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Travelling from his base, Wilson snowboarded in the Austrian Alps, hang-glided over Swiss lakes, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, according to an article he wrote last fall for the newsletter of his MIT-headquartered ROTC detachment. But he emphasized in the article that he enjoyed his time on duty as much—if not more—than his off-duty adventures...
...considered for the presidency of MIT in 2004, the top job at Boston University in 2005, and was a finalist in the University of Chicago’s presidential search last spring, according to a source close to the provost...
...MIT and BU passed on Hyman, and he withdrew his name from the University of Chicago race due in part to family considerations, the source says. Now, with the disclosure that his name is on the list of candidates for Harvard’s own presidency released to the Board of Overseers earlier this month, Hyman has found himself in the thick of yet another presidential search...
...working and also to develop new vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth’s study—conducted in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal—discovered almost 47,000 differences among the genes of the parasite in Africa, Asia, and South America. This genetic variation gives Plasmodium falciparum the ability to overcome vaccines and other treatments for malaria, allowing the disease...
...electrical fire broke out in the basement of an MIT-owned office building at around 11 a.m. Friday, and investigators spent the weekend combing through mounds of debris in an attempt to piece together what happened. The fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left 800 evacuated, at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation, and one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of electric and gas utility NStar and a former football player for University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer...