17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration (1991)
17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration (1991)
The Seventeenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Celebration takes place on Jan. 18, 1991 and features Dr. Benjamin Hooks as the keynote speaker. Four students also present a youth perspective on the significance of the celebration in their own lives. [T15490]
2009 Koch Institute Symposium - Kornelia Polyak
2009 Koch Institute Symposium - Kornelia Polyak
2009 Koch Institute Symposium Kornelia Polyak: "Diversity as a driver of breast tumor progression"
2013 Institute Diversity Summit - Keynote Address: The ...
2013 Institute Diversity Summit - Keynote Address: The Impostor Syndrome
MIT’s third annual Diversity Summit addressed the complexities of meritocracy on Jan. 30, 2013.
Aminata Kane MBA '13
Aminata Kane MBA '13
Aminata Kane, co-president of the Africa Business Club, talks about the positive environment of entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.
An Interview with DUSP Grad Student Jeffrey Juarez
An Interview with DUSP Grad Student Jeffrey Juarez
An interview with DUSP student Jeff Juarez (MCP 2011) about how he came to be at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT after growing up in South Central Los Angeles and his plans for the future.
Phil Freelon discusses "REACH"
An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"
An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH," showing in the Wolk Gallery from Feb. 15 to June 8, 2012
Bienvenidos a MIT
Bienvenidos a MIT
A Spanish language video from MIT Admissions - "Bienvenidos a MIT!"
Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is not the Limit! -- ...
Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is not the Limit! -- Victoria ...
SUMMARY For Victoria De Matteis (LGO '02), the past ten years at Boeing have been the "climb phase" in a challenging and rewarding career flight path that she recounted to LGO students and alumni in a recent web seminar called "Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is ...
Challenges of the Past, Present and Future
Challenges of the Past, Present and Future
02/05/2004 7:30 AM WalkerCharles Vest, President, MITDescription: MIT President Charles Vest provides a critical perspective on the unsteady progress of racial diversity at the university. "As the summit of the mountain we're climbing has begun to come into distant ...
Conversation with the President: Strengthening MIT's Global ...
Conversation with the President: Strengthening MIT's Global Impact
President Reif discussed how MIT is realizing its potential as a university with global impact by fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, collaboration and diversity.
Craig Watkins: "The Digital Edge"
Craig Watkins: "The Digital Edge: Exploring the Digital Practices of Black ...
A Civic Media Session and Comparative Media Studies Colloquium
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy describes her realization that science is not something "done — in the past tense" by people long ago, but rather an exciting pursuit that requires social interactions to solve current real-world questions.
Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What ...
Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What Would Dr. King ...
02/04/2010 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallGerry Hudson, Executive Vice President of SEIU "Service Employees International Union; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: Woven into the fabric of MIT life, says Susan Hockfield, is the "perpetual striving to be ever ...
Diversity – "MITES Robotics Competition"
Diversity – "MITES Robotics Competition"
Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. The ...
Diversity and Inclusion: Building a Solution Worthy of MIT
Diversity and Inclusion: Building a Solution Worthy of MIT
02/21/2008 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, '75, Founding Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal ChurchDescription: While Martin Luther King might be amazed to see what blacks, Hispanics and women have ...
Diversity on the World Stage
Diversity on the World Stage
02/17/2011 7:00 PM E14"674Bishwapriya Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and Director of the Program for Urban and Regional Studies, MIT; Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science, Associate Director of the MIT Technology and Development Program, and ...
Education in the United States
Education in the United States
03/17/2011 7:00 PM 32"123Evelyn Higginbotham, Professor of History and African American Studies, Harvard University; Sylvester Gates, Department of Physics, MLK Visiting Professor, MIT; Paula T. Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT; Wesley L. Harris, Charles Stark Draper ...
Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity
Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity
02/21/2008 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallJamira Cotton, '08, Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering; Kenneth Kweku Bota, Second"year graduate student, Dept of Chemistry and Whitehead InstituteDescription: Two MIT students honor their experience at MIT, but ask that the ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality ...
02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Roland S. Martin, CNN contributorDescription: Exploring the past opens up new perspectives on the present and offers ways of navigating a challenging future, these speakers suggest, in a call to ...
Eyes on the stars
Eyes on the stars: The story of alum/astronaut Ronald McNair
MIT alum and physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space, was first a kid with big dreams in Lake City, S.C.