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Boston Grand Challenge Summit
The Educational Imperatives of the Grand Challenges
Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, Babson College, Olin College of Engineering and Wellesley College co-sponsored a regional summit on the Educational Imperatives of the Grand Challenges. This event brought together educators and policy makers, business and community leaders for a discussion of the ways in which we can better prepare students to face these challenges.
While technology will play a key role in confronting each of these challenges, it cannot solve them alone. These problems are inherently interdisciplinary and global, and will require unprecedented levels of cooperation and holistic approaches. Global solutions--not new technologies--must be the objective, and these require innovation and cooperation among many fields, including engineering, business, government, economics, geology, biology and sociology, among others.
The summit at Wellesley focused on new educational approaches to improve the way these fields can work together to solve the important, complex problems of our time, highlighting successes and collaboratively exploring the way forward.
See the website for the event at: http://grandchallengesummit.olin.edu/
Grand Challenge Summit in Boston, MA |
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Welcome H. Kim Bottomly, President, Wellesley College Richard Miller, President, Olin College of Engineering Leonard Schlesinger, President, Babson College Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent, National Public Radio; Moderator |
| Watch It | The Need for Change
Welcome Clay Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Sharon Nunes, Vice President of Big Green Innovations, IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG) |
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Moving towards Solutions Framing Paul Romer, Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development; Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University Panel + Discussion |
| Watch It | New Approaches, New Possibilities
Benjamin Linder, Design & Mechanical Engineering, Olin College |
| Watch It | Facing the Challenges/Achieving the Promise
Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy; Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation, National Economic Council |
| Watch It | Extraordinary Student Stories |
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Closing: New Initiatives Richard Miller, President Olin College of Engineering |