2019 Feb 04
Beate Hølmebakk, “Constructions on Sites and Paper”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
The lecture will be a presentation of selected projects by manthey kula. It will focus on built work, but also on one of the office’s unbuilt “paper projects”. Beate Hølmebakk will talk about manthey kula’s approach to design and about how some of the professors from her own education; Sverre Fehn, Christian Norberg-Schulz and John Hejduk have had an influence on the work of the office.
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2019 Feb 02
Arboretum for Educators: Tree Study Part 3: Conifer Adaptations
9:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
125 Arborway, Hunnewell Building, Boston
Arboretum for Educators monthly explorations are a professional development opportunity for elementary and middle school teachers to introduce the Arboretum landscape as an outdoor classroom. Participants learn about specific hands-on life science topics that may be used or adapted by teachers for their own classrooms and outdoor spaces. Meet and network with other like-minded educators, and engage in life science learning.
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2019 Jan 31
Inside Innovation
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
The Harvard Innovation Labs, 125 Western Ave, Allston
Ready for a fresh start? On January 31 at 6:00pm, join us for a 90-minute, interactive session to learn why innovation matters - and how the Harvard Innovation Labs can help you turn your idea into a world-changing reality. You'll also meet other aspiring innovators from across Harvard who are in the same mindset.
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2019 Jan 26
Fixit Clinic
11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Bring your broken, non-functioning items including jewelry, electronics, clothing, and more to the Harvard Ed Portal for a Fixit Clinic! We’’’ provide the space, tools, and coaches to help you tinker, troubleshoot, and even fit your items. This is an all-ages, do-it-yourself event that’s fun and educational. Learn more online at www.fixitclinic.org.
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2018 Dec 13
Project Teach Presents College Applications: Getting Started & Finishing Strong
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Harvard Ed Portal is proud to offer a free College Application: Getting Started & Finishing Strong Workshop for high school students who live or attend school in Allston/Brighton or Cambridge. For freshmen and sophomores: get familiarized with college application vocabulary! And for juniors and seniors: learn how to strengthen your college application activities section with strong vocabulary. Through one application, students can apply to the more than 700 colleges and universities across the country that accept the...
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2018 Dec 11
Project Teach Presents College Applications: Getting Started & Finishing Strong
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Harvard Ed Portal is proud to offer a free College Application: Getting Started & Finishing Strong Workshop for high school students who live or attend school in Allston/Brighton or Cambridge. For freshmen and sophomores: get familiarized with college application vocabulary! And for juniors and seniors: learn how to strengthen your college application activities section with strong vocabulary. Through one application, students can apply to the more than 700 colleges and universities across the country that accept the Common Application. It is never too early to start to...
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2018 Dec 09
The Science of Pizza: It's a Little Cheesy!
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Science Center, Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St. Cambridge
Why does pizza crust have holes? How does cheese form from milk? How do you break down food into the fuel your body needs? What makes pizza dough stretchy? Join us at the 2018 Harvard Holiday Science Lecture as we observe, touch, taste, and explore some of your favorite foods. Kids, families, students, teachers and the curious are welcome! You will discover the physics, chemistry and biology of cheese and bread, look at them under a microscope, make a simple cheese (yum!), and learn about digestion (yuck!). Using...
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2018 Dec 09
The Science of Pizza: It’s a Little Cheesy!
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Science Center, Lecture Hall B, 1 Oxford St. Cambridge
Why does pizza crust have holes? How does cheese form from milk? How do you break down food into the fuel your body needs? What makes pizza dough stretchy? Join us at the 2018 Harvard Holiday Science Lecture as we observe, touch, taste, and explore some of your favorite foods. Kids, families, students, teachers and the curious are welcome! You will discover the physics, chemistry and biology of cheese and bread, look at them under a microscope, make a simple cheese (yum!), and learn about digestion (yuck!). Using live experiments and interactive...
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2018 Dec 04
The Meaning of the Midterms: Who Counted? Who Voted?
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The year 2018 will be remembered for its surge in women's candidacies. Whether through individual, high-profile victories or the sheer force of hundreds upon hundreds of women standing for office, the midterm electoral cycle reflected options at the local, state, and national levels that were starkly different from any that Americans have confronted before at the ballot box. This panel will offer an analysis of the election results through a diverse set of perspectives—academic, experiential, gendered, generational, geographic, and political—to enhance our understanding of...
