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A Conversation with Richard Levins How can scientists contribute to a better world while working within institutional constraints? Richard Levins is an ecologist, activist, mathematical biologist and philosopher of science. He was a farmer, labor organizer and pioneer of the environmental movement in Puerto Rico, investigated birth defects caused by…
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Following last year’s campus-wide Climate Change Conversation, President Reif will decide this fall semester how (or if) our university will take action against climate change. In the run-up to this potentially game-changing moment of decision, MIT Climate Countdown is hosting a series of public events, starting September 27, culminating in a…
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Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, is the University of Pennsylvania 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair. Her…
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Join us for an evening at the theater! Central Square Theater is presenting the award-winning psychological mystery, Copenhagen, which “unravels what transpired” at the meeting of two brilliant physicists, Werner Heisenberg and Neils Bohr, who were fast friends but from enemy nations at the onset of World War…
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LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM Join us on September 21 for a panel discussion, moderated by R. Scott Kemp, on “What Now?: The Iran Nuclear Deal” with panelists John Tirman of the MIT Center of International Studies, Lisbeth Gronlund of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Payam Mohseni of the…
