Episode 4: Why This MIT Dean Is Leaving Her Job to Start a New Kind of University

20/04/2016 11 min

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Christine Ortiz explains how her radical project was sparked by interdisciplinary body-armor research and some time spent on a technology-free retreat.

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Episode 4: Why This MIT Dean Is Leaving Her Job to Start a New Kind of University

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