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Please join us for a FREE Boston Seminar Series event co-hosted with Koch Institute

Cancer treatments kill tumor cells—does it really matter how?

Cells can die or signal injury via several different biological processes or pathways, and research increasingly suggests that the particular mechanism activated by a cancer therapy can significantly affect treatment outcomes.

Join us as Koch Institute researchers explain how they are leveraging specific cell injury and cell death pathways to take out tumors using new approaches to improve immunotherapy response and target aggressive, metastatic cancer cells. 

Featuring:

Whitney Henry, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology 

Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD

David H. Koch Professor of Science
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Director, MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine 

Tiffany Emmons, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate, Yaffe Laboratory

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mjendrysik@mitcob.org

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AMITA_Programs@alum.mit.edu

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Taylor Swift—The Person, The Music, and the Impact, a SEPT fundraiser

This special online event is a fundraiser to support the participation of local teachers in MIT’s Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT). (See website) The SEPT program presents innovative ways for middle and high school educators to teach STEM subjects.  All of the proceeds from this event will support local teachers.  If you are able to make an additional donation via the MIT Giving site to the MIT Club of Boston SEPT Fund (use this link for convenience), it will be greatly appreciated.

Do you have a Swiftie in your family, and you don’t understand the appeal?  Have you been curious about this pop musician who was able to sell out 152 stadium performances in 2023-4?  Are you looking for something fun and interesting to do with the family, while supporting a good cause?  Do you just love music?  This fast-paced musical and educational virtual event is just the thing you’ve been looking for.  Join the Zoom with your refreshments of choice at hand, and learn about Taylor Swift, her journey and her music.

Our host, David Kahn, spends a lot of time listening to music.  He listens to dozens of genres and follows hundreds of musicians/bands.  Some of these musicians are popular, and some are making excellent music in obscurity.  A couple of years ago, he decided to do a deep dive into the Taylor Swift phenomenon.  One of his daughters is a Swiftie, but other than a few of her popular songs he knew nothing about the person or her music.  David spent around 100 hours researching Taylor Swift and her music, and created a 30+ page document with over 200 links to videos, Wikipedia articles and news stories. After the program, every attendee will receive a copy of this complete document, so you can continue to explore this material on your own.

Taylor’s full discography is currently available on Spotify, and all of the official videos are on YouTube, but our speaker’s goal is to give you a more complete understanding of Taylor as an artist and as a person.  He’ll be sharing a lot of her music, but he’ll also be sharing some videos where Taylor explains her music and life experience in her own words.  David condensed a full course on Taylor Swift, supported by his detailed analysis, into this special event for the MIT Club of Boston.  By attending this session, you will see that Taylor Swift is:

• A songwriter
• A storyteller
• A performer
• A director
• A producer
• An entrepreneur
• An actress
• An activist
• A philanthropist
• A role model

David’s hope is that, by the end of this session, you’ll have a new or increased appreciation for everything Taylor Swift has accomplished.

About the Speaker

David Kahn has always been interested in music, and he collected albums and CDs in many genres back when that was the main way to explore interesting music.  Learning about music and musicians is easier now, and David spends many hours every month looking for interesting musicians and their music on YouTube and Spotify, and researching them on Wikipedia. He likes to find at least one new (to him) musician or band every week.

In 2022 he started a Music Enjoyment Club, where he shares interesting music with other music enthusiasts in a monthly Zoom session.  He organizes most sessions around a theme (Female Vocalists, Celtic Music, Piano Virtuosos, etc.), and he prepares a detailed handout for each session.

David Kahn has an SB in Course 6-3 (1978) and an SM in Course 15 (1981) from MIT.  He founded and managed D. Lawton Associates, an IT consulting firm, from 1986 through 2020.  He is currently the Asst. VP for K-12 STEM Engagement for the MIT Club of Boston and supports the MIT SEPT program.

Cost:

$15 Paid members of MIT Club of Boston
$25 General

Zoom link will be sent a day or two prior to the event to all paid registrants

Photo by Stephen Mease on Unsplash

Contact

dkahn@mitcob.org