[Mitworld] New: Landsmark on Black Architects, Panel on Nuclear Technology

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[IS THERE A BLACK ARCHITECT IN THE HOUSE?]

Landsmark details the contributing factors that go this alarming
statistic: of the 100,000 licensed architects in the U.S. today, only
1,571 are African American.

SPEAKER:
Theodore (Ted) Landsmark
President and CEO, Boston Architectural College


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/456/>

[QUOTE]
"Architecture is almost certainly the worst profession in the U.S. for
having made any kind of change over last 40 years. I go to many events
in the Boston area put on by my colleagues, and invariably I'm the only
person of color there even today."
-- Theodore Landsmark


EVENT HOST: Department of Architecture <http://architecture.mit.edu/>

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[DIVERSE APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY]

In part 3 of this 4 part series, panelist provide a multidimensional
picture of the uses of nuclear technology.

MODERATOR:
David Kaiser
Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society
Lecturer, Department of Physics

PANELISTS:
Ian Hutchinson
Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Dwight Williams
Martin Luther King Visiting Professor of Nuclear Science and
Engineering
Principal Nuclear Physicist, Science and Technology Brain Trust,
Department of Defense

Jeffrey Coderre
Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Alan Jasanoff
Associate Member, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Assistant
Professor, Departments of Nuclear Engineering, Brain & Cognitive
Sciences, and Biological Engineering Division
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/454/>

[QUOTE]
"There are so few reminders in the public sphere of the happy face of
the atom."
-- David Kaiser


EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum <http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/>

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