Boston Scenes 10/16/14

University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley, second from right, presents Robert L. Peabody, second from left, with a photo of his father Gov. Endicott Peabody signing legislation to create UMass Boston in 1964, during a public celebration of UMass Boston’s 50th anniversary, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in the Boston Common. Also on stage are Chair of the UMass Boston Board of Trustees Henry Thomas III, far left, and former Massachusetts Senate president Robert E. Travaglini ’74.

Nigel Jacob (center), co-founder of the Mayor’s Office of Urban Mechanics, joins moderator Susan Glasser, Editor of Politico, and guests (from left: City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, Kent Larson, director of MIT Media Lab, and Edward Glaeser, director of the Rapport Institute for Greater Boston) for Politico’s “What Works” panel discussion at the Revere Hotel in Boston.

Governor Patrick participates in a roundtable discussion with the Mass Scale initiative at Communispace in Boston. The initiative is designed to identify and promote a portfolio of emerging “best practices” for in-school and out-of-school projects spanning the STEM disciplines and grade levels from pre-K to college.