Austin L. Travis G - Photo courtesy of the Imperiali Group
EDITOR IN CHIEF
September 9, 2014
President L. Rafael Reif emailed the MIT community last Friday afternoon to announce that chemistry graduate student Austin L. Travis, 26, had died Wednesday, Sept. 3.
STAFF REPORTER
September 9, 2014
MIT’s BitComp, a summer-long competition to incentivize bitcoin-related development to correspond to an upcoming distribution of the cryptocurrency to undergraduates, announced its winners last week.
September 9, 2014
Apple is quietly expanding its Kendall Square research office, according to an article in BetaBoston, a website operated by the Boston Globe.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
September 9, 2014
Vassar has taken steps to hold down spending on faculty and staff. Amherst and the University of Florida have raised new money specifically to spend on financial aid for low-income students. American University reallocated scholarships from well-off students to needy ones. Grinnell set a floor on the share of every freshman class — 15 percent — whose parents didn’t go to college.
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World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (9/9/14)
- US plan to destroy Islamic State could stretch past 2016 (9/9/14)
- Shorts (right) (9/9/14)
- Syrian bombs hit militant-held territory (9/9/14)
- Princeton faculty to vote on sexual misconduct policies (9/9/14)
- Qatar’s support of extremists alienates allies near and far (9/9/14)
- Google is target of European backlash on US tech dominance (9/9/14)
- Weather: September returns to normal (9/9/14)
Opinion
- Bike lanes on campus in need of redesign (9/9/14; 21 comments)
Sports
- Lone goal lifts MIT past Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (9/9/14)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (9/9/14)
- Women’s volleyball team places second in weekend tourney (9/9/14)
- Win over Pomona-Pitzer gives football team 1-0 start to season (9/9/14; 1 comment)
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