Monday, October 2, 2017
9:30 – 10:30 Presidents’ Hall SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Modern Cancer Researcher: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Outreach, and Advocacy
Speaker: Madeleine Oudin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Gertler’s Lab, MIT; Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, as of January, 2018
With one in two men and one in three women in the United States diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, the impact of scientific research has been huge in preventing, diagnosing, and treating the problem. Oudin will discuss her research at MIT in cancer metastes which are responsible for 90% of the deaths linked to cancer.
10:45 – 11:45 WOMEN SPEAK Presidents’ Hall
Life in an American Concentration Camp: The Japanese American Experience During WWII
Speaker: Sally Sudo, Retired Teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools
Sudo was six when her family was forced out of its Seattle home. It was 1942, and President Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order initiated the removal of an estimated more than 120,000 residents of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were American citizens. She and her family were incarcerated behind barbed wire in a concentration camp. For years, Sudo carried the feeling that, if the government was doing this, there must be something wrong with her.
11:45 – 12:00 ANNOUNCEMENTS 12:00 – 1:15 LUNCHEON
1:15 – 2:15 EDUCATION
Issues in Funding Public Higher Education: Minnesota and Beyond
Speaker: Matt Kramer, EDD, Vice-President, University Relations, University of Minnesota
State support for higher education has been a critical factor in the success of the American higher education model.
But over the past thirty years, under Democratic, Republican, and other administrations, support has declined significantly in Minnesota and across the country.
What are the causes of this declining funding? What are the effects of these reductions on Minnesota public higher education, and what are the implications for the future of higher education?