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2/1 Cuban Ecology with Richard Levins and more
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie Welch)
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Cuban Ecology
Thursday, February 1
Richard Levins, Harvard School of Public Health, will present "Ecological Development: The Cuban Experience." 12:15-1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Heller Lounge, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, 415 South St. Waltham. Contact: Doris Breay, 781-736-2773, <breay@brandeis.edu>.
Science in Cuba
Tuesday, February 19
A group of Cuban scientists, in town for the American Academy of Science’s Annual Meeting, will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Science in Cuba:Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration.” The goal of this discussion is to explore possibilities of collaboration between the scientists and their American
counterparts. Each participant will present a synopsis of his/her work. Panelists include Sergio Pastrana, Foreign Secretary, Cuban Academy of Sciences; Victor Bruno Henríques Pérez, Vice President, Cuban Physics Society, Board of Directors, CUBASOLAR; Maria Caridad Cruz, Urban Agriculture Program, Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Man; Dr. Lupe Guzman, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kouri; and Roberto Castellanos, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. Sponsored by DRCLAS and AAAS, and made
possible by a grant from the J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation. 2-5 p.m. DRCLAS, 61 Kirkland. Contact: Lorena Barberia, 617-496-4780, or <barberia@fas.harvard.edu>.
Cuban Health System
Wednesday, February 20
This seminar’s topic will be “Production of Medicines and Cuba's Biotech Sector.” Guest speakers will be Dra. Lupe Guzman (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Havana) and Roberto Castellanos, Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment History. Co-sponsored by the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
and DRCLAS. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Department of Social Medicine, 641 Huntington Ave. Contact: Elizabeth Morse, <Elizabeth_Morse@hms.harvard.edu>.
Cuban Photographs
through March 17, 2002
The work of two New England photographers will be on display in “Two Views of Cuba: Photographs by Lou Jones and Peter Kayafas.” An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 18, 2002, from 6-8 p.m. The artists will give talks separately. Peter Kayafas on January 19, and Lou Jones on March 9. Both
talks are at 3 p.m. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln. Contact: 781-259-8355, or visit the website at <www.decordova.org>.
