March 12, 2010
Reception with United States Senator Ted Kaufman
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010 Time: 6:00 PM -- Social hour: hors d’oeuvres and cash bar Location: DuPont Country Club Cost: $25 for members of the MIT Club or ACS and their guests Reservations: via MIT Infinite Connection: MIT Club Membership -- Join or Renew on-line: For Questions: John Gavenonis
Senator Ted Kaufman was appointed to Vice President Biden's vacant U.S. Senate seat by former Governor Ruth Ann Minner on November 24, 2008 and was sworn into office on January 16, 2009. Senator Kaufman is originally from Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from Duke University with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, and then earned an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Senator Kaufman is currently the only U.S. Senator who holds a degree in engineering. Senator Kaufman moved to Delaware in 1966 to work for the DuPont Company. In 1972, he joined Vice President Biden’s long-shot U.S. Senate campaign on a volunteer basis. After Biden's surprise victory in 1973, he took a one-year leave of absence from DuPont to organize and head Senator Biden's Delaware office. In 1976 he became Biden's Chief of Staff / Administrative Assistant and served until 1995. Since leaving Senator Biden’s staff, Senator Kaufman has remained a close friend of Vice President Biden and has advised him on every one of his campaigns. After Senators Barack Obama and Joseph Biden were elected on November 4, 2008, Senator Kaufman was named co-chair of the Vice Presidential Transition Team and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Since 1991, Senator Kaufman has taught courses addressing topics such as Congress, business, and public policy at the Duke University School of Law, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and Fuqua School of Business. From 1995 to 1999 he was Co-Chair of the Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Congress. From 1995 until 2008, Senator Kaufman was a Board member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which is the independent, autonomous, federal entity responsible for all U.S. government and government sponsored non-military international broadcasting. One of Senator Kaufman's primary interests while on the BBG was expanding the freedom of the press around the world, a battle he continues in the Senate. He was appointed to the BBG by the Presidents Clinton and Bush and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for four terms. |
Senator Ted Kaufman will address a joint meeting of the MIT Club of the Delaware Valley and the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society to discuss STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and related topics. Science and technology are critical components of several topics of current national interest. In particular, public policy addressing American competitiveness, energy independence / security, and environmental concerns requires the knowledge of the scientists and engineers who study the technical underpinnings of these challenges. MIT President Susan Hockfield and American Chemical Society Past-President Katie Hunt have both emphasized the importance of advocacy by members of the scientific community to influence the construction of sound public policy.
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March 23, 2010
Admitted Students Meeting
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Join fellow MIT Alums and current students for a reception to welcome students admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. This is a very popular event for prospective students and their families, and we welcome our alums and encourage current students to participate in this celebration. |
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Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Location: Renaissance Philadelphia Airport Hotel Cost: MIT Club Members and their Guests - $20.00 |  |
Reservations: via MIT Infinite Connection:
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=41581&groupID=158
Club Membership -- Join or Renew on-line:
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/PayDues.dyn?groupID=158
For Questions: Lucie Wilkens
e-mail: L.S.Wilkens@alum.mit.edu
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April 05, 2010
Personalized Energy for 1 (× 6 Billion)
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010 *** Meeting details and registration will be coming.... check back later (or learn as soon as they are posted via our Twitter alerts!) About Prof. Nocera Daniel G. Nocera is the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the Solar Revolutions Project and Director of the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT. His group pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry. He has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis outside of the leaf. This discovery sets the stage for a storage mechanism for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy. He has been awarded the Eni Prize (2005), IAPS Award (2006), Burghausen Prize (2007), Harrison Howe Award (2008), ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award (2009) and the U.N. Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization’s Science and Technology Award (2009) for his contributions to the development of renewable energy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was named as Times Magazine 100 Most Influential People in the World. Prof. Nocera is a frequent guest on TV (CNN, ABC Nightline, PBS, ABS Nature’s Edge, Jim Lehrer News Hour, NOVA, CBS, CNBC, Discovery Channel, The Science Channel and Plum in the U.S. and Explora and RAI in Europe), radio (NPR, Bloomberg News, CBS, BBC, All Things Considered, Here and Now, Climate Connections, Voice of America) and is regularly featured in print (New York Times, National Geographic, Forbes, Discover, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The New Republic, U.S. News and World Report, Outside Magazine, Wired, Technology Review). His 2006 PBS show was nominated for an Emmy Award. He worked with Robert Krulwich of ABC News to develop the pilot that was used to launch the PBS NOVA show, ScienceNow. He also worked with Mr. Krulwich and the web designer OddTodd to develop a five part series on The Lifestyle of Carbon, which was sponsored by the National Geographic. He opened the Mountain Film Festival 2007 in Telluride CO, the Aspen Forum in Aspen CO in 2008 and 2009, and the World Science Festival in NYC in 2008. He sits on several advisory boards and is currently working with several artists in the U.S and abroad, actors and producers in Los Angeles and major business leaders in the U.S. to help them develop a position that contributes positively to the energy and sustainability challenge confronting this planet. In 2008, he founded Sun Catalytix, a company committed to bringing personalized energy to the non-legacy world. |
We are extremely pleased to have MIT Professor Daniel Nocera to speak to us on a unique view of the energy future – personalized solar energy. The capture and storage of solar energy at the individual level – personalized solar energy – drives inextricably towards the heart of this energy challenge by addressing the triumvirate of secure, carbon neutral and plentiful energy. Because energy use scales with wealth, point-of-use solar energy will put individuals, in the smallest village in the non-legacy world and in the largest city of the legacy world, on a more level playing field. Moreover, personalized energy (PE) is secure because it is highly distributed and the individual controls the energy on which she/he lives. Finally, the doubling of global energy need by mid-century and tripling by 2100 is driven by 3 billion low-energy users in the non-legacy world and by 3 billion people yet to inhabit the planet over the next half century.
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