中国科学技术大学即将迎来建校六十周年华诞,《中国科学:化学》中英文刊、《中国科学:物理学 力学 天文学》9月出版了“庆祝中国科学技术大学成立60周年专刊”,欢迎关注! 2018年正值中国科学技术大学成立60周年。为了集中报道该校近年来在化学和材料领域取得的科研进展,《中国科学:化学》邀请杨金龙和徐铜文教授担任特约编辑,组织出版了“庆祝中国科学技术大学成立60周年”中英文专刊。英文专刊包含15篇文章,中文专刊包含13篇,详情见链接: 英文刊 : Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the University of Science and Technology of China 中文刊 : 《中国科学:化学》出版“庆祝中国科学技术大学成立60周年”专刊 专刊全文网址: http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SCC/61/9?slug=Browse 专刊全文网址: http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SSC/48/9?slug=Browse 为纪念中国科学技术大学建校60周年和近代力学系建系60周年,展示近代力学系在职教授和毕业生的最新科研成果,加强近代力学系与国内外同行的学术交流,《中国科学: 物理学 力学 天文学》特别组织中国科学技术大学60周年校庆力学专辑。专辑由13篇综述和8篇研究论文组成,详情如下: 《中国科学: 物理学 力学 天文学》出版“中国科学技术大学六十周年校庆力学专辑” 专刊全文网址: http://engine.scichina.com/publisher/scp/journal/SSPMA/48/9?slug=Browse 《中国科学》杂志社 Science China Press 公众微信号:scichina1950
Greetings from space Astronaut alumni wish MIT a happy 150th from 200 miles above Three MIT alumni with something unusual in common — they were on the International Space Station (ISS) together for eight days last month — co-star in a new video offering extraterrestrial congratulations on the Institute’s 150th anniversary. MIT庆祝150周年的第146天,2011.6.1 MIT主页 Two of the three, Greg Chamitoff PhD ’92 and Mike Fincke ’89, are crewmembers on Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to return to Earth today, June 1. The third, Cady Coleman ’83, spent five months on the ISS, returning to Earth May 24 in a Russian Soyuz craft. Chamitoff — who has previously found ways of incorporating his alma mater into NASA missions — reached out earlier this year to William Litant, communications director for the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, seeking to bring astronaut alumni into the MIT150 celebration. “There is no more enthusiastic MIT alum than astronaut Greg Chamitoff,” Litant says. “He has used both his visits to the International Space Station as an opportunity to connect with MIT." For this mission, Litant and Chamitoff came up with two ways of commemorating MIT’s myriad contributions to space travel: the video tribute from space, and the inclusion in Endeavour’s payload of a 1961 letter written by longtime MIT professor Charles Stark Draper, whose navigational systems have guided space shuttles and the ISS. Before settling on these ideas, Litant and Chamitoff considered several other iterations. Endeavour’s initial launch date would have had the craft back from its final mission by mid-April, so their original plan was to bring all seven crew members to campus for the MIT Open House on April 30. Then, when the launch date was moved to April 19, that plan was scuttled in favor of a video featuring Chamitoff, Fincke and Coleman. “The T-shirts were Greg’s idea,” Litant says of the trio’s attire in the 158-second clip. “I ran over to the Coop, bought three shirts, and FedExed them to Greg in Houston just in time for him to include in his personal cargo.” Inspiration for much of the astronauts’ commentary came from the speech given on April 10 at the 150th Convocation by David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing. “We particularly liked David’s references to William Barton Rogers’ emphasis on learning by doing, and the importance of hands-on experiences,” Litant says, adding that the wordsmithing went down to the wire: “We were tweaking the remarks until about a day before Greg and Mike launched.” http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/astronauts-iss-150-video.html 博友 vividfn 翻译了上述报道,参考译文如下,谢谢 vividfn ! 来自太空的祝贺 MIT宇航员校友从200英里高空祝贺MIT建校150周年 近日,麻省理工的三名校友为自己的母校送上了一份出人意料的贺礼。上个月,他们一同在国际空间站呆了整整八天的时间。期间,他们联袂为母校建校150周年录制了一段视频。 他们中的两位——MIT92级的Greg Chamitoff博士与89级的 Mike Fincke同为“奋进”号船员——将于今日(六月一号)返回地球。而另一位名叫 Mike Fincke,为麻省理工83级毕业生,在国际空间站待了5个月的时间,已于5月24日乘坐俄罗斯联盟号返回。 Greg Chamitoff之前就希望能在宇航局的工作中为母校送上祝福。年初,他联系上航空航天部公关主任William Litant,试图让宇航员们也能参与MIT的150周年庆典。 “众多校友里,他绝对是最有热情的,”Litant说,“驻留ISS则成他的机会。” 这次,他们设计了两个途径来记念麻省理工及其为太空航行作出的巨大贡献:一是在太空录制视频,二是一封1961年被带上奋进号的信——写信人是麻省理工的Charles Stark Draper教授,他的导航系统对航天飞机与空间站贡献颇多。 期间,他们也是波折不断。原定“奋进”号将于4月中完成任务并返航,其后他们一同7名机组成员会在4月30号的MIT开放日前往学校。但后来启航日期被推迟到4月19号,所以原计划流产了。取而代之的是由先前提到的三人在太空录制祝贺视频。 说到他们三人在158秒的视频中穿的T恤,Litant说:“那是Greg的主意。我跑到超市买了三件T恤,又快递给身在休斯顿的Greg,刚好来的及让他写上自己的标语。” 他们的灵感来自于4月10号,David Mindell教授与研究工程和设备制造历史的David Dibner教授在150周年会议上的发言 我们特点喜欢David教授就威廉•巴顿•罗杰斯为例所说的:亲自动手,方能有所收获。谈到他们在最后关头才写上标语时,Litant说:“我们在Greg和Mike出发的前一天才定下我们的标语。”
