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--> RSVP to this event This winter, join the Graduate School of Business' Leadership for Society Program to explore People and Planet in the Information Era. Listen to conversations hosted by Prof. Brian Lowery with leaders from a variety of sectors on the immense opportunity and critical challenges for society presented by the rapid explosion of information in our world. The Existential Crisis: Addressing Climate Change: The climate science is clear, a transition to a carbon-free economy is direly needed. Yet it’s been difficult for governments and the corporate world to jump into climate action. How are the most important decisions for humanity and the planet made? What information do we need to seek solutions and what's preventing us from taking this critical action? Speakers and Presenters Sec. Ray Mabus, Former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Governor of Mississippi Organizer Stanford University

--> RSVP to this event Health systems, including hospitals, are on the frontlines of climate change, bearing the costs of increasing disease burdens and more frequent extreme weather events while simultaneously inadvertently contributing to negative environmental and climate-related impacts. The goal of this course is to equip federal, regional and local health systems planners, hospital administrators, long-term care/community care professionals, emergency planners, sustainability officers, public health officials, health practitioners, and others with the knowledge and tools needed to prepare for climate change. This includes how to apply best practices to assess health system vulnerabilities and adaptation options, measure and monitor the climate resilience and environmental sustainability of health systems, and undertake health system greening, all while integrating health equity and undertaking broad stakeholder engagement Speakers and Presenters Health Canada, the Pan American Health Organization, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education have co-organized this course, with input from Ministries of Health and Environment and civil-society climate and health practice communities throughout the Americas. Organizer Carolyn Tateishi, Director, Climate Change and Innovation Bureau, Health Canada Cecilia Sorensen, MD, Director, GCCHE Elizabeth Schenk, PhD, RN, Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship at Providence Avriel Rose Diaz, Executive Director Walking Palms Global Health Dr. Courtney Howard, Emergency Physician

--> RSVP to this event The 2022 - 2023 Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health speaker series will engage our community in conversations about public health as a public good. The country's COVID-19 response made clear the critical importance of rethinking the role of public health within our society. Reflecting on the deficiencies of the existing system, this year's focus will feature discussions on equity, the healthy lifespan, how we translate science into the right solutions in the public health system, economic policy, and more. Grand Rounds was initiated in 2008 at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health to create an intellectual space within which to explore national and global public health challenges and the innovative approaches needed to transform the public's health in the 21st century. Speakers and Presenters Featuring: David M. Cutler, PhD Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics Department of Economics Harvard University Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH (moderator) Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice Professor, Epidemiology and Medicine Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center Organizer Office of the Dean Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

--> RSVP to this event Understand how executive presence shapes others' perceptions of our leadership ability, learn 5 key elements to develop your executive presence, and walk away with practical, customized tools to build your executive presence. Speakers and Presenters Alison Shapira, HKS Adjunct Lecturer, CEO and Founder, Global Public Speaking, LLC. Organizer Academic Deans´ Office and HKS communications program

--> RSVP to this event She produced for Oprah and Anderson Cooper. Emmy-nominated Rachel Hanfling will teach you how to get media attention and catapult your message to new heights. Speakers and Presenters Rachel Hanfling, Media & Communications Trainer Organizer Academic Deans´ Office

--> RSVP to this event The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary, and cutting-edge research is thematically linked to introduce their work to non-specialists, fellow scientists, and one another. What does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute to the climate crisis? The four speakers in this year’s program will explore the complex interplay of food and climate change, challenging and illuminating our unsustainable relationships with meat and water, soil and sea. The presentations will adopt both regional and international perspectives—from the depletion of fish stocks in the United States to crop failures in rural communities in the Global South—while highlighting mitigation and adaptation strategies in these areas. Speakers and Presenters Kimberly Oremus, assistant professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware Angela J. Rigden, assistant professor, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Niki Rust, head of Land, Agriculture, and Nature, UK Climate Change Committee Divya Solomon, doctoral student, Resource, Policy and Behavior, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Organizer Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

