On September 9, 2002, the MIT program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
held the first in a week-long series of events marking the inaugural anniversary of 9/11.
The goal was to stimulate "personal reflection and remembrance" of the tragedy and its
aftermath among members of the MIT administration, faculty, students, and staff. In
her welcoming address to those assembled in Killian Hall for a colloquium titled, "MIT
in a Dangerous World," historian and director of the STS program Rosalind Williams
shared her hope that, by "the end of this week, MIT's motto of 'Mind and Hand' will
somewhat be modified to remind us all that it's mind, hand, and heart that have to work
together."3 The point of the colloquium, she explained, was to broadly consider MIT's
social and moral responsibilities in a new era of global conflict.
