David Sweeney has been appointed President and CEO of MASCO, the Medical, Academic and Scientific Community Organization for Boston’s 210-acre Longwood Medical and Academic community, the LMA. Currently Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Martin J....
Read moreFrederick Law Olmsted designed the Emerald Necklace that borders the Longwood Area in 1876, and the importance of public spaces have been a point of pride in the Longwood Medical Area since then. Olmsted believed that universal access to “scenes of...
Read morePhoto: William Bossen Reaching Net Zero: How Embracing the Squiggle Can Help Us Succeed The last four years have been the hottest on record, and winter temperatures in the Arctic have risen by 3°C since 1990. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are...
Read moreFood Truck Fridays is a MASCO sponsored program that began in the summer of 2016. A variety of vendors are invited to 375 Longwood Avenue from 11am-2pm each Friday from May-September. For the summer of 2019, two trucks came each Friday: a lunch...
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Dana-Farber modernized its logo and that of the Jimmy Fund with a blue and gold palette. The logos have not been changed in more than 20 years. Josh Bekenstein, Chairman of the Dana-Farber Board of Trustees said that “The new Dana-Farber and Jimmy...
Read moreTUESDAY, September 10th Author Christina Thompson is OUTSIDE and will discuss her latest book THE POLYNESIAN TRIANGLE, which delves into an area of ten million square miles, defined by the three points of Hawai‘i, New Zealand, and Easter Island. All...
Read moreTuesday August 27th, Storyteller THEA IBERALL is OUTSIDE from 12-2 pm at the Countway Courtyard telling stories on the half hour. Iberall has been called ‘a shimmering bridge between heart and mind.’ An inductee into the International Educators Hall...
Read moreTUESDAY August 20th, BARBARA ALIPRANTIS, a trilingual (English/Greek/ASL) Storyteller will be OUTSIDE at the Countway Courtyard telling stories on the half hour from 12-2pm. Born in Greece, her repertoire includes stories about her Greek-American...
Read moreSee below for some exciting programming this week OUTSIDE! On Tuesday, August 13th, Bands on Blackfan has unfortunately been cancelled due to storms in the forecast. Also on Tuesday, Storyteller Andrea Kamens appears OUTSIDE. Andrea is a teacher,...
Read moreCan an image of a butterfly wing prove inspirational to researchers working to develop more efficient catalytic converters? Can an image of a life-threatening red blood cell galvanize scientists to perfect medical implantation that would prevent...
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