美国 参议院通过 一项决议, 星期一 晚上( 5月23日 ) 纪念和 表彰 麻省理工学院 建校 150周年 。请大家补充一下,还有哪个国家的参议院专门通过一项决议祝贺一所学校校庆的。 The U.S. Senate passed a resolution Monday evening (May 23) commemorating and honoring MIT on its 150th anniversary. The bipartisan resolution was co-sponsored by Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.). The proclamation is the only congressional resolution in recent memory specifically recognizing MIT. “I am pleased that the Senate has recognized the tremendous contributions that MIT has made over the past 150 years,” Brown said in a statement. “Since its founding, MIT has been a world leader in science and engineering education, scientific breakthroughs, and technological advancement. I salute the Institute’s many contributions to Massachusetts and our country and proudly support it on this historic anniversary.” “Massachusetts wouldn’t lead the country in science and technology if it weren’t for MIT,” Kerry added in a written statement. “Whether wowing the world with its groundbreaking research, turning out some of America’s brightest minds, or creating whole industries and countless companies born through its innovation, it’s hard to imagine Massachusetts without MIT. Here’s to another history-making century and a half.” The full text of the Senate resolution reads as follows: (美国参议院决议如下) RESOLUTION Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (referred to in this preamble as “MIT”) was founded by William Barton Rogers, on April 10, 1861, the doors to a powerful new institution for education, discovery, and technological advancement were opened; Whereas the commitment of MIT to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit has trained innovators and delivered groundbreaking technologies that have significantly contributed to the fields of computing, molecular biology, sustainable development, biomedicine, new media, energy, and the environment; Whereas there are an estimated 6,900 companies founded by MIT alumni in the State of Massachusetts alone, which have earned worldwide sales of approximately $164,000,000,000 and represent 26 percent of total sales made by Massachusetts companies; Whereas the distinguished living alumni of MIT have founded approximately 25,800 companies that, as of 2011, provide jobs for approximately 3,300,000 people around the world and earn $2,200,000,000,000 in annual sales; Whereas MIT has many notable alumni and professors who have contributed to leading research and development efforts, including 76 Nobel Prize recipients and astronauts who have flown more than 1/3 of the manned spaceflights of the United States; Whereas MIT engineers and researchers have pioneered countless innovations, including the creation of random-access magnetic-core memory (commonly known as “RAM”), which led to the digital revolution, the mapping of the human genome, the creation of GPS navigation technology, and the engineering of the computers that landed Americans on the moon; Whereas MIT biomedical researchers remain at the forefront of many fields and have contributed years of key advancements, such as the first chemical synthesis of penicillin, the invention of heart stents, and the mapping of molecular defects to produce the first targeted therapies for cancer treatment; and Whereas MIT has excelled as a world-renowned pioneer that promotes science and engineering education, economic growth, scientific breakthroughs, and technological advancement in the State of Massachusetts and throughout the world: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate— (1) commemorates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and (2) honors the outstanding contributions made by the alumni, professors, and staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology throughout the past 150 years, including the efforts supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have spurred the industrial progress of the United States through innovation.
清华刚校庆,不到一星期,北大又校庆。 北大校庆跑火炬接力了,是另一种喜庆。 清华百年校庆就不同了,被人追着问:这些年你们培养几个大师? 其实这个问题还真不好回答。——都是梅校长一句话惹的 :p 首先需要定义什么才算得上“大师”。 这些年“大师”遍地,今天有“ L 大师”,明天有“ X 大师”,后天又有“ W 大师”。念过几句佛、画过几张画、写过几本书、甚至忽悠过几个人,就都成了“大师”了。倒是真做学问的,没有被称 “大师”的。 所以不能按街面上的标准。 那学术的标准是什么? 笔者觉得,这同做学问一样,不是可以“量化评价”的。举世公认你是,你就是。著书再多、立说再奇、忽悠再厉害,没人认可还是不行。 有人统计,清华百年,培养出 29 位大师。看了一下列表,确实都是专家、学者。但是以此为标准, 30 年以后再看,这个表肯定会增加不少人进去。不信?!咱们就等清华 200 年校庆的时候看!这也是中国特色——盖棺定论。要等你人不在了,才肯让你“大师”。当然名单里还有几个在世的。但是论学问成就,比一些不在的还是要高一点的。 相比起来, Harvard 比较官本位——先列政客(连加拿大的“政治领导人”、还有联邦政府的住房与城建部长都列在最前面。甚至“ Facebook creator ”都在科学家们的前面。 