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John Ebel, Ph.D. , Professor and Department Chair, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, Boston College. Professor Ebel is an expert on seismology and is noted for his research on the faultline at the edge of the continental shelf off the northeastern Atlantic as well as other areas. In this discussion,...

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 PM Belmont Media Center , 9 Lexington St, Belmont MA. Naomi Oreskes, PhD , Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Dr. Oreskes' websites | Author of Merchants of Doubt (with Erik M. Conway) and The Collapse of...

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Tuesday March 11, 2014 at 6:30 PM Belmont Media Center How do solar systems get started? Modern astronomers are still working to figure this out, and there is nothing they like better than a big challenge like this one. Dr. Najita, who is a prominent...

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM Belmont Media Center in Studio A Max Tegmark, PhD Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Max Tegmark has a proud reputation as a fearless and unconventional thinker. In this evening's discussion...

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations February 4th @ 6:30 PM Belmont Media Center, 9 Lexington St, Belmont MA Javier G. Fernández, PhD , Materials scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D, Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired...