Hockfield女士的演讲中肯、保守，让人昏昏欲睡，其实，她可以放开点，中国人挺有幽默感~ Photo by Steven An

和Susan Hockfield在一起，我说：我是很多MIT毕业生的朋友，哈哈~ Photo by Stephanie

事件：MIT校长Susan Hockfield演讲

地点：外滩三号

时间：2010年6月23日下午5时30分

 

一直觉得外滩三号没有一个好的主持，不过是有人串个场，不过是相互介绍一下，根本够不成对话。让Susan Hockfield一个人在上面讲着实有点难为她，不了解现场来的都是些什么人，也不知道什么话题更集中更有趣，最终，演讲的内容平淡无奇，多谈到一些和中国合作前景的官话。

 

插科打诨，调动现场是我的专长，由我来做这个活动的话，我只针对Susan一个人问到底，而且一定有个专注的命题，方便偶尔扔个冷笑话。怎奈，这是Cherie的地盘，本人不敢造次。

 

不过外滩三号活动的规格还是不错的，由我来策划主持则是锦上添花！弱弱地问Cherie，是否可考虑下？

 

Cherie今天穿得很漂亮！我欣赏做慈善的人，不过也没必要遮遮掩掩的，人是要push一下，才会掏出钱来滴！Photo by Stephanie

 

Susan Hockfield, Ph. D.

President

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.

 

A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

 

Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.

 

Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research and education and continues to expand its activities at the intersection of the life sciences and engineering, with a particular focus on cancer research. The Institute has also embarked on a sustained effort to strengthen support for student life and learning, including undergraduate curriculum renewal, and is undertaking major campus construction and renovation projects with a combined value of approximately three-quarters of a billion dollars.

 

Believing that MIT has a responsibility to help develop new models of teaching and research for a global age, Dr. Hockfield has also worked to extend the university's long tradition of international engagement through initiatives in education and scholarship with partners around the world.

 

Before assuming the presidency of MIT, Dr. Hockfield was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and provost at Yale University. She joined the Yale faculty in 1985 and was named full professor in 1994. While at Yale, she played a central role in the university's leadership, first as dean of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1998-2002), with oversight of over 70 graduate programs, and then as provost, the university's chief academic and administrative officer.

 

Dr. Hockfield's research has focused on the development of the brain and on glioma, a deadly kind of brain cancer. She pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research, leading to her discovery of a protein that regulates changes in neuronal structure as a result of an animal's experience in early life. More recently she discovered a gene and its family of protein products that play a critical role in the spread of cancer in the brain and may represent new therapeutic targets for glioma.

 

Dr. Hockfield earned her B.A. in biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, while carrying out her dissertation research in neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in 1979-80, and then joined the scientific staff at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York in 1980. She served as director of the Laboratory's Summer Neurobiology Program from 1985 to 1997, concurrent with her teaching post at Yale, and more recently as a trustee of the laboratory.

 

Dr. Hockfield holds honorary degrees from Brown University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Tsinghua University (Beijing), University of Edinburgh and the Watson School of Biological Sciences at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her other honors include the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the Meliora Citation for Career Achievement from the University of Rochester, and the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists for outstanding contributions by a young scientist.

 

Dr. Hockfield is a director of the General Electric Company, a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has served on the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council of the NIH, as well as a number of other advisory boards. Her memberships in professional societies include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Neuroscience.

 

Dr. Hockfield lives in Cambridge with her husband, Thomas N. Byrne, M.D., and their daughter, Elizabeth.