[Mitworld] New: Bowen on OCW, Jaenisch and Marks on Human Cloning

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OpenCourseWare presents

William G. Bowen
President
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

"Community Discussion on Open Sharing and OpenCourseWare"

As MIT's OpenCourseWare hits the 900 courses mark, Mellon President 
and OCW funder Bill Bowen reflects on MIT's leadership role in 
creating the first web based course publication of its type in the 
world.  Bowen's remarks are followed by reflections from MIT 
President Charles M. Vest, and MIT Provost Robert A. Brown.

Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/238/.

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MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice

Science, Technology and Human Rights series presents

Rudolf Jaenisch
MIT Professor of Biology and Founding Member
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Stephen P. Marks
Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health

"Human Cloning and Human Rights: Promises and Perils"

Rudolf Jaenisch goes deeply into the biology of human cloning to get 
to the ethical issues that surround the debate.  Stephen Marks 
follows by raising ethical issues through the prism of human rights 
on a global scale.  Go directly to the video page at 
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/239/.



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Charles M. Vest
"Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of 
Research Universities"


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