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...presidents of MIT, Princeton, and Stanford released a joint statement Thursday criticizing Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers’ suggestion that “innate differences” between the sexes account for the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering, while leaders of several other schools presented a series of proposals designed to make the faculty tenure process more “family-friendly...
...their 700-word missive, Presidents Susan Hockfield of MIT, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton, and John Hennessy of Stanford stopped short of criticizing Summers directly, but said that much of the uproar generated by Summers’ controversial remarks last month “has had the untoward effect of shifting the focus of the debate to history rather than to the future...
...keeping with Crichton’s characteristic style, the novel is a tangled web of romance and murder that takes readers on a whirlwind tour that hits Antarctica, the Solomon Islands, and countless less exotic destinations (including fair Cambridge). Hero John Kenner is an MIT professor who sets out to stop eco-terrorists from carrying out their nefarious plans...
...hall. Their first real date came her senior year. It was March 9, 1972, at 9 p.m. He knocked on her door as she worked away on her thesis. “I had a surprise for her,” Southworth says. After hitchhiking through the snow to MIT to see an outdoor exhibit that urban design students had built, they somehow found themselves in front of the chapel. As snowflakes fell around them, they began to dance. “It was very exciting and very romantic,” Xanthakos says. “We fell...
...know that girl? Who goes to MIT? Who I met at that summer math program, and we, you know, kinda dated? Well so I’m taking this seminar on Euclid, and I know she really likes math history, so I went over to MIT to show her my sourcebook. So we’re discussing some theorems, and all of a sudden, her shirt comes...