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2018 Nov 16
Accessibility & Art-Making: A Talk on Inclusivity in the Arts
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
A panel discussion with Professor Michael Stein, Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy; Heidi Latsky, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically-integrated dance company; Tiffany Geigel, dancer with Heidi Latsky Dance; Dr. Debra Levine, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media; and other Harvard faculty. This event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required due to...
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2018 Nov 15
Unearthing Oral Histories
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
PRX Podcast Garage, 267 Western Ave, Rear, Allston
Join us on Thursday November 15th, for Unearthing Oral Histories, an oral history workshop held at the PRX Podcast Garage in connection to the exhibit In Over My Head, now on view at the Harvard Ed Portal. Led by artist Thalassa Raasch, this introductory workshop will unpack the power of collecting and sharing oral histories. Participants will develop an understanding of what oral history is, how (and how not) to conduct an oral history interview, the necessary equipment, and the different methods of sharing oral histories. Whether you’re planning to interview a family...
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2018 Nov 13
The Media, The White House, and Health Care
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Livestream Access
Join us for the next “Voices in Leadership” event of the fall semester, featuring Joanne Kenen, Executive Editor, Health Care at Politico and Margaret Talev, Senior White House Correspondent for Bloomberg. Ms. Kenen has is a veteran Washington reporter who has covered all aspects of health policy and politics. At POLITICO since 2011, she’s expanded the health policy reporting team, led public policy forums and recently helped design a year-long multimedia magazine series on public health and the changing demographics of 21st century America. Ms. Talev is a Fall 2018...
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2018 Nov 09
Conference: Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
9:00am to 1:30pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.
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2018 Nov 07
Jan Boelen, “Design as Learning”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Why do design? What is it for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an on-going educational practice. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to...
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2018 Nov 06
A Conversation with John Wilson About Inclusive Excellence at and Beyond Harvard
12:00pm
Location: 
Livestream Access
Join us for the next Voices in Leadership event of the fall semester, featuring Dr. John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Senior Advisor and Strategist to the President of Harvard University. He assumed that role after spending much of 2017 as “President in Residence” at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he conducted research for a book about the future of American higher education, with an emphasis on the nation’s historically black colleges and universities. Wilson served as the 11th...
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2018 Nov 03
Introduction to Bonsai
1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Bonsai is the ancient Japanese method of growing and caring for a tree whose growth is restricted by the size of the shallow pot in which it is planted and by the pruning of its branches and roots. In this class, Glen Lord, who consults for the Arnold Arboretum’s bonsai (Japanese) and penjing (Chinese) collection of dwarf potted plants, will speak first about the history of bonsai. He will then demonstrate the methods employed in creating and caring for a bonsai. Participants will plant a tropical specimen and learn about basic pruning, styling...
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2018 Oct 28
Fog x Kids: Family Drop In's: Engineering in the Fog
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building and Lawn, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Engineering in the Fog --make your own glasses to create your up close and personal Fog for ages 8 and up.  One adult may bring a maximum of three children; age suitability listed above after dates. Meet on the Hunnewell Building lawn to the south of the building.  Free, drop in, no registration required.
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2018 Oct 27
Growing Woody Plants from Seeds
9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Dana Greenhouse, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Learn about seed biology, embryo dormancy, and factors present in woody plant seeds. The class will focus on seed storage and various treatment techniques, including over-wintering and aftercare. Appropriate for those who have succeeded at growing some plants from seed and are ready for greater challenges. Post-class nurturing will be required. Fee $55 members; $68 non-members.
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2018 Oct 25
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Michael Van Valkenburgh is the founder of the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, with offices in Brooklyn, New York...
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2018 Oct 22
What’s Going On in This Graph?
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Sharon Hessney, Writer and Moderator of New York Times Learning Network "What's Going On in This Graph?"
Graphs can go a long way in conveying information that might otherwise take several paragraphs to explain. But it is easy to misread or not fully understand the content and context. In this participatory program, we will decipher several graphs based on data from Arnold Arboretum curators and scientists. We will also look at the data...
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