in metropolitan areas. We'll learn how permaculture's principles and design methods apply to the challenging yet rich environments of our cities as well as the sprawling, car-requiring spaces in suburbia, and will provide ways to leverage the special opportunities that cities and suburbs provide.
Toby Hemenway has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. He has contributed book chapters for WorldWatch Institute and to several publications on ecological design. Toby and his wife, Kiel, spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. They then moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, where Toby spent six years developing urban sustainability resources. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California.
Registration is required.
Register online or call 617-983-8500 to register by phone.
For more information, contact: bnc@massaudubon.org
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Massachusetts Peace Action 2015 Annual Meeting
Saturday, February 7
12:00pm - 5:00pm
First Church in Boston Unitarian Universalist, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston
RSVP at http://mapa-2015.bpt.me
Cost: $10-20
Dennis Kucinich, former Member of Congress and presidential candidate; author, The Courage to Survive.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Pastor for Formation and Justice, First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain; author, Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the future of Democracy
We will also:
discuss and perhaps approve a version of the Foreign Policy for All document
review and approve the organization's 2015 program plan
elect board members
discuss key issues in workshops
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Pot Goes to the Ethical Society
Sunday, February 8
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The Humanist Hub, 30 JFK JFK Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/cansociety/events/219449110/
We are co-hosting a panel event in front of the Ethical Society of Boston to discuss the issue of cannabis legalization in 2016 and try and garner the support from the humanist community. Join us as we mix and mingle with the humanist community in Boston.
Information on Ethical Society of Boston: Ethical Society's aim is to build a supportive community of people who share a vision of society based on our core values: honesty, justice, compassion, responsibility, and courage. This community promotes these values by engaging in important social issues, seeking to both understand them and take action on them. http://bostonethical.org/
Panelists
Bill Downing, Treasurer of Bay State Repeal
Bill is currently Treasurer of Bay State Repeal which is working to craft a legalization initiative in 2016 and was president of the MASS CANN/NORML for 13 years and is now the editor of the members’ newsletter MASS GRASS and the treasurer. He was one of two operations managers for the Massachusetts Coalition for Medicinal Cannabis (MC2).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/billdowning
Matt Simon, Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
Matt Simon is the New England Political Director for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). He has been working since 2007 to reform marijuana laws in New England, lobbying and organizing in support of medical marijuana legislation that finally passed into law in 2013 (after having been vetoed by the governor in both 2009 and 2012).
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-simon/22/554/192
Nichole Snow, Deputy Director Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance
Nichole Snow is Deputy Director of Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance and works with medical marijuana patients, their family members, medical professionals, and other public health groups to support safe access to medical marijuana for patients. The alliance is currently working to introduce a bill for the upcoming[masked] legislative session that would fix the caregiver system and provide discrimination protections for patients.
www.linkedin.com/pub/nichole-snow/32/883/399
Laws Twentyfour, Sensational Kind Buds (SKB)
Director of Cultivation and Product Development at SKB. He is also Director of Product Development at Cannabis Society of Massachusetts, helping us reach out and develop our membership packages, events, and what we recommend to our members.
https://www.facebook.com/laws.twentyfour
Uma V.A. Dhanabalan MD, Uplifting Health & Wellness
Uma V.A. Dhanabalan, MD, MPH, FAAFP, MRO is a highly respected physician trained in Family Medicine and Occupational & Environmental Medicine. She is Board certified in Occupational Medicine, Medical Review Officer and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of Newark, New Jersey and her Master’s Degree in Public Health specializing in Occupational & Environmental Medicine from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008556311630
Elin Trinidad, Methodology Extracts
Founder and President of Methodology Extracts, Elin is a Master at extracting and develops some of the best extracts in Massachusetts.
