Sunday, April 1, 2007

Events: April 9-15

Health- and science-related events in the Boston area this week:

MONDAY, APRIL 9
Former FDA Commissioner and Medicare chief Mark McClellan will talk about improving quality and value for Medicare beneficiaries. At 4 p.m. at the amphitheater of the New Research Building at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston. Call 617-432-1909.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center will present the history, biology, and fisheries management of the horseshoe crab, one of the oldest species on earth. At 7 p.m. at the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, 430 Nahant Road, in Nahant. Call 781-584-7370 ext 321.

Acupuncturist Kerry Weinstein will lecture at Emerson Hospital on treatments for cancer, pregnancy-related nausea and pain relief. At 7 p.m. in the hospital’s North Assembly Room A, 133 Old Road to Nine Acre Corner in Concord. Call 978-443-6789.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
Geologist Rudolph Hon will talk about water supply contamination and stream habitats in the eastern part of the state. Reservations required. At 7 p.m. at Boston College’s Weston Observatory, 381 Concord Road in Weston. Repeated on April 25. Call 617-552-8300 or go to www.bc.edu/westonobservatory.

Rudy Tanzi and collaborating researchers will discuss the Alzheimer’s Genome Project, which is attempting to identify all of the genes that collectively form the disease that affects more than 4.5 million Americans. At 7:30 p.m. at the Rogerson House, 434 Jamaicaway in Boston. Seating is limited. Call 617-472-4235 or go to www.rogerson.org.

WGBH 2 is airing the feature-length film ‘‘FAT: What No One Is Telling You.’’ The film uses first-hand accounts to show the challenges faced by obese Americans and discuss ways to confront the issue. At 9 p.m. on WGBH 2.

Dr. Alan Meyers will discuss the causes of childhood obesity in America with Susan Linn of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and Kathleen Merrigan of the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. At 7:30 p.m. at First Parish, 3 Church Street in Cambridge. Call 617-495-2727 or go to www.cambridgeforum.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 12
Days before the Boston Marathon, Harvard anthropologist Daniel E. Lieberman will explore the evolution of long-distance running and how it has shaped the human body over time. At 6 p.m. at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge. Call 617-495-3045 or go to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay lecture series kicks off with a program on global nitrogen pollution. At 7 p.m. in Patron’s Hall at the Dartmouth Garage, 1133 Fisher Road in Dartmouth. Regular charge: $5. Call 508-999-6363 or go to www.savebuzzardsbay.org.

The Danish ship HMS Vædderen will visit Boston for three days before returning to Copenhagen, Denmark, after an 8-month trip around the world performing oceanographic and climate-related historical research. In connection with the visit, Jorgen D. Siemonsen, chairman of the PLP-Group in Copenhagen, will make a presentation on Vikings in North America at 1 p.m. at The Old State House Museum, 206 Washington Street in Boston. Limited seating available. Go to www.galathea3.dk/uk.

Brown University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BCS theory of superconductivity by hosting a day of talks featuring five Nobel Prize-winning physicists. The panel will discuss superconductivity, its broad scientific uses, and how it’s currently applied to energy transmission, transportation and computing. At 2 p.m. at Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching on the Main Green of Brown, 69-91 Waterman Street in Providence. Call 401-863-2476.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13
The Discovery Museums’ next Family Fun Night will be Earth Day themed, with a presentation on paper recycling. Families can also bring something recyclable to be used in a sculpture that will be displayed at the Children’s Discovery Museum. Admissions fee for those over 12 months. From 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the museums, 177 Main Street in Acton. Call 978-264-4200 or visit www.discoverymuseums.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 14
Yale University’s ‘‘Science Saturdays’’ series for families continues with neuroscientist Charles Greer, who will explain how our sense of smell gives us cues about our environment, food sources and territorial boundaries. From 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Davies Auditorium of Yale, 15 Prospect Street in New Haven. Go to www.eng.yale/edu/science.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15
Bob Hesse will lead this anecdotal course on the colorful history and scientific importance of orchids. At 1 p.m. at the Museum of Science. Registration required. Call 617-589-0300.

Events may be sent to healthscience@globe.com.

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