--> RSVP to this event Equality or Equity sets forth a compelling argument urging us to shift our understanding of the role of our education system from providing equal opportunity to building an equitable society. This important book makes an urgent appeal for designing and implementing a truly equitable school system and shows us how we can begin to accomplish that goal. Speakers and Presenters Author Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade is professor of Latina/o Studies and Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, will be joined by Jal Mehta, Ph.D.'06, Professor of Education, Faculty Co-Chair, Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology (LDIT) at HGSE. Organizer Gutman Library & Burton and Inglis Lecture

--> RSVP to this event In the Monday ERC Seminar, Lou DiBerardinis, Director, Environment, Health and Safety at MIT and Instructor at HSPH, will discuss the difference between leadership and management, identify skills needed to be a successful leader, identify strategies for prioritizing work, and discuss the role of transformational leadership. This is a preview of a continuing education course being offered by the Executive and Continuing Education Program (ECPE) in March 2023. Organizer Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health

--> RSVP to this event Harvard Law School is excited to announce the launch of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy (CLJE), an evolution and growth of the Labor and Worklife Program that demonstrates our commitment to helping foster the future of worker power. Join us for a special discussion of the State of the Union and policies that can help build newfound power for workers with: Remarks from Senator Elizabeth Warren Joelle Gamble, Chief Economist, Department of Labor Becky Pringle, President, NEA Jose Garcia, Director, Future of Work(ers), Ford Foundation Sharon Block, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School Benjamin Sachs, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School There’s been a recent restructuring of work during the COVID-19 pandemic – which catalyzed a shift from worker frustration and anger to action – and has led to a resurgence of worker organizing. In fact, a 2022 Gallup poll shows public support for unions at a record high since 1965. The door is open for U.S. workers to find new ways to countervail the power of concentrated wealth and gain greater control over their lives and livelihoods. This moment also demonstrates the failure of our existing laws to serve the interests of working Americans. It shouldn’t be this hard for workers to win organizing campaigns and to convert those wins into tangible gains. In this moment of renewed opportunity for workers, the CLJE will help formulate and pursue new strategies to empower working people to build an equitable economy and democracy. Organizer Harvard Law School

--> RSVP to this event This is Part of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research's Talks at Twelve Series. Health equity is a widely touted but vexingly elusive goal. A significant body of academic research addresses research questions related to health equity, but the gap between research outputs and concrete social change is often yawning. How can academic research and robust public engagement be integrated to advance health equity? This talk will draw on two ongoing engagement-centric research projects to shed light on this question. Bringing together insights from research on health policy and housing policy, Dr. Jamila Michener, associate professor of government and public policy and senior associate dean for public engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy, will reflect on the perils, possibilities, and prospects of advancing health equity through community-engaged, policy-oriented scholarship. The talk will conclude by spotlighting the roles of two key institutions in supporting engaged research at Cornell: The Brooks School of Public Policy and the Cornell Center for Health Equity, where Michener is co-director. Speakers and Presenters Jamila Michener is an associate professor of government and public policy at Cornell. She studies poverty, racism, and public policy, with a particular focus on health and housing. She is the author of the award-winning book, “Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics.” She is associate dean for public engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, co-director of the Politics of Race, Immigration, Class and Ethnicity (PRICE) research initiative, and board chair of the Cornell Prison Education Program. Organizer Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

--> RSVP to this event As one of the largest economic sectors globally, health care represents nearly 10% of GDP spending across O.E.C.D. countries. This significant activity produces an estimated 5-10% of global greenhouse gases, presenting opportunities to directly reduce this impact through changes to energy supply, waste, purchasing, and care models. Equally important, health care has a special interest in addressing climate change. Across the globe, human health is negatively impacted by the ramifications of climate change, such as heat, storms, flood, and fires. The health care sector must provide leadership on this critical issue to protect and improve the health of its patients. What should the role of the health care sector be when it comes to climate change policies and advocacy? Dr. Aaron Bernstein and Anand Bhopal discuss the opportunities and challenges. Speakers and Presenters Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE); pediatrician, Boston Children’s Hospital; and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Anand Bhopal, Takemi Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bergen Moderator: Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Organizer They are organized by the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.