见下面的 Harvard 著名校友名单: Among the best-known people who have attended Harvard University are American political leaders John Hancock , John Adams , John Quincy Adams , Rutherford B. Hayes , Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin Roosevelt , John F. Kennedy , Al Gore , George W. Bush and Barack Obama ; Canadian Governor General David Lloyd Johnston , Canadian Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and Pierre Trudeau , and Canadian political leader Michael Ignatieff ; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan ; religious leader, businessman philanthropist Aga Khan IV ; businessman philanthropist Bill Gates ; philanthropist Huntington Hartford ; Chilean President Sebastian Piera ; Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ; Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou ; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ; Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo ; Mexican President Felipe Calderón ; UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ; philosopher Henry David Thoreau ; authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and William S. Burroughs ; educator Harlan Hanson ; poets Wallace Stevens , T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings ; conductor Leonard Bernstein ; cellist Yo Yo Ma ; comedian and television show host and writer Conan O'Brien ; actors Jack Lemmon , Natalie Portman , Mira Sorvino , Ashley Judd , Tatyana Ali , Elisabeth Shue , Rashida Jones , Scottie Thompson , Hill Harper , Matt Damon and Tommy Lee Jones ; film directors Darren Aronofsky , Mira Nair , Whit Stillman , and Terrence Malick ; television executive Brian Graden ; architect Philip Johnson ; musicians Rivers Cuomo , Tom Morello , and Gram Parsons ; musician, producer and composer Ryan Leslie ; Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg ; unabomber Ted Kaczynski ; programmer and activist Richard Stallman ; and civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois . Among its most famous current faculty members are biologist E. O. Wilson , cognitive scientist Steven Pinker , physicists Lisa Randall and Roy Glauber , chemists Elias Corey , Dudley R. Herschbach and George M. Whitesides , Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt , writer Louis Menand , critic Helen Vendler , historian Niall Ferguson , economists Amartya Sen , N. Gregory Mankiw , Robert Barro , Stephen A. Marglin , Don M. Wilson III and Martin Feldstein , political philosophers Harvey Mansfield and Michael Sandel , political scientists Robert Putnam , Joseph Nye , and Stanley Hoffmann , scholar/composers Robert Levin and Bernard Rands . 思考题:这个名单里,有几个“大师”?
MIT at 150 Inventing the Future In 1861, the year MIT was founded, technology had only just taken on its modern meaning, and launching an Institute devoted to the advancement of technology was a bold experiment. Yet our founder, William Barton Rogers, had nurtured ideas for this new Institute over more than 20 years. He wrote and spoke widely about the imperative of making scientific knowledge useful and of making the useful arts scientific. He anticipated that the integration of the theoretical with the practical could accelerate the development of Americas industry and economy. On April 10, 1861, the Governor of Massachusetts signed MITs charter. Two days later, the Civil War began. Rogers remained undaunted, even though MITs first students would not enroll for another four years. After the war, the Institute that Rogers founded quickly became a powerful mechanism for discovery and innovation. By teaching science and engineering as hands-on activities and by valuing practice as well as theory, and education as well as research, Rogers bold idea helped America design its future as an industrial powerhouse. While MIT faculty revolutionized teaching and pioneered research in fields from physics to architecture to chemical engineering, MIT graduates used science and engineering to transform daily practice in factories, railways, mines, shipyards, and laboratories across the country. Some led in their professions while championing a more egalitarian ideal of American education, such as architect Robert R. Taylor (1892), MITs first black graduate, whose vision still defines the campus of Tuskegee University, and chemist Ellen Swallow Richards (1873), MITs first woman graduate, who directed the first comprehensive water quality testing in America and pioneered the new field of ecology. Some graduates, like chemistry students A. D. Little (1885) and Pierre DuPont (1890), and aeronautical engineers Donald Douglas (1914) and James McDonnell (1925), went on to shape entirely new industries. By founding his new Institute on the vibrant interplay of exploration and creativity, Rogers had given the world a compelling model of an innovation machine. In another hour of national transformation during and following World War II, MIT again contributed powerful ideas that propelled our countrys future. The development of radar here at MIT made a decisive technological contribution to the war effort, and in the years that