Eat free or dine tryin’.
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Graduate Students of Color Conference Keynote Luncheon
12 p.m.
Andrews Dining Hall

RSVP is required here for this “formal lunch,” which will feature Tim King, founder and CEO of Urban Prep Academies as part of this year’s Graduate Students of Color Conference. Formal lunch sounds fancy!

CS DUG Big Data Talk
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
CIT 477

Florian Sabou (who has an amazing name) will discuss using computational and mathematical methods to analyze weather patterns. There will definitely be pizza, and we’re just assuming there will be Diet Coke, too.

Leavetaking Information Session
6 – 7 p.m.
Faunce 229

“Food provided” at this info session, apparently. Which is just as vague as your current plans for that semester off.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Felipe Gaitan-Ammann
12  – 1 pm
Rhode Island Hall 108

Felipe Gaitan-Ammann, Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, will discuss his current research in an informal talk. Pizza and soda will be served, but feel free to bring your own lunch.

Finding Summer Research Workshop Series
5 – 6 pm
Sci Li 315

Don’t stress about summer research plans — come to the Science Center in the Sci Li to listen to senior science concentrators talk about their summer experiences aimed at helping you to find potential summer opportunities. Talk to these seniors over delicious pizza.

Alzheimer’s Awareness Day – Dr. Stephen Salloway
7 – 8 pm
Wilson 101

The Brown Alzheimer’s Activists present Dr. Stephen Salloway, MD MS and professor of clinical neuroscience and psychology at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine. Dr. Salloway will discuss his research on Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Pizza and refreshments will be served.

Kony 2012? A Discussion!
7:30 – 8:30 pm
Salomon 001

Remember that Kony video that went viral? Join peers in Lower Salomon to watch videos and talk about the current situation in Uganda. Enjoy free some pizza while you’re there.

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We obviously love free food, but be sure not to eat too much pizza.

Eat free or dine trying. It’s Pi Day, folks!
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The Developing Brain seminar with Prof. BJ Casey
12–1:15 p.m.
Ratty, Room 8

The second lecture in this series brings Cornell Professor of Developmental Psychobiology BJ Casey to the Ratty for a discussion that will feature not only hundreds of 150-point Scrabble words, but a luncheon, too.

Second Annual Health Careers Fair
12–2 p.m.
Faunce’s Kasper Multipurpose Room

While you’re meeting with reps from dozens of health career fields, we’ll be diagnosing the refreshments with a case of Delicious.

Health Services Research Seminar Series: Prioritizing Health in an Era of Cost-Containment
4–5 p.m.
121 South Main, Room 245

UMass Medical School Professor, Dr. Allison Rosen, will discuss things of a healthcare nature while the attention of all involved is fixated on the ambiguous but seductive “light refreshments.”

Women’s History Month Library Open House
5–7 p.m.
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

Help celebrate Women’s History Month and stop by the SDWC to check out the library and the Meeting Street cookies. [Read more →]

Eat free or dine tryin’.
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Debating Theory and Practice in TAPS
4 pm – 5 pm
Lyman Hall 007

RSVPing is requested for this Theater and Performance Studies panel on “the theory and practice of performance.” Our own theory is that free Nice Slice always helps.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Open House
4:30 pm – 6 pm
Wilson 102

The Ecology & Evolutionary Bio DUG is hosting this event; hopefully the promised Meeting Street cookies won’t be extinct by the time you get there.

Dating and Class, an MPC Workshop
5 pm – 6:30 pm
Arnold Lounge

“Does class status present obstacles in the dating community?” Discuss dating and class while you eat ice cream at this workshop. Rom coms have taught us that Ben & Jerry’s tastes best straight out of the pint container under extreme emotional duress, but the MPCs will probably make you use bowls.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Pfizer Postdoctoral Program
12-1 p.m.
Biomed 202

Want to grab some “exciting opportunities for young scientists”? Want to grab some refreshments? Just love Pfizer? See you there.

Hearing Radmilla screening
6-8 p.m.
Smitty B 202

Enjoy and discuss a documentary about the biracial winner of the ’97-’98 Ms. Navajo title… while also snacking.

