MIT校长Susan Hockfield就职演说1_校长就职演说词

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MIT校长Susan Hockfield就职演说1

Thank you, all of you for such an incredibly warm …warm welcome to this community.I am deeply honored to have been selected as MIT’s 16th

President.As a scientist, I've always regarded MIT as a beacon projecting an incredibly bright light that has illuminated the path of discovery and

innovation for the entire world.And I know that I am only one of countle people who have been inspired and on many occasions awed by MIT’s strengths along the entire continuous scholarship, from the most fundamental basic research into the nature of our world, to the most advanced applications and technological innovations.It is of course the miion of every university to produce and dieminate knowledge and yet MIT has advanced both parts of this miion at an absolutely astonishing rate.Discoveries and innovations have poured forth from the Institute in a staggering torrent from engineering and science to be sure, but just as impreively from economics, businees, the arts, the social sciences and humanities.As all of you might imagine, over the last several weeks I have become

increasingly attuned to any mention of MIT.And perhaps not surprisingly, hardly a day has gone by without some news of some MIT discovery, some invention, some new program coming to my attention.MIT’s remarkable history of discovery and innovation alone might well have been enough to draw me here, but over these last few months, I have discovered another critically important feature of this institution’s character.Something that speaks to the values and ideas that seem to be the very foundation of this place.From my very first conversations in the search proce, I kept hearing about three of MIT’s central values: the pursuit of truth, integrity and the great meritocracy.I heard this from trustees, I heard it from faculty, I heard it from students and I heard it from staff members.And what I heard told me that here was a place whose values closely mirrored my own, a place whose miion I could truly embrace, and a place where Tom, Elizabeth and I could feel very much at home.Now I would gue that many of you are wondering how I imagine the future for MIT.First I have to reaure you I’m not gonna be, bring a kennel of Yale bulldogs with us.You will all not be required to wear hats with whites on them.What I believe in is building strengths on strengths.Each of the MIT schools and activities must continue to be strong and distinctive, and we must continue to look for opportunities to amplify those strengths through collaboration, through shared vision and through shared

work.My overarching goal is to help MIT to be an even greater MIT, to become even better at education, research and invention.