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Nov 05, 2015

"On Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Communication."

Mario J. Molina (1943-2020)

Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Compton Lecture

Mario Molina delivers a lecture onstage, a large image of MIT's great dome building in the background
Aug 04, 1992

"What's now known suggests that the language faculty simply grows a language, much as other organs of the body grow."

Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor Emeritus

20th Killian Award Lecture

Noam Chomsky standing onstage behind a podium in front of a dark background
Apr 26, 2011

"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."

Frederick H. Hauck SM '66

United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut

MIT 150 Symposium

A panel of MIT alumni are seated in chairs on stage for a discussion, red curtain in background.
Sep 28, 2009

"OpenCourseWare came out of the fundamental values that we hold, as MIT faculty, about knowledge. Knowledge is better when it's open and it's shared freely."

Shigeru Miyagawa

Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

MIT 150 Interview

Shigeru Miyagawa seated in front of a black background for an on camera interview.
Jan 04, 1949

"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Statesman, Writer, Orator

Mid-Century Convocation

Grainy black and white image of Winston Churchill on a stage walking to podium as two men onstage
Nov 05, 2015

"On Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Communication."

Mario J. Molina (1943-2020)

Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Compton Lecture

Mario Molina delivers a lecture onstage, a large image of MIT's great dome building in the background
Aug 04, 1992

"What's now known suggests that the language faculty simply grows a language, much as other organs of the body grow."

Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor Emeritus

20th Killian Award Lecture

Noam Chomsky standing onstage behind a podium in front of a dark background
Apr 26, 2011

"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."

Frederick H. Hauck SM '66

United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut

MIT 150 Symposium

A panel of MIT alumni are seated in chairs on stage for a discussion, red curtain in background.
Sep 28, 2009

"OpenCourseWare came out of the fundamental values that we hold, as MIT faculty, about knowledge. Knowledge is better when it's open and it's shared freely."

Shigeru Miyagawa

Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

MIT 150 Interview

Shigeru Miyagawa seated in front of a black background for an on camera interview.
Jan 04, 1949

"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Statesman, Writer, Orator

Mid-Century Convocation

Grainy black and white image of Winston Churchill on a stage walking to podium as two men onstage
Nov 05, 2015

"On Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Communication."

Mario J. Molina (1943-2020)

Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Compton Lecture

Mario Molina delivers a lecture onstage, a large image of MIT's great dome building in the background
Aug 04, 1992

"What's now known suggests that the language faculty simply grows a language, much as other organs of the body grow."

Noam Chomsky

Institute Professor Emeritus

20th Killian Award Lecture

Noam Chomsky standing onstage behind a podium in front of a dark background
Apr 26, 2011

"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."

Frederick H. Hauck SM '66

United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut

MIT 150 Symposium

A panel of MIT alumni are seated in chairs on stage for a discussion, red curtain in background.
Sep 28, 2009

"OpenCourseWare came out of the fundamental values that we hold, as MIT faculty, about knowledge. Knowledge is better when it's open and it's shared freely."

Shigeru Miyagawa

Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

MIT 150 Interview

Shigeru Miyagawa seated in front of a black background for an on camera interview.
Jan 04, 1949

"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Statesman, Writer, Orator

Mid-Century Convocation

Grainy black and white image of Winston Churchill on a stage walking to podium as two men onstage