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Volume 134, Number 23 Friday, May 2, 2014 Institute announces final design for new nanotech laboratory $350 million facility willEstablished stand in 1881 the current location of Building 12 By Kath Xu Currently, most MIT nanoscale news editor researchers either do their work in the Microsystems Technology Lab- oratories in Building 39 or in their Starting in spring 2018, MIT own small labs. nanotechnology researchers will “If you look at the trend of the no longer have to go to Harvard to young professors coming into MIT, find suitable lab equipment. On the disciplines we’re developing Tuesday, MIT announced that it at MIT, the student interests, the has committed $350 million to the world needs — if you look at all of construction of a new state-of-the- those, the component of nanotech- art nanoscale research facility. nologies just permeates everything Dubbed “MIT.nano,” this build- that we do,” said Prof. Vladimir Bu- Courtesy of Wilson Architects ing will be located at the heart of lovic, the facultyEstablished lead on this project 1881 MIT.nano from in front of Building 13, looking east toward Building 26. MIT’s campus and take four years and MIT School of Engineering’s to complete. Construction will be- Associate Dean for Innovation. PhD ’09, who uses nanomaterials to playing in the lab and doing mea- every part of engineering.” gin in June, but will significantly af- Bulovic estimates that over develop minimally invasive medi- surements and it was really fun,” “Part of the reason why people fect access to parts of campus near 2,000 researchers will make use of cal treatments. said Anikeeva. “But now it’s explod- keep using the Harvard facilities is Building 12, the future site of the the new facility. One of these re- “For a long time, [nanotechnol- ing and it’s really becoming its own new structure. searchers is Prof. Polina Anikeeva ogy] was just science and we were field… Nanotechnology has entered MIT.nano, Page 14

Four MIT faculty elected to the Six Mass. colleges scrutinized National Academy of Sciences for sexual assault case handling Four MIT professors are among According to the NAS’s an- the 84 members newly elected to nouncement, new members are Harvard College and Law School, Emerson College, the National Academy of Scienc- electedEstablished “in recognition of their 1881 es this year, according to an MIT distinguished and continuing Boston University among 55 schools named by feds News Office press release. The new achievements in original re- members, announced Tuesday, search.” There are now a total of By Evan Allen leges more accountable for how school is violating Title IX and not are economics professor Daron 2,214 active NAS members. The New York Times they handle sexual assault cases, doing enough to ensure the safety Acemoglu, brain and cognitive Daron Acemoglu is the Eliza- was praised by students who of students. The protesters staged sciences professor Emery Brown, beth and James Killian Professor In an unprecedented move, the want to increase attention on the a rally then planted themselves on biology professor Alan Grossman, of Economics. His research cen- U.S. Department of Education re- problem. the academic green, holding signs and Earth, Atmospheric, and Plan- ters on economic development, leased a list Thursday of 55 colleges “I think if people know and un- and wearing T-shirts that read “I etary Sciences professor Timothy political economy and economic across the country — including six derstand what’s going on, and they stand with survivors.” Grove. growth theory. Acemoglu is a co- in Massachusetts — facing federal know what’s happening, they can Students were demanding Including these new members, author of Why Nations Fail: The investigations into their handling demand change for their schools,” Tufts improve both prevention ef- MIT now claims 77 MIT faculty Origins of Power, Prosperity and of sexual assault and harassment said Sarita Nadkarni, 22, who was forts and its investigations and members who have been elected complaints. among several Emerson students discipline in assault cases. Equal- to NAS. Natl. Academy, Page 11 Harvard College, Harvard Law who signed a complaint against ly important, according to Leah School, Boston University, Emer- the school last year accusing offi- Muskin-Pierret, 19, a sophomore son College, Amherst College, and cials of failing to properly respond who helped organize the rally, is the University of Massachusetts to their reports of sexual assaults. pressing the university to admit as- Amherst are among the schools Emerson has pledged to improve saults are a problem on campus. under scrutiny for compliance with its response to allegations of such “That’s what’s most disgusting,” Title IX, a federal law that prohib- attacks. she said. “Tufts is basically saying, SPRINGFEST 2014 its gender discrimination. Also on Meanwhile Thursday, more ‘Sorry, federal government, you’re PG. 9 the list are two other New England than 100 Tufts University students wrong.’” schools, the University of Connect- rallied on the Medford campus Yet by the end of the day, stu- icut and Dartmouth College. in the wake of a ruling earlier this dent organizers released a joint The publication of the list, tied week by the Department of Educa- to a White House push to hold col- tion’s Office for Civil Rights that the TItle IX, Page 12

