Global Universities In An Age Of Anxiety
We live in times of unprecedented complexity. The challenges we face are global, yet responses have been muted and insular. In this lecture, Professor Toope will argue that critical thinking and collaboration, across borders, disciplines and…
Human Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology in Child-Related Crime Investigations
Step changes in research tend to occur at the intersections of different disciplines. This lecture will chart the course of an entire award-winning investigative process that originated from such an opportunistic incident.
Transformative Education for Global Health Equity
Education of health professionals can create “experts” or even “professionals.” But how can medical professionals be transformed as social change leaders in shaping the health care system?
Inflammatory Diseases: Clinical Outcomes, Genes and Mosquitoes
Up to 10% of the population will suffer from an immune-mediated inflammatory disease at some stage during their life.
How Do Proteins Fold And Why Is It Crucial To Our Health?
Proteins in our body play a critical job in keeping us functioning and alive. They allow us to move, convert energy, build our cells, carry oxygen throughout our body, fight infections as well as sense and transport all manner of things within and…
Cancer: Challenges for The Future of Patient Care
The rising number and age of the global population are going to increase the number of cases of cancer and these individuals will require expensive and complex clinical care. This situation is unsustainable, therefore new approaches will be needed…
Prospects for Malaysia Baru: Constitutional Change Without Changing the Constitution
Professor Andrew Harding is a well-known expert on comparative constitutional law, who has devoted much scholarly time in studying Malaysia as well as other Southeast Asian countries, and authoring or editing more than 20 books.
A World of Three Zeros: Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is the father of both social business and microcredit. For his constant innovation and enterprise, the Fortune Magazine named Professor Yunus in March 2012 as “one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.”
Life in the Anthropocene: The Challenges of Managing Environmental Hazards and Risks
From flooding and drought to destructive cyclones and atmospheric hazards, such events are increasingly cast as heralds of a new era in earth’s history, the so-called Anthropocene, in which we have only ourselves to blame and scientific experts to…
MIT: Understanding Human Intelligence to Train People and Machines to Think
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has always applied its talents toward building a better world through education, scientific discovery, and advances in technology. Now the Institute is redoubling its efforts to improve teaching methods…
How Genomics Is Changing Medicine
Technological innovation has dramatically reduced the cost of genome sequencing. It is now affordable to sequence DNA from people, cancers and pathogens, and this will have major implications for health.
