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MITs The eather Olde and Large Today: Clear skies, 37°F (30C) Tonight: Cold light rain, 32°F (O°C) ewspaper Tomorrow: Skie clearing, 37°F (3° ) Details, Page 2 02139 Friday, February 16, 2001 Hubert Wms Lemelson Prize Graduate Student Earns Award for anotechnology Work By Nancy l. Keuss ASSOCIATE EWS EDITOR Brian . Hubert G ha been named the recipient of the seventh The annual Lemelson-MIT Program Lemelson·MIT $30 000 tudent Prize. Hubert, a graduate tudent in Awards Program Mechanical Engineering, ha developed the world's first universal "pick-and-place" nano-assembly WENDY GU-THE TECH machine, able to lift and assemble The physics reading room, located in Building 26, may house the nearly any type of material, several TEAL program. thousand atoms at a time. Hubert hopes hi nano-assembly proces , the result of over 18 Physics Reading Room months of work, will someday have a significant effect on genetically- based medicine. "The broad range of Brian's likely to House TEAL endeavors wa impre ive to us. It's rare to see someone who can write and play music like Mozart one day JAMES SNYDER THE TECH Fifth Floor of Student Center Ruled Out and invent devices that build on an Brian N. Hubert G talks to the press yesterday in the Faculty Club By Pey-Hua Hwang dismissed, its consideration is a atomic level the next. Brian is a true about his various inventions that won him the Lernetson-Ml't STAFF REPORTER symptom of the lack of space within Renaissance man," remarked Josh $30,000 Student Prize. MIT administrators have indicat- the Institute. The use of the Student Tolkoff, chairperson of this year's ed that the physics reading room Center space was initially proposed Student Prize judging panel. into these ultra-dense gene chips vidual displays any symptoms. will probably house the upcoming after discussion between Space "There's an exciting application could "allow for a reading of the A second invention presented at Technology Enabled Active Learn- Administrator John P. Dunbar of the to ultra-dense gene chips," Hubert genome in minutes." This, in tum the ceremony was Hubert's plastic ing (TEAL) project. Facilities Department, Chancellor notes. egments of D A strands may aid doctors in detecting gene- Professor of Physics John W. Lawrence S. Bacow '72, and others. placed on gene chips and patterned related di eases well before an indi- Lemelson, Page 18 Belcher said that the study space on "There were a lot of people the fifth floor of the Student Center involved," said Redwine. He men- is officially out of consideration and tioned that "one of the attractions Wang Discusses Biotechnology inAsia that the physics reading room is was '" we felt it could be done in a Dlegal pharmaceuticals rampant well suited to the project's purpose. way to preserve the current use of companies to produce any patented Dean for Undergraduate Educa- the space." According to Wang, these drug for use within that country, tion Robert P. Redwine described However, Redwine said that "a Ins itute essor Daniell. C. nation do little research of their including newer recombinant D A his feelings towards the project as lot of students said that this would Wang '59 spoke about the develop- own, mainly producing generic ver- drug . being "cautiously optimistic." His be a loss to them, and the idea was ment of biotechnology industries in sions of drug developed in the "If they use them internally, biggest concerns are the shortage of put to the wayside. Most recently several Asian countries last night. United States and Europe. "Some- there's no way to police that," space at MIT and the increased the plan that was floated was to use The talk, entitled "Impact of thing very interesting is that when Wang said, likening their strategies pressure to select a location soon to the physics reading room." Biotechnology: The Pacific Rim," you look at our universities, we re to playing with an open hand of ensure the project's completion by discussed government and private into developing new things, whereas cards. "Give me one peek, and I'll this fall. "Obviously things have to Reading room likely to move attempts to develop the biotechnolo- they are into generics," he said. know exactly how to play my start happening quickly," he said. Professor and Associate Depart- gy industry in China, Hong Kong, Although ome of these generic cards." ment Head for Education Thomas 1. Singapore, and Taiwan. Wang has drugs are copies of medicines The abuse of intellectual proper- Student Center space ruled out Greytak '62 said that "the Physics served as an adviser on biotechnolo- whose patents have expired, most of ty laws in several