[Mitworld] New: How Communities Can Recover from Disaster, History of Cancer Research

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[HOW CAN COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND REGIONS RECOVER FROM DISASTER?]

MIT faculty discuss the future of New Orleans and question if this
crisis can become an opportunity for inclusion and positive change

Speakers:

Lawrence J. Vale
 Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
 School of Architecture and Planning 

Thomas Kochan
 George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Co-director, Institute for
 Work and Employment, MIT Sloan School of Management

J. Phillip Thompson
 Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and
 Planning


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/27/>

[QUOTE]
"Recovery from disasters is largely a matter of where politics sends
money. Cities often bounce back in the same place, but often that place
is profoundly changed."
--LawrenceÊVale

EVENT HOST: MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina 

<http://web.mit.edu/katrina/>

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[HOW DID WE GET HERE?]

Robert Weinberg tells a compelling story of the 200 year history of
cancer research in this opening session of the MIT Center for Cancer
Research 4th Annual Research Symposium, "The New Science of Cancer
Therapy".

[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: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/298/>

[QUOTE]
"The idea that one can't predict the trajectory of basic research is a
point sadly lost in Washington." 

--RobertÊWeinberg

EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
<http://cbi.mit.edu/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

The Energy Research Council and the 
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment present 

Steve Koonin
Chief Scientist at BP 

**"Energy for the Coming Decades: 
Trends and Technologies"**

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