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<font face="Calibri" style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light">Friday, February 3, 2023</font></font></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" style="">MIT Campus, E51-095</font></span></div>
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<span style="text-align:left; font-family:reader-bold-pro,sans-serif; font-size:18px; color:rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>Hybrid Event</strong></span><span style="text-align:left; font-family:reader-regular-pro,sans-serif; font-size:18px; color:rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>, </strong></span><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscOmuqzMjHtKmsxiP5nRRfP3c2r_xx0Xm" style="text-align:left; font-family:reader-regular-pro,sans-serif; font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>please
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:14px"><em>“From the Red Desert to the Red Planet: U.S Military Engineers in Extreme Environments”</em></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px; background-color:white">Presented by: </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Gretchen Heefner</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University</font></div>
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<font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px">Gretchen will be presenting information from her current manuscript,</span></font><font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><em> Sand, Snow, and Stardust</em></span></font><font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px">.
The book traces the story of how we know what we know about extreme environments. Places such as the desert, the Arctic, and outer space that exist out there somewhere, on the edges of our maps. These are places that have long and generally been written off
– wastelands, useless, remote, lifeless. That we know anything about these environments today is directly related to the U.S. military’s priorities stemming from World War II, the Cold War, and beyond. This book charts the relationship between U.S. military
engineers and their construction projects in the extremes beginning in the 1940s, when the U.S. government realized it knew nothing about such places, through a Cold War near-obsession with mastering them, to the present day, when we find ourselves in the
uncomfortable predicament that the U.S. military might be the one organization that can best help navigate a world in which more and more of our environments are becoming extreme.</span></font><font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"> </span></font><font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"> For
more information visit </span></font><a href="https://history.mit.edu/events/from-the-red-desert-to-the-red-planet-u-s-military-engineers-in-extreme-environments/" target="_blank">MIT History Events.</a><font face="Garamond,serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><strong>In Person , </strong></font><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51" target="_blank"><strong>MIT Campus E51-095</strong></a><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>This event is part of the MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History sponsored by the History Faculty and
the Program in Science, Technology and Society. For more information contact </strong><a href="mailto:kalopes@mit.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#954F72"><strong>kalopes@mit.edu</strong></font></a></span></font></div>
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