Jun 6, 3:16PM Speaker: Jessica Alfoldi The African coelacanth, whose genome was recently sequenced, is a highly unusual fish that closely resembles the fossils of its 300-million-year-old ancestors. Scientists have debated for decades about whether it truly is a slow-evolving fish, and how closely related it is...

Lectures Section

Jun 6, 2013 Speaker: Manolis Kellis Countless regions of the human genome have been mapped by genetic studies...
Jun 6, 2013 Speaker: Levi Garraway Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, accounting for more than 9,...
Jun 6, 2013 Speakers: Stuart Schreiber, Jay Bradner, Aly Shamji, Mike Foley, and Brian Hubbard Insights from...
May 14, 2013 This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's legendary "I Have a Dream" speech at...
May 9, 2013 Slide show, discussion and fund-raiser for a project in Mali to stop female genital mutilation (FGM...
Apr 23, 2013 The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) welcomes Alejandro Junco de la Vega...
Apr 18, 2013 Diana Chapman Walsh will deliver this year’s Sonnabend Lecture on Tuesday, April 30 at 7 p.m. in...
Apr 10, 2013 Three authors discuss their recently published books and their journey from conception to...
Apr 8, 2013 Public Forum on preservation of the Alewife silver maple forest "Three Towns, One Forest" Sponsored...
Mar 28, 2013 Join us for this exciting event organized by Cambridge Community Television in celebration of the...
Mar 21, 2013 Our modern job market calls for all of us to be entrepreneurial… even if we are working in a 9-5...
Feb 21, 2013 Based on her 2012 book The Libra Solution: Shedding Excess and Redefining Success at Work and at...
Feb 14, 2013 Is this the right time for you to sell? Are you preparing to make a move? To downsize, upgrade or...
Jan 27, 2013 Vice Mayor E. Denise Simmons, the Cambridge City Council and the City of Cambridge invite you to...
Dec 12, 2012 A group of striking short films and production stills provide a glimpse into the artist’s working...
Dec 10, 2012 Although Americans may spend 90 percent of their time indoors, we now live in closer proximity to...
Nov 21, 2012 Be the Media! is a conference that aims to help participants understand the link between strategic...
Nov 15, 2012 Dennis Nurkse reads from his new collection, A Night in Brooklyn, with George Kalogeris, whose...
Nov 8, 2012 When a patient and family receive the diagnosis of a terminal illness, what is the next step? When...
Nov 2, 2012 Carol Moldaw reads from So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems, with Rodney Wittwer, whose debut...

Pages

Subscribe to All stories in the Lectures category...