The Cambridge Police Depart- day, May 5 from 3-4 p.m. in 1-190 In Short ment is holding a free on-bike and Tuesday, May 6 from 2-3 p.m. Seniors in MIT Civil and Envi- training session on Sunday, May in 10-250. ronmental Engineering Senior 10 at 2 p.m. at the Alewife T Sta- Design (1.013) will present their tion Bike Cage. The training will Pre-registration is now open! final project — Clarity — on cover the basics of riding a bike, Students must start the process Tuesday, May 6. Clarity is an air and is geared toward new bike before Monday, June 16 in order quality sensor network deployed riders. to avoid a late fee. Students can on MIT’s campus. The event will change selections until 5 p.m. on be held from 4-5 p.m. with a post- Want to learn more about MIT. Tuesday, Aug. 19. Pre-registration event reception in 46-3002, the nano? Prof. Vladimir Bulovic and can be completed on WebSIS. Brain and Cognitive Sciences Landon Carter—The Tech other members of the project The bassist for Scavenger Hunt performs on Saturday, April 26 for Building. team will hold a community meet- Send news information and tips MIT’s annual SpringFest Concert. ing on the new facility next Mon- to [email protected].

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worl show the Pentagon is taking these cases seriously. Yeginsu ers’ Day, historically has been a gation that has ensnared him and But critics said there was no way to know whether the in- The New York Times lightning rod for violence in Turkey key allies.

n crease in reporting simply means that there were more sexual as people have used the occasion to The protests Thursday were assaults, because unlike in the previous two years, the Defense ISTANBUL — Thousands of convey their grievances. May 1 was some of the largest since mass dem- Department did not estimate how many sexual assaults took demonstrators took to the streets declared a national holiday in 2009. onstrations across Turkey last June, place overall in 2013. “Prevalence” surveys estimated that there of Istanbul on Thursday in May Day May Day demonstrations also when tens of thousands of people were 19,000 sexual assaults in 2011 and 26,000 in 2012. Despite rallies, confronting riot police offi- took place in parts of Asia, includ- demonstrated against Erdogan’s those numbers, there were only 3,192 reported assault cases in cers to protest, lashing out against ing Hong Kong and Seoul, where government. 2011 and 3,374 in 2012. a government mired in a corrup- anger following a recent ferry sink- To quell the latest protests, near- atio By contrast, the number of reported cases jumped to 5,061 tion scandal and accused of impos- ing in South Korea was expected ly 40,000 police were mobilized in in 2013. But “since today’s report does not include a total esti- ing a creeping authoritarianism in to give the protests particular Istanbul, according to law enforce- mated number of crimes committed, it is impossible to draw Turkey. resonance. Thousands of Russian ment officials, and the government any conclusions regarding the number of increased reports,” Police fired tear gas, used wa- workers gathered in Red Square in shut down bus and ferry lines and said Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Gillibrand unsuccessful- ter cannons and shut down main Moscow in a show of the patriotism blocked roads leading to Taksim ly pushed a bill early this year that would have removed sexual streets to disperse hundreds of that has surged following events in Square. But several unions and assault cases from the military chain of command. protesters seeking to challenge a Ukraine. civic groups defied the restrictions, Nonetheless, Gillibrand said the latest report “should send government ban on May Day cele- In Turkey, anger against Erdo- claiming the ban was illegal.