followed, the Institute became a preeminent example of a new engine for progress: the modern research university, fueled by federal investments in peer-reviewed technology and science, following the visionary blueprint of MITs Vannevar Bush (PhD 1916). The talent and ideas that flowed from MIT and other research universities helped fuel an enormously productive future, with decades of economic growth, the birth of new industries, countless medical advances, and the emergence of virtually all of the technologies that enable our modern quality of life. Today, as we face another period of potentially transformative change, I believe the MIT community again has a crucial role to play and an important calling. We can demonstrate to the nation and the world that progress is possible against the great problems of today and tomorrowenergy, climate, water, poverty, megacities, diseasethrough science and technology deeply informed by wise policy and pursued headlong with the can-do culture of MIT. We can set a path toward a new future for American manufacturing, through innovative systems, processes, and materials. Building on our entrepreneurial spirit, we can deliver the innovators and innovations that will drive the next wave of economic growth. And MIT can inspire the next generation of young people, of every background, to understand that science, math, and engineering can give them the exhilarating power to participate, not passively as spectators and consumers, but as the active explorers, entrepreneurs, and inventors who will design the future. In short, once again we can and will produce the kind of powerful new ideas our nation needs. We will do so by building on MITs core strengths: our tradition of practical optimism, our appetite for tackling demanding problems with hard work, and our unbounded curiosity and steady confidence, built on bedrock standards of excellence and rigor. Susan Hockfield President From http://web.mit.edu/facts/focus.html
今天是1861年William Barton Rogers建立MIT 150周年。美国麻省理工学院今天开始庆祝建校150周年----庆祝活动持续150天。MIT专门设立了校庆网站 http://mit150.mit.edu/ 。 2011年1月7日 MIT网站主页 MIT校庆150周年网站主页 http://mit150.mit.edu/ MIT 150周年校庆主要活动安排 Reception and opening of the MIT150 Exhibition Friday, January 7, 2011 Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm MIT Museum, Bldg. N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology An Artistic Menagerie: Collaborations of Mind, Hand and Imagerie 1900-1926 Saturday, January 22, 2011 Time: 4:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Thursday, January 27, 2011 - Friday, January 28, 2011 Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Stan VanDerBeek - The Culture Intercom Thursday, February 3, 2011 Time: 6:00pm List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology "Hydriotaphia" by Tony Kushner - presented by MIT Dramashop Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Saturday, February 12, 2011 Little Kresge Theater, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Systems, Process, Art, and the Social Friday, February 4, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm Bldg. 34 Rm. 101, 50 Vassar Street MIT Libraries “Technology” through Time: 150 Years of MIT History Exhibit Opening Friday, February 4, 2011 Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Maihaugen Gallery, Bldg.14N Rm130, 160 Memorial Drive FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Music | MACHINES : Celebrating 50 years of Music and Technology @MIT. Saturday, February 5, 2011 Time: 9:00am - 10:00pm Media Lab Complex, Bldg E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street Human Diversity and Social Order Forum The Fruits of Diversity Thursday, February 10, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Media Lab Complex, Bldg E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street Program in Science, Technology, and Society and MIT150 present: MIT’s Moments of Decision: An Historical Retrospective Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Time: 4:00pm Media Lab Complex, Building E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Diversity on the World Stage Thursday, February 17, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Media Lab Complex, Building E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Handel's "Israel in Egypt" Saturday, February 19, 2011 Time: 8:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education An Evening with Isabel Wilkerson Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Ray and Maria Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, 32-123 MIT Public Service Center IDEAS and MIT Global Challenge – Generator