[Mitworld] MIT150 Panels featuring Women Leaders in Science and Engineering

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 45 |  May 9, 2011

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Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs I
March 28, 2011

Three eminent scientists in biology and medical engineering, Susan Lindquist, JoAnne Stubbe and Sangeeta Bhatia discuss their pioneering work at MIT -- a research base they regard as unmatched for its collaborative environment and enthusiasm for even the most marginal and offbeat ideas. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/902

Moderator:
Hazel Sive
Member, Whitehead Institute

Associate Dean, School of Science, and Professor of Biology, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"The drug discovery pipeline…typically takes about 15 years, close to a billion dollars, to go from 
10,000 small molecules to one FDA-approved drug."
-Sangeeta Bhatia

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Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs II
March 28, 2011

Four women who have made ground-breaking contributions in different disciplines describe their 
research, which has not only involved ‘thinking outside the box,’ but in some cases persevering 
in the face of skepticism. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/903

Speakers:
Angela Belcher
Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological Engineering

Christine Ortiz
Dean for Graduate Education, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Sara Seager
Professor of Physics and Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT

Maria T. Zuber
E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics


Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT


Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"It’s fantastic to be at place like MIT where when you say you want to do something like look for 
life on Mars, people actually want to help you rather than tell you you’re out of your mind."
-Maria Zuber

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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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