[Mitworld] Panel on Diversity on the World Stage, Hopkins, Sharp, Lees and Langer on Cancer Research

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 40 |  April 22, 2011

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Diversity on the World Stage
February 17, 2011

Moderator Bishwapriya Sanyal opens the panel with some reflections on history. He identifies periods 
when nations acknowledge similarities among different peoples, and equality and democracy seem on 
the rise, and times when only tribal divisions appear to matter and the clash of civilizations 
seems inevitable.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/888

Moderator:
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and Director, Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"It is not only a question of what formal legal arrangements are proposed to protect diversity. There 
is a great necessity for diverse people living in what is ostensibly the same community to respect 
each other even in the presence of substantial stress."
-Leon Trilling

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Reflections on Major Milestones in Cancer Research and Technology Development
March 16, 2011

The breadth and depth of thinking represented in MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia would do 
William Barton Rogers proud, believes David Mindell. MIT’s founder and first president envisioned 
the university pursuing cutting edge work, and the “convergence of science and engineering 150 years 
later captures the essence, the special courage” that Rogers imagined, says Mindell. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/894

Speakers:
Nancy Hopkins
Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology

Faculty member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Phillip A. Sharp
Institute Professor
Founding Director McGovern Institute for Brain Research
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Jacqueline Lees SM '86
Associate Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research;

Professor of Biology, MIT

Robert S. Langer Jr. ScD '74
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering2002 Draper Prize Award Recipient


Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"Simply put, the story of the 21st century will be written in the language of life sciences, melded 
with physical and engineering sciences. Uniting the strengths of formerly separate fields gives us 
extraordinary power in the struggle against cancer."
-Susan Hockfield

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In The Pipeline:

Afghanistan: Mending it Not Just Ending It

Presented By:
Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Speaker:
David Miliband
British Foreign Secretary, 2007-2010

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