Daily Archives: November 14, 2010

Great leaders inspire their followers

Leadership is important, but sometimes it can be hard to be a good leader. On November 9, Mark Mondry lectured about leadership as part of the Engineering and Technology Management series. He started by engaging the audience and asking what leadership meant to them. “You’ve probably experienced good leadership in your lifetime. Think about somebody that was an impressive leader, an inspiring leader to you, and think about what made them an inspiring leader…what kind of attributes did that person have?”

Scientific discoveries this week: 11-15-10

Milan, Italy – Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have possibly shown that Hawking Radiation, predicted 36 years ago by Stephen Hawking, exists. Hawking radiation theoretically occurs when a pair of virtual particles comes into existence on the event horizon of a black hole. One of the particles flies into the black hole while the other photon is ejected into space. By building up a potential barrier by skewing the properties of glass with ultra-high energy laser pulses, the scientists were able to replicate what they thought was an event horizon. They then detected the photons emitted by the setup. In addition to expected photons, a set was emitted that did not appear to have come directly from the laser pulse. This experimental setup could prove many years of theory.

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Perspectives on clean energy and climate policy

It is widely agreed that the United States, as one of the biggest polluting countries, needs to find a way to reduce carbon emissions. But actually fitting it into the government and economy is a completely different story.
The Economics and Business Department brought Robert LaCount of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) to Mines last Thursday to talk about this very thing.

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