From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

Antoinette Schoar analyses how general economic conditions affect the CEO career path. More details about the lecture coming soon.

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of MIT entrepreneurship to larger communities. Much of the research under discussion comes from a 2006 study of MIT alumni conducted by Roberts and Charles Eesley of the Sloan School. The study polled MIT alum...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

In the first of four panels celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT, panelists reflect on the wide range of projects and media studies offspring that have emerged from this innovative program. Major CMS themes include the development of com...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold. Encouraged by Australian physician, Helen Caldicott, who spoke of the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle and of nuclear power, in particular, he decided to restart an...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

In a lecture that could have been titled, Better Education through Chemistry, Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry. Calling 3.091 a chemistry-centered class or C...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni gathered in Kresge for the annual Technology Day event. ...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year. But after only six weeks into his first class with professor Cy Leventhal, he realized this was the field for him. He boldly asked for a recommendation as part of his application to grad school—in bio...

From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM

Physicist and art collector Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century. Known in the hallways of building 37 for his famous art contests, Lewin succumbs to pressure from students and colleagues to give this lecture as par...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, Oxfam’s Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be “crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabili...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

Alejandro Toledo has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru in 2006. In his home country, he embodied the possibility of transformation, having risen from poverty in an Andean village to top political power, where he initiated a process of economic and so...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

Growing up in Indiana, exploring the local woods and pit where fossils were found, Richard Schrock early on became interested in the natural world. He was captivated by the way things worked. When he was eight, his older brother gave him a chemistry set and he knew that was what he wanted to do....

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT’s culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence. Jenkins shares that complex feeling of loving and hating MIT,...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of MIT entrepreneurship to larger communities. Much of the research under discussion comes from a 2006 study of MIT alumni conducted by Roberts and Charles Eesley of the Sloan School. The study polled MIT alum...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

In the first of four panels celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT, panelists reflect on the wide range of projects and media studies offspring that have emerged from this innovative program. Major CMS themes include the development of com...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold. Encouraged by Australian physician, Helen Caldicott, who spoke of the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle and of nuclear power, in particular, he decided to restart an...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

In a lecture that could have been titled, Better Education through Chemistry, Don Sadoway begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry. Calling 3.091 a chemistry-centered class or C...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni gathered in Kresge for the annual Technology Day event. ...

From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 03 2010 7:49 AM

Physicist and art collector Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century. Known in the hallways of building 37 for his famous art contests, Lewin succumbs to pressure from students and colleagues to give this lecture as par...

From: MIT World on Tue, Aug 10 2010 11:52 PM

Physicist and art collector Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century. Known in the hallways of building 37 for his famous art contests, Lewin succumbs to pressure from students and colleagues to give this lecture as par...

From: MIT World on Thu, Aug 05 2010 10:13 PM

In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create Russia’s Nanotechnology Center—a $10 billion, entrepreneurial ecosystem that incorporates education, research and business incubation. Noting that a ...