【正文】 direct application to practical life.”And by that measure, your time at MIT – and your careers that lie ahead – will be pleasurable walks – as you do – in Pasteur’s ’s true in a very practical sense – because the work he began continues 39。s discovery that yeast was responsible for the fermentation process and that contamination by other microorganisms turned beer sour advanced the beverage industry of 19th century France, but it also laid the foundation for experimental work with yeast that continues at MIT Susan Lindquist of the Department of Biology and the Whitehead Institute uses yeast to study the proteins that give rise to Parkinson’s Disease, a debilitating degenerative neurological yeast strains carrying the protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease also provide a platform to search for preventive and therapeutic ’s breakthroughs during the infancy of experimental biomedicine gave rise to the vast engine of biomedical research and products we enjoy biomedical breakthroughs now provide tools for other convergence of the life sciences with engineering reaches well past biomedicine to batteries, to biofuels, and we stand in Pasteur’s footsteps in another sense embody what he taught – the importance of attention to the finest detail, the value of diligence, the promise of science that transforms people’s are the lessons you will learn from us, your faculty, – and from each around classmates are extraordinarily you have an advantage Pasteur lacked: This, the most diverse class in MIT’s history, arrives on our campus with a range of perspectives Pasteur could hardly have class es from 49 states, three American territories and the District of Columbia, and from 58 other e together on this campus from a variety of backgrounds, united in our pursuit of observed that, “Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” Indeed, talent, brilliance and tenacity transcend geographic, ethnic and racial class, your generation, will push the frontiers further precisely because your perspectives are rich mix of students and faculty on this campus will expand your horizons, inside and outside the hope that all of you will take advantage of one of MIT’s signature offerings, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, in which our students work in research groups in every discipline on the know that you’ll also embrace the wide variety of living groups, athletics and activities that demand in a different way the same passion and engagement as your academic begin here on campus but reach across the further hope that most of you will have an international experience some time during your years at students take on an international internship through MISTI, the MIT International Science and Technology part of a project to help improve education standards in China’s western provinces, MIT students traveled to the TibetanQinghai Plateau to introduce Qinghai University faculty and students to MITOCW subjects in biotechnology, puter science, and environmental apply their problem solving skills in the developing world through Dlab, designing locallysensitive solutions to water of MIT’s great internationalists, Professor Dick Samuels from the Department of Political Science and director of our Center for International Studies, has joined us on the platform this have invited Professor Samuels to deliver your first academic lecture Tuesday in Kresge Auditorium, to share with you some of the excitement of MIT’s global you consider which subjects to take, activities to take up, living groups to join, know that what brought you here – and what you will learn here – are the same qualities for which MIT graduates are known around the MIT, we are intensely the seemingly endless problem sets, you will learn a way of thinking and a way of solving problems that arise not just in classroom assignments, but in will learn by doing – through handson much you you will learn other critical lessons that we discuss less often but that matter just as lessons transcend the laboratory and are lessons in leadership, and they are lessons in students have transformed lives through their work in the Cambridge public schools and with munities in developing beyond the great good they have done for others, they have also learned how to maximize the work of teams, how to lead, how to engage with people and cultures different from their own, and they have also learned the important art of persuasive experiences at MIT will expand and amplify the remarkable acplishments you bring with you hope, no – we expect – that you will use the full sum of your talents to make the world a better ’ve weled you today in the context of the most interesting history lies before us: the history you will make, the future you will cannot tell you what that future will , that would spoil the fun – mine as much as thrill of serving as MIT’s president is finding myself every day in a future I had not yet ’s a future of your you want to see the history that has been, look up – at the names above Killian you want to see the history yet to e, look around – at the MIT class of to the epicenter of science and engineering – of economics and entrepreneurship and global studies and urban planning and is where science and society ’re counting on you to make our world a better : work hard – and you broadly – and you our history and invent our future – and this, I know, you to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.