Bono and the Ivy League

Bono at MITWhile in Boston for U2’s December tour dates, Bono was seen not only at Harvard University meeting with people at the Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government on behalf of the work he does with DATA, he also spent time meeting the leadership at MIT’s new Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In the photo are: Professor Bengt Holmstrom, head of economics; Rachel Glennerster, executive director of the lab; and economics Professor Abhijit Banerjee, one of the lab’s directors. You can download the story from MIT’s News Office using the link here.

This is not the first time Bono has been associated with MIT as he also served on the Board of Directors for the now disbanded MIT Media Lab Europe, which was headquartered in Dublin.

Photo credit: Justin Knight.

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5 Responses to “Bono and the Ivy League”

  1. hibricc 28 December 2005 at 9:31 am permalink

    Just to be clear, MIT isn’t a member of the Ivy League (Harvard is).

  2. U2isABLE 28 December 2005 at 10:31 am permalink

    MIT is part of IVY+. Both Stanford and MIT are considered Ivy by those in academia.

    Don’t get MIT folks started on Harvard - that rivalry is older than the one between the Red Sox and the Yankees!

    MIT was almost bought out by Harvard in the early 1900s, but it was thanks to MIT alumni who raised funds to keep it from becoming part of Harvard.

  3. hibricc 28 December 2005 at 7:15 pm permalink

    bah. MIT may be part of this IVY+ technology group, but it ain’t Ivy League. REAL Ivy schools have pretend athletic teams in order to give their alums an excuse to wear silly hats and get drunk on autumn Saturday afternoons.

    Oh, I see MIT does too…. welcome aboard, Engineers!

    - hibricc, Brown’87 :-)

  4. U2isABLE 29 December 2005 at 5:25 am permalink

    Random factoid of the day: 100% of students at MIT participate in a (varsity or intramural level) sport believe it or not, and the varsity sports do compete at the NCAA level.

    They too, sadly, wear silly hats - but they also like to mention that they had a member of the Class of 2000 playing professional baseball for a time.

  5. chris 24 May 2009 at 2:53 pm permalink

    100% of the students at MIT do NOT participate in a varsity or intramural level sport.