Last Week

Next Week

Featured Event

Lecture: China’s Environmental Challenges: Water, Waste, and Watts
January 31, 2014
with Professor Darrin Magee, Environmental Studies Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Lecture: Pig farms, highways and gold mining: how where you live matters for your health
February 3, 2014
Join us for lunch and a lecture by the first of four candidates visiting campus for a position with the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Tinydance Interest Meeting- Engineers for a Sustainable World
February 4, 2014
Project Description: ESW is working to design and fabricate a stage for a variety of dance works made for small, sustainable spaces. The stage will be pulled by bike performance venues and can be set up entirely with hand tools. The project includes working with Kelly Silliman (Dance MFA '13), Celebrations, and The Smiffenpoofs. ESW projects are open to people of all majors! If you're interested, email Alex Julius at amjulius@smith.edu.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

5 College Geology Lecture
February 4, 2014
5 College Geology Lecture
Case Study room
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Conference: Building Climate Solutions
January 29, 2014
January 30, 2014
14th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment
More...
Washington, D.C.

STPEC Activist Lunch Series
January 29, 2014
We are proud to announce the second year of the STPEC Activist Brown Bag Lunch Series. This semester, four extraordinary local activists will visit UMass to share their experiences and perspectives on activism in the Valley and beyond. Come ready to ask questions (for example, about internship opportunities!) and participate in a wider discussion of their work. The series is open to the general public, so please bring your friends.
UMass Amherst Campus Center, room 162-75
11:15 am to 12:45 pm

Ervin Zube lecture
January 30, 2014
with Krista Harper, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Director, European Field Studies Program, Center for Public Policy and Administration. Light refreshments will be served.
More...
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMASS
4:00 pm

A reading with Eve Ensler--
January 30, 2014
In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection. Co-sponsored with The Odyssey Bookshop and the Gender Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College. Tickets to this event can be purchased for $5 through The Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, 413-534-7307
Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
7:00 pm

Lecture: Lessons from the Pliocene: Understanding Climate Change
January 31, 2014
by Exploring Earth’s Last Interval of Sustained Warmth- a lecture by Dr. Kira Lawrence of Lafayette College.
Morrill 129, University of Massachusetts
3:30 pm

Info session: Conway School of Landscape Design
February 1, 2014
Did you know what we're now offering a 10-month Master of Science in Ecological Design? The Info Session is a great way to learn about the program, see the beautiful campus, meet the faculty, talk to alumni and students, and eat a delicious locally catered lunch. Can't make it to campus this Saturday? You can tune in online! We'll be streaming the event live using Google Hangouts on Air and taking your questions via social media. Please RSVP here: http://www.csld.edu/2013/10/join-us-for-an-information-session-on-saturday-127/
332 South Deerfield Road, Conway, MA
10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Film screening: Food for Change
February 1, 2014
A provocative new film about the resurgence of food co-ops in the United States and their role in building resilient food systems and local economies. Tickets can be purchased at the Academy of Music Box Office (Open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM) or by calling 413-584-9032 ext.105 (Service fees will apply with purchase)
More...
Academy of Music, Northampton
2:00 pm

Benefit Concert for South Hadley Food Pantry
February 2, 2014
Music for one piano four-hands performed by Dana Muller and Gary Steigerwalt, including Josef Rheinberger’s compelling Sonata in C Minor; Six Epigraphs Antiques of Claude Debussy; Francis Poulenc’s witty Sonate; and Maurice Ravel’s colorful four-hand version of his own Rapsodie espagnole. All are encouraged to bring a canned good or monetary donation to benefit the South Hadley Food Pantry.
Mount Holyoke College, McCulloch Auditorium
4:00 pm

Lecture: Syria- Prospects for Peace: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
February 4, 2014
A presentation by Prof. Omar Dahi, professor of economics, Hampshire College. With additional comments by prof. Michael Klare, Five College professor of peace & world security studies. Free and Open to the Public
East Lecture Hall, Frankling Patterson Hall, hampshire College
7:30 pm

Featured Event

Lecture: Legumes and Legislation: Models in Science and in Policy
February 6, 2014
Join us for lunch and a lecture by the second of four candidates visiting campus for a position with the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
McConnell 103
12:00 pm

Divest Smith College general interest meeting
February 6, 2014
Divestment from the fossil fuel industry is an investment in our future. Smith College can continue its legacy by being pioneers in environmental justice. Join us to discuss the importance of climate action, the fossil fuel divestment movement, and how it fits in at Smith. There will be treats!
Seelye 107
8:00 pm

Lecture: Conservation in a Crisis: Assessing Marine Management Effectiveness in Madagascar
February 10, 2014
Join us for lunch and a lecture by the third of four candidates visiting campus for a position with the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
McConnell 103
12:15 pm

