[Mitworld] New: The 34th Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 47 | June 18, 2008
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[DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: BUILDING A SOLUTION WORTHY OF MIT]

SPEAKERS:
Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience

Ray Hammond
Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/566/>

[QUOTE]
"We cannot be satisfied until we are a community that not only seeks out
diverse talent, but that truly embraces and rewards diverse
perspectives, because we know that that will make us stronger."
-- Susan Hockfield


EVENT HOST: MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. <http://web.mit.edu/mlking/www/index.html>

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[ENSURING EDUCATIONAL ACCESS: OUR CHALLENGE, OUR OPPORTUNITY]

SPEAKERS:
Jamira Cotton
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering ('08)

Kenneth Kweku Bota
Second-year graduate student, Department of Chemistry and the Whitehead
Biomedical Institute, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/565/>

[QUOTE]
"As a black student, I had to care about my schoolwork, but I had to be
committed to my community. I had to be what Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois termed
'the Talented Tenth'."
-- Jamira Cotton


EVENT HOST: MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. <http://web.mit.edu/mlking/www/index.html>

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Program in Science, Technology and Society
2008 Morison Prize Lecture in Science, Technology and Society

David P. Billington
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering Princeton University

"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History

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