[Mitworld] Nobel Laureate Robert Horvitz at MIT Museum, Ed Roberts on MIT and Entrepreneurship

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 53 |  August 9, 2010

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Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
April 27, 2010

In this informal talk at the MIT Museum, Robert Horvitz explains programmed cell death, its 
implications in cancer research, and the work that led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2002.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/806

Speaker:
H. Robert Horvitz
David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology at MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"It’s from such basic research that unexpected discoveries come. And it’s these unexpected discoveries that are the big leaps. Basic research is really the driver of scientific knowledge.
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-H. Robert Horvitz

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MIT’s Entrepreneurial Development and Impact Over the Past 50 Years
June 5, 2010

Ed Roberts provides an overview of the report Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT, (which he co-authored
with Charles Eesley) documenting MIT based entrepreneurial activities and outcomes of the past 50 years.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/792

Speaker:
Edward B. Roberts '57, SM '58, SM '60, PhD '62
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology
 Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"MIT is the most productive institution anywhere in the world in creating new companies."
-Ed Roberts

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In The Pipeline:

International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture

Presented By:
Comparative Media Studies
 10th Anniversary Symposium

Moderator:
Ian Condry
Associate Director
Comparative Media Studies

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