Join us for an informative evening dedicated to raising awareness and deepening your understanding of breast health and breast cancer. Our panel brings together a diverse team of medical experts, including a primary care physician, a breast surgeon, a radiologist specializing in breast imaging, and specialists...
The world faces the Dual Challenge: meeting growing demand for affordable, reliable energy while rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The solutions are multifaceted and include methane abatement, accelerating the adoption of renewables and technologies such as Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration (CCUS), as well as...
We are facing an antibiotic resistance crisis. This Town Talk, presented by Zemer Gitai from Princeton University, will review some of the scientific and socioeconomic factors that have made it hard to solve the crisis and let us in on some new approaches powered by...
Presented by Dr. Melissa Sundermann, also known as Doctor Outdoors Have you ever felt calmer after a walk in the woods? More energized by a mountain hike? Happier after spending time in the sun? That’s not just in your head—it’s in your biology. In this uplifting...
What are Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)? Why are they important, and why should we care? In our region, heating buildings is both expensive and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. While geothermal systems are not new, networked geothermal is a new approach — one that...
[caption id="attachment_2824" align="alignnone" width="300"] Lucy Hutyra, Boston University[/caption] Our city trees offer well-known benefits—from cooling overheated neighborhoods to sequestering carbon—but the story is far from simple. This talk examines how trees grow in the challenging urban environment and the ecological trade-offs they face. We’ll explore how...
[caption id="attachment_2818" align="alignleft" width="195"] Ann McDermott, Columbia University[/caption] For proteins, aka “the building blocks of life”, shape is ultimately important. Shape, more than other properties, confers function, information about protein shapes is coveted in the development of new medicines and diagnostics. Most proteins are somewhat flexible,...
[caption id="attachment_2810" align="alignleft" width="200"] Milan Delor, Columbia University[/caption] Moore's law - the long-standing trend of computer chips getting constantly faster and cheaper by doubling the number of transistors on a chip every two years - is coming to a worrying end. The hunt for new materials...
[caption id="attachment_2801" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kade Head-Marsden, University of Minnesota[/caption] There is an exponential cost to obtaining molecular information pertinent to important processes such as catalysis, photosynthesis, and energy transfer and storage. While quantum computing showed early promise for reducing the scaling of these problems, practical realization...
[caption id="attachment_2797" align="alignleft" width="233"] Guillermo AcunaFriborg University[/caption] A scientific revolution is happening at the smallest of scales—one where we fold DNA, the molecule of life, into intricate nanoscale shapes. This field, called DNA origami, turns DNA into a programmable building material, allowing us to craft structures just...