& N chills down people’s spines,” because even the known num- brations in Taksim Square, also the gan has grown in recent months as Hurriyet, a leading newspaper, bers show that less than 1 percent of reported cases — just 484 scene of anti-government protests a corruption scandal has plunged reported that a man intent on join- out of the 5,061 — proceed to trial. Of those, there were 376 last summer against the admin- his government into crisis and chal- ing the May Day protests had tried convictions. istration of Prime Minister Recep lenged the position of the prime to hijack an airplane going from —Helene Cooper, The New York Times Tayyip Erdogan. minister, who has held power for Nicosia, Cyprus, to Ankara, Turkey, More than 140 people were de- more than a decade. In recent on Thursday, locking himself in the Toronto mayor takes leave after tained and 90 people, including weeks, Erdogan has infuriated the plane’s bathroom and threaten- 19 police officers, were injured in country’s secular, liberal class by ing to detonate a bomb if the flight orld admitting alcohol abuse clashes that continued in the main seeking to ban Twitter and clamp- wasn’t diverted to Istanbul. The and back streets of central Istan- ing down on social media. Critics newspaper said the flight landed TORONTO — Citing “a problem with alcohol,” Toronto bul until early afternoon, the Is- have also accused him of abusing in Ankara, where the suspected hi- Mayor Rob Ford said late Wednesday that he was temporarily tanbul Governor’s Office said in a W his power by purging police officials jacker, a 50-year-old man, was ar- stepping aside from his duties as mayor and from his re-elec- statement. and judges in an apparent attempt rested by the police. tion campaign. The statement from the embattled mayor followed the online appearance of a still photograph from a video that The Globe and Mail said appears to show Ford smoking crack co- caine last weekend. The Toronto newspaper said that two of Seattle mayor details plan for $15 its reporters were shown the video by “a self-professed drug dealer” who was trying to sell it. He made no reference to crack or other illegal drugs in his statement Wednesday. Instead he said that he had been unable minimum wage to control his problem with alcohol. —Ian Austen, The New York Times By Kirk Johnson last year on a single-minded drive for mayor last fall, he, like Sawant, The New York Times to raise wages, said the plan had pledged to support a $15 minimum GM sales advance 7 percent, been “watered down” by business wage. SEATTLE — Mayor Ed Murray interests on the mayor’s 24-member The result, in an agreement seemingly unfazed by recalls presented on Thursday what he de- committee on income inequality, of reached late Wednesday, with 21 of scribed as an imperfect but workable which she was also a member. the 24 members supporting the plan, Despite a steady drumbeat of negative news surrounding plan to increase the city’s minimum In a packed news conference at he said, was a two-tiered minimum- the recall of 2.6 million small cars with a deadly defect, General wage to $15 an hour, more than twice City Hall right after Murray’s, she wage structure. Employers with Motors continues to be unaffected in its showrooms. the federal minimum wage and one called on her supporters to continue more than 500 workers — no mat- Car sales for the nation’s largest automaker rose 7 percent of the highest anywhere in the na- their effort to gather signatures for ter where those workers are around in April over the same month a year ago to 254,076, the compa- tion, through a series of complex and a possible ballot initiative on wages the nation — would move on a faster ny said Thursday. The increase follows a 4 percent increase in phased-in stages. Just as crucially, this fall. The campaign might also track toward $15 than smaller em- March, which was the first full month since GM began recalling he said, the plan has broad political put pressure on the council to make ployers. Tips and employer-paid the cars in February for a defective ignition switch that it has support, with a coalition of labor and the mayor’s plan better for workers, health care benefits also would be linked to 13 deaths. business groups ready to push hard she suggested. factored in getting to the $15 level Sales numbers were mixed for the domestic automakers; for it at the City Council, starting with “Every year of a phase-in means for smaller companies, at least in the Chrysler stood out with a 14 percent increase in sales, and Ford the first hearings next week. yet another year in poverty for a earlier years of the plan. declined 1 percent. But the plan, which in many worker,” Sawant said. “Our work is far The result is a disparity, at least in Overall for the industry, sales were up 8 percent over April other cities might be seen as a liberal from done.” the rate of pay increases, if not the fi- of last year, with 1.39 million vehicles sold in the United States Democratic agenda at the frontier of Murray, a Democrat and former nal destination: Some workers would for a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 16 million vehicles, social and economic engineering, state senator, formed his special get to $15 an hour as early as 2017, according to Autodata. was immediately attacked not from committee on income inequality with a cost-of-living adjustment after As in March, healthy overall growth suggested that some car the mayor’s right, but from his left. this year — headed by a labor union that tied to the Consumer Price In- buyers had postponed their purchases during the bad weather Kshama Sawant, a Socialist Al- leader and a business executive — dex, while other workers, at smaller over winter. ternative Party member who was and gave them three months to find companies, would not see $15 until —Rebecca R. Ruiz, The New York Times elected to the Seattle City Council common ground. While running 2021.

