[Mitworld] John Holdren Keynotes Aero/Astro Giant Leaps, Fr. Thomas Keating on the Human Experience

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 21 |  January 20, 2010

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The Next Giant Leaps in Energy, Environment, & Air Transportation
June 11, 2009

It’s no exaggeration to say John Holdren’s job involves tackling the most critical issues of our 
age: economic recovery and growth, health care, energy, climate change, global pandemics, national 
security, ecosystem preservation…the list goes on. As President Obama’s science and technology 
advisor, Holdren leverages the resources and collective acumen of the nation’s researchers and 
innovators to address these complex and urgent matters. To an MIT audience, Holdren makes the case 
that aerospace science, technology and education will provide a “crucial contribution to and driver 
of 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/735

Speakers:
John Holdren '65, SM '66
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
 Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Ian Waitz
Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Aeronautics & Astronautics Department, MIT

Michael Bair SM '93
Vice President, Business Strategy & Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

David Danielson PhD '08
Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency

Alan Epstein '71, SM '72, PhD '75
Vice President, Technology & Environment, United Technologies Pratt & WhitneyProfessor Emeritus, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Lourdes Maurice
Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Environment, FAA


Event Host:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

"Now we face a gap of 5 years or more, between the end of Shuttle operations scheduled at the end of
2010, and the availability of a successor capability in the Constellation Program to put US astronauts
in space with US launchers."
-John Holdren

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Contemplative Dimensions of Human Experience
April 28, 2009

In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order 
consciousness, and East-West religious practices, Trappist monk Thomas Keating claims that 
humanity is poised to take its next evolutionary step, to the “furthest levels of human 
understanding.”

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/736

Speaker:
Thomas Keating
Trappist monk (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) 

Priest


Event Host:
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values

"Humans are designed to negotiate, collaborate, dialog, and forgive. This is the human response 
waiting to be expressed in society."
-Thomas Keating

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In The Pipeline:

Leadership Amidst Crisis

Presented By:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean’s Innovative Leader Series

Speaker:
S.D. Shibulal
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Infosys Technologies, Ltd.

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