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June 6, 2007 (Download PDF) Volume 51 – Number 29 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 TechTalk S ERVING T HE M I T C OMMUNITY MIT readies for Commencement day President Emeritus Vest, new head of National Academy of Engineering, will speak MIT President Emeritus Charles M. aspect of the Institute and to a six-year term as presi- trustees. Vest will deliver the principal address at its life. At the same time, he dent of the National Acade- As president of MIT from 1990 through MIT’s 141st Commencement exercises, to achieved national and inter- my of Engineering, effective 2004, Vest placed special emphasis on be held Friday, June 8, at 10 a.m. in Killian national recognition for his July 1. enhancing undergraduate education, Court. thoughtful insights into the Vest earned his B.S. exploring new organizational forms to During the ceremony, 2,135 undergrad- crucial issues facing higher degree in mechanical engi- meet emerging directions in research and uate and graduate students are scheduled education and research in neering from West Virginia education, building a stronger internation- to receive 1,083 bachelor’s degrees, 1,015 the United States and in University in 1963 and his al dimension into education and research master’s degrees, 279 doctorates and 10 our globalizing world. As he M.S. and Ph.D. degrees programs, developing stronger relations engineer’s degrees. anticipates the next chapter from the University of with industry and enhancing racial and In making the announcement, MIT of his career in Washington, Michigan in 1964 and 1967, cultural diversity at the Institute. President Susan Hockfield said, “I am very it is the perfect moment for respectively. He is the recip- Vest has also worked to bring issues pleased that Chuck Vest has agreed to give him to share with our gradu- ient of 10 honorary doctoral concerning education and research to the 2007 Commencement address at MIT. ates his reflections on the degrees and is a life mem- During his 14 years as MIT’s president, role of MIT in the world.” ber of the MIT Corpora- See COMMENCEMENT he quietly put his stamp on almost every In April, Vest was elected Charles M. Vest tion, the Institute’s board of Page 12 Model for tracking Green ribbons signify flu progression may responsibility pledge Stephanie Schorow reduce death toll News Office Correspondent Engineer survived 1968 pandemic Wearing a little green ribbon during the Anne Trafton 2007 Commencement ceremonies may not News Office change the world. But, say MIT organizers of “The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility,” the effort Nearly 40 years ago, MIT Professor might change a few minds. And that might Richard Larson spent a week sick in bed start students thinking in new directions. with the worst illness he’d ever had—the Something like that happened to Chris- particularly virulent strain of flu that swept topher J. Sequeira, a graduate student in the globe in 1968. “That was the sick- the Department of Aeronautics and Astro- est I’d ever nautics and the Technology and Policy been,” Larson Program, who is coordinating the pledge recalled. “I effort. really thought As a member of the MIT Student Pug- that was the wash organization—which encourages end.” It took students to understand how their work him two or impacts society—Sequeira learned about three months the graduation pledge in a lecture last fall to recover fully from a professor who led the pledge in the 1980s. from the ill- PHOTO / MARK MORELLI ness. “Maybe it’s time to do it again,” thought Known as the Hong Kong Savings bank See RIBBON flu, the virus From left, Jim Doughty, environmental health and safety coordinator for the School Page 8 Richard Larson killed 750,000 of Science, chemistry graduate student Ryan Altman and materials science and en- people world- gineering graduate student Elsa Olivetti are among those spearheading a laboratory wide, the second worst influenza pandem- education campaign that promises significant savings and a chance to improve MIT’s ic the world has seen since the infamous energy and carbon footprint. See story on page 3. 