Events at Smith

Life Sciences and Technology Fair
February 7, 2014
Smith College is hosting our annual Life Sciences and Technology Fair for students from life sciences, engineering, psychology, math and computer science. The fair features employers offering internships and full–time positions. This fair hosts a variety of science-related technology and engineering organizations who will speak to students about full time and internship positions. Limited spaces available. Register today!
Smith College Campus Center Carroll Room
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
February 10, 2014
Anne Spirn, Landscape Architecture and Planning, M. I. T.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

"Gender-STEM" Identity Compatibility Among Women Scientists
February 10, 2014
with Bonita London, Associate Professor of Social and Health Psychology, Stony Brook University. Dr. London's research focuses on how people respond to their academic and social contexts based on their social identities as well as their own sense of skill and competence. Dr. London's research focuses on how people respond to their academic and social contexts based on their social identities as well as their own sense of skill and competence.
Seelye 106
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Laura Cruikshank: Crafting a Life in Architecture and Planning
February 8, 2014
Laura Cruikshank is Master Planner and Chief University Architect at the University of Connecticut where she will oversee the move of UConn’s West Hartford campus to downtown Hartford. Previously the Master Planner at Yale University, she is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, class of 1975.
Mount Holyoke College, Pratt Hall
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Physics Seminar
February 11, 2014
Dr. Aleks Diamond-Stanic of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will give a seminar titled "The Universe Needs Feedback: Problems with the Cosmic Fuel Supply." Tea/cookies will be served before the talk, at 4:15 p.m.
More...
Amherst College, Morrill Science Center, 204
4:45 pm to 6:00 pm

Eric Cook: Think with Your Hands
February 11, 2014
Yestermorrow/UMass Semester in Sustainable Design/Build Eric Cook is the Director of Semester Programs at Yestermorrow Design/Build School and adjunct faculty at UMass Amherst. He has engaged the Design/Build arena in both academia and the private sector and revels in the realization that our hands are a rightful part of the design process.
UMass Fine Arts Center, room 463
5:30 pm

Featured Event

Lecture: From double losers to innovative players: Rethinking adaptation to climate change
February 13, 2014
in Sub-Saharan Africa. Join us for lunch and a lecture by the final candidate visiting campus for a position with the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
McConnell 103
12:00 pm

Events at Smith

Engineers for a Sustainable World interest meeting
February 12, 2014
Engineers for a Sustainable World develops leadership and design skills while working towards a sustainable future. Participation comes in many forms, through projects, field trips, round table discussions, workshops, and more! Come to our interest meeting to learn about what ESW does -- all majors are welcome and tea snacks will be provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Divest Smith College Meeting
February 13, 2014

Seelye 107
8:00 pm

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
February 17, 2014
The Mitia Sawhill Lecture Mark Mack, UCLA and practicing architect: EASY LIVING or how a Smithie Changed the Course of Modern Architecture in California.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Table: State Public Interest Research Group (US PIRGS/Mass PIRGS)
February 12, 2014
Campus Organizer: 2014-2015 Job Description Every day, powerful people are making decisions that affect our health, our safety and our future. In Civics 101, we're taught these decisions should be based on the public interest: that's how a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is supposed to work. Yet in the real world, on issue after issue, we see powerful interests corrupting the democratic process, twisting public policy to serve their own ends, all too often at the public's expense.
More...
Amherst College, Keefe Campus Center
11:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Ervin Zube lecture
February 13, 2014
by John Lipman President, Lipman Development Strategies, LLC. ; Project Manager, Jay Cashman,Inc. Light refreshments will be served.
More...
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMASS
4:00 pm

Lecture: Evaluating the Effects of Unpaved Roads on Water quality
February 14, 2014
and Channel Morphology in Northern New England: Implications for Policy and Management by Dr. Beverley Wemple of the University of Vermont.
Morrill 129, UMASS
3:30 pm

Special film screening: Students and Goliath
February 14, 2014
followed by a discussion with local film-maker Alex Leff. Students & Goliath is the story of a generation waking up,becoming energized, and taking the climate crisis into their own hands. Despite heavy opposition, students find community and empowerment to do what the United States government has continually failed to: act on climate change. Students & Goliath follows the divestment campaigns of five schools: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts, capturing a burgeoning movement that now engulfs colleges nationwide.
Media Education Foundation (60 Masonic Street) Frances Crowe Community Room
7:00 pm

Conference: Sustainability: Systems and Solutions
February 15, 2014
For more information and to register for this April 17th event, visit the web site listed below.
More...
UMASS Lowell Conference Center

Wildlife Conservation Lecture
February 18, 2014
Understanding the individual in Wildlife Conservation: How Animal Welfare Science Can Save Endangered Species Liv Baker '98, Ph.D. Cosponsored with Biochemistry
MHC, Cleveland L-2
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

The Five Mindfulness Trainings: building a culture of sustainability
February 18, 2014
Led by Michael Ciborski, Founder and Dharma Teacher at Morning Sun Community. (Morning Sun is in East Alsted, NH, and is an intentional community and center for meditation, sustainability, and social justice in the tradition of Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh.)
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm