[Mitworld] New: Woodie Flowers on Leadership, Voices from New Orleans

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[DEVELOPING FUTURE LEADERS]

The MIT Leadership Center features short presentations from 4 students
whose work exemplifies leadership on a global scale. Afterwards, Flowers
discusses the need to cultivate students who are both technologically
literate and philosophically grounded.

MODERTATOR:
Woodie C. Flowers

PANELISTS:
Elizabeth Basha
 Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ('09)

Timothy Heidel
 Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering ('06)

Anat Binur
 Graduate Student, Political Science Political Science

Harel Williams
 Undergraduate, Computer Science ('06)


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/304/>

[QUOTE]
"Imagine the headline that says federal funding is discontinued at MIT
until the faculty agrees to teach intelligent design. This is chilling
to me. Or the fact that members of Congress are saying that global
warming is a hoax. These are things that should cause us pause."
--Woodie Flowers

EVENT HOST:  MIT Leadership Center

<http://sloanleadership.mit.edu/>

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[VOICES FROM NEW ORLEANS: DESIGN AND PLANNING DIASPORA]

Larry Vale hosts a discussion with New Orleans-based scholars, art
historians and architects about critical issues facing New Orleans, in
the face destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.

MODERATOR:
Lawrence J. Vale
 Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
School of Architecture and Planning, Margaret MacVicar Fellow

Gary Van Zante
 Curator of Architecture & Design, MIT Museum

John Klingman
 Professor of Architecture, Tulane University

William Barry
 Senior Associate,
 Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott Architects, Boston

Richard Tuttle
 Professor of Art History, Tulane University

Lawrence Jenkens
 Professor of Art History, University of New Orleans

Ellen Weiss
 Professor of Architecture, Tulane University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/303/>

[QUOTE]
"The important work of the academy is intended to be shared, not stuffed
in the same box as Mickey Mouse."
--Ann Wolpert

EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
<http://dusp.mit.edu/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

MIT Sloan School of Management
 Dean's Innovative Leader Series presents

Ricardo Semler
 President, Semco S/A

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