Dinner Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Time: 7:30pm Stratton Student Center, La Sala Puerto Rico Room Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Minorities in the United States Thursday, February 24, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Media Lab Complex, Building E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street Applied Nichiren Buddhism at MIT (ANB@MIT) Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI-USA) From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit Sunday, February 27, 2011 - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Tang Center, Wong Auditorium, Bldg E51, 70 Memorial Drive Human Resources 2011 Excellence Awards Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education An Evening with Jennine Capó Crucet Thursday, March 3, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Tang Center, Wong Auditorium, Bldg E51, 70 Memorial Drive Dedication of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Friday, March 4, 2011 Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Building 76, 500 Main Street FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Neuroscience of Expression Saturday, March 5, 2011 Time: 11:00am Media Lab Complex, Bldg E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street Room 633 FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Musical Patois: Reflections of Language in Music Saturday, March 5, 2011 Time: 2:00pm Little Kresge Theater, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology 'Language of Music' concert featuring the Lontano Ensemble Saturday, March 5, 2011 Time: 8:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue Science, Technology, and Policy Crossroads Science, Technology, and Policy Crossroads Symposium 2011 - Biotech Policy Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm TBA MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Time: 8:30am - 5:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Education in the United States Thursday, March 17, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Ray and Maria Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium, building 32-123 FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Washed by Fire: The Music of Keeril Makan Thursday, March 17, 2011 Time: 7:30pm Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology FAST OPERA: 'Death and the Powers' - an opera by Tod Machover Friday, March 18, 2011 - Friday, March 25, 2011 Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA MIT150 Symposium Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT Monday, March 28, 2011 - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue MIT Public Service Center MIT Global Challenge – Community Choice Award Voting Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - Monday, April 25, 2011 Online FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Breaking the Code Thursday, April 7, 2011 - Sunday, May 8, 2011 Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology 'La Ronde' by Arthur Schnitzler Thursday, April 7, 2011 - Friday, April 15, 2011 Little Kresge Theater, 48 Massachusetts Avenue WMBR WMBR 50th Anniversary Saturday, April 9, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Morss Hall, Walker Memorial Building, 142 Memorial Drive MIT150 The Next Century Convocation Sunday, April 10, 2011 Time: 2:00pm Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street MIT150 Symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Monday, April 11, 2011 - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Bang-on-a-Can and Kronos Quartet Mini-Marathon Friday, April 15, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology FAST Forward: The intersection of Art, Science and Technology at MIT Saturday, April 16, 2011 Time: 10:00am To be determined FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0 Thursday, April 21, 2011 - Saturday, April 23, 2011 Media Lab Complex, Bldg E14 6th Floor, 75 Amherst Street MIT Public Service Center IDEAS and MIT Global Challenge Poster Judging Session Monday, April 25, 2011 Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Lobby 10 and the Bush Room, 222 Memorial Drive MIT150 Symposium Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Cambridge Science Festival Saturday, April 30, 2011 - Sunday, May 8, 2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT150 Open House Saturday, April 30, 2011 Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm MIT Campus MIT150 MIT Public Service Center IDEAS and MIT Global Challenge Awards Ceremony Monday, May 2, 2011 Time: 7:00pm Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue MIT150 Symposium Brains, Minds and