The Jack Ruina Nuclear Age Talk 2010 | Scott Sagan | 2010 | News
Scott Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Co-Director for the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. He has won four teaching awards: Stanford's 1998-99 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching; Stanford's 1996 Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching; the International Studies Association's 2008 Innovative Teaching Award; and the Monterey Institute for International Studies' Nonproliferation Education Award in 2009.
The Jack Ruina Nuclear Age Dinner, an annual event hosted by the MIT Security Studies Program, took place on November 18, 2010 at the MIT Faculty Club. The dinner series was endowed by Professor Jack Ruina, MIT Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and former Director of the MIT Security Studies Program. The dinner features a prominent speaker to present on one of Professor Ruina's major professional interests: nuclear weapons and policy.
The guest for the 2010 Ruina Dinner was Professor Scott Sagan, Co-Director for the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. He spoke on "Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?"