SIGHT Opening Week Events
Inauguration & Keynote Speech： Expeditions into Extreme Affordability by Prof. Jim Patell, Stanford University
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm, 7 Oct 2014 (Tuesday)
Venue: LTD
Inaugural Speaker: Prof. Jim Patell, Founder of Extreme Program at Stanford
Language: English
Prof. Patell is a business professor with engineering training. He is a co-founder of the d.school and the Design Course for Extreme Affordability at Stanford, in which interdisciplinary student teams design products and implement their use in developing countries. Prof. Patell will share his experience in Extreme program (http://extreme.stanford.edu/). Extreme and SIGHT share a similar theme of education with SIGHT, and both are also built on an interdisciplinary platform.
-Light refreshment will start at 6:00 pm.
-Participants will receive 1.5 HLTH1010 course hour credit for this event upon successful completion.
Dialogue at the
Frontier of Global Health (1)
Time: 7:00-8:00 pm, 8 Oct 2014 (Wednesday)
Venue: SSCI Advising Center (opposite to LTB)
Speaker: Dr. Annie Chen-Green, Chair and Medical Director of One-2-One Charitable Trust
Language: English
Dr. Annie Chen-Green from One-to-One Charitable Trust will have dialogue with students, to inspire them with her decades of field experience serving the poor and her vision on how to lift up the next generation. One-2-One is an NGO partner with SIGHT.
-Participants will receive 1 HLTH1010 course hour credit for this event upon successful completion.
-Light refreshment will start at 6:30 pm.
Dialogue at the Frontier of Global Health (2)
Time: 7:00-8:00 pm, 9 Oct 2014 (Thursday)
Venue: SENG E2I Rm 6581 (lift 27/28)
Speaker: Ms. Lucy Lau, Doctors without Borders (MSF)
Language: Cantonese/English
Ms. Lucy Lau, an engineer working for Doctors without Borders, will talk about how young people can contribute to global health.
-Participants will receive 1 HLTH1010 course hour credit for this event upon successful completion.
-Light refreshment will start at 6:30 pm.
Lunch forum for faculty and teaching staff
Design for Extreme Affordability at Stanford
Time: 12:00-2:00 pm, 7 Oct 2014 (Tuesday)
Venue: SENG E2I Rm 6581 (lift 27/28)
Speaker: Professor Jim Patell, Stanford University
Professor Jim Patell is a Business School Professor with an Engineer’s training. He is a co-founder of d. school and the Design for Extreme Affordability course, in which teams of Engineering and Business students design products and implementation plans for use in developing countries.
-Lunch will be provided for participants.
-Forum is co-sponsored by Office of Associate Provost on Teaching and Learning.