https://www.facebook.com/ETrinidad0712
Jeremiah MacKinnon, Cannabis Society of Massachusetts
Jeremiah MacKinnon is Co-Founder & Secretary of the Cannabis Society of Massachusetts and an activist with an independent attitude challenging drug paradigms, discussing cannabis culture, and legalizing cannabis in Massachusetts and across the country.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeremiah-mackinnon/a9/b92/a3
*There will be no distribution of cannabis of any kind at this event*
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Monday, February 9
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To Model or Not to Model? Formalizing the Conceptual Modeling Thought Process to Benefit Engineers and Scientists
Monday, February 9
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_020915/formalizing-conceptual-modeling-thought-process.html
12:00p–1:00p
Webinar at http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_020915/formalizing-conceptual-modeling-thought-process.html
Speaker: Dov Dori, Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, and Harry Lebensfeld Chair in Industrial Engineering, Technion???Israel Institute of Technology
This webinar will introduce the principles of Object-Process Methodology (OPM) and demonstrate the value of OPM-based conceptual modeling in a variety of engineering and science domains. During this session, Professor Dov Dori will:
define and exemplify conceptual modeling and its benefits in various disciplines;
introduce OPM as a formal modeling language that is agile, lightweight, compact, and easy to learn;
show how OPM has benefited engineers and scientists in various disciplines; and
present a vision for the future role of conceptual modeling in improving endeavors across science and engineering.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
define and exemplify conceptual modeling and its benefits in various disciplines;
introduce OPM as a formal modeling language that is agile, lightweight, compact, and easy to learn;
show how OPM has benefited engineers and scientists in various disciplines; and
present a vision for the future role of conceptual modeling in improving endeavors across science and engineering.
A Q&A will follow the presentation. We invite you to join us.
MIT System Design & Management Systems Thinking Webinar Series
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_020915/formalizing-conceptual-modeling-thought-process.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: See url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management (SDM)
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
This series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.
Web site: http://sdm.mit.edu/news/news_articles/webinar_020915/formalizing-conceptual-modeling-thought-process.html
Open to: the general public
Cost: Free and open to all
Tickets: See url above.
Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, MIT System Design & Management (SDM)
For more information, contact: Lois Slavin
lslavin@mit.edu
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"New Fossil Discoveries from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa"
Monday, February 9
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, 232 Bay State Road, Room 505
Jeremy De Silva (BU)
The Walter Rodney Seminars are held every Monday in the William O. Brown Seminar Room of the African Studies Center, 232 Bay State Road, presenting the latest research by local and international scholars and followed by robust discussions with the audience. Join us as "the Rodney" enters its 38th year!
Contact: Joanne Hart
617-353-3673 or johart@bu.edu
BU African Studies Center
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"New Fossil Discoveries from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa"
Monday, February 9
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BU, 232 Bay State Road, Room 505
Jeremy De Silva (BU)
The Walter Rodney Seminars are held every Monday in the William O. Brown Seminar Room of the African Studies Center, 232 Bay State Road, presenting the latest research by local and international scholars and followed by robust discussions with the audience. Join us as "the Rodney" enters its 38th year!
Contact: Joanne Hart
617-353-3673 or johart@bu.edu
BU African Studies Center
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Women in Biotech
WHEN Mon., Feb. 9, 2015, 1 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Knafel Center, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor of business administration, Harvard Business School
Daniel Carpenter, faculty director of the social sciences program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Center for American Political Studies
Ann DeWitt, senior director of investments, Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures
Deborah Dunsire, president and chief executive officer, Forum Pharmaceuticals
Robin Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
Monica C. Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor in Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Anula Jayasuriya, cofounder and managing director, Evolvence India Life Science Fund
Janet Rich-Edwards, codirector of the science program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and associate professor in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Laurel Smith-Doerr, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Why are women underrepresented as leaders in the biotech industry? Scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics will also consider new research, experimentation, and promising models that may help industry, universities, government, and private capital improve the current system.
Register online: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
WHEN Mon., Feb. 9, 2015, 1 – 5 p.m.
