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Past Seminars

2/28/2012
Linguistics and politics
Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor emeritus of linguistics, political activist and prolific book author.
Please note: start time for this seminar is 3:30pm. Meet in E51-095.
2/23/2012
Functional specificity in the human brain
Nancy Kanwisher, Investigator at the McGovern Institute and Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Please note: this seminar begins at 4:30pm
2/14/2012
New science RNA silencing-future science convergence
Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Please note: start time for this seminar is 3:30pm
2/9/2012
The art of science television
Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, Nova; Director, WGBH Science Unit.
PLEASE NOTE: the seminar will begin at 4:30pm, not 4pm as previously stated.
2/7/2012
How cancer becomes aggressive
Robert Weinberg, Professor of biology at MIT and member of Whitehead Institute.
2/2/2012
Overview and tour of new David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Robert Urban, Executive Director, Koch Institute.
Meet in E19-623 at 3:45pm. Knight Fellows only.
1/31/2012
Special Event - Energy, the Media and You: Behind the Scenes with Top Science Reporters
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**Registration required - Open to MIT-only**
12/13/2011
Our Emergence from the Sea
Farish Jenkins, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard
 
12/8/2011
No Seminar.
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Medical Evidence Boot Camp
 
12/6/2011
No Seminar.
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Medical Evidence Boot Camp
 
12/1/2011
TBA.
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11/29/2011
The Smallest and Most Abundant Photosynthetic Cell in the Sea
Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, Professor of Environmental Studies, MIT
 
11/24/2011
No seminar
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Thanksgiving
11/22/2011
Blind Children See and In Turn Teach Us Neuroscience
Pawan Sinha, Associate Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, MIT
 
11/17/2011
No Seminar.
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