SftPublic Programs 2020

Science for the Public programs are recorded and broadcast by Belmont Media Center and are uploaded also to WGBH Forum Network

January 15, 2020. Effects of Climate Change on New England’s Forests
Pamela Templer, Ph.D., Boston University
SftPublic Lectures with Robbins Library, Arlington MA

January 21, 2020 How Nanotechnology is Revolutionizing Medicine
Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., Tufts University
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA

February 03, 2020 They Didn't Believe It! The Germ Theory of Disease
The third in our They Didn't Believe It series of mini-videos about advances in science that were initially ignored or rejected. These mini-videos supplement the They Didn't Believe It section on the SftPublic webpage.

March 11, 2020 They Didn't Believe It! Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
Another in our They Didn't Believe It series of mini-videos about advances in science that were initially ignored or rejected. These mini-videos supplement the They Didn't Believe It section on the SftPublic webpage.

June 17, 2020 Spillover! Virus Transmission from Animals-to-Humans
Jonathan A. Runstadler, DVM, PhD, Tufts University
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (zoom)

June 26, 2020 Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider
Markus Klute, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (zoom)

July 14, 2020 A Spotlight on the Impact of the Wildlife Trade
Maria Ivanova, Ph.D., UMass-Boston and Candace Famiglietti, UMass-Boston
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (zoom)

July 31, 2020 Are Coastal Communities Prepared for Rising Seas?
Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Union of Concerned Scientists
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

August 03, 2020 Scientists Raise the Alarm: Endocrine Disruptors Affect Brain Development
R. Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D., UMass-Amherst
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

August 10, 2020 All about Jellyfish
Laurence Madin, Ph.D.,, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

August 28, 2020 Explaining and Measuring the Expanding Universe
Paul Martini, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

September 04, 2020 Atmospheric Tipping Points
Daniel Cziczo, Ph.D., Purdue University
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

September 08, 2020 The World Health Organization: Lifeline for the World's Children
Davidson Hamer, M.D., Boston University School of Public Health; BU National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories; Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

September 28, 2020 Climate Change and Ocean Circulation Systems
Amy Bower, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

October 08, 2020 Good Diet, Good Health
Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Harvard Medical School
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

October 19, 2020 Innovations for the People: The GEAR Lab at MIT
Amos Winter, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

November 11, 2020 Climate Change Brings Changes to Medical Training
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School; Cambridge Health Alliance
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations, Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

November 16, 2020 From Sea-Sponge to Skyscraper: Bioinspired Engineering
Matheus Fernandes Harvard SEAS and Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

December 10, 2020 Neural Disruption and Motor Dysfunctions
Jill R. Crittenden, Ph.D., McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT.
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)

December 14, 2020 How Ecosystems Work: from the Smallest to the Largest Scales
James O’Dwyer, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana
Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations Belmont Media Center, Belmont MA (Zoom)