WHERE Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Knafel Center, Cambridge
GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Science
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S) Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor of business administration, Harvard Business School
Daniel Carpenter, faculty director of the social sciences program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and director of the Center for American Political Studies
Ann DeWitt, senior director of investments, Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures
Deborah Dunsire, president and chief executive officer, Forum Pharmaceuticals
Robin Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
Monica C. Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor in Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Anula Jayasuriya, cofounder and managing director, Evolvence India Life Science Fund
Janet Rich-Edwards, codirector of the science program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and associate professor in the department of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Laurel Smith-Doerr, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst
COST Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
DETAILS Why are women underrepresented as leaders in the biotech industry? Scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics will also consider new research, experimentation, and promising models that may help industry, universities, government, and private capital improve the current system.
Register online: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
LINK http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium
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3D Printing Wearables: Jewelry, Accessories and Clothing.
Monday, February 9
6:00 PM
Liquid Art House, 100 Arlington Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/219398701/
Wearable technology is becoming easier to develop and prototype with the aid of 3D printing. Lets get together and take a look at some awesome projects happening all around Boston/Cambridge/Somerville. We'll have a couple of speakers present their work.
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
Monday, February 9
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Lani Guinier, author
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Tuesday, February 10
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The Art of Science TV
Tuesday, February 10
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
MIT, Building E19-623, Knight Conference Room, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Paula Apsell
Senior Executive Producer, NOVA Director of the WGBH Science Unit, and former Knight Science Journalism Fellow
Science Storytelling on TV
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3D Printing Wearables: Jewelry, Accessories and Clothing.
Monday, February 9
6:00 PM
Liquid Art House, 100 Arlington Street, Boston
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Wearable-technologies-in-Boston/events/219398701/
Wearable technology is becoming easier to develop and prototype with the aid of 3D printing. Lets get together and take a look at some awesome projects happening all around Boston/Cambridge/Somerville. We'll have a couple of speakers present their work.
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
Monday, February 9
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Lani Guinier, author
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Tuesday, February 10
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The Art of Science TV
Tuesday, February 10
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
MIT, Building E19-623, Knight Conference Room, 400 Main Street, Cambridge
Paula Apsell
Senior Executive Producer, NOVA Director of the WGBH Science Unit, and former Knight Science Journalism Fellow
Science Storytelling on TV
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Iran and the United States: Eternal Enemies or Natural Partners?
Tuesday, February 10
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling."
Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.
Kinzer has taught political science, journalism and international relations at Northwestern and Boston University. He is now a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he teaches international relations.
Kinzer's newest book, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, has been widely praised. Reviewers have called it sparkling, riveting, gripping, bracing, and disturbing.
4:30p–6:00p
MIT, Building E51-376, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling."
Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.
Kinzer has taught political science, journalism and international relations at Northwestern and Boston University. He is now a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he teaches international relations.
Kinzer's newest book, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, has been widely praised. Reviewers have called it sparkling, riveting, gripping, bracing, and disturbing.
Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar is organized under the auspices of the MIT Center for International Studies, which conducts research on contemporary international issues and provides an opportunity for faculty and students to share perspectives and exchange views. Each year the Bustani Seminar invites scholars, journalists, consultants and other experts from the Middle East, Europe and the United States to MIT to present recent research findings on contemporary politics, society and culture, and economic and technological development in the Middle East.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/bustani/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Technology and Culture Forum
For more information, contact: Heidi Erickson
617- 253-1888
hae@mit.edu
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar is organized under the auspices of the MIT Center for International Studies, which conducts research on contemporary international issues and provides an opportunity for faculty and students to share perspectives and exchange views. Each year the Bustani Seminar invites scholars, journalists, consultants and other experts from the Middle East, Europe and the United States to MIT to present recent research findings on contemporary politics, society and culture, and economic and technological development in the Middle East.
Web site: http://web.mit.edu/cis/bustani/
Open to: the general public
Cost: free
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, MIT Technology and Culture Forum
For more information, contact: Heidi Erickson
617- 253-1888
hae@mit.edu
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Andrew Keen, author
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Opportunity
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
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HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
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Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
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Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
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Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
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Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
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Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
The Internet Is Not the Answer
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
7:00 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Andrew Keen, author
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The Boston Network for International Development (BNID) maintains a website (BNID.org) that serves as a clearing-house for information on organizations, events, and jobs related to international development in the Boston area. BNID has played an important auxiliary role in fostering international development activities in the Boston area, as witnessed by the expanding content of the site and a significant growth in the number of users.
