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Events at Smith

Spring Bulb Show
March 5, 2011
March 6, 2011
March 7, 2011
March 8, 2011
March 9, 2011
This Saturday marks the opening of the Spring Bulb Show, which runs Mar. 5-20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. South African bulbs and other spring flowering plants add to the exotic flavor of the Show. Special evening hours on Mar. 11 and 18, 6-8 p.m.
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Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Bike Mechanics Workshop: Braking Systems
March 5, 2011
Bike Kitchen presents the second workshop of a four week long series. Come out to learn all about braking systems including how to troubleshoot side pulll, center pull, and a comprehensive overview of cantilever brakes. No experience necessary! Come for all or just part of the workshop! All workshops are FREE and open to students (including Five College students), faculty, and staff.
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Bike Kitchen, Basement of Ainsworth Gym
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Webinar: An Urban Ocean Observatory: Marine Observing and Forecasting in New York/New Jersey Waters
March 9, 2011
Come see the webinar of New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions presenting Alan F. Blumberg of the Stevens Institute of Technology and George Mead Bond Professor and Director of the Center for Maritime Systems. Learn about the work Stevens has been developing since 1997. Stevens is evolving a network of operational coastal ocean and estuary sensors that provide real-time observations of weather and ocean conditions throughout the New York/New Jersey (NY/NJ) Harbor Estuary, Hudson River, and NJ coastal waters. A high-resolution, now operational nowcast and forecast hydrodynamic model system has been added and refined since 2004. The region includes all of the “urban” waters of New York and New Jersey, out to the continental shelf break. NYHOPS (New York Harbor Observation and Prediction System) provides medium term (48hr), water level, wave, 3D currents, temperature, and salinity forecasts.
CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, Room 005
2:30 pm

Bike Mechanics Workshop: Shifting Systems
March 9, 2011
Bike Kitchen presents the third workshop of a four week long series. Come out to learn all about shifting systems including assessing, disassembling, repairing/replacing front and rear derailleurs. No experience necessary! Come for all or just part of the workshop! All workshops are FREE and open to students (including Five College students), faculty, and staff.
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The Bike Kitchen, Basement of Ainsworth Gym
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Green Team Meeting
March 9, 2011
Interested in green initiatives on Smith's campus? Come join the Green Team this Wednesday as they perform their 2nd Mailbox Audit. They will be sorting recycled mailings and would love extra hands. All are welcome!
6:15 pm

Spring Bulb Show
March 10, 2011
Join us for the Spring Bulb Show, which runs Mar. 5-20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. South African bulbs and spring flowering plants add to the exotic flavor of the Show. Special evening hours on Mar. 11 and 18, 6-8 p.m.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Student Interest: Green Team Committee Meetings
March 10, 2011
Interested in fostering sustainability at Smith? Come to a Green Team meeting to find out how you can be a part of this work! The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students which educates and supports the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources. Come to a committee meeting to work on a specific project involving Transportation, Waste Reduction, Event/PR, and Dining issues.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, Room 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Riverscaping: Rethinking Art, Environment, and Community
March 8, 2011
Thom Long, Assistant Professor of Architecture + Design at Hampshire College and Co-Director of the Five College Architectural Studies Program, will present on the 18-month interdisciplinary project, Riverscaping: Rethinking Art, Environment and Community, which is made possible by a grant to Five Colleges and is incorporated from the European Union’s “Getting to Know Europe” initiative. Led by the Five College Architectural Studies program, the project will support discussion among scholars, designers, scientists and planners here and in Hamburg, Germany, (designated Green City of the Year by the Union for 2011). Thom Long is a practicing architect and graphic/media designer, and is the founder and Creative director of visionLaboratory in Northampton. His work, in practice and theory, explores concepts of communication through and across various design disciplines, working on a broad range of projects including architecture, print and web design, corporate branding, film and multimedia, and interior design. He works collaboratively with a network of architects, artists, and designers on a wide range of international memorials, residential, and interior design projects. This is a part of the TEI Environmental Lecture Series.
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UMASS- Amherst Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell
3:30 pm

Lecture: An Urban Ocean Observatory: Marine Observing and Forecasting in New York/New Jersey Waters
March 9, 2011
New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions presents Alan F. Blumberg of the Stevens Institute of Technology and George Mead Bond Professor and Director of the Center for Maritime Systems. Come learn about the work Stevens has been developing since 1997. Stevens is evolving a network of operational coastal ocean and estuary sensors that provide real-time observations of weather and ocean conditions throughout the New York/New Jersey (NY/NJ) Harbor Estuary, Hudson River, and NJ coastal waters. A high-resolution, now operational nowcast and forecast hydrodynamic model system has been added and refined since 2004. The region includes all of the “urban” waters of New York and New Jersey, out to the continental shelf break. NYHOPS (New York Harbor Observation and Prediction System) provides medium term (48hr), water level, wave, 3D currents, temperature, and salinity forecasts.
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UMASS Amherst, Engineering Lab II, Room 115

