[Mitworld] MIT150 Panels: Engineering and Cancer Research, Diversity in Higher Education

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 41 |  April 25, 2011

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Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
March 16, 2011

Engineers “bring a new set of tools and a new way of looking at problems posed by biologists,” says
Paula T. Hammond, and are proving integral to advances in cancer diagnostics and therapies. In this 
symposium, panelists discuss promising discoveries from labs that are merging engineering and life 
sciences in the war against cancer.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/895

Moderator:
Paula Hammond '84, PhD '93
Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Facilities and Space Coordinator, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"How do we get the greatest insight, the greatest predictive ability even when we have incomplete 
knowledge? There are tools to do that. We’re only seeing slight snapshots; nonetheless, there are 
methods to gain greatest predictive insights ... Engineers have for decades and centuries designed 
things with incomplete knowledge."
-Douglas Lauffenburger

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Education in the United States
March 17, 2011

The drive to make American universities more diverse shows some success, but consistent and meaningful 
inclusion of under-represented minorities seems elusive, according to four academics whose own 
experiences help illuminate the problem.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/893

Moderator:
Evelyn Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies, Harvard University 

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"MIT is filled with enormously intelligent horsepower. I’ve had the privilege of working with geniuses. 
One of the oddest things I’ve discovered is that geniuses can have blind spots. What I see when I 
look at this community are persistent blinds spots, which have been there for over 40 years."
-Sylvester James Gates

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In The Pipeline:

Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: Application to Energy Conversion and Environmental Modeling

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Youssef Marzouk
Assistant Professor
MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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