How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...
Great Leaps, Persistence, and Innovation: The Evolving ...
Great Leaps, Persistence, and Innovation: The Evolving Story of Hyundai
04/08/2009 3:00 PM Bartos theaterJohn Krafcik, SM '88, President and CEO, Hyundai Motor AmericaDescription: In 1986, Hyundai's first export to the U.S, the $4995 Excel, developed embarrassing quality problems, and the company found itself grist for late night talk ...
Globalization and the Future of Corporate Citizenship
Globalization and the Future of Corporate Citizenship
06/07/2003 2:00 PM KresgeRichard M. Locke, PhD '89, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political ScienceDescription: Professor Locke discusses the opportunities and challenges that multinational companies face in a global economy. His talk is centered ...
Global Pandemics
Global Pandemics
In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus."
Gaza in Crisis
Gaza in Crisis
01/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT; Nancy Murray, Co"founder and President, Gaza Mental Health FoundationDescription: Two speakers steeped in the ongoing crisis of the Middle East describe abominable conditions for Palestinians living inside Gaza, which ...
FutureCast: Philipp Osl on housing options for older adults
FutureCast: Philipp Osl on housing options for older adults
AgeLab researcher Philipp Osl discusses current options in older adult housing while giving insights into trends and future needs.
FutureCast: Joe Coughlin speaks with AARP's Elinor Ginzler
FutureCast: Joe Coughlin speaks with AARP's Elinor Ginzler
AgeLab's Joe Coughlin interviews AARP's Elinor Ginzler, who discusses the changing lifestyles of baby boomers. This discussion is part of the AgeLab and New England University Transportation Center's symposium, Convergent Opportunities or Collision Course? Older ...
FutureCast: Joe Coughlin interviews Scott Belcher of ITS ...
FutureCast: Joe Coughlin interviews Scott Belcher of ITS America
President and CEO of ITS America Scott Belcher discusses the politics of older drivers with AgeLab's Joe Coughlin. The interview was part of the symposium Convergent Opportunities or Collision Course? Older Drivers, New Technology & Well-Being Behind the Wheel, hosted ...
FutureCast: Donald Fisher discusses new findings in older ...
FutureCast: Donald Fisher discusses new findings in older driver behavior
Univ. Massachusetts and New England University Transportation Center researcher Donald Fisher speaks with Joe Coughlin, New England UTC Director, about his team's research into older driver behavior. The interview was part of the New England UTC and AgeLab hosted ...
Future of Human Spaceflight: The Augustine Report
Future of Human Spaceflight: The Augustine Report
In June 2009, NASA created the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee and charged it with conducting "an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives, to ensure the Nation is pursuing the best trajectory ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty ...
06/10/2006 11:00 AM KresgeEsther Duflo, PhD '99, Abdul Latif Jameel Prof of Poverty Allev & Develop Department of EconomicsDescription: Esther Duflo hopes to take the measure of a wide range of anti-poverty programs. Applying scientific methodology, her colleagues and ...
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution ...
Evolution: From the Fossil Record to Genomic Revolution Probing the Origin ...
06/09/2001 KresgeCharles Marshall, Professor of Geology and Biology; Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Dr. Maria T. Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ...
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Engineering Smarter Drivers
10/05/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media LabDescription: While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the ...
Engineering Human-Machine Relationships
Engineering Human-Machine Relationships
05/23/2003 10:45 AM KresgeBarbara Liskov, Institute Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Equity, MIT; ; Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Rodney A. Brooks, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Heartland Robotics; ...
Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community ...
Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community Development
04/04/2008 3:15 PM Broad InstituteXavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, MIT ; Jessica Andors, MCP '99, Deputy Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks; Abel Valenzuela, Jr., MCP '88, PhD '95, Professor, Director, Center for the Study of ...
Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation
Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation
04/27/2010 7:00 PM MuseumMichael Specter, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Chris Mooney, Discover Blogger and Knight Fellow ; Shannon Brownlee, Instructor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Shankar Vedantam, National Science Writer, The ...
Darwin and Lincoln Birthday Forum
Darwin and Lincoln Birthday Forum
Marking the birthday of two champions of human equality, both born on Feb. 12, 1809
Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis
Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis
10/15/2009 7:00 PM 32"123Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights; Marcus Bleasdale, Author: One Hundred Years of DarknessDescription: ...
Counting the Dead in Iraq
Counting the Dead in Iraq
02/27/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Gilbert Burnham, Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription: It's no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham's group released its report on mortality in ...