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MacVicar
Day 2002
Welcome - Robert
P. Redwine, Dean for Undergraduate Education
The Cambridge -
MIT Institute (CMI)
• Live videoconference with MIT students currently in Cambridge
and Cambridge University students here at MIT to discuss the educational
styles and campus life of the two institutions.
Service Learning
• Presentations by students from two design seminars: the
first made toys for children at the Codman Square Health Center
while learning design tools, and the second developed a process
to make cooking fuel from sawdust, a waste product of the timber
industry in Ghana.
MIT International
Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
• Presentations featured the problem solving training used
to prepare students to work in other countries, and a report about
an internship at DaimlerChrysler in Germany.
Students
on MacVicar Day describe educational experiences
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| Students
participating in a MacVicar Day videoconference were (left to
right) Rebecca Griffiths, Maral Shamloo, Tim Richards, Gina
Kim, Kevin Lang. Professor John Vander Sande moderated. Photo
by Laura Wulf. |
“Knowledge and Action,”
held Friday, March 1, in Room 6-120, was the afternoon segment of
the 2002 MacVicar Day celebration and followed the announcement
of this year’s MacVicar Faculty Fellows. Three groups of students,
representing the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI); Service Learning,
and the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI),
presented their experiences in innovative educational programs that
provide the opportunity to study and work abroad, or to develop
products for use by local or international communities. Tech
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| From left
to right: Dean for Undergraduate Education Robert P. Redwine,
Provost Robert A. Brown, Steven R. Hall, David Thorburn, Kip
V. Hodges, Alan Guth, Nancy Kanwisher, Chancellor Phillip L.
Clay, President Charles M. Vest. Photo by Laura Wulf. Click
on image for enlarged view. |
Five professors were
named MacVicar Faculty Fellows in recognition of their innovative
teaching practices and accomplishments.
Alan H. Guth - Physics
Steven R. Hall - Aeronautics
and Astronautics
Kip V. Hodges - Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Nancy G. Kanwisher -
Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the McGovern Institute for Brain
Research
David Thorburn -Literature
The formal presentations
were made by Provost Robert A. Brown at the MIT Corporation luncheon
on 1 March 2002. The Fellows were chosen by a special committee
headed by Dean of Undergraduate Education Robert P. Redwine. Tech
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