Asian countries Although the idea of using the gy to the governments of these these countries do not obey intellec- fifth floor of the Student Center was TEAL, Page 14 countries for over ten years. tual property laws. This permits Biotechnology, Page 19 MIT Committee Regulates Experiments On Animals By Eun Lee non-researchers. Dr. Barbara ASSOCIATE FEATURES EDITOR O'Pray of the Medical Department Animal research, which is per- has headed the committee since formed by several laboratories 1994. around MIT, has emerged as a sen- "The main point I'd like to get sitive and aero s is that we take this very seri- Feature difficult ously," said O'Pray. "All of this issue for research is tightly regulated." both researchers and protesters Included on this committee are alike. an ordained minister, two veterinari- MIT's Committee on Animal an , an animal technician, and an Care (CAC) was established to outsider with no affiliation with en ure that all Institute researchers MIT who is required by law to be working with animals comply with on the committee. federal, state, local and institutional 'There are very few minority animal care regulation . opinions becau e we work to make The CAC i responsible for everyone happy,' said O'Pray. inspecting animals, animal facilities Profes or Harriet Ritvo, head of and laboratories, and reviews all the History Department erved on research and teaching exercises that the Committee on Animal Care for Wt"ND Y GU-THE TECH involve animals before experiments six years. Tina S. Lai, a staff member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, admires posters dis- are performed. "I was very impressed by the playing past activities of MIT's chapter of Habitat for Humanity. On Wednesday the organization Pre ident Charles M. Vest seriousne s and integrity with which celebrated the opening of a new project that involves teaming up with a local affiliate to build a appoints the 13 to 15 members of the committee operated," she said. house for a family in need. the committee, who repre ent an equal mix of both re earchers and Animal Testing, Page 21 Women's Comic OPI 0 World & ation 2 basketball Philip Burrowes argues that the Opinion 4 defeats contribution of African-Ameri- Art 8 Wheaton on cans hav been ignored by edu- On the Town 9 enior ight, cator and mainstream media. Event Calendar 17 Page 24 Page 15 Page 5 Page 2 ORLD & ATIO SarOD, Barak Join Forces LOS ANGELES T/\IES To Govern State of Israel A bipartisan group of lawmaker launched a bid Thur day to over- turn Pre ident Bush' ban on giving federal fund to international By Tracy ilkinson I raelis buried mo t of the eight haron and hi aides ay. Reaching family planning group that u e other fund to pay for abortion-relat- LOS ANGELES TfMES young I raeli killed a day earlier by a comprehen ive ettlement is no ed acti ity. JERU ALEM a Pale tinian bu driver who longer part of the vocabulary. Backing the effort are everal international health organization On a day full of funeral I rael' lammed into a crowd at a bu top Battling what i increasingly a concerned the ban will force them to halt effort encouraging their prime minister-elect and the man he near Tel vi, in the deadlie t guerrilla conflict i difficult for a countrie to liberalize abortion law to reduce the number of women trounced at the polls agreed in prin- attack on I raeli in nearly four conventional if formidable, army who die from illegal abortions. ciple late Thur day to joining force year. Pale tinian policeman try- such as I rael's. The conflict has The legi lation to 0 erturn Bu h's ban ha a good chance of pas - in a coalition government that will ing to infiltrate a Jewi h ettlement become what one analy t called an ing in the enate, which hi tori cally ha been more supportive of immediately face the pro pect of a in the Gaza trip wa hot dead by a ymmetrical war, one in which the family planning and abortion rights. Its pro pect are more uncertain widening guerrilla-style war with I raeli soldier , the army said, and goal and front lines are murky. in the House where the Republican majority could u e parliamentary Pale tinian . iolence raged around Jeru alem "It's a war in which there is no procedures to thwart it. Outgoing Prime Mini ter Ehud and in the, West Bank and Gaza. military ictory, certainly not easy The ban, one of Bu h' fir t acts as pre ident, prohibited any over- Barak agreed to enter the govern- The deteriorating ecurity itua- and wift," Deputy Defense Minis- eas organization that get U .. aid for family planning from u ing ment of hawki h Ariel haron a hi tion helped propel haron and ter Ephraim neh said Thursday.

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