[Mitworld] Li-Huei Tsai on Alzheimer's Disease, Media in Transition Panel on Civic Media

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 44 |  July 10, 2009

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Current State and Hope for the Future
May 4, 2009

As life expectancy lengthens, Alzheimer’s Disease is anticipated to triple in prevalence over the 
next few decades. The disease is found in nearly 50% of people age 85 and older. Triply higher 
medical costs are incurred by seniors with Alzheimer’s. These daunting facts give urgency and weight to 
molecular neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai’s research.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/679

Speaker:
Li-Huei Tsai
Picower Professor of Neurocience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School


Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

"Currently there is no treatment that can prevent, delay or reverse Alzheimer’s Disease."
-Li-Huei Tsai

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New Media, Civic Media
April 24, 2009

As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it’s not clear they will serve such vital civic 
functions as helping people form publics. These panelists point to promising experiments 
in “Public Media 2.0,” but caution that new media are not guaranteed to shore up democracy 
or invigorate public culture.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/676

Moderator:
Pat Aufderheide
Professor, School of Communications, American University 
 Director, Center for Social Media

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"For-profit, ad-supported mass media that was the way America got its reporting is a strange 
historical accident. I think it’s over; it’s not going to happen anymore."
-Persephone Miel

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In The Pipeline:

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained

Presented By:
MIT Museum Soap Box Series

Speaker:
Marc Baldo
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

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