Past Events
April 21, 2011
Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, US State Department
April 21, 2011
A panel discussion looking back at the last 150 years of climate research and rethinking the way forward.MIT News Summary: Moving climate change regulation forward — U.S. chief climate negotiator, MIT panel examine the science and policy of global warming. [April 25, 2011]
April 15, 2011
Speaker: Professor James A. Fay
Mechanical Engineering Colloquium
April 15, 2011
The Honorable Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will speak about the state of environmental protection in the nation.MIT News Summary: Science and policy can catalyze each other, EPA head says. In MIT visit, Lisa Jackson discusses how technology can affect government regulations [April 22, 2011]
April 14, 2011
Roger Pielke Jr. (CU-Boulder)
Scientists, and experts more generally have choices about the roles that they play in today's political debates on topics such as global warming, genetically modified foods, and food and drug safety, just to name a few. This talk is about understanding these choices, their theoretical and empirical bases, what considerations are important to think about when deciding, and the consequences for the individual scientist and the broader scientific enterprise.
April 11, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Novotny
Reception at 6 p.m. Lecture begins at 7 p.m. This lecture will present an up-to-date, integrated and interdisciplinary perspective on the role of urban water design and management in advancing urban sustainability goals.