Not a school-sponsored event
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Showing posts with label Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jones. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Penguins and Global Warm - Sept. 28
Global Warming: A Problem for Penguins
Get informed during Climate Preparedness Week, as Dyan deNapoli, also known as The Penguin Lady, presents a program titled Global Warming: A Problem for Penguins at the Jones Library on Saturday, September 28 at 2:30 pm in the Woodbury Room.
Penguins are an indicator species, and they are alerting us to the health of the environment they live in. It is now unmistakably clear to scientists that penguins are being negatively impacted by climate change. In fact, it is the top threat to penguin populations today. In this eye-opening presentation, best suited for adults and older students (ages 12 and above), the various ways in which global warming is affecting all 18 penguin species will be discussed. Action steps that individuals can take to help penguins and the environment will also be part of the conversation.
This talk will be given by Massachusetts native, Dyan deNapoli. Dyan is an internationally recognized penguin expert, TED and Nat Geo speaker, and award-winning author. Prior to founding her company, The Penguin Lady, she worked as a Senior Penguin Aquarist at Boston’s New England Aquarium for 9 years. The Great Penguin Rescue, her inspiring and bestselling book about saving 40,000 penguins from the Treasure oil spill in South Africa, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press in 2010. Dyan will have copies of her book available for purchase and signing.
During September 24–30 each year, Climate Preparedness Week is organized by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), an organization dedicated to learning, service, and actions that better prepare communities for extreme weather events. To learn more, visit www.climatecrew.org/.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Libraries and the Woodbury Fund. For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413-259-3223.
Not a school-sponsored event
Thursday, September 5, 2019
After the Picnic brush up on Civics with Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Many-Levered Machines:
Government Systems and How to Influence Them
Brush up on your civics savviness with this first in an upcoming series of programs on civics and democracy in the Woodbury Room of the Jones Library at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 10, 2019.
Amherst's former State Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose will explain the basics of local, state, and national government systems, expand on the complex set of institutions that form public policy, and lead an interactive exercise to help participants think about where advocates can tap in to make a difference. This session will be appropriate for those with little to no experience with government systems, as well as those with great understandings of institutions but with a desire to become more effective activists.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Libraries and the Woodbury Fund.
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.
Not a school-sponsored event
Monday, April 1, 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition - Jones Library
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition
UMass-Amherst brings their Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition to the Jones Library on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 3:00 pm in the Woodbury Room.
Graduate students at UMass-Amherst conduct exciting research on a variety of timely topics, from food safety to improved water delivery systems to election reform. UMass’s Three Minute Thesis competition challenges graduate students to communicate the significance of their research to a general audience, in three minutes or less. Competition finalists will give their talks live at the Jones Library and audience members will have the chance to vote on the $500 People’s Choice award winner.
Free and open to the public.
This program is brought to the Jones Library by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School. For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.
Not a school sponsored event
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Jones Library Veterans Day Program
Veterans Day Program:
Remains of a War: Exploring WWI Battlefields
Saturday, November 10
2:30 in the Woodbury Room, Jones Library
The Jones Library marks the 100th anniversary of Veterans Day with a special program presented by Libby and Ed Klekowski on Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 2:30 pm as they share their experiences in exploring some of the battlefields from World War I.
Libby and Ed Klekowski have been researching World War I for over ten years and have spent many hours walking through the battlefields of Verdun, the Meuse Argonne, and St Mihiel. Their work has resulted in three books and they have produced two WWI documentaries for public television. This special lecture will take the audience for a walk "on the wild side", where the dross of war still litters the woods.
Free and open to the public. For more information about this event, please contact Janet Ryan at 413-259-3223.
Not a school-sponsored event
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