Energy researchers find Obama an eager student
"He was very responsive, and an incredibly warm person," said Paula Hammond, one of the five MIT researchers who got a chance to demonstrate their energy-related work to President Barack Obama during his visit to the campus last Friday. "He understood the potential of what we were doing, and asked very specific questions," she said. While the Presidential visit marked the second time a sitting president has come to this campus — the first was by President Bill Clinton for a Commencement address in 1998 — this was the first time a president has visited MIT's laboratories to see demonstrations of ongoing research work and meet with faculty members who are conducting that research. The five who made the presentations to the President, along with some of their students, gathered in two labs in Building 13, with posters describing their work and demonstrations to show the technology in...