ONLINE – Finding Your Roots panel for NET (Nebraska’s PBS & NPR stations)
This event will focus on the science of ancestry testing, why test results can change, and the difference between genetic ancestry and heritage/traditions.
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Community events
ONLINE – Personal Genetics & You: Hope, Health, and Healing (Part 2)
pgEd will be presenting 2-part virtual community information and education workshops in collaboration with Hope and Victory Evolves (H.A.V.E.) in the Bronx. These conversations will focus on genetics and its role in health and medicine, ancestry testing, privacy and law enforcement.
ONLINE – Science for Seminaries: 2021 Faculty Enrichment Workshop
Science for Seminaries is a project by the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This project works with seminaries across North America to integrate science into their core courses that future pastors and clergy will take. The main goal of the project is […]
ONLINE – Humanity in Deep Space
pgEd’s Director, Dr. Ting Wu, will be discussing the intersection of genetics and space travel at a webinar organized by Humanity in Deep Space on “Are We Really Built for Space?”. Ting, who also directs the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School (MIT), will be joined by panelists, Dr. George Church (HMS/MIT) and […]
ONLINE – Conversation with Churches Caring for Creation on genome editing and the environment
pgEd will present a workshop on genome editing and the environment, in collaboration with professor Susan Schroeder, for the Churches Caring for Creation group in Norman Oklahoma.
ONLINE – National Human Genome Research Institute webinar
Marnie will be presenting a webinar to faculty and trainees in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The webinar will focus on pgEd's experiences and programs raising awareness and conversation about genetics and genomics. Thank you to Dr. Chris Gunter, […]
ONLINE – Academy of Jewish Religion – Yonkers, NY
Marnie will give a 1-hour presentation followed by discussion with future rabbis on "A basic understanding of genetics". She was invited to this conversation by Geoff Mitelman of Sinai & Synpases, as part of a series on scientific literacy (supported by AAAS DoSER Science for Seminaries program).
ONLINE – MetroWest STEM Education Network (MSEN) Quarterly Meeting & Launch Event for Science on State Street
Gill will introduce pgEd’s work to fellow STEM enthusiasts and advocates. She will deliver a brief presentation about pgEd’s Science on State Street Genome Editing and the Environment exhibit during MSEN's Quarterly Meeting.
Science on State Street at Framingham State University – Framingham, MA
Our presentation "Engineering the World Around Us: Genome Editing and the Environment" will include discussion and activities about the application of genome editing technology to revive extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, in an effort to combat climate change.
Genome Editing & Health Equity: Innovation & Ethics
MIT Museum 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatespgEd will be presenting "Genome Editing & Health Equity: Innovation & Ethics" as part of the Health Equity Day programming for the Cambridge Science Festival. Join us as we explore the intersection of science, innovation, and ethics. Genetics research is progressing at a feverish pace and increasingly impacting people’s lives and society as a whole. […]