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Fellow attendee Hyman Hartman, a research scientist in MIT??s biology department, told the panelists that the reading he had done in sociology and economics inspired him to ask two questions: “Is the nation-state a viable, stable entity in a world that’s globalizing in a way that has made the nation-state less viable?” and “Why is there only a Nobel prize in economics? Why isn’t there one in sociology, for example...
...particular, she highlighted MIT??where 31 percent of CS concentrators are now female—as a school where a concerted effort to improve gender ratios in CS had been extremely successful...
...committee members suggested providing more structured January programming, similar to MIT??s four-week January “Independent Activities Period,” though it seemed unlikely the College would undertake such a project in the current fiscal climate...
Furthermore, many top rated academic institutions, including Stanford, Princeton, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have already made considerable commitments to green research and education. MIT??s Energy Initiative, for example, is financially backed by mega-corporations like BP, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin. The program boasts over 70 energy-related courses and interdisciplinary research groups of engineers, economists, management gurus, and policy experts. With BP and Ford’s blessing, the explicit mission of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative is to “lead the way to a compelling and sustainable solution...
Patricia E. Richards, a spokesperson at MIT, also noted that MIT??s faculty presence was larger than usual...