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...MIT announced Jones’ resignation Thursday morning in a brief e-mail to students and faculty. Stuart Schmill, formerly senior associate director of admissions, was named to fill the vacancy until a permanent successor is found. The shake-up comes at the tail end of the admissions season, with matriculation decisions due next week...
...statement by Jones Thursday, which said she would have no further comment, apologized “for disappointing so many in the MIT community and beyond who supported me, believed in me, and who have given me extraordinary opportunities...
...interviews with other media outlets on Thursday, Phillip L. Clay, MIT’s chancellor, said the school received a tip questioning Jones’ credentials last week. MIT looked into the matter and asked for Jones’ resignation on Monday...
...MIT would not provide a copy of the resume Jones submitted to the school or specify what type of degree she claimed to have earned from each institution. MIT’s Web site appeared to contain no biographical information for Jones...
...technology to treat diseases in the developing world. “Genetics has not made the contribution to infectious diseases it should have,” said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director of the Broad Institute, a joint venture between Harvard and MIT that specializes in genomics. Lander said genetic applications to medicine have largely focused on “first-world diseases,” such as cancer. The conference, held on Africa Malaria Day at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), explored new ways of combatting the disease that claims...