Beyond 2016: MIT's Frontiers of the Future

When MIT was founded in 1861, the Institute originally filled Boston’s newly developed Back Bay neighborhood. In the decades that followed, the departments and students increased, and in 1916, MIT crossed the Charles River for a new campus in Cambridge. Since its move to Cambridge, the Institute continued to establish itself as one of the world’s top universities and its alumni and faculty have tackled society’s most pressing challenges. Earlier this year, as part of MIT’s campus centennial celebration, the Institute hosted the symposium, “Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future.” (http://mit2016.mit.edu/) In this Slice of MIT podcast, you’ll hear a selection of the faculty presentations that took place at the symposium. Learn how solar power is creating more drinkable water in rural India; how texting is helping transform Kenya’s financial system; how cities can help solve climate change; and how mucus is solving global health problems. Transcript: https://bit.ly/2q38auq Featuring (in chronological order): Assistant Professor Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’10 Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Global Engineering and Research Lab Associate Dean Yasheng Huang MIT Sloan Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Tavneet Suri MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Katharina Ribbeck Department of Biological Engineering Assistant Professor Heidi Williams Department of Economics Professor John Fernandez ’85 Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative More information on the symposium: http://bit.ly/2bGJ5OK Watch the Beyond 2016 symposium: http://bit.ly/2c2EUNP Music: “Inspired," Call to Adventure,” “Cut and Run,” “Space Fighter Loop,” “Backed Vibes Clean,” and “Floating Cities” All songs by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0