Machines Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - Thursday, May 5, 2011 Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue Division of Student Life MIT Awards Convocation Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Maclaurin Building - Building 10 Rm 250, 222 Memorial Drive FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect - List Visual Art Center exhibition Thursday, May 5, 2011 - Sunday, July 10, 2011 List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology FAST Light: The culmination of MIT's Festival of Art, Science and Technology Saturday, May 7, 2011 Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm MIT Campus MIT Sloan School of Management Building the Future: Dedication of E62 Friday, May 13, 2011 Time: 9:00am Bldg. E62, 100 Main Street MIT Sloan School of Management Building the Future: MIT Sloan Alumni Weekend Friday, May 13, 2011 - Sunday, May 15, 2011 Bldg. E62, 100 Main Street FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology "Bellona, Destroyer of Cities" by Jay Scheib Friday, May 13, 2011 - Sunday, May 15, 2011 Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - Wednesday, June 1, 2011 MIT campus in Cambridge MIT’s Investiture of Doctoral Hoods Thursday, June 2, 2011 Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm Rockwell Cage, 106 Vassar Street MIT's 145th Commencement Exercises Friday, June 3, 2011 Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm Killian Court MIT Alumni Association, Resource Development, and MIT150 present: Toast to Tech! Saturday, June 4, 2011 Time: 9:30pm - 11:00pm Killian Court
中文版 我要写一篇文章送给母校六十周年校庆。写点什么好呢?就写写我的初中和初中毕业后十年来追逐梦想的一些经历和感悟,权当简单的回顾,亦可作为经验鞭策后来的校友们。 1995年9月,以固阳县全县第一名的成绩,我进入固阳一中,开始了初中生活。那段日子对我来说是珍贵的。至今我还清晰地记得教过我的好多老师:西装笔挺,学识丰富的数学老师郝茂林;个子矮小但自信十足且滑稽有趣的英语老师王国庆;还有和蔼可亲的语文老师贺玉莲;当然还有我的班主任老师,杨希望,总是冷静从容,泰然自若。记忆越久远反而越清晰,那些孜孜以求的日子,游荡在浩瀚的知识海洋里面,快乐的时光占了大多数。 如果给我一个梦想,我可以给你一个精彩的未来。我是一个爱做梦的人,有一颗不安静的心,梦想是幸福和美妙的。初中的时候简单地概括就是有梦想就会实现。带着儿时的天真,一切都顺利的近乎完美:我的成绩一直是全年级第一名;我参加过的竞赛除了物理没有拿奖外全都得到过至少市一级的奖励;最让我感到荣誉的是全国希望杯数学竞赛的三等奖铜牌,那时候郝老师还激动的泪光闪闪呢;每年的冬季越野赛我都给班里拿过好的名次。然而那个时候,我并不知道初中以后是高中,高中以后是大学,还有以后的;回想起来,在我往后学海生涯中走过的每一步,都离不开在固阳一中学习期间奠定的扎实的基础。 98年中考后,以每科平均90分的成绩,我考入了包头市第四中学。说起来,我上学的路上最不快乐的时光可能就是高中这三年了,环境,语言,生活和竞争的压力,让我突然失去了以往的自信和学习的乐趣。重点高中的学习生活有太多的束缚和压力,动力抑或压力往往在转念之间。后来想想其实自己在高中时的心态没有调整好,一直都试图融入那个环境却始终游离其外。尽管如此,我的成绩在高一高二一直是全年级30名之内,高三下滑有点大,但是高考也不算太坏,561分,超过重点线40分。第一志愿大连理工大学没有录取,第二志愿被内蒙古大学录取到生命科学学院生态环境系。这个时候的我依然爱做梦,但是知道了不是所有梦想都会实现。要提醒那些即将步入高中的同学们,与其说高中时期是学习上的竞争,倒不如说是心理素质上的考验,提高你的心理承受能力,才能坦然应对成败。 2001年9月,我迫不及待的离开了高中的环境,虽然有点辜负了大家的期望到了内蒙古大学,但我很快就融入了快乐的大学生活。大学里面宽松,开放,自主的生活和学习环境,使我如鱼得水。在那里我有了最明显的成长。开始我在生态学系,后来选拔入生物学基地分子生物学专业内蒙古大学较好的专业之一。另外,我参与了丰富的娱乐活动,打台球,看小说,上网,k歌,逛街什么的。我还结识了许多朋友,那个时候的我表现了大部分的自我属性,这些用个性魅力交来的朋友是我的宝贵财富。大学时没少逃课,可能是因为我的天性不喜欢被束缚,上课或自学相对自由的选择,让我过得既充实又高效。为了可以解决自己的生活花费问题,我做了好多份家教,也做过餐厅服务生等。大学期间获得过3次校级二等奖学金。我很满意我的大学生活,觉得丰富而有趣。有压力但是没有被压垮,反而越来越强大!大四的时候由于成绩优异,我被保送到了中国科学院过程工程研究所生化工程专业。对大学的概括是:更多梦想,更多选择!我曾努力地学习过专业课程,钻研过英语,也接触过日语等,这些都为我的梦想添上了翅膀。 2005年9月,到了中科院以后,和另外一群有梦想的年轻人在一起,我的梦想有了更多色彩!这三年里我真正地接触了科学研究的课题,以及具体的理论和细节的研究方法等。以前对专业不是很自信的我,突然发现我在做研究上很有天赋,而且也发现了自己的兴趣所在是发现和探索有趣的生命现象,以及解释我们看到的生命现象背后所藏的玄机。由于向往国外先进的科学技术和自由活跃的学术氛围,出国深造的念头渐渐萌生了。准备硕士毕业论文和准备出国考试,我都不敢耽误。仅仅不到半年的时间我考完了GRE和TOEFL, 而且成绩好地让我自己惊诧不已。要知道没有几个人是用这么短的时间完成这两门考试的,当然如若没有多年来扎实的英语功底,我也是望尘莫及。联系了10所国外的大学,有3个大学同时发来了录取通知函。最终我选择了佛罗里达大学的植物细胞和分子生物学系攻读博士。这个时候,我对梦想的理解是:梦想有多远,我们就能走多远! 2008年9月到了佛罗里达大学,又是一番陌生到熟悉,无名到认可的过程。我体味着文化背景的差异,以及教学方式的变化,很快就喜欢上了这里张扬自我,多元并包,思辨自由的学术气息。每天都有挑战,每天都在进步!仅仅一年,我觉得专业方面起色很大,最值得高兴的是我对生物科学的兴趣与日俱增,决定投身于发现有趣的生物科学奥秘。当然,压力是无处不在的,当你学会以客观和理性的姿态去调试自己和压力的关系时,你的每次进步都有质的飞跃。我期待着自己可以在科学这个崇高的领域里面做出独特而有价值的贡献,那意味着我需要不断革新自己的思想,思维及理念,不断创造。总是莫名中感觉到一种使命感,当我潜心追随时,仿佛又不确定,到底是什么样的使命要求我来完成呢,让我们且走且看,拭目以待。这个时候我的梦想宣言是:有选择地梦想,有计划地追随。 一路走来,说难也难,说易也易,全凭自己把握和命运安排。简单地说,对于我的每个选择,其实并没有经过很仔细地计划和思考,有时只是人云亦云,有时只是一晃而过的念头。人生并不是一切尽在规划之中,可能只是走走画画而已,而画好画坏就在自己的资质和机遇了。然而所幸的是,我的梦想始终伴随我,渐渐清晰却依旧遥远。要送给大家的一句话是:带着梦想起航,乘风破浪或波澜不惊,找到你梦的港湾。 从1998年到2008年,这是我的十年。母校固阳一中在这十年中也经历了许许多多至关重要的改变:校舍的逐渐更替建设,由初中高中部并存转型为独立高中办学,以及教师和领导的引进和更新,还有莘莘学子们的一茬茬轮转流长。始终如一,我们固阳一中人的共同目标是:为固阳一中可以培养出更多独具特色的人才服务于社会而努力。而这一目标的实现离不开老师们的辛勤汗水和学子们的孜孜不倦,更需要社会各界对固阳一中的关心和支持。不管是过去还是未来,对于教育的资助和扶持是一本万利的投资,更是造福人民,造福社会的长远福益事业。在新的环境下,坚持我们校训的同时,营造自由、自主、自我创新的学术氛围更能体现现阶段基础教育的根本任务,和当今社会对建设人才素质的本质要求。 