Screen LibraryBecoming MIT：moments of decision
Saved in:
| Group Author: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
MIT Press,
|
| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 207 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262113236 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | G649 |
| CLC: | G649.712 |
| Call Number: | G649.712/B398-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: moments of decision / David Kaiser -- "God speed the institute": the foundational years, 1861-1894 / Merritt Roe Smith -- Mergers and acquisitions / Bruce Sinclair -- Patrons and a plan / Christophe Lécuyer -- MIT and war / Deborah Douglas -- Elephant on the Charles: postwar growing pains / David Kaiser -- "Time of troubles" for the special laboratories / Stuart W. Leslie -- "Refrain from using the alphabet": how community outreach catalyzed the life sciences at MIT / John Durant -- Putting gender on the table / Lotte Bailyn, with an afterword by Nancy Hopkins -- Epilogue / Susan Hockfield. |