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Established 1881 WEATHER, p. 2 MIT’s Oldest and FRI: 67°F | 49°F Largest Newspaper Cloudy SAT: 65°F | 52°F Cloudy tech.mit.edu SUN: 63°F | 47°F Partly Sunny Established 1881 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]. DeBUGGinG EXtreMes OF BALLet How to SPenD YOUR techDOKU SECTIONS World & Nation . .2 No, like, seriously. Interview with dancer in Pricked. Seriously. It’s a Bitcoin Opinion . .4 De-bugging. ARTS, p. 8 Friday. 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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.