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Tech Talk ‘Father of Molecular Medicine,’ Vernon Ingram, Dies at 82 Xiwen Zhong Volume 51 – Number 1 Wednesday – September 13, 2006 TechTalk S ERVING T HE M I T C OMMUNITY ‘Academic year has begun in earnest’ Hockfield stresses knowledge, innovation and leadership in letter to community President Susan Hockfield addressed percent. We also extend a special welcome the entire Institute community in a letter to this year’s eight Dr. Martin Luther King welcoming new and returning faculty, Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars, a students and staff to MIT. Sent on Sept. 7, greater number than in any previous year her greeting is printed below. of this program. “As the provost and I announced to the “To new faculty, students and staff, wel- faculty last week, we will establish a new come! And to returning members of the position of associate provost for faculty community, welcome back. While we can equity in the Provost’s Office to build on hope for a few more glorious weekends our momentum and accelerate our progress of late-summer weather over the next in enhancing the diversity of the faculty. month and a half, we’ve already felt that “The Class of 2010 is every bit as fall snap in the air, and our academic year remarkable as its recent predeces- has begun in earnest. At the start of the sors. Applications for the Class of 2010 year, perhaps more than at other times, increased 9 percent over the previous year, when I enter the Main Group at 77 Mas- to an all-time high of 11,373, and 67 per- sachusetts Avenue I cast my eyes upward cent of those accepted chose to enroll— and am freshly inspired by the statement another record. Of the 1,005 exceptional of MIT’s mission that rings the dome: students now enrolled as MIT freshmen, “Established for advancement and devel- 44 percent were valedictorians, and 89 opment of science, its application to indus- percent graduated in the top 5 percent, of try, the arts, agriculture, and commerce.” their high school classes. They come from As we continue to advance our founding 49 states, two territories and the District of mission through education and research, I Columbia, and from 51 foreign countries; hope that everyone in the MIT community 46 percent of them are women, bringing will feel proud of our many successes in our undergraduate population to 44 per- the last year, and inspired to carry that cent women. momentum forward into the coming year. “Over the summer, a number of leader- ship changes have brought new faces and Welcoming new arrivals new strengths to the Provost’s Office. At the beginning of July, Professor Philip S. “The strength of MIT depends on our Khoury left the deanship of the School of exceptional faculty and students, and those Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences to arriving this fall will continue our tradition serve as associate provost. At the begin- of excellence. Last week I had the good ning of August, Professor Alice P. Gast left fortune to welcome the new members of MIT to assume the presidency of Lehigh our faculty. They bring to MIT remarkable University. Associate Provost Claude R. accomplishments and represent in a real Canizares has succeeded Dr. Gast as vice way our ongoing commitment to attract- president for research and associate pro- ing talent from diverse backgrounds. Of vost, while Professor Lorna J. Gibson took the 52 members of the faculty hired since on a new role as associate provost. last fall, 19 (36.5 percent) are women and “Professor Khoury will oversee MIT’s 6 (11.5 percent) are members of under- programs in the arts, work to strengthen represented minority groups. One way to measure our progress is to recall that last PHOTO / RICK FRIEDMAN fall, women constituted 18 percent of the See HOCKFIELD Susan Hockfield, 16th President of MIT faculty, and underrepresented minorities 4 Page 6 MIT innovators make Ready, set, go: Class of 2010 leaps into action Tech Review’s top 35 Sasha Brown News Office Elizabeth Thomson News Office Tish Scolnik is one of 1,000 freshmen making their debut on campus this fall. The Class of 2010 comes from varied backgrounds and from all over the United States and the Three MIT faculty and eight alumni are among the world to study at MIT. They have officially been here since TR35, Technology Review magazine’s compilation of the Aug. 30, when orientation began. 