[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of Events -- week of March 31

[Debbie Meinbresse]

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 31, 2008:

Monday, March 31

STS Circle at Harvard
The Visual Expression of Science: More than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel, Envisioning Science Program, Initiative in Innovative 
Computing, Harvard University
12:15-2 p.m., Harvard, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Sandwich lunches will be provided.  Please RSVP to 
<mailto:sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu>sang-hyun_kim at ksg.harvard.edu.
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts

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Tuesday, April 1

STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk Co-sponsored by CMS
Methods for the Study of the Natively Digital
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam 
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9005918&date=2008/04/01>bio]
12:00-2:00 pm, MIT, E51-191 (STS Reading Room)
Feel free to bring your lunch; dessert and coffee will be provided.

Harvard University - Mark M. Horblit Colloquia in the History of Science
The Science of Mixed People's: Admixture, Genetics and Cultural Identity
Evelynn Hammonds, Department of the History of Science & African and 
African-American Studies
4:00 pm, Harvard, Science Center 469

The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books & 
Visualizing Our World
David Macaulay, author of The Way Things Work
6:30 pm, MIT, Stata Building, Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)
[<http://web.mit.edu/shass/lecture/macaulay.html>more information 
about this event]

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Wednesday, April 2

Harvard University - Comparative Economics Seminar
Putin, Bush and the Future of Nuclear Power
Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Davis Center 
for Russian Studies;
Professor of History, Colby College
12:30-2:00 pm, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

STS and CMS present
Beyond the Politics of Making Things Visible: Crawling, Scraping and 
Mapping Issues with the Web
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam
3:30-5:30 pm, MIT, E51-275
[<http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9005919&date=2008/04/02>abstract 
and bio]

MIT Museum Soap Box
Harnessing Hydrogen from Bacteria for Biofuels
David Berry, Principal, Flagship Ventures
6:00-7:30 pm, MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery

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Thursday, April 3

Harvard's Science & Democracy Lecture Series
Enhancing the Contract: The Federal Government and American Science 
in a New Administration
Harold Varmus (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or 
Medicine for the discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral 
oncogenes; President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Moderated by Jon Beckwith (Harvard Medical School) with panelists: 
Sheila Jasanoff (Kennedy School of Government), Charles Rosenberg 
(History of Science, Harvard), and Dan Sarewitz (Arizona State University)
5:00-7:00 pm, Harvard University, Yenching Institute Auditorium at 2 
Divinity Avenue
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts>http://www.hks..harvard.edu/sts

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For information about upcoming events, be sure to look at the STS 
website: http://web.mit.edu/sts/calendar/index-css.html.  For a 
complete listing of activities on the MIT campus, check out the MIT 
on-line calendar of events: http://events.mit.edu/http://events.mit.edu/. 
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