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 MITs 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

2、 for the entire world. And I know that I am only one of countless people who have been inspired and on many occasions awed by MITs strengths along the entire continuous scholarship, from the most fundamental basic research into the nature of our world, to the most advanced applications and technolog

3、ical innovations. It is of course the mission of every university to produce and disseminate knowledge and yet MIT has advanced both parts of this mission at an absolutely astonishing rate. Discoveries and innovations have poured forth from the Institute in a staggering torrent from engineering and

4、science to be sure, but just as impressively from economics, businesses, 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

5、 news of some MIT discovery, some invention, some new program coming to my attention. MITs 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 institutions cha

6、racter. 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 process, I kept hearing about three of MITs central values: the pursuit of truth, integrity and the great meritocracy. I heard this from trustees, I

7、 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 mission I could truly embrace, and a place where Tom, Elizabeth and I could feel very much at home.Now I would guess

8、that many of you are wondering how I imagine the future for MIT. First I have to reassure you Im 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 act

9、ivities 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, resear

10、ch and invention.Background knowledge:Yale bulldog: The mascot of Yale University is "Handsome Dan," the famous Yale bulldog, and the Yale fight song (written by Cole Porter while he was a student at Yale) contains the refrain, "Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow."美国的很多大学都有自己的吉祥物，一旦有什么重要活动，这些吉祥物就会出场，哈佛和耶鲁，这对老冤家，无论在什么场合都是彼此不相让，下面这张图片就是去年哈佛和耶鲁球队比赛时候，耶鲁