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35. Scolnik, of Waccabuc, N.Y., was expecting her courses, “The TR35 is an amazing group of people. Their accom- which started Sept. 6, to be a bit different than her first weeks, plishments are likely to shape their fields for decades to spent at the Freshman Leadership Program on Thompson come,” said Jason Pontin, editor in chief of Technology Island in Boston Harbor and then at freshman orientation. “I Review. have had a lot of fun these past weeks,” Scolnik said. The innovators will be featured in the September-Octo- With a planned schedule that includes joining the MIT- ber issue of the magazine; the story went online Sept. 8. EMS ambulance corps and running for class council, Scolnik The MIT faculty to receive the award are Manolis PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY was realistic about what her academic future holds. “I see at Freshman Tish Scolnik scrubs a jungle gym as part of the CityDays playground clean-up See FRESHMEN See TR35 effort in Cambridge. Page 8 Page 3 ARTS RESEARCH PICTURE PERFECT THAR SHE BLOWS DESERT WONDER Students pick museum- New idea for offshore wind turbines really floats. MIT researchers study a quality artwork for their Page 4 cloud forest in arid Oman. dorm rooms. Page 5 Page 7 LEARNING MECHANISM Picower researchers find evidence supporting the idea that neural connections get stronger when we learn. Page 3 PAGE 2 September 13, 2006 OBITUARIES MIT Tech Talk ‘Father of molecular medicine,’ Vernon Ingram, dies at 82 Xiwen Zhong, Anne Trafton News Office research engineer, dies at 71 Vernon Ingram, an MIT biology pro- Xiwen Zhong, a research engineer at fessor known as the “father of molecular the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Sci- medicine,” died Aug. 17 from injuries suf- ence Center, died Aug. 1 after a long ill- fered during a fall. He was 82. ness. He was 71. Ingram was best known for his discov- Zhong was a dedicated engineer who ery, during the 1950s, that a single amino made important contributions to many acid substitution is responsible for the aspects of the Alcator C-Mod project, molecular abnormality that leads to sickle including power system control, radio fre- cell anemia. quency, heating circuit and general elec- The find was “one of the absolutely tronic circuit design, prototyping and test- seminal discoveries in the history of ing. molecular biology,” said Graham Walker, Born in Hebei Province, China, Zhong MIT professor of biology. graduated from Tsinghua University with Walker, who was Ingram’s friend and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1959. colleague for 30 years, said that Ingram From his graduation until 1992, he con- was “one of the greatest men I have met ducted scientific research at the Institute in my life. An extraordinary scientist, an of Automation at the Chinese Academy of extraordinary intellect, and an absolutely Sciences. From 1979 to 1984, he worked at wonderful human being.” the Space Research Center of the Chinese In recent years, Ingram focused his PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY Academy of Sciences. Before joining the research on neuroscience, especially In a photo from 2002, Professor Vernon Ingram holds up cell cultures that he and senior MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Alzheimer’s disease. Though in his 80s, he 2000, he was a visiting electrical engineer still ran a small laboratory at MIT and was technical associate Barbara Blanchard worked with during their research on the beta-amy- loid plaques that attack the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. at the center from 1992 to 1995. constantly pursuing new research, Walker Zhong is survived by his wife, a daugh- said. ter, a son and four grandchildren. “He was a dyed-in-the-wool, inveterate organic chemistry in 1949. He then spent He enjoyed art, music and photogra- experimentalist,” Walker said. “He was two years in the United States preparing phy, and was very involved with the Rock- going at full speed right up until the end.” and crystallizing proteins at the Rockefell- port Chamber Music Festival (RCMF). LINCOLN LAB Ingram and his wife, Elizabeth, served er Institute and studying peptide chemis- RCMF Artistic Director David Deveau, as housemasters at Ashdown House from try at Yale. who is also a pianist and a senior lectur- 1985 until a few years ago. In 1952, Ingram returned to England, er in music at MIT, worked closely with Louis P. Rainville “They were just extraordinarily dedicat- where he studied protein chemistry in Ingram for the past decade. Louis P. Rainville, a retired employ- ed to their students,” Walker said. the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge “Vernon served with great distinction ee of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Ingram was also a dedicated teacher University. He focused on the genetics of on the board of directors of the RCMF and had served as director of the Experi- Haystack Observatory, died Sept. 3 at hemoglobin, the molecule that carries oxy- and brought a wonderful energy and com- mental Studies Group (ESG). the Kaplan Family Hospice House in gen in the blood. Those studies led to his mitment to our enterprise. He and Beth Holly Sweet, current director of ESG, Danvers, Mass. He was 80.
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