Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Obama Presidency Oral History

...physics, there was a new opening, and MIT was part of that. In fact, MIT wa...

...and MIT was part of that. In fact, MIT was building an accelerator, a...

...laboratory, which was operated by MIT . And they recruited me, then, as ...

...ten years after I joined the faculty at MIT , I became the director of tha...

...as head of the Bates Laboratory at MIT to become the head of the physic...

...the head of the physics department at MIT . So when he asked me to take that rol...

...as head of the physics department at MIT , where the job was being held fo...

...in January 1997, I did go back to MIT as promised. However, at the end of m...

...I got another phone call. I was back at MIT . I got a phone call: “Ernie, would yo...

...I gave up my job as head of physics at MIT and became the undersecretary of th...

...of my role as the lab director in this MIT -run DOE laboratory. It taught m...

...just over a year before I went back to MIT . Then, as I said, I went back to DO...

...undersecretary at DOE, I went back to MIT . This is relevant, actually, to what'...

...maybe a couple of weeks, one of my MIT colleagues, John Deutch, who had been...

...Clinton term, so he had been back at MIT already four-plus years. Oh, and by th...

...me as director of that laboratory at MIT back in 1983, when it was not customar...

...the real point is, when I went back to MIT after the Department of Energy, ...

...big part of it came in 2005, when MIT attracted to the presidency Susa...

.... She was the first woman president of MIT , the first life science president o...

...the first life science president of MIT . And I say that to say that when, i...

...her inaugural speech in May of 2005 at MIT , she surprised people a lot by sayin...

...inaugural director of that, called the MIT Energy Initiative. The MIT Energ...

...called the MIT Energy Initiative. The MIT Energy Initiative, over the time that ...

...We had over twenty-five percent of MIT 's entire faculty involved, one way o...

...a long time, that very, very prominent MIT energy program was clearly a majo...

...discussing synergies with your work at MIT with the administration? Well, in th...

...this pointy-headed academic from MIT would have such a practical, [laughs...

...It's something that I had been using at MIT . I would just say that—and I won'...

...liver. He had done a lot. He is the MIT PhD, as comes out later in th...

...back in the '80s. Salehi got his PhD at MIT in '77; went back to Tehran, and o...

...the fact that Salehi and I shared the MIT background. So you might say that h...

...but even a nuclear scientist, and an MIT person, where he went to for his PhD...

...he was young, he was on the faculty at MIT in chemical engineering, before he wen...

...in the 1970s. I joined the faculty at MIT in '73. He was a grad student unti...

...by the way, there was a third person at MIT at that same time of some relevance t...

...from the beginning on the faculty at MIT , was a mentor for the Arab students...

...let's just say, I have friends at MIT , and got Salehi invited to give th...

...brilliant idea of not just giving an MIT beaver—you know, the beaver is th...

...know, the beaver is the mascot of MIT , so there's a stuffed beaver—but t...

...was a pink onesie for the baby, and MIT being what it is, not surprising tha...

...with the story of how you bought an MIT onesie for his grandchild. I wanted t...

...common technical background and common MIT background. I'm skeptical that we coul...