The website contains:
A calendar of Boston area events and volunteer opportunities related to International Development
- http://www.bnid.org/events
A jobs board that includes both internships and full time positions related to International Development that is updated daily - http://www.bnid.org/jobs
A directory and descriptions of more than 250 Boston-area organizations - http://www.bnid.org/organizations
Also, please sign up for our weekly newsletter (we promise only one email per week) to get the most up-to-date information on new job and internship opportunities -www.bnid.org/sign-up
The website is completely free for students and our goal is to help connect students who are interested in international development with many of the worthwhile organizations in the area.
Please feel free to email our organization at info@bnid.org if you have any questions!
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Intern with Biodiversity for a Livable Climate!
Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC) is a nonprofit based in the Cambridge, MA area. Our mission is to mobilize the biosphere to restore ecosystems and reverse global warming.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy.
Background: Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands. Restoring carbon to soils and regenerating ecosystems are how we can restore a healthy hydrologic cycle and cool local and planetary climates safely, naturally, and in time to ensure a livable climate now and in the future.
Our Work: immediate plans include
Organizing the First International Biodiversity, Soil Carbon and Climate Week, October 31-November 9, 2014, and a kick-off conference in the Boston area, “Mobilizing the Biosphere to Reverse Global Warming: A Biodiversity, Water, Soil Carbon and Climate Conference – and Call to Action” to expand the mainstream climate conversation to include the power of biology, and to help initiate intensive worldwide efforts to return atmospheric carbon to the soils.
Coordination of a global fund to directly assist local farmers and herders in learning and applying carbon farming approaches that not only benefit the climate, but improve the health and productivity of the land and the people who depend on it.
Collaboration with individuals and organizations on addressing eco-restoration and the regeneration of water and carbon cycles; such projects may include application of practices such as Holistic Management for restoration of billions of acres of degraded grasslands, reforestation of exploited forest areas, and restoring ocean food chains.
Please contact Helen D. Silver, helen.silver@bio4climate.org for further information.
781-316-1710
Bio4climate.org
SharedHarvestCSA.com
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Climate Stories Project
http://www.climatestoriesproject.org
What's your Climate Story?
Climate Stories Project is a forum that gives a voice to the emotional and personal impacts that climate change is having on our lives. Often, we only discuss climate change from the impersonal perspective of science or the contentious realm of politics. Today, more and more of us are feeling the effects of climate change on an personal level. Climate Stories Project allows people from around the world to share their stories and to engage with climate change in a personal, direct way.
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Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!
Join the Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative and get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members share the responsibility for making yogurt in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch. No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.
For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home
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Cambridge Residents: Free Home Thermal Images
Have you ever wanted to learn where your home is leaking heat by having an energy auditor come to your home with a thermal camera? With that info you then know where to fix your home so it's more comfortable and less expensive to heat. However, at $200 or so, the cost of such a thermal scan is a big chunk of change.
HEET Cambridge has now partnered with Sagewell, Inc. to offer Cambridge residents free thermal scans.
Sagewell collects the thermal images by driving through Cambridge in a hybrid vehicle equipped with thermal cameras. They will scan every building in Cambridge (as long as it's not blocked by trees or buildings or on a private way). Building owners can view thermal images of their property and an analysis online. The information is password protected so that only the building owner can see the results.
Homeowners, condo-owners and landlords can access the thermal images and an accompanying analysis free of charge. Commercial building owners and owners of more than one building will be able to view their images and analysis for a small fee.
The scans will be analyzed in the order they are requested.
Go to Sagewell.com. Type in your address at the bottom where it says "Find your home or building" and press return. Then click on "Here" to request the report.
That's it. When the scans are done in a few weeks, your building will be one of the first to be analyzed. The accompanying report will help you understand why your living room has always been cold and what to do about it.
With knowledge, comes power (or in this case saved power and money, not to mention comfort).
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Free solar electricity analysis for MA residents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhwM202dDYxdUZJVGFscnY1VGZ3aXc6MQ
-----------------------
HEET has partnered with NSTAR and Mass Save participating contractor Next Step Living to deliver no-cost Home Energy Assessments to Cambridge residents.
