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MIT bully escapes punishment but resigns.(Susumu Tonegawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief article)
A star MIT professor who discouraged a young woman from accepting a job at the school will not be disciplined, said L. Rafael Reif, MIT provost.
But Susumu Tonegawa, a Nobel laureate professor who brought in big bucks to the school, resigned as head of a neuroscience center he created, after a committee reported that he had acted inappropriately. He will stay as faculty.
He had sent neuroscientist recruit Alla Karpova two emails praising her work, but strongly opposed her coming to MIT as a junior professor at the school's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In the emails, he noted that she would be in direct competition with him and that he did "not feel comfortable at all to have you here."
An MIT investigating committee concluded that Tonegawa's telling the young scientist that he would not ...
- MIT to Host Conference on Addiction.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 5, 2006 700+ words
...Learning and Memory at MIT, one of the country...conference will bring MIT scientists together...Institute on Drug Abuse Susumu Tonegawa, Director, The Picower...commented Nobel Laureate Susumu Tonegawa, Director of the Picower...Learning and Memory at MIT focuses a wide ...
- Technology Boom Gives MIT New Cachet.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Blanton, Kimberly March 13, 2000 700+ words
...Bilboa, Spain. "Of course MIT is cooler than Harvard," exclaimed...Nancy Kanwisher, who came to MIT from Harvard 21/2 years ago...in the cortex and colleague Susumu Tonegawa's work on memory are the kinds of research going on at MIT that persuaded the McGoverns...
- FRAXA Research Foundation Announces That MIT Researchers Have Reversed Key...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 26, 2007 700+ words
...Mansuo L. Hayashi, a former MIT Picower Institute postdoctoral...team of researchers, led by MIT Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, will release their report...process," said co-author Susumu Tonegawa, 1987 Nobel laureate and Picower...
- Sametz Blackstone Launches New Branding / Identity Program for MIT's Picower...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 24, 2003 700+ words
...According to Director Nobel Laureate Susumu Tonegawa Sametz Blackstone Associates, a leading...Under the direction of Nobel Laureate Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Center is poised to...information is available at http://web.mit.edu/clm.
- MIT Launches Major Autism Initiative.
- News wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service September 30, 2005 700+ words
...brain disorder," Sur said. "MIT is entering a new era of neuroscience...and cognitive science," said MIT President Susan Hockfield...and Cognitive Sciences; and Susumu Tonegawa, director of the Picower Institute...developmental disorders hosted at MIT. In making the grant, the...
- MIT Nobel Laureates to speak at press conference. (MEDIA ADVISORY)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 22, 1987 700+ words
/MEDIA ADVISORY/ MIT NOBEL LAUREATES TO SPEAK AT PRESS CONFERENCE MIT's two latest Nobel Laureates -- Susumu Tonegawa and Robert M. Solow -- will take part...today, Thursday, Oct. 22, at which MIT will announce a $550 million "Campaign...
- Robert Solow is eighth member of MIT faculty to win Nobel Prize.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 21, 1987 700+ words
...is the eighth member of the MIT faculty -- and the second MIT professor in 10 days -- to...12, Professor of Biology Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for medicine...the fourth professor in the MIT Biology Department to win a...
- NRC Says Radiation Poisoning of MIT Researcher Was Not Accidental
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Christopher B. Daly October 26, 1995 700+ words
...the poisoning and why. The MIT incident also bears uncanny...doses of the same chemical. The MIT case involves a post-doctoral...Cancer Research in a lab run by Susumu Tonegawa, who won the Nobel Prize in...conducted its final hearing at MIT. A separate NRC team remains...