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Lohr effort is viewed with suspicion in Sili- The report also recommends After a surge in violence leading up to the vote, and threats by The New York Times con Valley, where companies see it extending U.S. privacy rights to for- a Sunni extremist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as the start of a government effort to eigners, on the theory that there are to strike polling sites, no attacks were reported in Baghdad, and WASHINGTON — The White regulate how they can profit from the no boundaries when it comes to none with any large numbers of casualties were reported else- House, hoping to move the national data they collect from email and Web the data collected online. President where in the country. conversation on privacy beyond data surfing habits. Barack Obama declared in January The election, the first nationwide vote since the departure of harvesting by intelligence agencies The report focuses on mosaic that the government would do the U.S. troops more than two years ago, was seen as a referendum to the practices of companies like techniques that allow companies, in same in the treatment of data it col- on Nouri al-Maliki’s eight years as prime minister as he seeks a on Google and Facebook, released a the guise of collecting anonymous lected through the NSA and other third term amid a growing Sunni insurgency that has brought the long-anticipated report on Thursday data from large groups of users, to intelligence groups. country to the edge of a new civil war. But with results pending, that recommends requiring private identify an individual’s activities Podesta, said the president was the story Wednesday was simply that the election was held at all, companies to release information online. surprised during his review of the and that so few people were killed. WORLD & Nati they gather from their customers The report suggests steps Con- NSA’s activities that “the same tech- —Tim Arango and Duraid Adnan, The New York Times online. gress could take, including a manda- nologies are not only used by the in- The report, whose chief author tory system that would force firms to telligence community, but far more Email suggests White House is John D. Podesta, a senior White report data breaches — like the one broadly in the public and private House adviser, is part of the admin- that led to the theft of credit card data spheres because there is so much strategy on Benghazi istration’s reaction to the disclosures from 100 million Target customers collection” from the Internet and of global surveillance by Edward J. last year. A similar measure failed smartphones. “You are shedding WASHINGTON — A newly released email shows that White Snowden, the former contractor for two years ago as part of a broader cy- data everywhere,” Podesta said. House officials sought to shape the way Susan E. Rice, then the ambassador to the United Nations, discussed the Middle East chaos that was the context for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. The email dated Sept. 14, 2012, from Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, to Rice was obtained by the Seeking court’s help, GM hopes to conservative group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Infor- mation Act request. The subject of the email was: “PREP CALL with Susan.” stop suits That email was sent ahead of Rice’s appearance on several on Sunday morning news talk programs three days after the attacks By Hilary Stout and Bill Vlasic be back before Judge Robert E. Ger- of a dangerously defective ignition that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including J. Chris- The New York Times ber in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of switch that it now links to 13 deaths. topher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya. the Southern District of New York Asking a judge to enforce part of The email from Rhodes includes goals for Rice’s appearances WORLD & Nati An unusual meeting took place Friday, girding for a new fight. a restructuring happens in many on the shows and advice on how to discuss the subject of the this week at a law office high in a On the surface, GM is merely ask- bankruptcy cases. But in this situa- protests that were raging in Libya and at other U.S. diplomatic Times Square skyscraper. Lawyers ing the judge to enforce a provision tion, some bankruptcy experts say, it posts in the Middle East. from about 100 law firms participat- of its July 10, 2009, bankruptcy reor- may be a risky move. Objections have Among the goals that Rhodes identified: “To underscore that ed, either in person or by phone. The ganization that insulated the “new” poured into the court from plaintiffs these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader agenda: solidifying a strategy for tak- company from lawsuits stemming in cases around the country alleging failure of policy.” In a section called “Top-lines,” Rhodes added: ing on General Motors in bankruptcy from accidents that occurred before that the company committed fraud “Since we began to see protests in response to this Internet video, court. that date. during the bankruptcy proceedings Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, dismissed the Less than five months after de- But the reason for the request five years ago by not disclosing the new email as irrelevant, saying that the subject of the advice claring the era of “Government Mo- is far from routine. The company is potential liabilities from the faulty from Rhodes in the email was not about Benghazi but rather tors” over and done with, the new trying to shut down a rising tide of switch, a problem it now admits was about the protests that were taking place across the Middle East GM, which just completed its 17th class-action lawsuits stemming from known in parts of the company for at the time. consecutive profitable quarter, will its recall of 2.6 million cars because more than a decade before the recall. —Michael D. Shear, The New York Times on WORLD & Nati on WORLD & Nati on W o R l D 4

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CONCERT REVIEW MayFriday, 2, 2014 8 The Tech Friday, May 2, 2014 INTERVIEW Pricked will showcase extremes of ballet Boston Ballet dancer speaks with The Tech PY: The Pricked program is very eclectic; breathing loudly in unison to make complex Pricked we are presenting the broadest possible ex- rhythms. It’s extremely engaging and I can’t tremes of ballet in one evening. The show wait for Boston to see it. Performed by the Boston opens with Harald Lander’s Ètudes, a tour TT: What do you enjoy most about this Ballet de force of classicism. It’s set to the music production? of Carl Czerny, and is the grandest possible PY: Cacti is particularly exciting for me, Boston Opera House demonstration of a traditional ballet class. not only because this is its American pre- The enjoyment of Ètudes is in seeing the miere but also because it’s so fun to dance. May 8 - 18 progression of the steps, from the simplest The movement is unlike anything I’ve been exercises at the barre to the flying jumps, asked to do on stage before, and that sort of By Angelique Nehmzow and Grace and the turns of a grande allegro. It’s also originality is very exciting. Young very visually impressive: the finale involves TT: What’s the most challenging part of Arts Arts Art S Staff WriterS nearly the entire company, with 40 dancers the production? in almost militaristic unison. PY: Both of the contemporary ballets Patrick Yocum began dancing eleven The second ballet jumps to an abstract on the bill are very hard on the body — we years ago, in his hometown of Souderton, and contemporary style with Petr Zuska’s are rolling around on (and frequently fall- PA. After graduating high school, he trained D.M.J. 1953-1977. The title refers to the three ing off) the boxes used in the pieces. We’ve for a year at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre composers he used: Dvorák, Martinu and been going around the studios compar-

A RTS School, and then joined the Boston Ballet II Janáček (all of Czech origin, like Zuska him- ing impressive bruises for the last month! trainee program, working his way through to self). The piece is more contemplative, with The less obvious difficulty for an audience join the Corps de Ballet in 2011. He spoke to seven couples dancing around large black member is the challenge of dancing so The Tech about life as a dancer, and Boston boxes that are moved and shifted to create many styles in a single evening. To go from Ballet’s upcoming performance of Pricked. the different scenes. Look for the symbol- the classical positions of Ètudes into the Liza Voll The Tech: What role(s) do you perform in ism in this piece; D.M.J. 1953-1977 alludes barefoot, awkward contortions of Cacti is a Patrick Yocum, Boston Ballet dancer, Pricked? frequently to death, love, and regret. When bit like asking an athlete to play a game of spoke to The Tech about the upcoming Zuska first came to visit us, he spoke about basketball and then tell him to try his hand production of Pricked. “The Pricked program his inspiration coming from a very pro- at surfing. If you’re not ready for that it can found, perhaps mystical experience he once be more than a bit dangerous! dio and yoga, and I have to eat. A lot. But is very eclectic; we had in a desert. There is clearly something TT: What would you tell a person who’s I also love reading, biking around Boston, important happening in the lives of the bal- never seen a ballet before? cooking and going to see other performers are presenting the let’s main couple, but it’s never explicitly PY: This is a great opportunity to chal- around town. stated. lenge your expectations of what dancers TT: Did you ever consider another broadest possible The final piece is my favorite of the three: can do — because we literally do it all in this career? extremes of ballet in a work by Alexander Ekman called Cacti. show! To someone expecting to see some- PY: I’ve been dancing this since I was a Here we have reached the other extreme of thing like Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella, you teenager, so I never really seriously consid- one evening.” ballet, where the lines are blurred between may be a bit surprised. In Pricked we still ered another profession. I think it’s one of — Patrick Yocum dance and music. A string quartet spends tell stories and make art, but we also chal- the best jobs in the world and it is hard to Boston Ballet Dancer much of the ballet up on stage with 16 danc- lenge the audience, even while we entertain imagine myself in different shoes. I suppose ers, who each has his or her own small box them. You’ll also hear some fantastic live everybody has times in their work that they Patrick Yocum: I’m lucky enough to be to dance the majority of the piece on. The music; the Boston Ballet Orchestra accom- fantasize about doing other things. If I had to involved in all three of the ballets presented dancers in the piece are a sort of chorus of panies all three pieces and their repertoire choose another job, I think I’d enjoy working during the Pricked program. Because none oddballs, and Cacti is full of absurdity and in the course of the night is just as varied as in food — being a chef sounds like a pretty of them are what we could call ‘narrative’ humor. I say that the lines of dance and ours is. great career. Maybe that’s my stomach talk- ballets, that is — none have a clear storyline music are blurred because us normally si- TT: What’s your life like when you’re not ing. But for now I’ll stick with dancing. — there are no named roles. lent dancers make lots of sounds in this rehearsing or in ballet class? Pricked will be performed by the Boston TT: Can you talk about a little about each piece, banging on the boxes in a thrilling PY: Cross-training is very important Ballet at the Boston Opera House on May ballet in the program? drum section or smacking our bodies and these days in the dance world. I do car- 8–18. Do you live outside the bubble?

