2018 Oct 04
Conserving Biodiversity: A Global Priority
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Biodiversity is the sum total of life on Earth and a living legacy to future generations. Sadly, it is declining almost everywhere on the planet. Russell A. Mittermeier, recipient of the 2018 Indianapolis Prize, is a biologist and lifelong conservationist who has traveled across 169 countries and discovered more than 20 species in his quest to save biodiversity hotspots. Focusing on nonhuman primates—our closest living relatives—...
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2018 Sep 24
Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Michele Barry, Professor of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean of Global Health; Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
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2018 Sep 20
Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises
6:00pm
Location: 
TBD
Jeremy Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Senior Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
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2018 Jun 25
2018 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martine Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Each year, the Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research hosts the Harvard Symposium on Aging with a mission to present new advances... Read more about 2018 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging
2018 Jun 16

Unnatural Selection

2:00pm

Location: 

Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

When Charles Darwin considered how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to liken it... Read more about Unnatural Selection

2018 Apr 23

The Alzheimer Enigma: The Causes of the Dementia Epidemic

5:00pm

Location: 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Albert Hofman is the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this talk,... Read more about The Alzheimer Enigma: The Causes of the Dementia Epidemic

2018 Apr 19

Dr. Yvonne Cagle

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a NASA Astronaut and Family Physician. In 2008, Dr. Cagle retired as a Colonel in the USAF where she served as a Senior... Read more about Dr. Yvonne Cagle

2018 Apr 03
Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA, into a first-of-its-kind test case to demonstrate unprecedented levels of building efficiency and promote substantial shifts in the design and operation of existing buildings. Dubbed “HouseZero,” the project aims to prove that ultra-efficient retrofits can, indeed, be achieved...
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2017 Dec 07

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

6:00pm

Location: 

Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

2017 Dec 06

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

4:00pm

Location: 

First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

2017 Dec 04

Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

125 Arborway, Boston

What if your host truly didn’t want you to visit? Found you intolerable, in fact, and didn’t want you to stay? You’d think that you’d be kicked out, but... Read more about Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

2017 Oct 27

Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Epidemic disease spreads quickly in our interconnected, globalized world. This symposium looks at new ways of tracking epidemics using big data and social networks to predict and stem the rise of emergent diseases.... Read more about Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics

2017 Oct 19
Space Junk: A Traffic Crisis in Outer Space?
7:30pm
Location: 
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St, Cambridge
It's been 60 years since the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, and space is getting busier and busier.... Read more about Space Junk: A Traffic Crisis in Outer Space?

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