谨此献上我的祝福和感谢,愿母校越来越好,永创佳绩! English Version Goes all the way for dreams I want to write an essay as a gift for the 60th birthday of my Alma Mater- Guyang 1st high school. What should I write down? How about my junior school life and the experience and sentiment when I followed my dreams after graduation? It may either be treated as retrospection or experience that could have an urge on the young schoolfellows. Sep, 1995, as the No.1 student I entered in Guyang 1st high school and began my junior school life. It was precious time for me. Hitherto, a lot of teachers vividly present in my memory: the one who always wearing trim business suit and with great wisdom is my Math teacherMaolin Hao; the one who a little dwarfism but extremely waggish and funny is English teacherGuoqing Wang; And also amiable Chinese language teacherYulian He; And of course our supervisory teacherXiwang Yang, who is always easiness and imperturbation. How fabulous that is the more longinquity the memory, the more clear it is. In those industrious days, wandering in the immense knowledge sea, joy occupied most of the time. Given me a dream, I will give you a wonderful future! I am a girl falling in love with dreaming, and with a restless heart, and I believe dreaming is blessedness and great. In summary, the junior school life is it is going to be true whatever your dream is. With childs simplicity, everything is favorably almost perfect: my grades was always the first one among the entire students; except physics, I won at least Baotou-city-level prize in all the competitions of different subjects; the one made me feel great honor was the 3rd brand medal in the national Hope Cup math contest, and Mr. Hao was ablaze with tears in his eyes at that moment; I had very good performance in each years Cross-country race. Whereas, at that time, I never knew after junior school is senior, after senior is University, and so on; Fetching up, no steps that I went through in my studying life can be achieved without the well-knit foundation built up during studying in Guyang. In 1998, I entered in the Baotou 4th high school, with an average score of 90 in the entrance exam. The three years in high school was the most awful and unhappy time in my studying life, the pressure from environment, language, life and competition led me to lose my past confidence and interest in studying. The studying life in those key high schools has too much restriction and stress, motivation or stress fast switches between each other in our mind. Think it over, my attitude was not adjusted right during that time, I was kept trying to get used to the surrounding environment but dissociated outside all the time. Still, I maintained among the top 30 students in the 1st and 2nd year. There was a big slippery in the 3rd year, however, it was not bad in the university entrance exam. My grade was 561, which was 40 points over the entrance line of famous universities. I was not admitted to Dalian University of Technology, therefore, enrolled in department of ecology and environment in college of life science at Inner Mongolia University. At that time, I still loved dreaming, but I knew that not all the dreams would come true. Just to remind those guys who are going to step into high school, the high schoo1 life is more a trial on mental quality than a competition on studying. Enhance your endurance on mentality, than you will be capable of facing success and failure in calmness. In Sep, 2001, I left my high school and entered in Inner Mongolia University, although failed everybodys expectation on me, I blended in with the happy university life pretty soon. The freedom, open, and independent life and studying atmosphere, made me feel like a duck to water. I had grown up a lot there. At first I was in the ecology and environment department, after one year I was chose into the biology (base) program, which is one of the best major in this University. In addition, I took part in a lot of recreation activities, such as playing pool, reading novels, browsing on internet, singing in the KTV, go shopping and so on. I made many good friends also, because I exhibited most of my ego attributes at that time, those friends were attracted by my personality charm, and they are precious fortune to me. I skipped a lot of classes, maybe because I dislike to be tied in nature, and thus, went to class or self-study, let me led a substantial and efficient life. In order to make money for my daily expense, I worked as a tutor for a lot of junior and high school student, in addition, I worked as a waitress in the restaurant. I won 3 times of 2nd class scholarship. For the enrichment and fun, I greatly satisfied with my university life. There was also a lot pressure, but I was not collapsed, instead, I was more and more powerful! Due to the good performance on my grades, I was recommended for admission into Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in my last year. To summarize my university life: more dreams, more choices! I had been hard working on my major courses, and also dug into English extensively, and I learnt some Japanese too, and eventually