--> RSVP to this event The world has continued to witness prosperity in terms of poverty reduction and well-being improvement, but one cannot overstate the importance of examining whether the improvement is evenly shared or is being inclusive to all. In this paper, we propose a general quantile-based approach based on absolute changes that allow assessing and robustly examining inclusiveness of well-being for non-monetary indicators that are bounded in nature and can have both attainment and shortfall representations. Our empirical analysis of inclusiveness uses a multidimensional measure of well-being that is closely linked to the flagship global multidimensional poverty index and examine inclusiveness of well-being changes for 80 developing countries covering six different geographic regions. We observe robust improvements in well-being for most countries in our study, but only around three-fifth of all countries show robust inclusiveness. Further geographical analyses show that the same figure is less than one-third for the sub-Saharan African region. Our proposed framework could play an important role in jointly meeting the SDG targets of reducing inequality within countries and reducing poverty in multiple dimensions. The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) at George Washington University and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), with the support of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report office (UNDP HDRO), are pleased to host a special seminar series on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI). Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms and dimensions. The global MPI offers a tool to make progress towards this goal. Bringing together the academic and policy spheres, this series of seminars will highlight topics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and caste, the statistical capacity of nations, social protection, the use of geospatial mapping in tracking poverty, poverty and refugees, and evaluating whether we're on track to meet UN SDG Goal #1. The sessions will also include work that applies the global MPI methodology, the Alkire Foster method, to innovative measures. Speakers and Presenters Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds) Organizer Oxford Department of International Development

--> RSVP to this event In 2021 and 2022, two high-level academic reports concerning the way humanity should deal with the fate of biodiversity were published: 'The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review' and the IPBES 'Assessment on Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature'. The former conceptualises nature as an asset, while the latter acknowledges a wide diversity of ways of conceiving of and valuing nature. As an expression of such diversity, for an increasing number of people across the globe, ecosystems should hold legal personhood as a way of gaining protection. Should we address the global biodiversity crisis as a portfolio management or as a rights recognition problem? This talk will consider the clash between these two views. Speakers and Presenters Dr Roldan Muradian (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Organizer Oxford Department of International Development

--> RSVP to this event Christopher D. E. Willoughby is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2016, he completed his PhD in history at Tulane University. He is the author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), and with Sean Morey Smith, he edited the book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery (Louisiana State University Press, 2021). He has published widely in popular and academic publications including The Washington Post and The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Previously, he has held long-term fellowships at the Huntington Library, Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, The Pennsylvania State University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Emory University. Speakers and Presenters Christopher D. E. Willoughby, PhD Organizer Harvard Medical School

--> RSVP to this event Because housing produces about one-fifth of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonizing housing is a major focus of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and several other initiatives. In this talk, Carlos Martín, project director of the Center’s Remodeling Futures Program, will discuss the multiple–and often overlapping–approaches to decarbonizing housing: energy efficiency, electrification, and renewable energy. He’ll also discuss efforts to help policymakers develop strategies that harness the skills of the tradespeople who will do much of the needed work as well as efforts to address inequities in our current residential energy system. Speakers and Presenters Carlos Martín, project director of the Center’s Remodeling Futures Program Organizer Taubman Center for State and Local Government Additional Organizers Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

--> RSVP to this event Led by Tom Wheeler, former chairman, Federal Communications Commission, this hybrid event will focus on how the issues of privacy, data control, market control and information control only become worse in the metaverse. This is a HYRBID EVENT offered:* Online via webinar* In personPlease RSVP. The general public is invited to join us in person in Wexner 434AB on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch will be served.If you do not hold a Harvard ID, you will need to enter the campus through the Courtyard off Eliot Street, and proceed to the Wexner Building Security Desk. You will be asked to show an ID. Take the elevator to the 4th floor for the event. Speakers and Presenters Tom Wheeler, former chair, Federal Commmunications Commission; Senior Research Fellow, M-RCBG Organizer Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

