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The STS Forum: MIT's Responsibility in a Dangerous World

Moderator: Rosalind H. Williams HM
Claude R. Canizares Alice Gast Brendan Foley PhD '03 Peter Schulman: September 9, 2002; Running Time: 01:52:58

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

Lecture Details

Location: Killian Hall/Building 14

About the Speakers

Moderator: Rosalind H. Williams HM

Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Rosalind Williams came to MIT in 1980 as a research fellow in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. From 1991 to 1993 she served as Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty, and from 1995 to 2000 as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education. Her latest book, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change (MIT Press, 2002) draws upon her experiences as a historian and MIT dean to comment upon our “technological age.” She is President-elect, Society for the History of Technology.

Williams receibed her M.A. in Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Claude R. Canizares

Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, in the Department of Physics and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost

Alice Gast

Vice President for Research and Associate Provost Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering

Gast came to MIT in 2001. Previously, she was the associate chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Gast earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University.