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Building a Community on Trust

Dr. David Baltimore: February 19, 2002; Running Time: 01:05:38

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

In this lecture, Dr. Baltimore discuses the central importance of trust, in science, education, commerce and personal life. According to Dr. Baltimore, "trust is a moral stance without which a community cannot exist because, as the Enron debacle shows, no network of safeguards can replace moral behavior." In his remarks Dr. Baltimore emphasizes the role of trust in the collaborative activities that are needed for interdisciplinary science and in the educational community that is Caltech.

Lecture Details

Location: Kresge Auditorium

About the Speaker

Dr. David Baltimore

California Institute of Technology President
1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Prior to becoming Caltech's seventh President in 1997, Dr. Baltimore was an Institute Professor at MIT and founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He received the Nobel Prize in 1975 for his work in virology.