Lecture: Biofuels: pyrolysis, bio-oil
March 10, 2011
Come listen to George Huber, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UMASS Amherst present as part of the Climate, Energy, Biochar, and Agriculture seminar series. The seminar series is being held by the Center for Agriculture and the department of plant, soil and insect sciences at UMass Amherst with the cooperation of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative and the New England Small Farm Institute in Belchertown.
UMASS Amherst, 318 Stockbridge Hall
4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Spring Bulb Show
March 11, 2011
March 12, 2011
March 13, 2011
March 14, 2011
Join us for the Spring Bulb Show, which runs Mar. 5-20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. South African bulbs and spring flowering plants add to the exotic flavor of the Show. Special evening hours on Mar. 11 and 18, 6-8 p.m.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Bike Mechanics Workshop: Shifting Systems
March 12, 2011
Bike Kitchen presents the third workshop of a four week long series. Come out to learn all about shifting systems including assessing, disassembling, repairing/replacing front and rear derailleurs. No experience necessary! Come for all or just part of the workshop! All workshops are FREE and open to students (including Five College students), faculty, and staff.
More...
The Bike Kitchen, Basement of Ainsworth Gym
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Spring Bulb Show
March 15, 2011
March 16, 2011
March 17, 2011
Join us for the Spring Bulb Show, which runs Mar. 5-20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. South African bulbs and spring flowering plants add to the exotic flavor of the Show. Special evening hours on Mar. 11 and 18, 6-8 p.m.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Spring Bulb Show
March 18, 2011
March 19, 2011
Join us for the Spring Bulb Show, which runs Mar. 5-20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. South African bulbs and spring flowering plants add to the exotic flavor of the Show. Special evening hours on Mar. 11 and 18, 6-8 p.m.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Spring Bulb Show
March 20, 2011
Today marks the last day of the Spring Bulb Show, which closes at 4 pm. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution
March 21, 2011
Please join Paulette Peckol and the Environmental Science & Policy Program for an afternoon lecture with Dr. Larissa Williams of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Williams is a Smith alumna and former ES&P student. We hope to see you there! Tea and cookies are served at 4 p.m. in the McConnell Foyer, lecture follows at 4:30 in McConnell 103.
McConnell 103
4:00 pm

Community Garden Workshop Series: Seed Starting
March 21, 2011
Come join Community Garden members for a night of seed starting. Learn the best ways to begin spring planting- from the correct soil to use, to the propagation requirements of specific crops.
Lyman Plant House
7:00 pm

Lecture: Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging
March 22, 2011
What might trash - all the discarded materials considered no longer of use - say about its former owners? What can be inferred about the one casting out his or her refuse based on what is contained in the heap? Elizabeth V. Spelman, the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, will explore such questions during her talk "Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging," the 53rd annual Katharine Asher Engel Lecture.
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Seelye Hall 201
5:00 pm

Information Session: School for Field Studies
March 23, 2011
Bonnie Clendenning, Smith alumna and president of the School for Field Studies, will be holding an information session about the various study abroad locations offered by SFS. As a participant in an SFS program students have the opportunity to conduct in-depth field research while at the same time working together with the host community to learn real environmental problem-solving skills. Light lunch will be served.
Wright Hall, 002, Garden Level
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Bike Mechanics Workshop: Bearing Systems
March 23, 2011
March 23, 2011
Bike Kitchen presents the final workshop of a four week long series. Come out to learn all about bearing systems including assessing, disassembling, repairing/replacing headsets and hubs. No experience necessary! Come for all or just part of the workshop! All workshops are FREE and open to students (including Five College students), faculty, and staff.
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The Bike Kitchen, Basement of Ainsworth Gym
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Student Interest: Green Team Committee Meetings
March 24, 2011
Interested in fostering sustainability at Smith? Come to a Green Team meeting to find out how you can be a part of this work! The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students which educates and supports the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources. Come to a committee meeting to work on a specific project involving Transportation, Waste Reduction, Event/PR, and Dining issues.
More...
CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, Room 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Planning for a Resilent Future: A mid-semester gallery of student work
March 23, 2011
Come see the work that Landscape Studies students of have been doing in connection with the Ward 3 community. Students have been hard at work since the last forum and are looking for additional community guidance as they move forward with their individual designs. Design topics include: Bridge Street Cemetery, Sustainable Back-yard Agriculture, A Permaculture Plan for the Entire Ward, Creative Solutions to Waste Water Treatment, Signage and Access to Local Businesses, Shaw's Motel Site, Co-housing, Bridge Street/Rt. 9, Gateway experiences throughout the Ward, Increased Connectivity throughout the Ward, Alternative Energy Production & Consumption Reduction, Embracing the Homeless Community, and Preserving Critical Ecosystems Please stop by for all or part of this gallery/open house. We look forward to seeing you there. There will be refreshments and kid-friendly activities. The event is sponsored by the Center for Community Collaboration (CCC), the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association, and Landscape Studies.

Lecture: Biochar and farm-scale production
March 24, 2011
Come listen to Peter Hirst of New England Biochar as part of the Climate,Energy, Biochar, and Agriculture seminar series. The seminar series is being held by the Center for Agriculture and the department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at UMass Amherst with the cooperation of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative and the New England Small Farm Institute in Belchertown.
UMASS Amherst, 318 Stockbridge Hall
4:00 pm

Lecture: Rising to the occasion: Waterfront design as if life depended on it
March 24, 2011
Noted landscape architect and ecological restorationist, Marcha Johnson, will present as part of UMASS Amherst's Ervin Zube Lecture Series, which exists to engage the academic community with exciting issues in landscape architecture and design.
UMASS-Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Lecture: Just Getting Warmed Up: Recent and Future Changes on the Icy Continent
March 24, 2011
Eric Steig of the University of Washington and Director at the Quaternary Research Center will be presenting. This talk is a part of the Five College Geology Lecture Series.
Hampshire College, Red Barn
7:00 pm