[Sci-tech-public] Knight Seminars

[Bianca Sinausky]

Knight Seminar Schedule for next week:

 


September 14 - Knight Seminar (4:00-5:30 pm, E19-623)


Genes from Neanderthal to now 


David Reich <http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/%7Ereich/> , Genetecist and
Professor at Harvard Medical School 


Reich is a faculty member in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical
School and head of the Reich Laboratory.  He does theoretical and
experimental work in human population genetics and genomics.  His research
program focuses on developing theoretical ideas for studying genome sequence
variation and applying them to data collected in his  laboratory
specifically to test these ideas. A current focus is finding genes for
multiple sclerosis, prostate cancer, and hypertension in African Americans,
and Type 2 Diabetes in Latino Americans.


 


September 16 - Knight Seminar (4:00-6:00 pm, E19-623)


The Genome and other surprises 
Victor <http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/contact/victor.html>  McElheny,
Founding Director, Knight Science Journalism Program

McElheny is a longtime science writer who worked for The Charlotte Observer,
Science magazine, The Boston Globe and The New York Times, reporting on such
topics as science in Antarctica and Europe, the Apollo lunar landing program
and the green revolution in Asia. At The Times during the 1970s, he founded
one of the first technology columns in American newspapers. He came to MIT
in 1982 to create the Knight fellowship program with funding from the Sloan
Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Since his retirement in 1998 McElheny has published three books, Insisting
on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land,  Watson and DNA: Making a
Scientific Revolution, and
<http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Map-Life-Project-Lawrence/dp/046504333X>
Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project.  These books are
in our E19-623 library area.

As background reading for his seminar, Victor suggests that Fellows read the
July 11 Salon.com
<http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/07/11/human_genome_interview/index.
html>  interview. 

 

 

For a complete list of Knight Seminars, please see our website
<http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html> .  Please note:
Nancy Kanwisher's September 21st Knight Seminar will be rescheduled for the
spring term.

 

 

 

 

Debbie Meinbresse

Program Coordinator

 

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT

E19-623

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge MA  02139

 

617-253-3442

meinbres at mit.edu

 

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Bianca Sinausky

Assistant to Professor David Mindell, Director of STS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Phone: 617 253-3452 Fax: 617 253-8118

web.mit.edu/sts/ 

 

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