[Sci-tech-public] November 7th Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics: Susan Hockfield, speaker

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Sponsored by MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society

The University and Its Responsibilities
Susan Hockfield, President, MIT

Monday, November 7, 2005

4:00 p.m.

Kirsch Auditorium, MIT Stata Center, 32-123


Universities today face complex, sometimes 
contradictory imperatives­-to be at once local, 
regional, national, and international, and to 
preserve academic values while engaging with 
industry, government, and society.  Dr. Hockfield 
will discuss the principles that can help us 
understand the proper role of the modern 
university, and the special responsibilities 
faced by educators, students, and researchers in 
the physical sciences, the life sciences, and technology.

A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused 
on the development of the brain, Susan Hockfield 
is the first life scientist to lead MIT. She 
received her bachelor's degree in biology from 
the University of Rochester; earned a Ph.D. in 
anatomy and neuroscience from Georgetown 
University School of Medicine; and became the 
William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology 
and provost at Yale University before being named 
as the 16th president of MIT in December 2004.

A reception will be held outside of the Kirsch 
Auditorium immediately following President 
Hockfield's lecture.  Please join us next Monday afternoon.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390 
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