SftPublic Programs 2013

Science for the Public programs are recorded through the services of Belmont Media Center

Jan 15, 2013 Impact of Climate Change on Birds and Plants of Massachusetts (w/ Friends of the Robbins Library)
Richard Primack, PhD, Boston University
Science for the Public lecture series

Jan 22, 2013 The Role of the Ocean in the Global Carbon Cycle
Mick Follows, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Feb 12, 2013 Microbe Evolution
Chris Marx, PhD, Harvard University
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Feb 13, 2013 Mapping the Milky Way
Thomas Dame, Ph.D., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard Dept of Astronomy
Science for the Public lecture series

Mar 13, 2013 Solar Magnetic Storms and Space Weather
W. Jeffrey Hughes, Ph.D., Boston University
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Mar 20, 2013 Medicating ADHD: Diagnosis and Long-Term Effects of Medications
Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America
Science for the Public lecture series

Apr 09, 2013 Brain Map: How the Brain Orchestrates Movement
Tamar FLash, Ph.D.
, Weizmann Institute (Israel)
Emilo Bizzi, M.D., Ph.D., McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Apr 30, 2013 Two Paul Steinhardt Projects: "Cyclic Universe" and "Quasicrystals"
Paul Steinhardt, Ph.D.
, Princeton University
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

May 14, 2013 Public Acceptance of Wind Energy in MA: Factors, Implications
Maria Petrova, Ph.D., Center for International Environment and Resource Planning, Tufts University
Science for the Public lecture series

May 29, 2013 The D-Lab at MIT: The People's Engineering Team (with Friends of the Robbins Library)
Amy Smith
, MIT
Science for the Public lectures

June 25, 2013 Power Plants and the Freshwater Crisis
John Rogers, Union of Concerned Scientists
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

July 09, 2013 Antarctic Fishes: Models for Climate Change and Human Disease
H. William Detrich, Ph.D.
, Northeastern University
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

July 23, 2013 Environmental Contaminants and Autism
Marc Weisskopf, Ph.D., ScD, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Aug 05, 2013 Scale-Free Complex Networks
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, PhD Northeastern University and Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University
Working Science series

Aug 13, 2013 The Widespread Resistance to Antibiotics
Stuart B. Levy, M.D.
, Tufts University School of Medicine
Working Science series

Sept 25, 2013 Mario Livio, PhD: His Astrophysics, His New Book Brilliant Blunders, His Other Books
Mario Livio, PhD, Space Telescope Science Institute
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Oct 15, 2013 Sustainability Science: Biodiversity and Community
Kamaljit Bawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Oct 22, 2013 Reading the Clouds to Understand Climate Change
Daniel Cziczo, PhD
, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Oct 28, 2013 Clive Hamilton Talks about the Geoengineering Issue
Clive Hamilton, PhD
, Vice-Chancellor’s Chair and Professor of Public Ethics at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University in Australia
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Nov 05, 2013 Journey to the Center of the Earth
Miaki Ishii, PhD, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Science for the Public lecture series

Nov 12, 2013 What the Public Needs to Know about Fracking cosponsored w/Union of Concerned Scientists and Cambridge Public Library. Panelists: Aaron Bernstein, M.D., MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health; William Moomaw, PhD, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University; Pallavi Phartiyal, PhD, Sr. Analyst & Program Manager, Ctr for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists (moderator); Andrew Rosenberg, PhD, Director, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Science for the Public lectures

Dec 10, 2013 How TB Bacteria Evade Treatment
Bree Aldridge, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine; member of the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology program faculties at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts School of Engineering.
Contemporary Science Issues & Innovations, Belmont Media Center

Dec 13, 2013 Infant Fossil Teeth: Clues to Ancient Human Development
Tanya Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Working Science series

Dec 17 event snowed out, rescheduled for Mar 18 2014: "Leaving It Up to Chance: How Cells Make Decisions"