Becoming MIT
Subtitle: moments of decision
By: edited by David Kaiser.
Contributors: Kaiser, David.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780262113236
Subjects: Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: moments of decision / David Kaiser; title: "God speed the institute": the foundational years / Merritt Roe Smith; title: Mergers and acquisitions / Bruce Sinclair; title: Patrons and a plan / Christophe Lécuyer; title: MIT and war / Deborah Douglas; title: Elephant on the Charles: postwar growing pains / David Kaiser; title: "Time of troubles" for the special laboratories / Stuart W. Leslie; title: "Refrain from using the alphabet": how community outreach catalyzed the life sciences at mit / John Durant; title: Putting gender on the table / Lotte Bailyn, with an afterword by Nancy Hopkins; title: Epilogue / Susan Hockfield.