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  • Thursday, October 18, 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Massachusetts Horticultural Society Honorary Medals Dinner

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s 118th Honorary Medals Dinner will take place Thursday, October 18 from 5:30 – 9 in the Hunnewell Building at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.

    Margaret Roach (pictured below) is the 2018 nominee for the George Robert White Medal of Honor, the highest honor given by the Society. Ms. Roach will be honored for her distinguished career in horticulture as a garden writer for publications, such as Newsday and Martha Stewart Living, where she was able to reach millions of people as she shared her knowledge of gardening. The author of three books, A Way to Garden, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, and The Backyard Parables and her web site, A Way to Garden. She also hosts a public-radio show and podcast which all continue to make meaningful connections between people, plants, and their beloved gardens.

    The George Robert White Medal of Honor was established in 1909 and is among the most distinguished horticultural awards in the United States. The first honoree was Charles Sprague Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum. Other recipients have included Gertrude Jekyll, Jens Jensen, The Royal Horticultural Society, Massachusetts General Hospital and Tasha Tudor.

    Dale Deppe of Spring Meadow Nursery is the 2018 nominee for the Jackson Dawson Memorial Award. This award is given for exceptional skill in the science or practice of hybridization or propagation of hardy, woody plants.

    William Cannon is the nominee for the Thomas Roland Medal, which honors men and women who have shown exceptional horticultural skill. Mr. Cannon is honored for his expertise of holly and his garden in Brewster, MA.

    Betsy Ridge Madsen will receive a Gold Medal for her leadership as Chair of Massachusetts Horticultural Society and her dedication to help continue the Society’s legacy. Betsy’s volunteerism at the Flower Show as a judge, clerk, and many other positions helps continue Mass Hort’s tradition of promoting Amateur Competitions for passionate designers and plants people. As a floral designer, gardener, horticulturist and spokesperson, Ms. Ridge Madsen has advanced the art and science of horticulture by example and her willingness to share her expertise with others.

    Carol Stocker will receive a Gold Medal in recognition of her work as a garden writer for the Boston Globe and other publications which has promoted the art and science of horticulture to thousands of readers.

    Karen Perkins is nominated for the Silver Medal for her efforts in the propagation and promotion of Epimediums. She is the owner of Garden Vision Epimediums, and has demonstrated her dedication to the science of horticulture and promoting plants for people to enjoy in their gardens.

    Trish Wesley Umbrell is nominated for the Silver Medal for her extraordinary skill as a garden educator, both formerly with Mass Hort and currently with the Natick Community Organic Farm.

    Reservations are required ($125 per person).  Visit https://masshort.org/education-events/honorary-medals-dinner/

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  • Sunday, September 25 – Saturday, October 1 – HUBweek 2016

    HUBweek 2016, a festival for the future, will take place in Boston September 25 – October 1.  Founded by The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts General Hospital, you will explore the topics and meet the thought leaders shaping our tomorrow. At HUBweek, the sponsors believe that sharing accelerates innovation and creativity and that Boston is where the future is being built. They invite you to join over 70 organizations and 50,000 participants in 2016 for a look behind-the-scenes – visit labs, companies, and creative spaces. Meet those who are making an impact, from policy leaders and researchers to investors, founders and creatives. Explore, imagine, and exchange ideas that are shaping your tomorrow. Open Registration is available at www.hubweek.org.

  • Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – What is Life?

    Three seminal figures in biological and biomedical sciences, George M. Church, PhD, Gary Ruvkun, PhD, and Jack Szostak, PhD, discuss life as we know it, life as it may have begun, and life as it may evolve in the future, in the Cahners Theater at the Museum of Science on Wednesday, November 13, beginning at 7 pm. From basic elements of human biology to nuances in aging and illness and on to life forms we’ve never known before, venture into an investigation of what we know, what we may find out, and what we have yet to imagine. Cocktail reception follows this Reno Family Foundation Symposium. $20. Tickets available online at https://store.mos.org/index.php?action=showevent;event_id=746;c=1.

    George M. Church, PhD is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, Director of the NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science, Synthetic Biology Platform Lead at Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and recipient of the 2011 Franklin Bower Award for Achievement in Science for his contributions to genomic science, including the development of DNA sequencing technologies, and his efforts in personal genomics and synthetic biology.

    Gary Ruvkun, PhD (pictured below) is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and recipient of the 2008 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the 2012 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research for his discovery of microRNAs.

    Jack Szostak, PhD is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the 2008 Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

    Funding provided by the Reno Family Foundation Fund.

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  • Wednesday, February 1, 6:00 pm – The Origin of Cellular Life

    The amazing diversity of life is a result of billions of years of evolution. But how did the process of evolution begin? Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, will describe how efforts to design and build very simple living cells are testing our assumptions about the nature of life, generating ideas about how life emerged from the chemistry of early Earth, and offering clues as to how modern life evolved from its earliest ancestors. Free and open to the public, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free parking available in the 52 Oxford Street garage. Part of the Evolution Matters lecture series at The Harvard Museum of Natural History. Supported by a gift from Drs. Herman and Joan Suit.  For more information, visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu.