Speak up on Transit in RTP

Are you ever stuck in traffic and wonder if there are other alternatives for your daily commute? Are you eagerly awaiting the opening of the Triangle Parkway at the end of this year?

While recent infrastructure improvements have made RTP more accessible to commuters and decreased commute times, as the region continues to grow and as development patterns evolve, regional leaders continue to look for ways to improve our transportation infrastructure.

Be part of the conversation on possible transit and extended bus route options by attending a public workshop this Thursday evening. Stop by the RTP HQ anytime between 4:00  – 7:00 PM on March 31 and learn about the Triangle Regional Transit Program.  Representatives from the Program and the Triangle Transit Authority will be on hand to show the evaluation process, criteria, and plans to date and to solicit input from RTP employees and the public as the Program seeks to select a Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) and compete for Federal Funding. 

The Triangle Regional Transit Program is based upon work of the region’s two planning organizations.  In 2009, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization MPO (CAMPO) and the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO (DCHC MPO) completed work on the 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan. The plan recommends a high-quality, regional transit system to serve the Triangle, promoting closer connections and providing more travel choices for our growing population. The vision includes increased bus service throughout the region, and rail transit service connecting Chapel Hill, Durham, the Research Triangle Park, Morrisville, Cary, Raleigh, Garner, Clayton and Wake Forest.

Visit the Program’s website at http://www.ourtransitfuture.com/ for materials that will provide background to Thursday’s workshop. For a map of the Durham-Wake corridor – the corridor that would directly impact RTP, click here. If you can’t make it to the session Thursday, you can still post comments on this form.

Want more ideas on how to make commuting easier? Take the SmartCommute Challenge. Try alternative commuting options between April 1 and June 1 and be entered to win prizes — and learn new commuting habits.

RTP Week Ahead, August 2-6

Cyclists on the American Tobacco Trail

Monday, August 2

SCV Entrepreneur’s Breakfast

8:00 – 9:15am

Southern Capitol Ventures, 21 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 105, Raleigh, NC

Want to start a company? Starting a company? Already an entrepreneur? Come join us for bagels and coffee. Meet some of your peers.

Sign up here.

Tuesday, August 3

Seminar: Regulation of androgen receptor transcription by MAGE-11

12:00 – 1:00pm

NIEHS, Rall Bldg. Exec. Conference Room

Speaker:  Dr. Elizabeth M. Wilson – Prof. of Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Biophysics – Laboratories for Reproductive Biology – UNC Chapel Hill. Details.

Wednesday, August 4

Health Care Reform: Myths vs. Facts

7:30 – 10:00am

North Ridge Country Club, 6612 Falls of Neuse Rd., Raleigh

Health care reform is expected to transform one of the Triangle’s fastest growing industries. This panel will explore and explain the implications of the landmark legislation for patients, physicians and employers.  Learn the facts, without the noise.

Cost: $30. More info.

Triangle Get Ready for Plug-in Electric Vehicles Education Forum

11:30am – 4:30pm

RTP HQ, 12 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709

Lunch will be provided. Space is limited so register today for this FREE forum to learn about plug-in electric vehicles and the infrastructure required to make electrified transportation a success!

Reserve your spot today.

Thursday, August 5

NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

8:00am – 5:00pm

McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman Street, Raleigh, NC 27606

This 9th NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium showcases the hands-on scholarship of students from across the nation and from NCSU who have received funding from one of 20 different grants to conduct research during summer 2010. About 92% of participants are in biotechnology-linked disciplines.

Click here for details.

Durham Critical Mass Bike Ride

5:35 – 7:35pm

Ride Starts at the Bronze Bull Downtown Plaza, Durham

A monthly ride which calls attention to the rights of cyclist to the roads as a vital form of transportation.

Friday, August 6

Fault Lines in Global Health: Launch of CSIS Debate Series

9:30 – 11:00am

Live Webcast

On August 6, 2010, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center is launching a year-long debate series— Fault Lines in Global Health —intended to generate an informed, civil, bipartisan, and open airing of opinion on critical global health controversies. Ambassador Princeton Lyman will affirm the resolution.

Watch the live webcast from Washington D.C. here.

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To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.

Week Ahead, June 21-25

Museum cocktails at 2009 IASP Conference

Monday, June 21

NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting

8:30am – 5:00pm (Mon. 6/21 – Tues. 6/22)

NIEHS, Rall Bldg. Rodbell ABC

Open to the public. Find out more.

UNC-Duke Water Resources Research Institute Water Allocation Research Seminar

1:00-2:30pm

The Arboretum at NC State University

How current limitations in hydrologic models produced by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources can be overcome to make those models useful for water allocation and planning.

Free and the public is invited to attend. More info here.

Tuesday, June 22

SpeedLink: Speed Networking in the Triangle

5:45 – 8:45pm

Wyndham at RTP, 4620 South Miami Blvd, Durham, NC 27703

Based on the format of speed dating, attendees will have five minutes to network with each new person you meet. Once the five minutes is up, you will move to the next person and continue networking.

Limited to first 50 registered. Reserve your seat now!

Wednesday, June 23

The Golden Modes: Triangle Commuter Awards and SmartCommute Challenge Results Revealed

3:00 – 5:00pm

Bay 7 at American Tobacco Campus, 318 Blackwell Street Durham, NC 27701

Winners and results of the SmartCommute Challenge and the Photo Contest will be unveiled, including the $1,500 cash grand prize winners. Other prizes include transit friendly staycations, an Amazon Kindle, commuter bikes, new laptop computers, and several iPods.

For more, email Lauren Parker.

Tips for Using LinkedIn to Build Your Business and Career

6:30 – 8:30pm

Skyline Exhibits & Events, 600 Airport Boulevard #1300, Morrisville, NC 27560

Many people think of LinkedIn as a résumé site, but the potential for this social media network is so much greater. Martin Brossman will share tips on how to avoid common mistakes and get the maximum benefits from LinkedIn.

$10 for ICA members; $15 for others. RSVP.

Thursday, June 24

UpLink Professional and Business Luncheon

1:30 – 3:30pm

The Matthews House, 317 W Chatham St, Cary, NC 27513

If you are looking for a new job or career, to hire, for new business relationships, to get the word out about your business, or for someone with a solution…then you need join us for lunch!

Get tickets.

MTBE and TBA Cleanup-New Research Perspectives

2:00 – 3:30pm

Online (www.clu-in.com)

Speaker: Dr. Krassimira R. Hristova. Determining which technologies were necessary for safe drinking water production, via sites contaminated with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA).

Learn more and register here.

Friday, June 25

NCTech4Good Conference

8:00am – 5:00pm

Friday Center, Chapel Hill

This conference will be a day long interactive conversation between nonprofit leaders, technology experts, and volunteers that leads to real results for you and your team. Reception afterward from 5-7pm.

Details.

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To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.

RTP Week Ahead

Tuesday, April 20

Making your Green Business Stand Out

6:00-9:00 PM

Durham Tech Small Business Center

No RSVP required, free.

American Scientist Pizza Lunch

12:00-1:30 PM

Sigma Xi, RTP

RSVP required: cclabby@amsci.org

Triangle Area Research Directors Council (TARDC)

12:00-1:30 PM

RTP Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, RTP

RSVP required: rousseau@rtp.org and $35 fee

Thursday, April 22

Triangle Global Health Consortium: Leveraging the essential role and resource of US global health policy

7:30-9:00 AM

NC Biotechnology Center Congressional Conference Room, RTP

RSVP required: nicole.fouche@triangleglobalhealth.org

National Humanities Center Lecture: Do you have a will?

5:00-6:30 PM

National Humanities Center, 7 TW Alexander Drive, RTP

RSVP Required

Intrahealth International’s “Global Voices”

6:00-8:00 PM

FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill

RSVP to vherrington@intrahealth.org

Friday, April 23

Creative Capital Information Session

5:30-7:30 PM

Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street, Durham

No RSVP required, free.

Please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar of events to view a full listing of this week’s events in the RTP and Research Triangle region.

RTP Week Ahead

Monday, March 29

Seminar: Public Schools and Contaminated Land in Rhode Island: Integrating Research, Research Translation, and Advocacy through the NIEHS Superfund Research Program

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

NIEHS, Rall Building, Rodbell A

Speaker: Dr. Laura Senier, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and Department of Family Medicine. Open to the public. More information.

ASAP RTP Spring Green/Sustainability Event

5:30-7:30 PM

Mez Restaurant

Registration required: $20 ASAP members, $25 non-members Dinner, presentation, and networking included with your registration fee; cash bar opens at 5:30 Register today.

Tuesday, March 30

American  Scientist Pizza Luncheon: Genomic and Personalized Medicine

12:00-2:00 PM

NC Biotechnology Center

Come hear Geoff Ginsburg, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Duke University, discuss genomic and personalized medicine at the American Scientist pizza lunch talk. American Scientist Pizza Lunch is free and open to science journalists and science communicators of all stripes. RSVPs are required (for the slice count), please email cclabby@amsci.org

Next for Women Presents: Build Your Own C.A.S.T.L.E.

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Elinvar, 1804 Hillsborough St., Raleigh

Speaker: Marirose Steigerwald RSVP/ticket required. More information.

Lean Startup Circle RTP March Meetup

6:00 – 7:00 PM

Park Research Center, 104 TW Alexander Drive, RTP

More information.

Wednesday, March 31

Breakfast Science Cafe: Darwin and the Path to Discovery

8:30 – 10:30 AM

Museum of Natural Sciences, 4th floor, Acro Cafe

Open to the public and free. The speaker is Will Kimler, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. His interests lay in the history of biology and particularly the history of Darwinism. He has been named Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, and inducted into the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers.

NESCent Seminar: Postdoc Professional Development – Mentoring Undergrads, Grad Students and Postdocs

12:00 – 1:30 PM

NESCent Building, Ninth Street and Main Street, Erwin Mill Building, 2024 W. Main Street, Suite A200, Durham

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Speaker: Jory P Weintraub (NESCent) For more information, call 919-668-4551.

Thursday, April 1

Seminar: Deep Sequencing of Short RNAs Reveals Promoter-proximal Stalling of RNA Polymerase II Across the Genome

10:00 – 11:00 AM

NIEHS, Rall Building, Room D450

Speaker: Sergei Nechaev, Ph.D./Research Fellow – Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis; NIEHS Part of weekly LMC Seminar Series

China’s Changing Business Environment

3:00 – 5:30 PM

Willow Oak Room, Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, 421 South Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601

There is no cost to attend this event.More information.

Friday, April 2

Chemistry Lecture: Total and Stereoselective Synthesis

1:30 – 3:00 PM

Room A158, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University

More information.

Please visit the Science in the Triangle RTP Events Calendar for more listings.