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Climate Health Summer Welcome Reception

Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about the climate landscape at Harvard and find ways to plug in during your time in Boston.

Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World

Zoom

Disease ecologist Courtney Murdock will focus on understanding the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission. Deploying advanced models of climate-based disease spread, Murdock’s research seeks to predict transmission patterns in order to respond to the epidemiological effects of the climate crisis.

Summer Solstice 2023: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Join the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture on the longest day of the year—free of charge—to explore the galleries and new exhibitions at the Harvard Museums. Step outdoors to enjoy lively musical and circus performances, play mini-golf, and make a flower crown. Ice cream, mocktails, and snacks will be available to purchase from food trucks and vendors.

Book Talk with Ann-Christine Duhaime

The 2023 summer series will begin with Ann-Christine Duhaime RI ’16, author of Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2022). Duhaime is the Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, associate director of the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Climate Change and Health.

Harvard Climate Forum

Science and Engineering Complex 150 Western Ave., Allston, MA, United States

A day of action-focused learning, bringing Harvard’s multi-disciplinary climate impact expertise to our community. This one-day event will engage Harvard thought-leaders and learners in an interactive experience – inspiring action, collaboration, leadership, and change across all sectors and industries.

HGSE 2023 Orientation Freecycle

Gutman Commons Café

Attend this popular recurring HGSE reuse event, the Freecycle, which is like a yard sale where everything is free.

Food Politics 2023: What Matters and Why

Rubenstein Building 414AB 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

​​​This hybrid seminar will be given by Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University. It will be moderated by Bill Clark, Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at HKS.