Spotlight on Alumni and Student Pursuits

M.I.T. CityCar, Renamed Hiriko, Is Headed to Production

S.J.Gates, Jr.
John S. Toll Professor of Physics and
Center for String and Particle Theory Director

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h7t0

Finding Her Way: Kristala L. Jones Prather, Ph.D.

Book Launch – Reading – First Public Appearance
NO FEAR: A WHISTLEBLOWER’S TRIUMPH OVER CORRUPTION AND RETALIATION AT THE EPA
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A special book talk event:
Tuesday, October 11 6:30 PM
Busboys & Poets 14th & V Washington, DC

Eight New Distinguished Research Chairs Join PI

Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas (Jim Gates amongst panelists.)

MIT PhD candidate Danielle Wood examines the many ways in which developing countries invest in satellite technology. Photo: Jonathan Wood.

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College

Considered one of the leading scholars in the field of the intersection of medicine and race, Hammonds began her tenure as dean of Harvard College in 2008. Prior to her appointment she served as Harvard University’s first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity. She is also the Barbara Gutman Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and of African and African American Studies.

Hammonds joined the Harvard faculty in 2002 after teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was also the founding director of the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine. Her scholarly interests include the history of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race and sexuality, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine, and African-American history. She is the author of “Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930,” many scholarly articles and the co-editor of “The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics” (MIT Press, 2008) with Rebecca M. Herzig of Bates.

Hammonds was named a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2003–2005) by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. She has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a Fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Hammonds earned a doctorate at Harvard in the Department of History of Science, a master’s in physics from MIT, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Spelman College.

(Evelynn Hammonds, photograph courtesy Harvard Public Affairs)

Vyne Reader Spotlight: Breagin K. Riley

Danielle A. Hinton G, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is hooded by Chancellor W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 and interim department head Srini Devadas in Rockwell Cage. (photo credit: Jessica Liu—The Tech)

White Named President-Elect – Technology Review