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MIT Club of Boston: Gala Evening at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

Posted by Fabian Wegmueller at 2008-05-31 00:00 | Permalink

At this year's Gala Evening, the MIT Club of Boston celebrated MIT's International Programs. Switzerland was one of the main sponsors by providing every guest with a Swiss bag filled with travel guides, CDs, books and chocolate. The Consulate of Switzerland in Boston was represented by Christoph von Arb and his wife Kathleen. The Black Tie Dinner was preceded with Cultural performances from India, Macedonia and China at the Museum of Fine Arts and was a welcome opportunity for the Director of swissnex Boston to discuss with the President of MIT, Dr. Susan Hockfield many international issues confronting MIT today as the dinner progressed. MIT is not only committed to offer its best students more opportunities to study abroad, it also understands the need of gaining first hand experience in other cultural environments around the world and provide specific opportunities to that end such as the MISTI program. Dr. Hockfield showed great interest in further developping the ties with ETH and EPFL and again apologized for not being able to receive then Presidents of Swiss Universities during their UMEC 2008 visit in Boston a week later.