Scientists for social responsibility



Past Events:

· 2006
· 2005
· 2004

Past Events,Jan-June 2006:

Friday, April 21 ESW table at Caltech Earth Day Fair

Tuesday April 18 The first Caltech Alternative Career Fair.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Jerry Houser, Director of Career Development Center
  • Bharat Patel, Chair of US Green Building Council LA
  • Parth Venkat, growingTheWorld.org
  • Dr. Martha Kirouac, Huntington Library
  • Maggie McConnell, Poverty Action Lab
  • Dr. Sanza T. Kazadi, Jisan Research Institute
  • Erika Li, CAPSI Research Group
  • Full speaker bios are here.

    March 28-29 ESW attended the Earth Institute Conference at Columbia University and Unite For Sight conference (April 1-2)

    Friday, Feb 17 Dinner at Mo’s: Alternative Career Organizer & ESW social

    Thursday, Jan 26 Registation and volunteer drive for Spring Alternative Career Fair at the Career Fair

    Friday, Jan 13 ESE & Society Discussion: Alice Sterling, a Senior Project Manager for the City of Pasadena. She will be leading the discussion on "/Pasadena's Green Building Program/".

    Past Events, 2005:

    Friday Dec 2 End-of-term presentations of design projects by students in E/ME 105, Product Design for Developing Countries (Flyer)

    Thursday Dec 1 Talk: Ben Linder (Olin College), "Designing Products for Humanitarian Demining: Countering the effects of conflict to save lives" (Flyer)

    Friday Nov 18 Tabling at Caltech's International Resource Fair

    Thursday Nov 17 Talk: Michael Rosberg from the University of Belize (Flyer)

    Thursday Nov 10 Talk: Amy Smith from MIT (Flyer)

    Thursday Nov 3 Talk: Joel Segre from Project Impact

    Thursday Oct 27: Talk: Dr. Paul Polak from International Development Enterprises, "The ruthless pursuit of affordability" (Flyer; Caltech Today notice)

    Wednesday Aug 31: Informational session on building a biodiesel reactor on campus.

    Tuesday May 17: Prof. Thayer Scudder discussed his new book, The Future of Large Dams.

    Thursday May 5: Informational session on Caltech participation in the National Academy of Engineering's Grainger Challenge to develop a water arsenic-decontamination system.

    Saturday Apr 9: Tour of the Los Angeles Eco-Village.

    Tuesday March 8: Presentation by Jules Dervaes, Path to Freedom.

    Thursday Feb 24: Tour of UCSB's Donald Bren Hall, "the greenest laboratory building in the United States", and of Patagonia’s secondary headquarters. Tour in collaboration with ArtCenter College of Design.

    Saturday Feb 5: Visit to Tierra Miguel community-supported agriculture farm. Some photos.

    Tuesday Feb 1: Catharine Stebbins presented her work with Prof. Kerry Sieh doing educational outreach on earthquakes and tsunamis to villages in Indonesia. Here is an article from the Washington Post about it.

    Tuesday Jan 25: Screening of The End of Suburbia.

    Thursday Jan 20: Presentation of the Award for Best Paper in E/ME 105 (“Team Cholera Treatments Worldwide”, Fabien Nicaise, Chris Rusay, and Chen-Zhe Wang), and installation of all project posters in the Thomas Building.

    Past Events, 2004:

    Fall 2004: E105: Engineering Design of Products - Caltech class with Prof. Ken Pickar in collaboration with ESW-CIT.
    We also have streaming video of the E/ME 105 presentations through our website! http://esw.caltech.edu/ME105_2004_video.htm

    Thursday, November 18: Speaker, Iqbal Quadir, founder of GrameenPhone

    Tuesday, November 9: Speaker, Michael Rosberg University of Belize and Galen University, Belize

    Thursday, November 4: Speaker, David Kaisel, Sustainable Sciences Institute

    Thursday, October 7: Speaker, David Irvine-Halliday, Light Up The World

    Thursday, September 30 - Saturday, October 2: Solutions for a Shrinking Planet - ESW National Conference

    Wednesday, May 12: Speaker, Adrian Hightower, Enhanced Energy Foundation

    Thursday, April 8: Film screening and discussion, "Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh."

    Thursday, February 26: Speaker, Tim Prestero, Design that Matters

    Saturday, February 7 : Visit to Tierra Miguel community-supported agriculture farm. Some photos.

    Thursday, January 29: Film screening and discussion, "Bread and Roses," 8:00PM in the North Catalina rec room.