pgEd's director, Ting Wu, is a juror for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, given at the Sundance Film Festival for depiction of science in a feature film. This year's jury also includes Kerry Bishé (star of the AMC series “Halt and Catch Fire”), Mike Cahill (who won the Sloan Prize in 2011 for “Another Earth” and in 2014 for “I […]
pgEd director, Ting Wu, has been invited to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 8th to give a presentation about pgEd as part of the Office of Public Health Genomics' "Genomics Seminar Series."
pgEd is excited to visit the Christ the King church in Jamaica Plain / Roxbury for a conversation about personal genetics with members of the congregation.
pgEd director, Ting Wu, will be chairing an exciting session on "Science in Space" on April 1st from 9:30-10:30am. Ting is also the director of the Harvard Medical School Consortium for Space Genetics. Image Credit: Galaxy by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (CC BY 2.0); Earth by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Ocean Biology Processing Group.
pgEd will be presenting our lesson "Using Primary Sources to Understand the American Eugenics Movement" at the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies conference in Sturbridge, MA on Tuesday, April 5th at 1:45 pm. This is one of two pgEd lessons that address the American Eugenics Movement and ask students to consider how we as a society […]
Join us for the National DNA Day "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) Series! Each day during the week leading up to National DNA Day, Monday, April 18th - Friday, April 22nd, and on Monday, April 25th, a different expert will be answering questions on the reddit science community forum: "/r/Science". The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), […]
Teachers, join pgEd for a one-day interdisciplinary and interactive workshop about ethical and social issues related to genetics! Current high school students are among the first generation that will have unprecedented access to information about their DNA. How can we prepare students to make informed choices for themselves and for society? We will explore how […]
pgEd is heading back to Washington DC for our 5th Congressional briefing. The briefing, co-hosted by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and Senator Elizabeth Warren, will be a lively discussion on genetics and the implications for space travel. We are delighted to welcome featured speakers Charles Bolden (NASA), Dava Newman (NASA), pgEd director Ting Wu (Harvard Medical School), and Jeffrey Kahn […]
pgEd's Marnie Gelbart is travelling to Rockville, Maryland to attend the 2016 SciEd conference of the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program. pgEd has recently been awarded a 5-year SEPA grant to expand pgEd’s programs in high schools and the broader community and is a partner to the Jackson Laboratory on their […]
pgEd is convening a meeting of the leadership of top companies in genetics, genomics and gene editing, along with other experts from education, healthcare, business, government, communities of faith, and the TV/film industry, to advance the efforts for engaging underserved communities in conversations about personal genetics. For more information, email Johnny Kung at jkung@pged.med.harvard.edu, or call (617) 432-1797.
