MIT taps provost Reif as university president

Source: Boston Globe Posted By: Nishel R...4362 days ago

Rafael Reif, named the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday after 32 years at the school, almost did not come to MIT at all.

Courted as a postdoctoral scholar in 1979, he was so put off by the university’s image as “this cold place where nobody talks to each other’’ that he repeatedly refused a job interview. To be polite, he told a persistent recruiter there was only a 5 percent chance he might like the school.

But when the recruiter pointed out that “five....

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