Over the course of the spring semester 2011, MIT celebrated its 150th anniversary with a remarkable cascade of symposia, performances, exhibitions, and landmark events. The events were focused on being "distinctively MIT." Videos from the 150-day-long celebration include historical retrospectives and broadcasts of MIT150 events.
On Dec. 5, 1986, MIT dedicated Building 37, home to the Center for Space Research and part of the aeronautics and astronautics department, to Ronald E. McNair PhD '76. During McNair's second flight in space, he lost his life along with six other astronauts when the ...
MIT professor Robert W. Mann, an engineer and former rocket scientist, developed the world's first biomedical prosthetic device. In the 1960s, Mann helped produce a complex prosthetic elbow that joined an electromechanical device with remnant muscle tissue, to enable amputees to perform a ...
Shirley Ann Jackson PhD '73 was an MIT undergraduate preparing for graduate school when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. In this video, which is excerpted from the Infinite History project, Jackson remembers how King's life influenced her decision to stay at MIT and work for ...
Margaret L. A. MacVicar '64 was a cherished educator and innovator at MIT. She worked for diversity in admission and implemented changes in humanities and science requirements. Professor MacVicar founded the popular Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) and served as MIT's first ...
Known as the "father of inertial navigation," Dr. Charles Stark Draper was a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, where he founded the Institute's Instrumentation Laboratory in the 1930s. Today this lab functions as a separate, nonprofit research and development laboratory that ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 1 - March 16th, 2011 Opening and Welcome David A. Mindell PhD '96 - Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and ...
For its 1949 Mid-Century Convocation MIT invited Winston Churchill to give the keynote address in front of a crowd of thousands - an historic event for MIT and for the international community. This short video produced in 1999 includes excerpts of Churchill's rousing ...
Hard to believe that the Ray and Maria Stata Center celebrates its seventh anniversary on MIT's campus this March, 2011. Designed by world renowned architect Frank Gehry, this striking building--with its tilting towers, many-angled walls and radical shapes--changed the face of MIT and ...
Walter Lewin's videotaped physics lectures have won him fans around the world. See why The New York Times calls him a "web star" in this video which highlights his popular teaching style during 8.01, a first-semester freshman physics class.
MIT150 Symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Symposium Chair Srinivas Devadas - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Speakers Charles M. Vest - President, Emeritus, MIT and President, National Academy of Engineering Maria Zuber - E. A. ...
Physicist Philip Morrison (Institute Professor) and economist Lester Thurow (Dean of the Sloan School of Management) address senior executives at the "Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries: Tech/ Science/ Art/ Economics/ Politics" held at MIT's ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 4 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Michael B. Yaffe - Professor of Biology, MIT Speakers Michael T. Hemann - Latham Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT David M. Livingston ...
For more than 60 years, Paul E. Gray has been a part of MIT. Dr. Gray entered MIT as a freshman in 1950 and would earn his SB, SM, and ScD degrees in electrical engineering at MIT. He served on the faculty as an academic administrator, associate provost, dean of ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 3 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Richard O. Hynes - Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, MIT Speakers Susan L. Lindquist - Professor of Biology, MIT Eric S. ...
MIT is known for breaking down barriers. Its scientists and engineers grapple with big problems and big ideas, leading to an extraordinary amount of innovative research across disciplines. Excerpted from the 16-minute documentary Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines ...
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Speakers David C Schmittlein - John C. Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Speakers John S. Reed '61 SM '65 - Chairman of the MIT Corporation David A. Mindell PhD '96 - Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Go back in time and take a tour of the nuclear reactor at the US Army Materials Research Agency in Watertown, MA in this Science Reporter episode from 1964. Host and science reporter John Fitch of MIT goes behind the scenes of this American reactor to better ...
MIT is at the forefront of ocean science and engineering. This video features Professors Michael Triantafyllou, Franz Hover and John Leonard, who discuss the importance of ongoing observation and exploration of the ocean as well as ocean resource development.
