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A tribute to the tenth anniversary of the MIT Public Service Center's IDEAS Competition, including special thanks from past winners to mentors Sally Susnowitz, Amy Smith, and Alison Hynd. Videography by Shannon O'Brien, editing by Josh Kastorf.
MIT's Technology and Development Program (TDP) is participating in a new program to assist the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) to establish a graduate science and engineering program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, focused on renewable energy and sustainable ...
Recorded on: 5/19/08Time: 2 hr 33 min
This video is meant to showcase the experiences of students participating in MIT Sloan's Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, which is an intensive course that has MIT Sloan MBA students working in the classroom and on-site with enterprises in developing and emerging ...
Session: The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves. Faculty leader: Rebecca Henderson
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Lipsitch Description: Let's hope that policymakers heed the perspectives offered by these two panelists. But even the swiftest and wisest measures may not be enough to head off an avian ...
Kurt Gottfried, PhD '55, Co-Founder and Chair, Union of Concerned Scientists; Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cornell University; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University In this ...
An introduction to the work of Sacha Yaku and their work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. The project was started by two MIT undergraduates Kendra Johnson (Environmental Engineering '09) and Froylan Sifuentes (CHemical Engineering ...
Video taken during a summer 2008 trip by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank to Ladakh, India and Yunnan, China. Detailed within are some aspects of rural life, the terain, modes of transportation, people, and culture. This trip was related to field research into suitable ...
Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Modeling, Fate & Transport, Aquatic Biology & Chemistry, Health & Exposure - Charles Harvey Water purification and Distribution - John Lienhard
Anne Whiston Spirn
Welcome & Introduction - Dara Entekhabi Opening Remarks - Susan Hockfield Rethinking Water: Framing the Problem - James Wescoat
Keynote Address: Philip Khoury, MIT, and Charles Huhigg, NY Times, 5/20/2010
