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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: New Salvador Luria biography and launch event</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’m<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>thrilled<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to let you know that this October the Press is publishing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046466/salvador-luria/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Salvador
Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America</span></a></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Rena Selya. This new biography<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white;font-weight:normal">explores
the life of the Nobel-winning biologist, whose passion for science was equaled by his commitment to political engagement in Cold War America.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As you<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>may<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>know,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Luria
joined the MIT faculty in 1960 and was the founding director of the Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute).</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white;font-weight:normal">We are also hosting a public<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rena-selyas-salvador-luria-wdeborah-douglas-richard-hynes-phillip-sharp-tickets-422777297277?aff=ebdsoporgprofile"><span style="color:#0563C1">launch
event</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Salvador Luria</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at the Koch Institute (in the Luria Auditorium!) on October 26, featuring Selya with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Deborah
Douglas, Professor Richard Hynes, and Professor Phillip Sharp.</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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Associate Manager, Communications and Community Engagement</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Rena Selya's SALVADOR LURIA w/Deborah Douglas Richard, Hynes & Phillip Sharp<br>
<span style="background:white">Wed, October 26, 2022, <span class="date-and-timeline-break">5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT</span><br>
</span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Koch Institute For Integrative Cancer Research at MIT</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">500 Main Street #building 76, Luria Auditorium Cambridge, MA 02142<br>
Register here:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rena-selyas-salvador-luria-wdeborah-douglas-richard-hynes-phillip-sharp-tickets-422777297277?aff=ebdsoporgprofile"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rena-selyas-salvador-luria-wdeborah-douglas-richard-hynes-phillip-sharp-tickets-422777297277?aff=ebdsoporgprofile</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Join us to discuss Rena Selya's biography of Salvador Luria with Deborah Douglas, Richard Hynes & Phillip Sharp.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Presented
by the MIT Press Bookstore and the Koch Institute at MIT</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Blacklisted from federal funding review panels but awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on bacteriophage, biologist Salvador Luria (1912–1991) was as much an activist as a scientist. In <u><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046466/salvador-luria/" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">Salvador
Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America</span></em></a></u></span><strong><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">,</span></u></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> Rena Selya
draws on extensive archival research; interviews with Luria's family, colleagues, and students; and FBI documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to create a compelling portrait of a man committed to both science and society.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Luria was born in Italy, where the Fascists came to power when he was ten. He left Italy for France due to the antisemetic Laws of 1938, and then fled as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe, making
his way to the United States. Once an American citizen, Luria became a grassroots activist on behalf of civil rights, labor representation, nuclear disarmament, and American military disengagement from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. Luria joined the MIT faculty
in 1960 and was the founding director of the Center for Cancer Research. Throughout his life he remained as passionate about his engagement with political issues as about his science, and continued to fight for peace and freedom until his death.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Rena Selya</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> is an historian and archivist of science.
Her work focuses on the history of twentieth century biology and medicine, with a particular interest in the role of scientists in American culture. She has taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and Santa Monica College. Dr. Selya is the Archivist and Associate
Director of the Program in the History of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Salvador Luria is her first book. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Selya will be in conversation with </span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Richard Hynes </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">and </span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Phillip
Sharp</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Richard Hynes</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at MIT.
He received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, and his doctorate in biology from MIT. After postdoctoral work at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, he returned to MIT—recruited by Professor Luria—as a founding
faculty member of the MIT Center for Cancer Research. He later headed MIT’s Biology Department, and served as Director of the MIT Cancer Center, now the Koch Institute.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Phillip A. Sharp</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">, an Institute Professor at MIT, is a member of the Department of Biology and the Koch Institute
for Integrative Cancer Research. He was recruited to the Center for Cancer Research in 1974 as a founding faculty member, serving as director from 1985 to 1991 before becoming head of the Department of Biology for eight years. He was founding director of the
McGovern Institute from 2000 to 2004. Professor Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of “split genes.”</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Douglas is the director of collections and curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum as well as research associate with the MIT Program of Science, Technology, and Society. A specialist in the history of technology and science, Dr. Douglas has also
held positions at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, NASA Langley Research Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation and taught at Old Dominion University and MIT. A graduate of Wellesley College (AB) and the University of Pennsylvania (AM, PhD).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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