[Mitworld] MIT150 Nancy Hopkins on Women at MIT, Noelle Eckley Selin on Cars and Pollution

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 43 |  May 2, 2011

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The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT 
March 28, 2011

Heralded as the woman who changed MIT, Nancy Hopkins weaves together her personal tale about lab 
space and gender discrimination with the larger story of women in U.S. academia.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/898

Speaker:
Nancy Hopkins
Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology

Faculty member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research


Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"Women in my generation instinctively never talked about pregnancy or children at work…You wanted to 
make sure people knew you wanted to be a nun of science."
-Nancy Hopkins

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Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of Global Change
March 29, 2011

It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin 
models not just the chemistry of the atmosphere as it absorbs emissions and responds to climate change, 
but its potential impact over time on human health and world economies.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/900

Speaker:
Noelle Eckley Selin
Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Atmospheric Chemistry, MIT


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"We use a systems approach to understanding past, present and potential future human activities and 
their influence on pollution and its impacts."
-Noelle Eckley Selin

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In The Pipeline:

A Conversation with Sherry Turkle

Presented By:
Communications Forum

Speaker:
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

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