It looks like Tonegawa stepped down as head of MIT's Picower Institute after the kerfuffle over his emails to Alla Karpova, who was offered a job at MIT's McGovern Institute. Read the article in today's Boston Globe: MIT neuroscience center head quits.
On the one hand those emails, although PC on the surface, were pretty nasty between the lines.
On the other hand I've heard that despite his public persona, he's really a nice guy (according to his lab members).
[HT: Zuska.]
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On Tuesday, April 4, Boston-area Seed friends and contributors gathered for dinner and conversation at Cambridge's Oleana restaurant.
I should have posted this yesterday but wasn't able to...so this is a belated birthday celebration for Ellen Swallow Richards. Thanks again to Penny Richards for sending along the following information.
He was 90 and worked at MIT. From the MIT press release: