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Sloan to host inaugural Africa Business Conference; African CEOs and political leaders to join academics on April 1
At the same time MIT is marking its 150th anniversary, more than 15 countries in Africa are celebrating 50 years of nationhood. It is against this backdrop that MIT Sloan School of Management will bring academics together with business and thought leaders from across Africa to discuss opportunities and c ...

Register today for Leaders in Science and Engineering symposium
Registration is open for the MIT150 symposium, "Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT," which will take place in Kresge Auditorium on March 28 and 29. This symposium will engage current students and postdocs, junior and senior faculty, alumni and friends of MIT, and is woven around the l ...

Introduction to MEG
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research has recently acquired a magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging system, and on Monday, March 21, will host a lecture to introduce to the new system. MEG, which was originally developed at MIT, is a safe and noninvasive technique for measuring human brain activity wi ...

Of Note: U.S. premiere of Death and the Powers
Death and the Powers, a new opera created by Tod Machover and developed at the Media Lab, will make its U.S. premiere tonight at the Cutler Majestic Theater as part of MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology.Hailed as "a grand, rich, deeply serious new opera" (Opera Magazine), this one-act, full- ...

Washed by Fire: The Music of Keeril Makan
Tonight, at 7:30 p.m. at the Institute for Contemporary Art, "Washed by Fire" — by Keeril Makan, associate professor of music at MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, will be performed by the Either/Or Ensemble.For more than a decade, Makan has been creating hard-driving, visceral musi ...

MIT150 symposium: Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT brings life scientists and engineers together to advance cancer research. In this symposium — which will feature a series of moderated panel discussions featuring top biologists, leading clinical experts, technologists and biomedical en ...

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering briefing on the Japan nuclear crisis
In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami, reliable technical information about the crisis affecting the nuclear power plants at Fukushima has been difficult to discern from the media coverage. The demand to know what is happening, however, is very great. At 4 p.m. on March 15 in 10-250, the Dep ...

Compton Lecture
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Second Fridays at the MIT Museum: Nautical night
Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening. Mingle with friends in the Museum's unique galleries with displays of holograms, kinetic sculptures, historic robots and some of the latest research coming out of MIT. Tonight, from 5-7:30 p.m., the featured program will be Nautic ...

Dynamics of Chinese Economy and Society — A Perspective of a Real Estate Entrepreneur
March 10, 201111:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.MIT Building E51-345Zhang XinZhang XinCEO, Co-founder SOHO ChinaZhang Xinis one of the first private entrepreneurs to engage in commercial real estate development in China. She has led the company she co-founded in 1995 with her husband Pan Shiyi, SOHO China, in becoming ...

MacVicar Day is today!
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Relay for Life at MIT
MIT is hosting its first ever Relay For Life — a 12-hour overnight fundraiser for the American Cancer Society — from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. on March 12-13 at the Johnson Track.Leading up to relay, all members of the MIT community are invited to form teams and raise money to support cancer research and patient ...

SDM information evening March 8
An open invitation to come and informally explore the MIT System Design and Management Program, a program designed to help mid-career professionals develop a systems thinking approach to solving complex challenges. Come meet faculty, students and alumni at the MIT Faculty Club in an informal setting to g ...

What's your idea? It's the last chance to enter it for up to $150,000 to make it a reality!
This year, with MIT150, the IDEAS Competition and MIT Global Challenge are awarding $150,000 to innovative projects that have the potential to reduce barriers to well-being in areas such as sanitation, health care access, education, housing, energy and much more. To be eligible for this year, submit an i ...

An evening with Jennine Capó Crucet
Jennine Capó Crucet — an insightful writer who uses humor and compassion to explore how community impacts individuals’ perspectives — will discuss her work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, in Tang Center, Wong Auditorium. Born to Cuban parents and raised in Miami, Crucet is the author of How to L ...

Celebrating MIT's excellent staff
The MIT Excellence Awards acknowledge the extraordinary efforts made by members of our community toward fulfilling the goals, values and mission of the Institute. This is among the highest honors awarded to staff by MIT and all members of the MIT community are encouraged to join in honoring this year’s ...

MIT FAST Thinking on March 5
MIT’s Festival of Art + Science + Technology (FAST) continues this weekend with FAST Thinking, a daylong exploration of the convergence of music, language, technology and brain science.MIT FAST Thinking is part of MIT FAST — a three-month-long festival celebrating MIT’s 150th birthday and its revol ...

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference 2011
The eighth annual Sloan BioInnovations Conference, taking place on March 4 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Boston Marriott Cambridge, brings together thought leaders from industry and academia to discuss important topics applicable across the health-care industries. Steve Rusckowski, CEO of Philips Healthc ...

Becoming human
On Thursday, Feb. 24, Dr. Ian Tattersall, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will give a talk on human evolution at 11 a.m. in Room 4-370. The event is free and open to the MIT community.His talk, titled "Becoming Human," will trace the major events in human physical and cogni ...

IDEAS Competition and MIT Global Challenge Present: The Generator Dinner
Come join students, alumni and community partners in our annual winter Generator Dinner, taking place from 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Sala de Puerto Rico in Student Center.The Generator is an exciting evening where the floor is open for attendees to pitch their skills and ideas, brainst ...

Minorities in the United States
The third part of the "Human Diversity and Social Order Forum" — taking place from 7–9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, on the sixth floor of the Media Lab complex — will examine social suspension that is citizenship in America. While the law guarantees equality and protection of rights and opportunities ...

An evening with Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer who is currently professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University, will discuss her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Kirsch Auditorium ( ...

An Evening with Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer who is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, fifteen years in the making, follows the intimate and moving sto ...

MIT basketball teams take on cancer in final home games
The MIT men's and women's basketball teams will participate in the fourth annual WBCA Pink Zone this Saturday in Rockwell Cage during their final home games of the regular season. The event is sponsored by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association to help spread breast cancer awareness. All proceeds w ...

Handel and Haydn Society to perform 'Israel in Egypt' for MIT’s 150th
The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston’s renowned period orchestra and professional chorus, will perform Israel in Egypt at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19, in Kresge Auditorium. The concert — part of the MIT 150th celebration — will be preceded by a colloquium exploring themes of liberation. Music Profe ...

Diversity on the World Stage
The second part of the "Human Diversity and Social Order Forum" — taking place from 7–9 p.m. tonight on the sixth floor of the Media Lab complex — will explore the competition among a handful of sovereign powers, the exploitation of peoples and global resources, the relevance of economic power, and ...

MIT's Moments of Decision: An Historical Retrospective
A panel discussion by MIT's own historians — taking place from 4-6 p.m. today in E14, the Media Lab Complex — will examine how the Institute has reflected and shaped the history of science and technology in America, from the antebellum period through the Cold War and into the 21st century.Moderated b ...

Ambassador of Japan speaking at MIT
What is the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance? What will be Japan's place in the world? What is the economic outlook for Japan? Bring your questions and your curiosity as Japan's ambassador to the U.S., Ichiro Fujisaki, engages in a discussion with the MIT community on the future of U.S.-Japan relations. ...

Making Movies/Making Science: Video Screenings from MIT's DV Lab
Join filmmakers from MIT's DV lab for an evening of science and technology shorts from 5:30-7:30 p.m. tonight at the MIT Museum. See what happens when documentary film production takes on a social scientific outlook. Eight short films offer innovative perspectives on science and technology-related issues ...

Fruits of Diversity
"Fruits of Diversity," the first part of the four-part "Human Diversity and Social Order Forum" series, will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday on the sixth floor of the Media Lab complex. The forum celebrates enrichment of language, architecture, visual arts and music when diverse cultures come to know an ...