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1. Guards scan the crowd as the indie pop band Capi- 1 tal Cities performs a lively set behind them.

2. A large number of students streamed in to watch the performances at Springfest, especially for the last set by Flosstradamus. 2 3 3. Lead vocalist for Scavenger Hunt performs on Satur- day, April 26 for MIT’s annual SpringFest Concert.

4. The lead guitarist for the Los Angeles band Scaven- ger Hunt plays a solo during Springfest’s first set. 4

5. The crowd goes wild as the Chicago-based DJ duo Flosstradamus blasts a bass-heavy medley of songs. 5 Lenny Martinez—The Tech

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熊 Ethan: E-mail [email protected] and we’ll send you more info! 14 The Tech Friday, May 2, 2014 MIT.nano facility construction will begin in June Pedestrian and bike traffic near Building 12 will be cut off; facility to open in spring 2018 MIT.nano, from Page 1 according to Prof. Kripa Varanasi a dust particle is like “the size of a From now until spring 2018, no begin at about 9 a.m. and end at PhD ’04, whose work focuses on wrecking ball.” bicyclists or pedestrians will be al- 3 p.m. However, construction it- because our facilities are crowd- nano-engineered surfaces. Bulovic expects the future facil- lowed through the road between self will likely begin at 6 or 7 in the ed,” explained Anikeeva. “If there’s Although five campus locations ity’s central location will allow re- Buildings 13 and 31. Pedestrians morning. a line of, you know, 300 people try- were initially considered, Building searchers from all over campus to will be able to walk under the over- “We’re building a building now ing to use [a piece of equipment], 12 was ultimately chosen as the site meet to discuss and share ideas. hang of Building 13, but no further. that is meant to last 30 years,” said sometimes it’s easier to go to Har- of construction. “Our ability to innovate comes Pedestrians will instead have to Bulovic. In the long term, he ex- vard, and that’s what people do. “Having a building being from the fact that MIT has such an go through the Infinite Corridor, pects that the building will stand Our students are really productive shielded from other road surfaces easy way of crossing boundaries. while bicyclists will be directed to- for 150 years, with periodic renova- and they want to be in the fab all is very, very valuable,” Bulovic said. You never have a sense of leaving wards Vassar St. tions in between. day long fabricating things, and all “You’re far away from the T line your own department because “We’re going to be crimping Bulovic and other members of night long potentially. We just do and the railroad line. The T gen- everything is connected,” said Bu- the style of the number of people,” the project team will present their not have the sheer space and the erates a lot of noise, both electro- lovic. “MIT.nano is meant to be a said Bulovic. “That’s really, really facility design and upcoming con- quantity of machines to be able to magnetic and mechanical noise. gathering community place. It is unfortunate. It’s a consequence of struction activities at a community accommodate that type of intense Every five minutes, my experiment those impromptu meetings over a wanting to be next to everyone in meeting next Monday, May 5 from traffic.” would be interrupted.” water cooler… that spark a tremen- center campus. If you’re going to 3-4 p.m. in 1-190, and next Tues- With the new 200,000-square- Locations on the outskirts of dous number of ideas, and open build something for center cam- day, May 6 from 2-3 p.m. in 10-250. foot building, Bulovic anticipates campus were eliminated because up the vision of the opportunities.” pus, we’re going to have to incon- “Having these facilities right that there will be enough lab space MIT did not want to include offices However, MIT.nano’s central venience everyone inside center here makes it that much more easy for both MIT researchers and ex- in MIT.nano, which would have location comes at the cost of a dif- campus as we’re doing it.” to have the next breakthroughs,” ternal users, such as startups and taken up valuable lab space. In ad- ficult construction process. Bulovic Because of the lack of acces- said Varanasi, who also sees MIT. large companies. dition to minimizing the amount compared the construction process sible roads, trucks will mainly only nano as a prime site for nanotech Fundraising is currently on- of noise and vibrations, MIT.nano to trying to build a ship in a bottle. be able to deliver material through entrepreneurs. “I’m looking at the going for the project, and has in- will also house cleanroom facili- The daily routine of many MIT the opening under Building 39 at center as an investment that will volved MIT researchers advocating ties. According to Bulovic, cleanli- community members will likely be the side of Vassar St. Bulovic ex- lead to not only great science, but the importance of their research, ness is critical at a scale in which affected by the construction. pects typical heavy truck traffic to also great products.”

