From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 11 10:15:45 2006 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:15:45 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sloan's Frederick on Decision Making, Panel on Technology and Policy Education Message-ID: <10111015.EAXHOKIA@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 4 | October 10, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INTELLIGENCE, COGNITIVE REFLECTION, AND DECISION MAKING] Frederick connects IQ to decision making and tolerance for risk. SPEAKER: Shane Frederick Shalaby and Mary Sarofim Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management PLAY NOW: EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND EDUCATION: EDUCATION FOR LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING] Panelists advocate for continued reform in engineering education, underscoring the need for interdisciplinary approaches to complex systems. MODERATOR: Dava Newman Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Director of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow PANELISTS: Richard de Neufville Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Founding Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program Sheila Widnall Institute Professor, and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Joel Moses Institute Professor and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Engineering Systems Granger Morgan Lord University Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Carnegie Mellon University PLAY NOW: EVENT HOST: Technology and Policy Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Museum Soap Box Series presents Nancy Hopkins Amgen Inc. Professor of Biology [ZEBRA FISH AND CANCER: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION?] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Spring 2007 Classes begin February 6 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To separate me from what I was working on is to fail to recognize that I'm a way-station for all kinds of influences that come in and out." --David Milch EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [THREE MORE FOR THE ROAD] The ever-provocative Barnett applies statistics to understand a range of timely topics including the Electoral College system, which he describes as the "funhouse mirror of electoral politics". SPEAKER: Arnold I. Barnett George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If we're going to understand what the problem is, we need to look at data to distinguish what seems to be true from that which is a matter of conjecture. " --Arnold Barnett EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Cooperative Society presents Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Apple Computer [IWOZ: FROM COMPUTER GEEK TO CULTURE ICON: HOW I INVENTED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER, CO-FOUNDED APPLE, AND HAD FUN DOING IT] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Spring 2007 Classes begin February 6 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20061016/fa659fc8/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 19 13:48:15 2006 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:48:15 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Fundamentals of Cancer Research Message-ID: <10191348.QSETYFXF@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 6 | October 19, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FUNDAMENTALS OF CANCER RESEARCH: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW] This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part series on MIT?s efforts in cancer research. SPEAKERS: Susan Hockfield MIT President Professor of Neuroscience Robert J. Silbey Dean, School of Science and Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry Tyler Jacks Director, Center for Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Better understanding of molecular alterations in cancer has translated over the years into the development of better drugs. This is the future." --Tyler Jacks EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INTRODUCTION TO CANCER GENETICS] Weinberg offers a primer on the process of cancer formation. SPEAKER: Robert A. Weinberg Founding Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research Member, Whitehead Institute Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of Biology PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We work with the faith that the only way to develop new, rational ways of treating cancer is to understand what makes cancer cells tick." --Robert Weinberg EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Cancer Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fundamentals of Cancer Research will feature additional lectures by Leona Samson, Jacqueline Lees, Angelika Amon, Richard O. Hynes, Eric Lander, Douglas Lauffenberger, Michael Yaffe, Jianzhu Chen, Phillip A. Sharp and Robert Langer. The entire series will be made available on MIT World in November. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Spring 2007 Classes begin February 6 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20061019/97445f78/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 26 12:12:27 2006 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:12:27 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Novartis' Vasella on Innovation, Samson on Cancer Message-ID: <10261212.EEFKXUQI@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 7 | October 26, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [LEADING INNOVATION] Vasella takes us through the development of Gleevec, one of Novartis' signature products to demonstrate the challenges of modern drug development. SPEAKER: Daniel Vasella Chairman and CEO, Novartis PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Scientists must have the ambition to discover and bring to patients better new drugs. They must tolerate failure, because failure is more often their daily bread than success." --Daniel Vasella EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DNA MUTATION, REPAIR AND THE ENVIRONMENT] In part 3 of this 11-part course, Samson explains how carcinogens can damage DNA and lead to the growth of cancerous cells. SPEAKER: Leona Samson Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences Professor of Toxicology, and Biological Engineering Ellison American Cancer Society Professor PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Eventually, we'll be able to take a tumor and know every gene that's different in that tumor from a normal cell." --Leona Samson EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Communications Forum presents a three-part series Will Newspapers Survive? Part One: The Emergence of Citizen?s Media A Panel Discussion featuring Dan Gilmore, Ellen Foley and Alex Beam Moderated by David Thorburn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Executive Education Leading Innovative Enterprises MIT's Premier Leadership Program for the Life Sciences Join senior MIT faculty in an intensive leadership program for high-potential managers in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare industries. MIT Sloan?s unique executive program integrates perspectives from multiple disciplines to address the complicated and often unique challenges faced by companies in the life sciences industry. "This program has great value and practical application for life sciences." Clare Kendall Senior Director, Clinical Project Management Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC January 28-February 2, 2007 March 25-30, 2007 May 20-26, 2007 For more information, visit MIT Sloan Executive Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20061026/543ac9e6/attachment.htm