2020 Oct 19
Science and Cooking Public Lecture: “Honorary Book Celebration Lecture”
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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.
Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course. This week's topic is "Honorary Book Celebration Lecture."
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2020 Oct 15
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
The first person who will set foot on Mars is alive right now. We believe this, but even if we're wrong we know the first crew to arrive there will look nothing like the ones that landed on the Moon fifty years ago.
Our world has changed for the better, and ASTRONAUTS tells the story of the women who built this better world. The main character and narrator is Mary Cleave, an astronaut you may not have heard of. It's not because so many people have been to space; only a few hundred have! It’s because this graphic novel isn’t about fame. No astronaut you'll ever meet took the...
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2020 Oct 14
Wonderful Cambrian Beasts
6:00pm to 7:00pm
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Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Earth is home to a vast diversity of organisms that collectively define the modern biosphere. How did this diversity come to be? Javier Ortega-Hernández will discuss his approach to answering this question by studying organisms that lived more than half a billion years ago in the Cambrian Period (485–541 million years ago). By focusing on the earliest-known animals—some of the most versatile to ever exist—Ortega-Hernández aims to reconstruct the early evolutionary history of major animal groups and contribute to our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity.
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2020 Oct 03
Amazing Virtual Archaeology Fair at Harvard
1:00pm to 3:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Celebrate the glamour, labor, humor, and discoveries of archaeology at Harvard. Join student archaeologists as they share their experience with an Irish castle, a shaft tomb in western Mexico, monuments on the Giza plateau in Egypt and drones used to study El-Kurru in ancient Nubia, among other locations. Place a friendly wager on an atlatl (spear throwing) demonstration, observe chew marks on bones from the Zooarchaeology Lab and experience a virtual-reality view of the Great Sphinx.
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2020 Sep 25
Portraits in Pajamas: Live Event for "Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina"
7:00pm to 8:00pm
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Online via Instagram Live
Join the Ed Portal online with two of Boston's most impactful artists, Chanel Thervil and Sabrina Dorsainvil, to celebrate the virtual unveiling of Fresh Breaths: Portrait of Sabrina.
In an intimate conversation and Q&A on Instagram Live, these artists will explore ways they and other creatives of color are navigating the nuances of self-care, survival, and the new normals as a result of COVID-19.
Get cozy and experience the newest piece in Thervil's Quarantine Self-Care Portrait series, a multi-media project that combines interviews, portrait...
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2020 Sep 23
Animal Snack Time: Meet the Arthropods
2:00pm to 2:45pm
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Online—Harvard Museum of Natural History
Ever wonder what tarantula’s hair feels like? Curious about what vinegaroons smell like? Want to get up close and personal with the business end of a scorpion? If so, then grab a snack and join human museum staff Javier and Ryan as they spend thirty minutes feeding, interacting with, and discussing the museum’s many live arthropods!
Register by 1:00pm on September 23. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom.
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2020 Sep 17
Observatory Night: What Stars Are Made Of
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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
Join the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for a virtual Public Observatory Night with guest lecturer Donavan Moore, author of "What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin."
It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early twentieth-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what...
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2020 Sep 16
Lecture: Apprenticeship in Ancient Egypt
6:00pm to 7:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Presenter: Willeke Wendrich, Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology; Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles
Archaeologists study stylistic and technological changes in excavated materials—especially pottery—to better understand developments in ancient Egyptian society. However, little attention has focused on using the archaeological record to understand the transfer of cultural knowledge. How did people learn the arts and crafts of potters, basket makers, metalworkers, and scribes?...
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2020 Aug 04
Animal Snack Time: Marine-Tank Edition
2:00pm to 2:30pm
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Interested in what a spider crab eats? Want to see a sea star up close? Curious about what a horseshoe crab does with that long tail? Grab a snack and join human museum staff members Javier and Ryan as they spend thirty minutes feeding, interacting with, and discussing these amazing animals. This event is free and will be hosted on the Zoom webinar platform.
Register by 1:00 pm on August 4. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom.
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2020 Jun 25
Wonder Spots at the Arnold Arboretum
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The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Discover, Wonder, Have Fun!
Wonder Spots give Arboretum families an opportunity to explore the landscape through weekly investigations about the natural world. Learn about plants and animals in locations throughout the Arboretum, getting to know our grounds while discovering and observing living things in new ways. Each week, the featured Wonder Spot will be identified by a sign in the landscape. You can also find a Wonder Spot by using the map provided ...
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2020 Jun 20
Summer Solstice 2020
10:00am to 3:00pm
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Online—Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of the summer with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. While we can’t welcome you to our museums in person just yet, we invite you to join us online on June 20 starting at 10:00 am to learn about the scientific and cultural significance of the summer solstice, participate in virtual field trips to the Stonehenge World Heritage site in England and a Massachusetts oyster farm, enjoy musical performances, and explore activities to do at home.
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2020 Jun 16
Farmers' Market at Harvard
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Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge
We are excited to announce that the Farmers' Market at Harvard will open this summer, beginning on TUESDAY, JUNE 16th, from 12-6 pm!  
Join us at the market every Tuesday, and help support the vital local farmers and food artisans who ensure we have fresh, healthy, safe food!
The market will be modified to create a safe shopping environment for everyone: we will feature a limited number of vendors, and will have protocols in place in keeping with state requirements (including face coverings, gloves, handwashing stations, and layouts that allow for social...
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2020 May 18
3rd–5th Grade Virtual Field Trip Program
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Allston-Brighton students in grades 3-5 are invited to join virtual field trips to locations across the globe. Students will be encouraged to explore, think creatively, and expand their understanding of the world we live in.
The program will be led by Harvard undergraduates who will lead students on a guided virtual experience designed to grow a greater curiosity for learning.
Please note: To join this program your student must have access to a device that can support video streaming.
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2020 May 02
Ho Family Student Guide Tour
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The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.
Details on the Zoom tours and links to participate can be found in the Events section of the Harvard Art Museums Facebook page. Audiences can also follow the student...
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2020 Apr 16
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 07
Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski
10:00am to 11:00am
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Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.
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2020 Apr 01
Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard
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The Office for the Arts offers a daily dose of artistic inspiration for anyone looking to find a moment of beauty, comfort and connection. Alumni, faculty, staff, and visiting artists are sending in short videos showcasing their music, poetry, dance, and more. New videos are posted every weekday around 1:00pm.
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2020 Apr 01
Everyday Nature Tasks
Wed Apr 1 (All day) to Fri Jun 12 (All day)
The outdoors can be a powerful antidote to all the uncertainty and disruptions that we find ourselves living in at the moment. The Arnold Arboretum's Everyday Nature Tasks online calendar is filled with simple, varied, and open-ended nature activities for children of all ages, every day of the week!
Simply choose a date, follow the activity details and have fun. Then, share your discoveries on social media, and tag @ArnoldArboretum.
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2020 Feb 29
Dig into Dinner
1:00pm to 4:00pm
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Explore the new Resetting the Table exhibition, starting at the dinner table set for a party. Family-friendly activities about what we eat will be set up throughout the gallery: drop in for smell stations, Play-Doh® desserts, games with prizes, and a raffle of dinner for two at a Harvard Square restaurant.
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2020 Feb 26
Parker Quartet: Spectrum
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!
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