--> RSVP to this event In this session, two negotiation experts discuss their experiences with programs that teach negotiation skills to individuals from underserved communities. Daniel leads a program in which Columbia MBA students teach formerly-incarcerated individuals. Melissa is the Founder and Executive Director of Negotiation Works, where she develops and leads negotiation skills programs for individuals emerging from difficult situations such as incarceration, homelessness, addiction, and domestic violence. Daniel and Melissa will share how their respective programs are structured and what they have learned to date about the impact of their work. They will also discuss the societal need for such programs and the challenges and successes in creating and implementing them. This seminar is organized by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) and co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, which is an inter-university consortium among Harvard, MIT and Tufts, dedicated to connecting rigorous research and scholarship with deep understanding of practice. Melissa Reinberg is the Founder and Executive Director of Negotiation Works, a non-profit organization focused in Washington, D.C, that seeks to empower people from marginalized communities with tools to resolve conflicts, advocate for themselves and others, and build more stable lives. Melissa also serves as a community mediator with the D.C. Superior Court's Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division, where she mediates a wide variety of legal disputes, including family, small claims, and truancy cases. For 17 years, Melissa taught a simulation-based Negotiation and Mediation seminar as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Previously, Melissa served as a Mediator with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel; Legal Director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia; Staff Attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services Program; and Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center's Juvenile Justice Clinic. Melissa has taught negotiation and mediation to mediators, attorneys, teachers, and other professionals. She has an A.B. from Cornell University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Daniel R. Ames is a Professor in Columbia Business School’s Management Division, where he leads the School’s curriculum on negotiation. He is also the creator of Negotiable, a collection of digital resources that helps people build and apply their ability to negotiate. A social and personality psychologist, Daniel earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. His research revolves around how people perceive and interact with one another. He studies how people fight and cooperate, how people form impressions and bond, and how people read one another’s minds—or fail to. His work appears in scholarly outlets in psychology and organizational behavior and has been covered by media outlets ranging from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal. At Columbia, Daniel is an award-winning instructor, teaching courses and workshops on topics including negotiations, conflict, and teamwork, often leveraging experiential activities from roleplays to immersive games to design challenges. Speakers and Presenters Melissa Reinberg, Founder and Executive Director, Negotiation Works Daniel R. Ames, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business, Columbia Business School Organizer Women and Public Policy Program Additional Organizers Program on Negotiation

--> RSVP to this event CID Speaker Series presents Milind Tambe, Principal Scientist and Director of AI for Social Good; Professor of Computer Science; and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University. He will discuss using artificial intelligence for social impact. With the maturing of artificial intelligence and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. In this talk, Professor Tambe will focus on the domains of public health and conservation, and address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains? He will present results from work around the globe in using AI for challenges in public health, such as maternal and child-care interventions; for HIV prevention; and in conservation efforts such as endangered wildlife protection. Achieving social impact in these domains often requires methodological advances. To that end, he will highlight key research advances in multiagent reasoning and learning, particularly related to restless multiarmed bandits, influence maximization in social networks, computational game theory, and decision-focused learning. In pushing this research agenda, the ultimate goal is to facilitate local communities and non-profits to directly benefit from advances in AI tools and techniques. This is a hybrid event open virtually to the public and in-person at the Harvard Kennedy School for members of the Harvard Community. Lunch will be served. Speakers and Presenters Milind Tambe, Principal Scientist and Director of AI for Social Good; Professor of Computer Science; and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University Organizer Center for International Development

--> RSVP to this event The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Prof. Dercon's latest book, Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose, draws on his academic research as well as his policy experience across three decades and 40-odd countries, exploring why some countries have managed to settle on elite bargains favoring growth and development, and others did not. The webinar will be moderated by Clement Brenot, Research Manager at the Growth Lab. Speakers and Presenters Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government Organizer Center for International Development

--> RSVP to this event In this practitioner-focused and action-oriented work, Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Ed.D.'10, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Ed.M.'09, Ed.L.D.'20, consolidate their extensive experience centering equity in leadership. They affirm that the entry of a new leader, or the pivot of an established one, affords an unparalleled opportunity to garner the insight, trust, and commitment that will establish a basis for positive, equitable transformation within a system. This essential work provides a flexible framework for leadership entry that is customized to fit the complex social, political, and economic demands of a given organization and the community it serves. It highlights how such an approach prepares leaders to begin addressing one of the most entrenched and persistent issues in education: structural and systemic racism. Please note that all of Gutman Library virtual events are open to the public and are live-captioned. Speakers and Presenters Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer. Organizer Harvard Graduate School of Education

--> RSVP to this event Computational systems have a complex relationship with justice: they may be designed with the intent to promote justice, tasked to resolve injustices, or actively contribute to injustice itself. In this talk I will take two theories of justice, restorative and distributive justice, as frameworks to analyze and imagine alternatives to two real-world systems. First, I will analyze online harms such as harassment and revenge porn and how they are currently addressed through content moderation. I will use restorative justice to discuss the shortcomings of content moderation to effectively address those harms and discuss what alternatives we might design. Second, I will analyze an attempt at using computational systems to promote distributive justice in public schools in San Francisco that ultimately failed to achieve its theoretical promises of transparency, equity, and efficiency. I will show how incorrect modeling assumptions about families’ priorities, constraints, and goals clashed with the real world causing the algorithm to fail. Through this work I argue for recognizing the limitations of algorithmic solutions, broadening how we evaluate computational socio-technical systems, and ongoing engagement with those affected by those systems. Speakers and Presenters Niloufar Salehi, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliated appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.Her research interests are in social computing, participatory and critical design, human-centered AI, and more broadly, human-computer-interaction (HCI). Her work has been published and received awards in premier venues in HCI including ACM CHI and CSCW. Through building computational social systems in collaboration with existing communities, controlled experiments, and ethnographic fieldwork, her research contributes to the design of alternative social configurations online. Organizer Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

--> RSVP to this event We’re bringing together innovation experts to mark the launch of our new report on designing the collective intelligence commons. To achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and to accelerate our path to a green and just transition for a sustainable recovery, we have to mobilise both funding and our collective intelligence. The digital commons can play a vital role in this. Why you should come This free-to-attend event will explore the benefits of investing in the development of the collective intelligence commons – the open infrastructure for developing and scaling collective intelligence projects, and how this could help us achieve sustainability goals. You’ll hear about the latest research from Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Their new report explores the benefits of investing in the development of the collective intelligence commons and the role open hardware, software, data and content play in developing collective intelligence projects. There is a real opportunity for development funders to build this infrastructure and help increase the diversity, scale, and most importantly local ownership of collective intelligence projects that can help us make vital progress towards the SDGs. Key insights and recommendations in the report will be explored during the event. The event will be attended by Public Development Banks and donors alongside other key stakeholders including think-tanks, Civil society, governments, academic professionals, and private sector, among others. Speakers and Presenters Kathy Peach, Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta (Moderator/Chair)Peter Baeck, Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, NestaPierre-Arnaud Barthel, Head of Public Transformation & Citizens, AFDAurélie Drouet, Digital for Development Expert, Expertise FrancePeter Addo, Head of Emerging Tech Lab, AFDAngela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, UshahidiChenai Chair, Senior Program Officer - Africa Innovation, Mradi - Mozilla FoundationGayan Peiris, Head of Data and Technology, UNDP Organizer This event is hosted by Nesta and AFD and is part of the fringe event programme of Finance in Common, an international event focusing on investing in a Green and Just transition for a sustainable recovery.

