Month: September 2015

September 30, 2015

HUBweek Event: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?

On October 7, 2015 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, a panel of thought leaders from Boston and beyond will examine how Boston will manage the impending impacts of climate change. Hear how Boston and surrounding communities are preparing for the coming storm, and what kinds of investments may prevent the worst types of damages. Imagine how Boston will look, as buildings and infrastructure change with sea […]

September 29, 2015

Lecture: How Does the Environment Affect Our Health?

by joe meyrick

On Monday, October 5th at 6:00 pm at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, the Center for Health and the Global Environment, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public will present a panel discussion with top Harvard professors of environmental science, housing and public health entitled“How Does the Environment Affect Our Health?” The speakers will share current research about environmental impacts on health and discuss new technologies, initiatives, and policies designed […]

September 16, 2015

GSD students awarded Design Miami’s 2015 Entry Pavilion

by joe meyrick

For 2015’s Design Miami, fair organizers have awarded the design of its coveted entry pavilion to a group of Harvard Graduate School of Design students — Joanne Cheung, Jenny Shen, Steven Meyer, Doug Harsevoort and Yiliu Shen-Burke. Every year Design Miami, a global forum for design with annual shows in Miami and Basel, commissions an early-career architect to design the entry pavilion for its site. The GSD awardees designed UNBUILT, a fragmented […]

September 14, 2015

Ying Liu publishes an article analyzing pedestrian flow by describing diffusion behavior

by joe meyrick

CGBC Postdoctoral Fellow Ying Liu’s recent article about evaluating unidirectional pedestrian flow by describing diffusion behavior was published in the new edition of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, a “peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes results of rigorous engineering research carried out using mathematical tools.” Liu, along with her co-authors Cheng Sun and Yiming Bie, builds a macroscopic model for describing crowd diffusion behavior and evaluating unidirectional pedestrian flow. Read here.

September 11, 2015

Zheming Tong publishes article on air quality and urban rooftop vegetable farms

by joe meyrick

CGBC Postdoctoral Fellow Zheming Tong’s recent article about air quality above an urban rooftop vegetable farm was published in a new edition of Environmental Pollution, “an international journal that seeks to publish papers that report results from original, novel research that addresses significant environmental pollution issues and problems and contribute new knowledge to science.” Tong, along with co-authors Thomas H. Whitlow, Andrew Landers and Benjamin Flanders, investigated the effect of elevation and rooftop configuration on […]