1918-1919 epidemic of so-called Spanish flu. Now, many experts fear the world is on the brink of another deadly flu pandemic. And Larson wants to be sure that people are ready to deal with it. Women’s Technology Program To that end, he and his colleagues have developed a mathematical model to track graduates members of first class the progression of a flu outbreak, and their results show that the death toll of an epi- Erin Michael Salius It was only five short years ago, in the demic could be greatly reduced by taking School of Engineering summer of 2002, that they initially arrived steps such as minimizing social contacts on campus to participate in the inaugural and practicing good hygiene, such as fre- session of WTP, a four-week academic quent handwashing. When seniors Alisha Schor, Emily and residential experience where pre-col- The report, “Simple Models of Influ- Slutsky and Kyung Jin Chang step to the lege female students explore engineering enza Progression within a Heterogeneous stage to accept their S.B. degrees at the through hands-on classes, labs, and team- Population,” was published in the May- 141st Commencement ceremony on June based projects. At the time, having just June issue of Operations Research, which 8, they will be among six seniors mak- finished their junior year in high school, ing history as the first members of MIT’s PHOTO / CHRIS SEQUEIRA See WTP See INFLUENZA Women’s Technology Program (WTP) to Grad student Chris Sequeira is coordinat- Page 10 graduate from the Institute. Page 11 ing MIT students’ pledge of responsibility. NEWS RESEARCH ENERGY MIDNIGHT SUN NOISE SOLUTION WINDING UP Solar power will help the Great Dome light up at Neuronal chit-chat may produce the brain’s best Student team finds energy potential atop Eastgate night again. thinking. tower. Page 2 Page 5 Page 3 ENERGY TECH DEM BONES ELECTRIC AVENUE Tech Day speakers, events focus on energy, Research on bone leads to materials that ‘fail Undergrads and grads take a sports car from gas to sustainability. gracefully.’ electric power. Page 2 Page 7 Page 7 PAGE 2 June 6, 2007 NEWS MIT Tech Talk Solar power helps rekindle Great Dome lighting tradition A new lighting scheme will turn the iconic Great Dome of Building 10 into a “nighttime beacon.” Using the same amount of electricity needed to run two hair dryers, a total of 12 new fixtures will illuminate the dome, the Roman numerals that spell out 1916 (the year the building opened) and the lime- stone façade of Building 10. MIT President Susan Hockfield will flip the switch on the new lighting at a June 9 ceremony at 10:30 p.m. The event, which comes at the conclusion of a full day of Tech Day activities that will bring 3,300 alumni and alumnae to the campus, will take place in Killian Court. All members of the MIT community are invited to attend the lighting ceremony. The new lighting system incorporates energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures made possible through the gener- osity of an anonymous donor. The efficient new system will replace now-defunct fix- tures and tree-mounted lights. The donor has also provided funding for a new 40-kilowatt photovoltaic array that will connect to MIT’s electrical grid and provide 10 times more power than the dome lighting will use, according to the chief engineer on the project. The purchase of this solar panel array has also received support from a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. “Our stated goal for this project was to achieve an energy-neutral balance,” said Ronald J. Adams, senior electrical engineer PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY in the Department of Facilities. “Thanks to the donor and the grant, we have achieved The Great Dome of Building 10 will once again be lit at night, thanks to an anonymous donor’s gift of a high-efficiency lighting scheme and that. In fact, we have far exceeded our goal.” a state grant for a new solar array. Tech Day focuses on improving Cambridge First Day honors five The 15th annual Cambridge First Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves, today’s energy sources and tools Day celebration at MIT will honor five Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy local organizations that are working to and Cambridge Historic Commission Nancy DuVergne Smith dence, nuclear options, China’s energy preserve and bring vitality to Cambridge Executive Director Charles M. Sullivan MIT Alumni Association options and the biomass movement. Deut- history. will join Hockfield in the program. ch is author of “Making Technology Work: MIT President Susan Hockfield will The event begins at 11:30 a.m. in Morss Applications in Energy and the Environ- present Cambridge First Day Awards on Hall at Walker Memorial and will be fol- Energy—particularly the opportunity ment” and served as an advisor to Presi- June 12 to the Cambridge African Ameri- lowed by an informal buffet luncheon. for near-term efficiencies and sustainable dents Carter, Reagan and Clinton. can Heritage Alliance; the Cambridge His- Jointly planned and hosted by MIT change—takes center stage at Tech Day Deutch co-authored “The Future of torical Society; the magazine Growing up and the city since 1997, Cambridge First 2007, to be held in Kresge Auditorium on Nuclear Power,” one of the Institute’s in North Cambridge; the Longfellow Com- Day focuses on a different theme each Saturday, June 9. Tech Day is the intel- major energy reports, with MITEI Direc- munity School Oral History Project; and year.
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