Št. zadetkov: 14
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
technology;energy
As Susan Hockfield recounts, MIT presentations on disruptive energy research at the most recent World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, provided the single glimmer of optimism for a Time Magazine correspondent. Paraphrasing him, she says, “What MIT is good for: a dose of reality-based hope that ...
Leto:
2007
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videolectures.net
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Oznake:
science;medicine
In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. Hockfield, a neuroscientist by training, recaps the evolution of the discipline at MIT, from its 1964 start in the Department of Psychology to the more recent establishment o ...
Leto:
2009
Vir:
videolectures.net
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Oznake:
technology;energy;science;cognitive science
In trying financial times, Susan Hockfield remains optimistic and committed to pursuing MIT’s massive, multi-year initiatives in energy and life sciences. She prefaces her “whirlwind” tour of MIT for an alumni audience by referencing the campus-wide relief at the change in presidential administratio ...
Leto:
2009
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videolectures.net
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Oznake:
social sciences;society;gender issues
While Martin Luther King might be amazed to see what blacks, Hispanics and women have accomplished since his time, says Ray Hammond, we must take an honest look at the “state of his dreams” today, and ask, “Where do we go from here?” This is a question that MIT President Susan Hockfield has also tak ...
Leto:
2008
Vir:
videolectures.net
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Oznake:
social sciences;education
In her opening address for Technology Day, MIT President Susan Hockfield lays out MIT’s ambitious agenda for addressing energy and the environment, and for transforming society’s approach to human health and disease.
Hockfield describes MIT’s new Energy Research Council, which will attempt “to prod ...
Leto:
2006
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
technology;energy;events
President Susan Hockfield unveils MIT’s grand-scale initiative to confront “the urgent challenge of our time: clean, affordable energy to power the world.” In much the same way that MIT “played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II,” she calls for the Institute to muster its formidab ...
Leto:
2006
Vir:
videolectures.net
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Oznake:
social sciences;education
Globalization and Higher Education: Competition and Cooperation
While globalization poses critical challenges for the U.S. economy, Charles Vest believes that knowledge-sharing may serve as the best response to increasingly competitive times.
Vest sketches the increasingly dire situation of U.S. ma ...
Leto:
2006
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
business;leadership
Two “sisters” -- both university chiefs -- celebrate the victory of the first African-American U.S. President, but remind listeners that American institutions have not yet achieved the full measure of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream.
MIT, which prides itself on inventing the future, says Susan Ho ...
Leto:
2009
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
medicine
This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part series on MIT’s efforts in cancer research. Susan Hockfield views MIT’s Center for Cancer Research as a central example of how “life sciences are coming into conversation with engineering in a powerful way.” Robert Silbey provides historical ...
Leto:
2006
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
technology;engineering
It’s a good thing for a world increasingly beset by mammoth challenges that universities are responding with new engineering systems programs. These initiatives, as Daniel Roos attests, are swiftly proliferating in the U.S. and abroad to equip students to address such complex issues as health care, ...
Leto:
2009
Vir:
videolectures.net