--> RSVP to this event As we enter the era of customized computing, where customized domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) are used extensively for performance and energy efficiency. Ideally, we would like to enable every programmer should offload the compute-intensive portion of his/her program to one or a set of DSAs, either pre-implemented in ASICs or synthesized on demand on programmable fabrics, such as FPGAs. But integrated circuit (IC) designs remain a black art to many. High-level synthesis (HLS) made an important progress in simplify IC designs, but it still requires the programmer to provide various pragmas, such as loop unroll, pipelining, and tiling, to define the microarchitecture of the accelerator, which is a challenging task to most software programmer. In this talk, we present our latest research on automated accelerator synthesis and customized computing on FPGAs, ranging from microarchitecture guided optimization, such as automated generation of highly optimized systolic arrays and stencil computation engines, to more general source-to-source transformation based on graph-based neural networks and meta learning, and finally to latency-insensitive system-level integration. Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Researchers / Postdocs, Staff, Undergraduate Students, Harvard Community, SEAS Community Speakers and Presenters Jason Cong, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department Organizer Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

--> RSVP to this event Climate change is one of the, if not the, most significant threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless known, and many still unknown, ways—from atmospheric health to wellness; natural ecosystems to small businesses; global security to neighborhood food insecurity; and international policy to individual decision-making—while exacerbating underlying patterns of inequality. The Mike and Nina Patterson Science Symposium will explore these interconnected issues through sessions investigating global climate systems and climate disasters, public policy, health, climate justice and activism, and methods of adaptation and remediation. Free and open to the public. Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Mike and Nina Patterson Catalyst Fund for Climate, which is supporting this event. Join Us in Person To attend in person, each individual will need to register. Join Us Online To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom. For instructions on how to join online, see the How to Attend a Radcliffe Event on Zoom webpage. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a link and password for this meeting. Live closed captioning will be available for the webinar. Program 9:15AM Welcome Edo Berger, codirector of the science program at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 9:30 AM Framing Remarks: Climate Change and Impacts Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter, the New York Times Discussant: Dustin Tingley, professor of government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; deputy vice provost for advances in learning, Harvard University 10:15 AM Global Perspective and Climate Systems Debra Roberts, cochair, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and head, Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives Unit in eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa) James Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences and director of the atmospheric sciences program, University of Georgia Moderator: Hong Yang, 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Charles J. Smiley Chair Professor of Science and Technology, Bryant University 11:15 AM Break 11:30 AM Climate Justice and Activism Juan Declet-Barreto, senior social scientist for climate vulnerability, Union of Concerned Scientists Autumn Peltier, global Indigenous rights and water activist; chief water commissioner, Anishinabek Nation (Canada) Heather McTeer Toney, vice president, community engagement, Environmental Defense Fund Moderator: Tamarra James-Todd, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 12:45 PM Lunch Break and Student Poster Session 2 PM Welcome Back and Remarks James H. Stock, vice provost for climate and sustainability, Harvard University; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and member of the faculty, Harvard Kennedy School 2:10 PM Health Theresa Crimmins, research professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona; director, USA National Phenology Network Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor, Environmental Health Department, Boston University School of Public Health Nick Watts, chief sustainability officer, National Health Service (United Kingdom) Moderator: Aaron Bernstein, interim director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School 3:25 PM Break 3:40 PM Adaptation and Remediation Klaus Lackner, director, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University Lis Mullin Bernhardt, deputy head, Freshwater, UN Environment Programme Sanjay Seth, former climate resilience program manager, City of Boston Moderator: Somini Sengupta 4:55 PM Close of Program Immaculata De Vivo, codirector of the science program, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Organizer Harvard Radcliffe Institute

--> RSVP to this event Princeton University's annual Engage conference builds connections among university researchers, government partners, accelerators, investors, industry partners, entrepreneurs and stakeholders to turn research into impact. Join us for this online conference on November 3, 2022. Admission is free and all are welcome. The Engage 2022 conference is organized by Princeton Innovation. Check the Engage website for agenda and speaker updates: innovation.princeton.edu/engage2022 Organizer Princeton Innovation