Knight Seminar Schedule for next week:
September 14 - Knight Seminar (4:00-5:30 pm, E19-623) Genes from Neanderthal to now David Reich <http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/%7Ereich/> , Genetecist and Professor at Harvard Medical School Reich is a faculty member in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and head of the Reich Laboratory. He does theoretical and experimental work in human population genetics and genomics. His research program focuses on developing theoretical ideas for studying genome sequence variation and applying them to data collected in his laboratory specifically to test these ideas. A current focus is finding genes for multiple sclerosis, prostate cancer, and hypertension in African Americans, and Type 2 Diabetes in Latino Americans. September 16 - Knight Seminar (4:00-6:00 pm, E19-623) The Genome and other surprises Victor <http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/contact/victor.html> McElheny, Founding Director, Knight Science Journalism Program McElheny is a longtime science writer who worked for The Charlotte Observer, Science magazine, The Boston Globe and The New York Times, reporting on such topics as science in Antarctica and Europe, the Apollo lunar landing program and the green revolution in Asia. At The Times during the 1970s, he founded one of the first technology columns in American newspapers. He came to MIT in 1982 to create the Knight fellowship program with funding from the Sloan Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Since his retirement in 1998 McElheny has published three books, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land, Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution, and <http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Map-Life-Project-Lawrence/dp/046504333X> Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project. These books are in our E19-623 library area. As background reading for his seminar, Victor suggests that Fellows read the July 11 Salon.com <http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/07/11/human_genome_interview/index. html> interview. For a complete list of Knight Seminars, please see our website <http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/seminars/current.html> . Please note: Nancy Kanwisher's September 21st Knight Seminar will be rescheduled for the spring term. Debbie Meinbresse Program Coordinator Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT E19-623 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 617-253-3442 [email protected] ** Bianca Sinausky Assistant to Professor David Mindell, Director of STS Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Science, Technology, and Society Phone: 617 253-3452 Fax: 617 253-8118 web.mit.edu/sts/
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