those all put wings on my dreams! I entered in Chinese Academy of Sciences in Sep, 2005, and with other young guys embraced their own dreams, my dream was more colorful. In these 3 years, I truly got in touch with scientific research project, including the practical theory and detailed investigation techniques and so on. Compare to past unconfident in my major, I suddenly found that I was gifted on research, and my interest lies in discovering and exploring mysterious biological phenomena, and explaining those occult that hide behind our eyes. Looking forward to the advanced technology and freedom and active science atmosphere outside, the idea for studying abroad grew little by little. Dare not to delay, I prepared for my masters thesis and GRE and TOFEL test at the same time. In no more than half a year, I took the two tests, and the grades were too good to be true. You know what not so many people can achieve these 2 tests in so short time, of course, if without those years diligent studying on English, I cannot complete this. I contacted 10 foreign universities, 3 of them sent me an admission letter. Finally, I chose to pursue my PHD degree at the plant molecular and cellular biology program (PMCB) in University of Florida. At this moment, my understanding to dream is: we can go as far as our dream is! I arrived at University of Florida in Sep, 2008. It was another process from strangeness to familiarity, from nameless to approbatory. I appreciate the difference from culture background, and the change in teaching style, and soon I fell in love with the academic atmosphere which is aggressive, diversified but conciliatory, and speculative-free. The more challenge everyday, the more progress! Only one year, I feel that I have had a great improvement in my major. What makes me feel great is that my interest in biology has been increasing day by day, and I will devote myself in biology to explore the mystery. Indeed, pressure is everywhere, but when you learnt how to adjust the relation between yourself and pressure with impersonal and rational attitude, you can achieve a qualitative leap at every progress. I expect myself can make special and valuable contribution to the sublime science field, which means I have to continuously renovate my ideas, thoughts, and belief, and continuously maintain creative ability. Always I have an un-definable sense of mission, while I adhere to it, it became indeterminate. Whats the mission on earth that calling for me to fulfill? Let's wait and see what happens. Now my dream declaration is: to dream with serious selectivity, and to pursue with careful plan. Through it all, difficulties or easiness, it all holds in oneself and is arranged by destiny. Simply, not all my choices have been undergoing very carefully plan and consideration, sometimes I just followed others, and sometimes it was just a flash idea. I believe that not everything can be fully planned in your life, and it is more likely a mixed process of planning and experiencing, while whether it goes well or not depends on your intelligence and opportunity. Fortunately, my dream always goes with me, it is gradually clear but still far away. Let me take the following sentence as a gift to everyone: navigating with your dream, no matter to sail through wind and waves or to ride peacefully, you will find your dreamy harbor. From 1998 to 2008, it was my decade. During the decade, Guyang 1st high school went through lots and lots alterations as well: the renovation of the teaching building, the change from mixed junior and senior school into senior school only, the renewing of school teachers and leaders, and also the circulation of students, and so on. To be consistent from beginning to end, our common goal is: to work hard on educating more and more unique talented students who are going to serve for our society! However, the purpose cannot be realized without industrious teachers and diligent students. Whats more important is the support from various circles of our society. No matter yesterday or tomorrow, the supportiveness on education is an investment which makes big profits with a small capital, and even more it is a project which benefits to the people and society in a long term. Under the new circumstances, sticking to our school motto as well as constructing freedom, independent, and self-creative academic atmosphere is more able to embody our fundamental task on basic education and our societys essential requirements to the quality of our talented students. Hereby express my blessing and acknowledgement, and I wish my Alma Mater to get better and better and make remarkable achievements forever.