During the assessment, the energy specialist will:
Install efficient light bulbs (saving up to 7% of your electricity bill)
Install programmable thermostats (saving up to 10% of your heating bill)
Install water efficiency devices (saving up to 10% of your water bill)
Check the combustion safety of your heating and hot water equipment
Evaluate your home’s energy use to create an energy-efficiency roadmap
If you get electricity from NSTAR, National Grid or Western Mass Electric, you already pay for these assessments through a surcharge on your energy bills. You might as well use the service.
Please sign up at http://nextsteplivinginc.com/heet/?outreach=HEET or call Next Step Living at 866-867-8729. A Next Step Living Representative will call to schedule your assessment.
HEET will help answer any questions and ensure you get all the services and rebates possible.
(The information collected will only be used to help you get a Home Energy Assessment. We won’t keep the data or sell it.)
(If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call HEET’s Jason Taylor at 617 441 0614.)
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Resource
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Sustainable Business Network Local Green Guide
SBN is excited to announce the soft launch of its new Local Green Guide, Massachusetts' premier Green Business Directory!
To view the directory please visit: http://www.localgreenguide.org
To find out how how your business can be listed on the website or for sponsorship opportunities please contact Adritha at adritha@sbnboston.org
--------------------------------------------------
Free Monthly Energy Analysis
CarbonSalon is a free service that every month can automatically track your energy use and compare it to your past energy use (while controlling for how cold the weather is). You get a short friendly email that lets you know how you’re doing in your work to save energy.
https://www.carbonsalon.com/
---------------------------------------
Boston Food System
"The Boston Food System [listserv] provides a forum to post announcements of events, employment opportunities, internships, programs, lectures, and other activities as well as related articles or other publications of a non-commercial nature covering the area's food system - food, nutrition, farming, education, etc. - that take place or focus on or around Greater Boston (broadly delineated)."
The Boston area is one of the most active nationwide in terms of food system activities - projects, services, and events connected to food, farming, nutrition - and often connected to education, public health, environment, arts, social services and other arenas. Hundreds of organizations and enterprises cover our area, but what is going on week-to-week is not always well publicized.
Hence, the new Boston Food System listserv, as the place to let everyone know about these activities. Specifically:
Use of the BFS list will begin soon, once we get a decent base of subscribers. Clarification of what is appropriate to announce and other posting guidelines will be provided as well.
It's easy to subscribe right now at https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subscribe/bfs
----------------------
Artisan Asylum http://artisansasylum.com/
Sprout & Co: Community Driven Investigations http://thesprouts.org/
Greater Boston Solidarity Economy Mapping Project http://www.transformationcentral.org/solidarity/mapping/mapping.html
a project by Wellesley College students that invites participation, contact jmatthaei@wellesley.edu
------------------------
Bostonsmart.com's Guide to Boston http://www.bostonsmarts.com/BostonGuide/
********************************************
-----------------------------------------------------
Links to events at 60 colleges and universities at Hubevents http://hubevents.blogspot.com
Thanks to
Fred Hapgood's Selected Lectures on Science and Engineering in the Boston Area: http://www.BostonScienceLectures.com
MIT Events: http://events.mit.edu
MIT Energy Club: http://mitenergyclub.org/calendar
Harvard Events: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/
Harvard Environment: http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/calendar/
Sustainability at Harvard: http://green.harvard.edu/events
Mass Climate Action: http://www.massclimateaction.net/calendar/events/index.php
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/
Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Microsoft NERD Center: http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/
Startup and Entrepreneurial Events: http://www.greenhornconnect.com/events/
Cambridge Civic Journal: http://www.rwinters.com
Cambridge Happenings: http://cambridgehappenings.org
Boston Area Computer User Groups: http://www.bugc.org/
Arts and Cultural Events List: http://aacel.blogspot.com/
Boston Events Insider: http://bostoneventsinsider.com/boston_events/
Nerdnite: http://boston.nerdnite.com/
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