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Monday March 22^nd, 2010.
4pm-6pm
Radcliffe Institute Dean’s Lecture Series
“Freakonomics and Beyond”
Steven D Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Location: Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge MA
For more information: 617-495-8600
www.radcliffe.edu

Tuesday, March 23^rd, 2010.
12pm
“The Myth of Digital Democracy”
Matthew Hindman, 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize winner and assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University.
Location: Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
For more information: 617-495-1329
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/calendar.html

Tuesday March 23^rd, 2010.
12:30 – 1:30pm
“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Lessons for Returning Combat Veterans”
Terry Keane, professor and vice chairman in psychiatry and professor of clinical psychology, Boston University, associate chief of staff for research and development, VA Boston Healthcare System, director, National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Behavioral Science Division, VA Boston
Location: FXB, Room G12, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
For more information: mmccorma@hsph.harvard.edu
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/calendar/gazette-calendar/#/?i=2

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
2:00 PM
“Astrophysical expulsions: Solar/Stellar Winds, Supernovae, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)”
Kelly Korreck of Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Location: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Physics TEX 101e
For more information Robert Fisher rfisher1@umassd.edu 508-999-8353
http://www.umassd.edu/calendar/?ek=16979

Tuesday March 23^rd, 2010
4-5.30pm
Harris Lecture Series and Economics Department Seminar
“The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks”
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Location:  Room 110, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
For more information: hgavel@fas.harvard.edu
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40863

Tuesday March 23^rd, 2010.
6-7pm
Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism
David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE
Location: JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA
For more information: 617-495-1329
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/calendar.html

Tuesday March 23^rd, 2010.
7pm
“What Cognitive Psychology Can Tell Us about Reading Anna Karenina”
Elaine Auyoung, Radcliffe Institute
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
www.radcliffe.edu

Wednesday March 24^th, 2010.
9am-11am
Goldsmith Seminar
“The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting”
Panel discussion with the Goldsmith Award Finalists for Investigative Reporting: Sean P. Murphy, The Boston Globe; Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq, Keith Tomshe, KHOU-TV (Houston); Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; J. Andrew Curliss and Steve Riley, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC); A.C. Thompson, ProPublica in collaboration with Gordon Russell, New Orleans Times-Picayune; and Joe Stephens and Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
Location: Fifth floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA.
For more information: 617-495-1329
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/calendar.html

Wednesday, March 24^th 2010.
12:10pm
Sack Lunch Seminar
“Modeling Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling in Marine Surface Waters”
David Keller of Horn Point Laboratory in Maryland
Location: MIT Building 54-915
http://scripts.mit.edu/~sacklunch.paoc/

 Wednesday, March 24, 2010
4:00 pm
“From Black Holes to Strange Metals: Many-body Physics through a Gravitational Lens”
Hong Liu from MIT
Location: University of Massachusetts, Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
http://www.uml.edu/College/arts_sciences/Physics/Colloquia.html

Wednesday March 24^th, 2010.
7pm
Harvard Bookstore and Harvard Hillel cohost
“Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Morality and the Arts”
with Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein
For more information: 617-661-1515 rbcass@harvard.com
Location: Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2509

 Thursday, March 25^th, 2010
7:45 – 9:15 a.m.
“Progress in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)”
Hannah Chase Kinney, Harvard Medical SChool & Children’s Hospital
Location: Room 10, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
http://hms.harvard.edu

Thursday, March 25^th, 2010.
3:30 PM
Boston University Special High Energy Experiment Seminar
“On the Hunt for New Physics at the LHC”
Kevin Black of Harvard University
Location: 3 Cummington Street, Boston, Room 595
http://physics.bu.edu/events/series/7

 Thursday March 25^th 2010.
4pm-6pm
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lectures
“Recent Developments in Asymmetric Cyclopropanation Reactions”
Andre Charette, University of Montreal
“Discovery of IXEMPRA (ixabepilone), an Epothilone Analogue for Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer ”
Gregory Vite, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Location: MIT Building 6-129
For more information: Tyler 617-253-1879
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=10747923&date=2010/03/22

Thursday March 25^th 2010.
6pm
Evolution Matters Lecture Series
“Evolution of Brain Aging and Cognitive Decline”
Bruce Yankner, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Location: Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information: 617-495-3045 hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php

Friday March 26^th, 2010.
8.45am-9.30am
“Molecular mechanisms of adaptive evolution: More lessons to learn from microbes”
Hsin-Hung “David” Chou, PhD candidate in the OEB Department, Harvard University
Location: Room 310, 3^rd floor, Harvard University Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford Street. Cambridge MA.
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/fridays.html