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Engineering graduate students at MIT launched Gnomon Copy out of their dormitory...
...grad students were tired of paying 10 cents per photocopy at MIT. Seven years before, Xerox had debuted the first automatic plain-paper office copier, and the young engineers were eager to capitalize. “We got into it because at academic institutions, everyone was getting Xerox machines because of the demand there was for a quick, dry, skill-less copier...
...after Shleifer received a prestigious prize awarded to the top American economist under age 40, the John Bates Clark Medal, which his close friend, Lawrence H. Summers, had won six years earlier.While Shleifer was an undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant by Summers, then an MIT assistant professor, according to The Journal of Economic Perspectives. And prior to Shleifer’s appointment as the Jones professor, around the time that Shleifer’s once-and-future boss became Harvard’s president, Summers told Knowles that he “was concerned...
...said that it isn’t rare for students not to take advantage of the rebate. “A lot of students don’t pick up their checks,” he said. In addition, many students choose to donate their rebate to Harvard or MIT student groups instead of cashing their checks. In previous years, students could also elect to donate their rebate to September 11 and Hurricane Katrina charities, which the COOP would then match. Last year, combined donations from students and the Coops totaled about $100,000, according to Murphy. This year...
...number one in its third annual ranking of the top 200 universities around the world. Princeton, which bested Harvard in this year’s U.S. News and World Report, was ranked 10th by THES. While Princeton fell one spot from the previous year, Yale moved up three, tying MIT for fourth place. “Universities continue to define themselves internationally, both at subject level and as whole institutions,” THES Editor John O’Leary wrote in an accompanying editorial. “There is broad acceptance that cross-border comparisons are here to stay...