The Boston Globe
“I cannot tell you that this is a dream come true," he said, “because it’s a dream I never dared to imagine." -MIT President-elect L. Rafael Reif
In the Media
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday filled its top leadership position with one of its own."
The New York Times
"At a news conference on Wednesday morning announcing his appointment, Mr. Reif told of growing up in a poor home, speaking Spanish and Yiddish, and coming to the United States as a graduate student, with little command of English, to prepare himself for an academic career, his dream for a better life."
Bloomberg Businessweek
“It is incredibly humbling for me to be standing here as the president-elect of MIT,” Reif said.
Wired
"A pair of MIT Media Lab researchers are using Kickstarter to pitch an invention kit that can turn everyday objects into computer keys and buttons."
New Scientist
"Ever wanted to move Pac-Man using pencil drawings, make music with bananas or type an email with alphabet soup? Now you can thanks to Makey Makey, a simple circuit board that turns almost any object into a computer key."
The Boston Globe
"No woman won the John Bates Clark Medal in the first 60 years that the American Economic Association awarded the prize, considered by economists as second in prestige only to the Nobel. Last month, however, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the honor, which recognizes the top US economist under 40."
The Boston Globe
"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week, industry executives and academics met in an effort to devise better industrial technologies and train better prepared workers."
Popular Science
"Now a new brain-computer interface could turn your computer into a more sympathetic partner, taking over some of your tasks when it senses you're overworked."
The New York Times
"As Facebook turns to Wall Street in the biggest public offering ever by an Internet company, it faces a new, unenviable test: how to keep growing and enriching its hungry new shareholders."
The Economist
"In her second lecture, she drew upon the body of research which she pioneered and of which she is the leading practitioner—the careful use of randomised trials to measure the effectiveness of development programmes—to propose a mechanism that she argued could help explain why poor people remained trapped in poverty."
The New York Times
"Instead of doing everything possible to preserve and live with whatever is left of their limbs, some are opting to amputate more extensively to regain something more akin to normal function."
Bloomberg
"The euro currency is a malady that condemns at least a generation of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Irish to the economic infirmary."
Blomberg
"Apart from making Americans feel good, does the money they donate to global causes ($22.8 billion in 2010) actually do good? The results of a study published last month highlight how surprisingly hard it is to answer that question."
The Boston Globe
"The expense of higher education has become a crippling burden on students and families — which is why it’s encouraging that local institutions are exploring new approaches to lowering costs."