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Harvard University Commencement Week

Explore the Harvard University Commencement Week Schedule. The College and each graduate/professional school hosts additional events unique to their community.

Harvard Climate Action Week | 2024

Harvard Climate Action Week invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the most complex and challenging dimensions of the climate crisis. Events, in-person and online, dive deep into the policies, private actions, and leadership needed to drive further reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. This week of events is hosted by the Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.

International Workshop on Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asia

Tsai Auditorium +1 more

Register by Wednesday, July 3 deadline! Through a series of talks and poster presentations, the workshop aims to promote research exchange of scholars from multiple disciplines and of diverse regional expertise on the status and dynamics of climate resilience studies, as well as to generate policy-relevant knowledge regarding climate resilient development pathways in Southeast Asian countries.

Littauer Center Freecycle

Littauer Center 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

The Economics Sustainability Working Group, with the help of Harvard University Recycling Services, is organizing a Freecycle from 9 am to 5 pm on Thursday, August 22! Please bring your unwanted but still usable office supplies, small household goods, and books, and browse items that others have brought.

Fall 2024 Information Session for Council of Student Sustainability Leaders (CSSL)

Zoom

CSSL provides an opportunity for Harvard students to work together with other students from across the University’s Schools on sustainability projects, to connect and network with sustainability leaders (including faculty, and administration), and to provide feedback and recommendations on Harvard’s sustainability initiatives.

What Can Epidemiologists Learn from Historic Heat Waves? The Case of Boston, July 1911

Virtual

Epidemiologists (and historians) have learned an enormous amount by studying past outbreaks of infectious disease. Histories of epidemics have been used to calibrate epidemiological models and to understand the ways in which societies will likely respond to future disease outbreaks. Over the past decade, researchers and government officials have become increasingly concerned about climate related threats to public health, including heat waves, droughts, forest fires, and other extreme weather events. Like epidemics, these all have historical precedents. It is possible to examine the history of past climate-health emergencies in search of both epidemiological and historical insight into the nature of these threats. I will demonstrate this approach with an analysis of the heat wave that produced the hottest day in Boston history, July 4, 1911.

Harvard Forest Seminars: Tick talk: the most dangerous animal in the United States due to environmental change

Virtual

Harvard Forest’s seminar series features cutting-edge research in ecology, land-use history, and climatic change, and its applications to conservation biology, environmental policy, forestry, and management of terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems. Seminars occur during the fall and spring on Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

National Fossil Day

Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions. Join us to celebrate National Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations for all ages.

Regular museum admission rates apply. Presented in collaboration with the Stephanie Pierce Lab of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Javier Ortega-Hernández Lab of Invertebrate Paleontology. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

Power Shift: Energy Innovation, Sustainability, and Equity

Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join online or in person for the 2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute science symposium, which will bring together scientists, public officials, industry leaders, environmental justice advocates, and behavioral scientists to investigate an equitable energy revolution, critical to the future of our planet.

ArtsThursdays: Sea Monsters

Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join us for a free, fun night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture! Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. Visit the exhibition Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination and explore the allure of serpents, krakens, and other mysterious creatures of the deep sea. Let your imagination run wild and create a felt sea “monster” with Alex Makes Art. Suggested ages 10 and up. Guided by visual artist Kat Owens, participate in the creation of a community art piece, and reflect on the impact of plastics on marine animals. Meet scientists from Harvard’s Bellono Lab to learn about the behavior and unique characteristics of octopuses. Learn about unique, unusual—and even spooky—marine specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Purchase drinks at the cash bar (valid government ID required to consume alcoholic beverages). Embark on a scavenger hunt to find sea monsters in the museum! Free and open to the public.