Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays

Program Descriptions

The MIT Museum offers programs ranging from lectures and panel discussions to performances and forums. Click below for more information on a particular event:

Upcoming Programs

Upcoming Program Descriptions

The listings below provide further details about select programs at the MIT Museum. For a full list of upcoming programs, be sure to visit our online Calendar.

Cambridge Science Festival Science for Sinners

Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
What's YOUR spin on sin? Eat, drink, and be wary as you "speed geek" your way through the MIT Museum, talking with nine different researchers about their takes on the seven deadly sins. Download flyer here.
Ages 21+, $15 (includes light dinner and drinks), advance registration required

Gluttony: More Deadly than Sinful
Presented by Judith Wurtman, former Director of the Research Program on Women's Health at the MIT Clinical Research Center

Envious Children: Reactions When Peers Get More Than You
Presented by Peter Blake, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, and Katie McAuliffe, doctoral candidate in Harvard's department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Captain Cook's Resolution (and his pride)
Presented by Ruth Perry, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanity in the Literature Faculty of MIT.

The Neurobiology of Sloth
Presented by Ki Goosens, Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and an Investigator in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Behavioral Economics of Addiction and Greed
Presented by Drazen Prelec, Digital Equipment Corp LGO Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School

Sex, Lies, and Biomarkers: When and Why Do People Conceal Their Sexual Experiences, and How Can We Tell?
Presented by Janet Rosenbaum, Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland's Population Center

RAGE-Control And Emotional Manipulatives: Technologically Based Games And Toys To Foster Better Emotional Regulation And Decrease Wrath
Presented by Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, Chief of the Psychopharmacology Program at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and Jason Kahn, Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Presented as part of the Cambridge Science Festival at the MIT Museum

Stay posted on all museum events by looking at the MIT Museum calendar.

MIT Museum Home Programs Program Descriptions

MIT MUSEUM Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
P: 617.253.5927 F: 617.253.8994 museuminfo@mit.edu
Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Past Programs:

Women with computer Amy Smith and her students from the MIT D-Lab class present on their inventions for developing countries.

Woman with feather The Catalyst Collaborative@MIT is a collaboration between MIT and the Cambridge-based Underground Railway Theater. The Catalyst Collaborative presented its first fully-staged production, Einstein's Dreams during the 2007 Cambridge Science Festival and followed up at the CSF '08 with a production of QED the one-man show about the popular physicist, Richard Feynman.