Obama Picks MIT Dean to Lead NSF
President Obama announced last week that he would nominate Subra Suresh, dean of the School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be director of the National Science Foundation. Suresh joined MIT in 1993 as the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and since then has held joint faculty appointments in the departments of mechanical engineering and biological engineering, as well as the division of health sciences and technology. From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Suresh was a faculty member in engineering at Brown University. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore, the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, and the German National Academy of Sciences.
Tufts President's Direct Approach to Curbing Student Drinking
Lawrence Bacow, president of Tufts University, has been inviting students who are mentioned in police reports to his office, so he can talk to them one-on-one about the risks of excessive drinking, The Boston Globereported. In the article, Bacow argues that cultural shifts are needed to change drinking patterns, and so he asks students not only to change their own behavior but to look out for their friends. He started the effort after an incident this fall when he was walking back to his house, along with the president of Bowdoin College, after Tufts had defeated Bowdoin in football in the homecoming game, and he found a fire truck and an ambulance there, dealing with an intoxicated student. “There’s a student passed out on my lawn,’’ Bacow told the Globe. “At 3:30 in the afternoon!’’
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