Faculty Works in Progress: Brian Helmuth
Brian Helmuth, Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences and Public Policy, College of Science and College of Social Sciences and Humanities, “Ecological Forecasting: How Science Can Help Society to Proactively Prepare for a Warmer World.”
Lunch will be provided.
Stay tuned for more details and registration.
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Expo
Cabot Cage
10am – 2pm
Awards Ceremony
3pm – 5pm
Raytheon Amphitheater
RISE:2013 showcases the breadth and depth of innovative thinking at Northeastern, including topics in Physical & Life Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Arts & Design, Computer & Information Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, Business and Social Sciences. In addition, our “Faculty Works” scholarly presentation honors faculty who published books or produced major artistic works in 2012.
The day wraps up with an Awards Ceremony and Reception. As in years past, awards will be given for Outstanding Student Research in each category, as based on the judges scores. New this year, the RISE Awards (Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship) will provide grants to students to further their research or endeavor.
Abstracts Due – March 15
Posters Due – February 1
“Dark Cloud Encounters,” Katherine Wyman, CfA
Something For Everyone About Climate Change and the Reasons For Climate Gridlock
Dr. Susan Solomon, a professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will deliver a talk on March 19, 2013 at 7 p.m. at the Marine Science Center at 430 Nahant Rd. in Nahant, Mass.
This lecture will take place in the Murphy Bunker. Light refreshments will be served half an hour before the start of the program, and most lectures last for 1-1.5 hours. The MSC is ADA-accessible, and no reservations are required.
Science on Screen: This is Spinal Tap
Get ready to smell the glove and watch out for spontaneously combusting drummers. We’re turning it up to 11 with the greatest mockumentary of them all – a work of sublime (and profound) comedic genius deemed so culturally significant that it was named to the National Film Registry for preservation by the Library of Congress.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid and, uh…clever.”
Director Rob Reiner’s largely improvised cult classic follows the key members of fictional British heavy metal band Spinal Tap – lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), lead singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) – as they embark on their first American tour in years, with filmmaker/TV commercial director Marty DiBergi (Reiner) on hand to document the occasion and retrace the group’s evolution. Responsible for such albums as “Intravenous DeMilo,” “The Sun Never Sweats,” and “Bent for the Rent,” the aging metal heads are now trying to make a comeback with their latest LP, “Smell the Glove.” But just about anything that can go wrong, does, from canceled shows to botched stage props to playing second fiddle to a puppet show. This hilarious, spot-on send-up of ‘80s rock culture includes cameos by the likes of Bruno Kirby, Dana Carvey, Fran Drescher, Billy Crystal, Paul Shaffer, Anjelica Huston, Fred Willard, and Patrick MacNee, and such unforgettable Tap hits as “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight,” “Hell Hole,” “Big Bottom,” and, of course, “Stonehenge.”
Before embarking on this journey with one of England’s greatest and loudest bands, join us as guest speaker Christopher Shera, a physicist and auditory physiologist, speaks about the science of sound. How are sounds produced? What separates music from other sounds? What is the difference between a loud sound and a soft one, and how does the ear handle sound at large and soft intensities? What’s the full range of human hearing – and how loud can we go?
About the Speaker
Christopher Shera studies how the ear amplifies, analyzes, and emits sound. A Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Shera holds a Ph.D. in physics and neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology and works as an Associate Professor of Otology & Laryngology and Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School. When not thinking about ears, he terrorizes domestic cats by attempting to play the cello.
Connectomics: What, Why and How
Tucked away beneath the snow of the Arctic Circle is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Sometimes called “the doomsday vault,” it’s nothing less than a backup of the planet’s horticultural biodiversity. Inside the vault, Dr. Cary Fowler and his team work with seeds from hundreds of crops that have nurtured humanity since our ancestors began tilling the soil. Their goal: to ensure that the world’s food supply can survive the dangers of disease, famine, climate change, and identical GMOs. Nearer the equator, documentary filmmaker Yung Chang shows us how intertwined we are with the fruits we eat in The Fruit Hunters. Guided by devoted exotic fruit lovers, he takes us on a cinematic odyssey through nature and commerce, changing not only the way we look at what we eat, but how we view our relationship to the natural world. Exotic fruits and cocktails will be served following the program.
Fee: $15
A Reno Family Foundation Symposium.
The concept of evolution by natural selection has long been a lightning rod for anti-science rhetoric. Such attacks are usually aimed at the biological realm, but Darwin’s opponents must now face evidence that complex evolving systems also drive phenomena beyond life science, such as the diversification of minerals on earth. Part of the Evolution Matters Lecture Series, supported by a generous gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit.Free and open to the public. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free event parking for evening lectures in the 52 Oxford Street garage.
Why Exercise Really is Medicine: An Evolutionary Perspective