Category: From the Vault
Sir Salman Rushdie named Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities (1993)
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In November 1993, author Salman Rushdie made an unannounced visit to MIT to accept an award as Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities. Rushdie had been living in hiding ever since a death sentence was issued by...
“The Social Beaver” (1956)
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A promotional film for prospective students and visitors to MIT, "The Social Beaver" focuses on the community living and range of social and cultural activities that round out a student's life at MIT, from music group...
New Physics Sandwiched Between Two Oxide Insulators, Dr. Karen Michaeli
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 The continuous search for novel electronic and spintronic devices recently came to fruition in the form of oxide interfaces. Combining two bor...
Artificial “Skin” — Ioannis Yannas (1982)
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MIT Professor of Biological Engineering Ioannis V. Yannas discusses his pioneering work developing the first synthetic skin in collaboration with John F. Burke at Massachusetts General Hospital during the 1970s and ea...
Oxide Interface: A Chance for New Electronics, Dr. Lu Li
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Lu Li, 2008--2011 Pappalardo Fellow (Condensed Matter Experiment) Like silicon in computer chips, interfaces between complex oxides are po...
Coretta Scott King Keynote Address at 20th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration (1994)
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Coretta Scott King gives the keynote address for the 20th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration at MIT, held on February 11, 1994. The day's theme is "The Movement for Economic and Social Justice: 1994 and Beyon...
14th Killian Award Lecture No. 1 (1986) — Franco Modigliani, “The Life Cycle Hypothesis”
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Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture, titled "Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings", is the first of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kresge Auditorium, April 2,...
Lester C. Thurow and Carl Sagan — “Management in the Year 2000” (1988)
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Here are presented highlights from the Spring 1988 "Symposium on Management in the Year 2000" featuring Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Lester C. Thurow, and Cornell professor Carl Sagan. Moderated by Stev...
Charles M. Vest: Diversity Interview
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An interview with the 15th President of MIT, Charles M. Vest, on Diversity. Recorded October 14, 1993.
Special meeting of the MIT community to welcome Dr. Susan Hockfield (2004)
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On the morning of August 26, 2004, MIT announced that Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and then Provost at Yale University, had been selected as MIT's 16th president. Later that afternoon, the MIT comm...
