The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT will be hosting the 13th Annual Research Day event on Monday, February 24. The topic of this year’s event is Understanding the Biodiversity-Climate-Infrastructure nexus, hosted by Associate Professors Admir Masic and Serguei Saavedra.The event will consist of lightning-fast research talks and poster presentations by CEE faculty, students, and postdocs. It will also include light food and drinks during the poster presentation reception hours.Join us for an exciting event! Please RSVP here by Friday, February 14.

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Hosted by MENA/MITMichael Freedman studies religion, conflict, and citizen-state interactions in Israel and the Muslim world. His work combines big data approaches with experiments and in-depth interviews. He is an assistant professor (lecturer) in political science at the University of Haifa, where he is also a founder of the Political Behaviour Lab and a member of the Haifa Data Science Research Center. His research has been published in multiple outlets including the American Sociological Review, Political Behavior, Political Science Research Methods, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. He holds a PhD in political science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019).Register here.

Aging Brain Seminar with Ronald A. DePinho, MD, MD Anderson Cancer CenterDate: Monday, February 24Time: 4:00pmLocation: 46-3310, Picower Seminar Room (in-person only)Talk Title: Telomerase in Cancer, Aging, and Alzheimer’sAbstract: Abstract to come.Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. is the past president and distinguished university professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He studied biology at Fordham University, received his M.D. degree with distinction from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and performed his residency and postdoctoral training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His research career began at Einstein as the Feinberg Senior Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research and an ACS Research Professor. He then joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School where he was the founding Director of the Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Science, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Cancer Research.

Malika Korganbekova (University of Chicago)

Replicating RNA with RNAhttps://web.mit.edu/webcast/chemistry/s25/2/