Comments(0) MIT researchers unveiled a major new project on Oct. 10 in Copenhagen aimed at transforming bicycle use in Denmark’s largest city, promoting urban sustainability and building new connections between the city’s cyclists.
Comments(0) Celebrating the inauguration of MIT’s Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship on Oct. 7, five Nobel laureates in economics, including MIT Institute Professor Paul Samuelson, spoke on “the role of entrepreneurship in development.”
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Comments(0) Thousands of Bruins and Bruin fans, joined by the UCLA Spirit Squad and Bruin Marching Band, will gather on the UCLA campus for the traditional Blue and Gold Week rally and bonfire on Oct. 16.
Comments(0) Economic theory mixed with gut speculation Friday as a group of economists took stock of the world’s gloomy financial situation.
Comments(0) Researchers at Stanford University have launched Short Attention Span Science Theater—an interactive website featuring short video segments, called “microdocs,” that are designed to make science understandable.
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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare studies African medicinal plants, including their fate at the hands of modern science and global patent systems. Ceren Belge investigates honor killings in Turkey and Israel and the informal spheres of law that exist within some nations. Harris Mylonas is a student of assimilation, with a particular interest in the making of co-nationals, minorities, and refugees within the Balkans.
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Doctoral candidate Sky Marietta, Ed.M.’08, was born and raised deep in the mountains of Kentucky and North Carolina — “in the holler,” as they say in Appalachia. She attended rural public schools all her life, including one so far from her home that, when she was in third through fifth grades, she endured a two-hour bus ride each way. Her high school offered more home economics classes than math and science courses combined. When she matriculated at Yale University a decade ago, she was the first person from her county to go to an Ivy League university; indeed, only 20 percent of her high school class went on to college at all.
Comments(0) Dr. Rogers Smith, professor of political science and chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, will discuss whether the nomination of Barack Obama means we are moving to a “post-racial” era in American politics.
Comments(0) A landmark contribution by Penn Health System and a collaborative, cross-school effort is undertaken in the neurosciences, the interdisciplinary study of brain/behavior relationships and nervous-system diseases.