The Conway School Early Application Deadline

Unnamed Venue Conway, MA, United States

We'd like to invite you to apply to Conway's 10-month Master of Science in Ecological Design (MSED). The early application deadline is January 1. Applying early offers the best chance you'll have to reserve a space in Conway's small class and receive financial aid. Read more about admissions here.

(ENVS Lunch & Learn) Witness Tree: What one oak tells us about our changing world and relationship with nature

Lincoln Filene Center, Rabb Room Medford

BTQURU 03 is a spectacular, 100 year old red oak: a tagged, tracked research specimen in a long term study of changing seasons at the Harvard Forest. Sprouted back when the industrial revolution was just getting started, the oak grew to tower over what was once a farmer's field, abandoned as people left for jobs in factories and cities – beginning the transformation of our world. Here, in this tree, is a living timeline of those social and historical changes, and their environmental consequences, observable in my tree's growth and even its breath.

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(ENVS Lunch & Learn) Investing in sustainable well-being

Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center

We have entered the 21st century in a perfect storm of global challenges encompassing unprecedented wealth inequality and environmental degradation. Concurrently, we are living at a unique time in history with enormous opportunities to create solutions afforded by rapid innovations in technology, business and investment that includes a growing movement of impact investors and social […]

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(ENVS Lunch & Learn) MIT’s Climate CoLab: using collective intelligence to address climate change

Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center

Wikipedia, Linux, reCAPTCHA, FoldIt, social media — these are just a few examples of how online platforms allow large numbers of people to connect and collaborate in ways that were never possible before, producing unprecedented results in global knowledge exchange, problem-solving and mobilization. Inspired by this, the researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence […]

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The Conway School Information Session

Attend The Conway School's information session on Urban Collaborative which will be held off-campus on January 30th from 3-5pm. Check out the schedule and register for the open house here.

(ENVS Lunch & Learn) Using a One Health approach to respond to infectious disease outbreaks: USAID/RESPOND project in East and Central Africa

Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center

The USAID RESPOND project was part of multi-year multi-project effort to pre-empt or combat at their source, the first stages of zoonotic diseases that pose a significant threat to human health. It focused on eight countries in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, areas considered “hot spots" for […]

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