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James N. Murphy Award Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Donna Friedman, Advising & Academic Programming Professor Frans Kaashoek, Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science John S.W. Kellett ’47 Award Arthur C. Smith Award Lincoln Laboratory Out Professional Employee Network (OPEN) Professor Anne EC McCants, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Frederick Gardiner Fassett, Jr. Awards Albert G. Hill Prize Philine Huizing ‘14 Haldun Anil ‘15 Eloho Akpovi ‘14 Byran Collazo ‘14 Eva “Niki” Edmonds” Nathan Kipniss ‘14 Suan Tuang ‘14 Howard W. Johnson Award Victoria “Ashley” Villar ‘14 Michael Liao ‘14, Swimming and Diving Graduate Student Council Teaching Award Betsy Schumacker Woman Athlete of the Year Award Matt Haberland, School of Engineering Cimran Virdi ‘16, Track and Field Glenn Ellison, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Harold J. Pettegrove Award Frank E. Perkins Award Greg Kravit ‘15 Je rey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering William L. Stewart, Jr. Award D. Reid Weedon JR ’41 Alumni/ae Relations Award Egyptian Student Association First Prize - Alpha Chi Omega Second Prize - Zeta Psi Anne Cai Honorable Mention - Sigma Kappa Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) Senior Academic Award Anne Macmillian G, ACT Aruima Balan ‘ 14 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts Ronald E. McNair Scholarship Award Albert Wu ‘14 Camille A. DeJarnett ‘14 Elise M. Myers ‘14 Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Awards Joshua V. Sibblies ‘14 Elly Jessop G Adam Strandberg ‘14 Priscilla King Gray Award Floor van de Velde G Grace Young ‘14 Jean-Philippe Coutu Malcom G. Kispert Awards Sherry Fu ‘14 Tyler Singer-Clark Laya Wiesner Community Award Louise van den Heuvel, Cross Country/Track and Field Borislava (Bori) Stoyanova Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching Laya W. Wiesner Award Je rey Grossman Rachel H. Keeler Patrick J. McGovern ’59 Entrepreneurship Award Gordon Y Billard Award Andrea Ippolito G Claude Canizares Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Roger and Dorothy Mark Professor William A. Tisdale Karl Taylor Compton Prizes Edward L. Horton Fellowship Award Anna Ho ‘14 Leonid Grinberg ‘14 J. Nathan Matias, Department of Media Arts and Sciences Patrick Hulin ‘14 awards.mit.edu 16

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