WiSE Dinner Date with Prof. Ken Miller
7-8 p.m.
Science Center (SciLi 3rd floor)

Hang out with members of Women in Science and Engineering while eating Shanghai and listening to Prof. Ken Miller, BIO 200 guru, expound on the universe. (Apparently he’ll answer “any questions you have.”) Free food. And Ken Miller. Did we mention the Ken Miller part?

Eat free or dine trying.
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Homegrown Development Initiatives in Africa
12 PM
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute

Apparently “lunch will be served” at this international development talk on 1990′s homegrown development initiatives in Africa. The talk will be given by Patricia Agupusi of the School of International Development in University of East Anglia, UK.

Clara Lieu Gallery Opening
5:30 – 7:30 PM
The Gallery at Hillel

Visual artist and RISD professor Clara Lieu will be showing 50 self-portraits made with etching ink and lithographic crayon. Continuing in the vague-description-of-provided-food trend, there will also be “refreshments.”

Hamentaschen Hysteria
5:30–7 pM
The Kitchen at Hillel

In addition to triangular hat-shaped cookies, tons of Nutella is also promised. Now this right here is our jam. (Get it??? There is jam in the center of hamentaschen!)

Tuesday Learning Celebration: Rabbinic Fantasy and the Story of Esther
7–8:30 PM
Hillel

Rabbi Rackover will lead this learning session on the Purim story just in time for Purim, which begins on Wednesday night (Jewish Halloween WhiskCo? Anyone?). “Food” will be provided (hopefully hamentaschen?), but take note, Morning Mail advertisers, that these vague descriptions of free food will not fly anymore.

Thank you, Hillel, for making Free Food Tuesday March 6, 2012 happen.

Eat free or dine trying. Rabbit rabbit.
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Jennifer Campbell Gallery Reception
5-6 pm
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

The Sarah Doyle Gallery is proud to present Random Harvest, a solo show of works by
artist Jennifer Campbell. Light refreshments (cheese, crackers, cookies, soda, and sparkling water) will be served.

Independent Study Info Session & DUG Dinner
6:30-8:30 pm
Faunce 228: Curricular Resource Center

If you’re interested in doing a GISP, ISP, Academic Internship, or an Independent Concentration, go to an Info Session at the Curricular Resource Program at 6:30 pm. Free dinner will be served at 7 pm, but an RSVP is required (a small price to pay for some free chow, obvi).

Eat free or dine trying.
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Brown Bag Series in Archaeology: Julia Troche
12–1 pm
Rhode Island Hall 108

Julia Troche, a doctoral student in Egyptology and Ancient Western Studies, will discuss her research. Pizza and soda will be served, or you can brown-bag it.

Brown Language Society General Meeting
7–8 pm
Wilson 301

Learn more about language learning resources at Brown and ways to practice a language outside of the classroom. Grab some free cookies while you’re there.

Tea++
8-10 pm
Tech House Lounge (Harkness)

Tech House promises lots of free food: tea, hot chocolate, treats, and tea-infused smoothies. Bonus: they also promise that you’ll make friends.

Eat free or dine trying (although we’ll cut you some slack after Fat Tuesday).
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Global Poverty Project
7-10pm
MacMillan 117

Learn about extreme poverty, whom it affects, and what the world should do about it — and then get it on with the dessert buffet.

Safewalk presents: free hot chocolate in the Sci Li
10pm-midnight
Sci Li lobby

Safewalkers keep you company, but tonight they’ll also keep you warm with the cocoa you’re loco for. Bonus: experience ’90s nostalgia by nabbing a slap bracelet. Smart.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Apples to Apples with Apples
8-10 pm
Tech House Lounge, Harkness House

Play the best game in the world as you simultaneously eat the best fruit in the world. In keeping with the theme, bring your iPhone.

Seinfeld Night
8-10 pm
Brown-RISD Hillel, 2nd Floor Meeting Room

Watch Seinfeld and eat “relevant snacks.”  No soup for you.