EventsMar. 8 – Mar. 14

Mar. 8, 2011

Tuesday

(12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.) Women and Gender Studies celebrates International Women’s Day with Open Mic — W20 Coffeehouse

(5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) Legatum Lecture: 2010 Prosperity Index. Lecture given by Dr. Ashley T. Lenihan and Jiehae Choi — 32-144

(8:00 p.m.) Mardi Gras Contra sponsored by the MIT Folk Dance Club — W20-491

Wednesday

(12:05 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.) Ash Wednesday Service — W15 (MIT Chapel)

(5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.) Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) Empowerment Conference Keynote: “Power, and How to Find it in Places You Didn’t Expect” by Cindy Gallop — 46-3002 (BCS Auditorium)

Thursday

(3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) So You Got a Job … Now What? Strategies for success in your new position — 1-246

(5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) GWAMIT Empowerment Conference Panel: “Power Couples” — Successful partners from academia and industry — E51-345

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) Killian Hall Jazz Series concert by composer and pianist Guillermo Klein and saxophonist Bill McHenry — 14-111 (Killian Hall)

Friday

(4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) GWAMIT Empowerment Conference Panel: “I’m not a Feminist, but …” — Conversations on what modern feminism looks like — 32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)

(7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Thai Night 2011: Siam HD — Morss Hall (Walker Memorial)

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) MIT Symphony Orchestra, featuring Amanda N. Mok ’11, winner of the 2011 Concerto Competition — Kresge Auditorium

Saturday

(2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.) Special tour given by MIT Museum Curatorial Associate Ariel Weinberg; Inside 150: Gracious Professionalism, Cooperation, and Competition — MIT Museum

(6:00 p.m.) MIT Figure Skating Club’s Annual Figure Skating Exhibition — Johnson Athletics Center

(8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) MIT Wind Ensemble, with guest composer and pianist Guillermo Klein and saxophonist Bill McHenry — Kresge Auditorium

Sunday

(2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble presents Romeo and Juliet — W20 La Sala de Puerto Rico

(7:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m.) LSC shows Due Date — 26-100

Monday

(4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks about “The Future of Science as Public Service” — Kresge Auditorium

(1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) Celebrate Pi Day with pies, sponsored by the Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics — 33-104

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