Sen. Scott Brown visits MIT
In a visit to MIT on Feb. 4, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown toured some of the Institute’s laboratories and discussed his recently introduced bill, the Innovate America Act, which is designed to spur basic research and create jobs.MIT President Susan Hockfield led Brown (R-Mass.) on the lab tour, and the two were joined by alumnus Ray Stata ’57 SM ’58, chairman of Analog Devices; and Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Tech Council. After the tour they met with reporters to discuss the legislation that Brown is co-sponsoring with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).In his MIT tour, Brown visited the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, an interdepartmental research center that focuses on developing systems for the protection of troops in the field. He was shown devices under development there that could provide better detection of explosives and chemical weapons than even the best bomb-sniffing dogs, innovative protective helmets, and systems for...