2009-2010 Speeches & essays
Will Innovation Still be Made in America?
20 October 2009, Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
Inducing Discovery:
The Experimental Life of Michael Faraday
30 August 2009, Freshman Convocation 2009
2008-2009 Speeches & essays
Statement on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
26 August 2009
President Hockfield’s charge to the graduates
5 June 2009, Prepared remarks for MIT’s Commencement
Converging Questions, Emerging Answers:
The Next Innovation Revolution
30 April 2009, AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy
Press Conference with President Obama on Clean Energy Funding
23 March 2009
The Next Innovation Revolution
27 February 2009, Guest editorial in Science Magazine
After Stimulus: An
Economic Growth Program
13 February 2009, Op-ed in The Boston Globe
Building a Culture of Inclusion
through Distributed Leadership
5 February 2009, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming
America's Future
3 December 2008, Washington, DC
Remarks at the Diversity Leadership Congress
18 November 2008
Statement at the National Press Club on Energy R&D
17 September 2008
From Transition to Transformation:
Meeting the Energy Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
16 September 2008, Financial Times-World Energy Council
Reimagining Energy
11 September 2008, Op-ed in The Washington Post
Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
10 September 2008
The Urgency of Doing:
MIT and the Spirit of Leonardo da Vinci
24 August 2008, Freshman Convocation 2008
2007-2008 Speeches & essays
President Hockfield’s charge to the graduates
6 June 2008, Prepared remarks for MIT’s Commencement
Gaining Ground on Cancer
28 April 2008, Op-ed in The Boston Globe
Numbers that Can Change the World
14 April 2008, Op-ed in The Boston Globe
Energy and the Environment: An Apollo Project for Our Time
7 April 2008, Op-ed in The Boston Globe
Investing in the Nation's Future
31 March 2008, Op-ed in The Boston Globe
Letter to Chairman Baucus and Senator Grassley of the United States Senate Committee on Finance
3 March 2008
Diversity and Inclusion: Building a Solution Worthy of MIT
21 February 2008, MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast
Energy and Inspiration: Inventing the Future in Time
14 February 2008, AAAS Annual Conference, Boston, MA
Making the Case for American Higher Education
4 February 2008, NAICU Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy
20 November 2007, Mumbai, India
Freshman Convocation 2007
26 August 2007
2006-2007 Speeches & essays
President Hockfield's charge to the graduates,
delivered at MIT's 141st Commencement
8 June 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Celebration
16 February 2007
A model for tackling the energy challenge
20 December 2006, Boston Globe
Keynote Address — Massachusetts Energy Summit
13 December 2006
Freshman Convocation 2006
27 August 2006
2005-2006 Speeches & essays
President Hockfield's charge to the graduates,
delivered at MIT's 140th Commencement
9 June 2006
MIT and the Energy Challenge, Opening Remarks at the MIT Energy Forum
3 May 2006
The University in the U.S. Innovation System, Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness in the 21st Century
28 April 2006
Testimony of Susan Hockfield to The Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education
20 March 2006
Diversity and Excellence, Hand in Hand at MIT
9 February 2006, MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast
The University in the Global Age: A View from MIT
January 2006, Beijing, China
Annual Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
7 November 2005
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
14 September 2005
Freshman Convocation
29 August 2005
2004-2005 Speeches & essays
Keynote Address at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Annual Meeting
26 May 2005
Inaugural Address
16th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 May 2005 (This speech also available in PDF format)
Op-Ed: Women in math, engineering and science:
Drawing on our country's entire talent pool
12 February 2005
Remarks at MIT's 31st Annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 February 2005
Interview: Dr. Susan Hockfield, MIT's New President, on MIT and Engineering
January 2005
Remarks to the Special Meeting of the MIT Community
26 August 2004
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