Hosted events, trips, and tours

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W  NASW workshop registration required ($)    F  CASW New Horizons or hosted event (free)    $  Separate registration required ($)   
9Friday6:00 - 9:00 pmKnight Science Journalism welcome reception
Location: MIT Walker Memorial, 142 Memorial Drive (Buses depart from Hyatt)
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11Sunday12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch With a Luminary I
Location: Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center and the Broad Institute; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby
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12:00 - 2:00 pmMIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center tour
Location: MIT Building NW17, Room 218, 175 Albany St., Cambridge, MA (walking tour, 5 minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby, pick up lunch first at Kresge)
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7:00 - 10:00 pmScienceWriters party
Location: The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Blvd., Boston (Buses depart from Hyatt at 6:40, 6:50, 7:00, 7:20, and 7:40 pm; one bus departs from Fairfield Inn at 6:40 pm)
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12Monday9:30 am - 12:00 pmHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences tour
Location: 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA; board bus at Kresge Lobby at 9:30 am for the 10-minute ride to the Harvard engineering campus.
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10:30 am - 2:00 pmBoston University Photonics Center tour
Location: 8 St. Mary's St., Boston, MA (board bus at Kresge Lobby at 10:30 am; 10-minute ride to Boston University)
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12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch With a Luminary II
Location: Assigned Rooms at MIT Student Center, Kresge, and MIT Building 4; volunteer guides will direct. Pick up lunch first at Kresge Lobby
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12:00 - 2:00 pmThe ingredients for innovation in Kendall Square
Location: La Sala de Puerto Rico, MIT Student Center. Organized by KSJ; participants register as part of Lunch With a Luminary; pick up lunch at Kresge Lobby.
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2:00 - 4:30 pmBoston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories tour
Location: Board bus at Kresge Lobby at 2:00 pm for the 15-minute ride to BU's medical campus.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmLabCentral tour
Location: 700 Main St., Cambridge (walking tour, 10-minute walk, departs from Kresge Lobby)
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5:30 - 7:30 pmBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT tour
Location: 320 Charles Street, Cambridge (bus departs from Kresge Lobby)
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5:30 - 8:00 pmDine around Cambridge and Boston
Location: Varies
8:00 - 10:00 pmStory Collider
Location: Oberon Theater, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Attendees are responsible for their own travel to Harvard Square. Admission at the door by will-call based on purchase at registration.
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13Tuesday7:15 am - 5:00 pmMarine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tour
Location: Buses depart from Hyatt Regency Cambridge
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9:00 - 11:30 amBiogen tour
Location: 225 Binney St., Cambridge (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
F
9:00 - 11:30 amDana-Farber Cancer Institute tour
Location: 450 Brookline Ave., Boston (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
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9:00 - 11:30 amHarvard Museums of Science & Culture tour
Location: 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
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9:00 - 11:30 amJohnson & Johnson Innovation tour
Location: 255 Main St., Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
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9:00 - 11:30 amNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research tour [CANCELED]F
9:30 am - 12:30 pmDraper Laboratory tour
Location: 555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA (Bus departs from Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
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