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EducationintheUnitedStates
From: MIT World on Thu, Apr 07 2011 10:35 PM
The drive to make American universities more diverse shows some success, but consistent and meaningful inclusion of under-represented minorities seems elusive, according to four academics whose own experiences help illuminate the problem. “The civil rights agenda is challenged today in many ways...
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EnergyEducationShowcaseHowMITisPreparingStudentsforNewChallenges
From: MIT World on Mon, Mar 28 2011 4:46 PM
In 2009, MIT launched an unusual academic venture, an interdisciplinary minor devoted to energy studies. A panel of MIT professors discuss their aspirations and work to date shepherding this new program into existence. Vladimir Bulovic gives full credit to students for jumpstarting the energy mi...
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AConversationonLeadership
From: MIT World on Thu, Mar 24 2011 11:17 AM
Her “journey to the top” is one that “could only happen in the United States of America,” says Ursula Burns, describing her rise from New York City projects to the apex of corporate leadership at Xerox. For an eager audience of management students, Burns also highlights lessons from her early ye...
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DiversityontheWorldStage
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 22 2011 6:45 AM
Moderator Bishwapriya Sanyal opens the panel with some reflections on history. He identifies periods when nations acknowledge similarities among different peoples, and equality and democracy seem on the rise, and times when only tribal divisions appear to matter and the clash of civilizations se...
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InsideTahrirSquare
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 22 2011 6:45 AM
Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis is no stranger to uprisings in oppressed nations, having covered Iran’s Green revolution (and been jailed for his work). So it was not even a close call for him to ditch the margaritas during a brief respite in San Antonio, as news in Cairo “acquired an extrao...
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DiversityontheWorldStage
From: MIT World on Mon, Mar 21 2011 3:35 PM
Moderator Bishwapriya Sanyal opens the panel with some reflections on history. He identifies periods when nations acknowledge similarities among different peoples, and equality and democracy seem on the rise, and times when only tribal divisions appear to matter and the clash of civilizations se...
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TheFruitsofDiversity
From: MIT World on Sun, Mar 13 2011 4:12 PM
In a panel that offers a bounty of visual and aural pleasures, a museum curator and two artists describe how their work “dissolves boundaries,” in the words of moderator Adele Naude Santos, often “leading to new frontiers.” When she joined Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2001, Elliot Bostwick D...
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TheFruitsofDiversity
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 5:34 PM
In a panel that offers a bounty of visual and aural pleasures, a museum curator and two artists describe how their work “dissolves boundaries,” in the words of moderator Adele Naude Santos, often “leading to new frontiers.” When she joined Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2001, Elliot Bostwick D...
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GazainCrisis
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
Two speakers steeped in the ongoing crisis of the Middle East describe abominable conditions for Palestinians living inside Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007. They demand urgent action for civilian victims, and condemn both the Israeli and U.S. governments for pursuing policies...
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EconomicPolicyChallengesMacroeconomicsandFiscalPolicy
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
These economists, MIT PhDs all, ponder what remains in the macroeconomist’s toolkit to pull the U.S., and much of the developed world, out of recession. They discuss aspects of fiscal and monetary policy that may prove useful in spurring recovery, as well as the complicating matter of politics. ...
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EconomicPolicyChallengesMicroeconomicsandRegulation
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
Given its contributions to policy and practice in such key sectors as health care, industrial organization and technological innovation, and energy and the environment, microeconomics may not be getting the kind of respect, or at least attention, it deserves, these panelists suggest. The field h...
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ExcellenceisaSharedPathStudentRemarks
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to one’s inner voice while pursuing a shared vision of justice and equality. When she first came to MIT, Khalea Robins...
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TheFutureofFinance
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
In his keynote address, Robert Merton chooses not to focus on the financial crisis. It is clear to him there were “fools and knaves,” as well as “many structural elements that would have happened even if people were well behaved and well informed” — risks are simply “embedded in our system...
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ExcellenceisaSharedPathWorkingTogetherforJusticeandtheQualityofLife
From: MIT World on Tue, Mar 08 2011 4:27 AM
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 action on the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Susan Hockfield has been “digging into MIT’s history,” where she finds seeds...
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ExcellenceisaSharedPathStudentRemarks
From: MIT World on Wed, Mar 02 2011 3:34 PM
In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to one’s inner voice while pursuing a shared vision of justice and equality. When she first came to MIT, Khalea Robins...
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EconomicPolicyChallengesMicroeconomicsandRegulation
From: MIT World on Fri, Feb 11 2011 8:14 PM
Given its contributions to policy and practice in such key sectors as health care, industrial organization and technological innovation, and energy and the environment, microeconomics may not be getting the kind of respect, or at least attention, it deserves, these panelists suggest. The field h...
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GazainCrisis
From: MIT World on Thu, Feb 10 2011 2:09 PM
Two speakers steeped in the ongoing crisis of the Middle East describe abominable conditions for Palestinians living inside Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007. They demand urgent action for civilian victims, and condemn both the Israeli and U.S. governments for pursuing policies...
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EconomicPolicyChallengesMacroeconomicsandFiscalPolicy
From: MIT World on Tue, Feb 08 2011 2:47 PM
These economists, MIT PhDs all, ponder what remains in the macroeconomist’s toolkit to pull the U.S., and much of the developed world, out of recession. They discuss aspects of fiscal and monetary policy that may prove useful in spurring recovery, as well as the complicating matter of politics. ...
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TheEnergyClimateChangeChallengeandtheRoleofNuclearEnergyinMeetingIt
From: MIT World on Mon, Jan 31 2011 4:51 PM
In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of energy and environment, John Holdren lays out the difficult options for contending with a world rapidly overheating. “There is no question the world is growing hotter,” says Holdren, “and we do...
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OpenPaymentANewApproachtoPublicTransportationFareCollection
From: MIT World on Mon, Jan 31 2011 4:51 PM
Soon, a ticket to ride won’t require paper coupons, tokens, human vendors, or even Boston’s CharlieCard. Urban transit is abandoning a century old payment system for sophisticated digital payment technology, says George Kocur. Kocur has been toiling for a decade on technology and methods that wi...
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