From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Mar 2 10:51:21 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:51:21 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: The 30th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the newest videos. The 30th Annual MIT Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presents Dr. Charles Vest President of MIT "Challenges of the Past, Present and Future" President Vest reflects on the the progress made and the work yet to be done to achieve a more racially balanced university. Keynote speaker Dr. Julianne Malveaux Rhetoric or Reality: Civil rights Under Siege In this riveting keynote address, economist and author Dr. Julianne Malveaux takes on institutional hypocrisy as it relates to economic justice and issues of race in the US. These are the first two of four talks from this year's MLK Celebration. Reflections by Nicholas Pearce '07 and graduate student Bruce Webster will be available on MIT World soon. **************** There are now 166 videos on MIT World, with material coming from 47 event hosts at MIT. Thanks to all of the schools, labs, centers, departments and programs who continue to produce timely, relevant and thought-provoking materials. See an alphabetical list of hosts and sponsors at http://mitworld.mit.edu/sponsors.php. ________________________________________________________________ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. Operational support is also provided by the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. -- -- Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://mitworld.mit.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20040302/d7be5878/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Mar 12 15:29:29 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:29:29 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Noam Chomsky and Leroy Hood Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the newest videos. The Technology and Culture Forum presents MIT Institute Professor Noam Chomsky "The Militarization of Science and Space" Noam Chomsky discusses US economic policy as one that is designed "to make rich people happy and make everybody else frightened" in this Technology and Culture Forum special presentation. **************** Computational and Systems Biology 2nd Annual Symposium on Systems Biology From Bioinformatics to Biofabrication Leroy Hood President, Institute for Systems Biology Keynote Address: "Academic Perspectives" MIT hosted the second annual CSBi Symposium on Systems Biology. This event attracted people from all over the United States and Europe to share their research in the area of Computational and Systems Biology. MIT World will present other speakers from this symposium in March and April. This event was hosted by Computational and Systems Biology at MIT and co-sponsored by MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) The Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) **************** There are now 168 videos on MIT World, with material coming from 48 event hosts at MIT. Thanks to all of the schools, labs, centers, departments and programs who continue to produce timely, relevant and thought-provoking materials. See an alphabetical list of hosts and sponsors at http://mitworld.mit.edu/sponsors.php. ________________________________________________________________ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. 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The 30th Annual MIT Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presents Nicholas Pearce '07 Bruce Webster G "Student Reflections" In these brief but stirring reflections, Pearce and Webster share their own personal life stories with the MIT community, with a sobering reminder of many injustices of the past and challenges for the future. IN THE PIPELINE The Technology and Culture Forum presents "Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science" Kevin Knoblock, President, Union of Concerned Scientists Respondents Philip Morrison, MIT Institute Professor Emeritus E.O. Wilson, Harvard Professor Emeritus The Physics Department Physics Colloquium Series "New Frontiers with Ultracold Gases" Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle ________________________________________________________________ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. Operational support is also provided by the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. MIT World Must-see MIT -- Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://mitworld.mit.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20040322/60238c16/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Mar 30 14:08:26 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:08:26 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: David Botstein and Claus Weyrich Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the newest videos. Computational and Systems Biology 2nd Annual Symposium on Systems Biology From Bioinformatics to Biofabrication presents David Botstein Director and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University "An Introductory Science Curriculum for 21st Century Biologists" Botstein shares his vision to reform undergraduate education that will enable today's biology students to make sense of the fundamental issues of other disciplines. Hosted by Computational and Systems Biology at MIT and co-sponsored by MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) The Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) *********************** The MIT Industrial Liaison Program presents Dr. Claus Weyrich Head of Corporate Technology and member, Managing Board Siemens, AG In this lecture from ILP's Technology Executives Lecture Series Weyrich explains how a company as diverse as Siemens AG can succeed in technological leadership by keeping an eye on the big picture and maintaining a comprehensive vision of the future. IN THE PIPELINE Union of Concerned Scientists President Kevin Knoblock "Investigating the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science" Presented by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project in association with MIT Student Pugwash The Technology and Culture Forum The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice Novelist Margaret Atwood "Oryx and Crake Revealed" Presented by the Office of the Arts Abramowitz Memorial Lecture MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. 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