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...alcohol poisoning-related death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger—and MIT’s agreement last September to a $6 million settlement and partial admission of responsibility in the case—have heightened concerns about the extent of a club’s responsibility for injuries occurring on their property...
...three panelists—MIT President Charles M. Vest, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom and former Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall—said they fear that new regulations on research projects and scholarly publications will stymie important progress across the scientific community...
...What a university like Harvard or a university like MIT does is fundamentally in the public interest,” said Widnall, who after leaving the Air Force became institute professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “The essence of the scientific method is openness...
...MIT is taking a leadership role in identifying and publicly confronting broad concerns about government interference with the academy...
...recent identification of more genes associated with Alzheimer?s, Harvard?s Rudolph Tanzi predicted substantial progress in the search for a treatment for this devastating disease. ?The news is good,? he said. ?We?re well on our way to new leads in the development of drugs for Alzheimer?s.? MIT?s Nancy Hopkins, for her part, saw in recent research on hormonal pathways in such lowly creatures as worms and zebra fish the possibility of new treatments for aging. If these work, she said, you won?t necessarily live more years but you?ll stay young longer...