3 Questions: Israel Ruiz on MIT’s role in Boston’s 2024 Olympics bid

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 17:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Today, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) visited Boston. Israel Ruiz, MIT’s executive vice president and treasurer, serves as one of four co-chairs — along with Katie Lapp, Harvard University’s executive vice president; Gloria Larson, president of Bentley University; and Robert Caret, president of the University of Massachusetts at Boston — of the Boston 2024 Institutional Outreach Subcommittee, a group that is working to engage universities across Massachusetts in support of Boston’s bid. He spoke with MIT News about the Institute’s role in the city’s Olympics bid. Q. Why did the USOC come to Boston today? A. Boston is one of four American cities — along with Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington — vying to become the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) nominee to host the summer Olympics and Paralympic Games in 2024. Today, Boston hosted the USOC, with meetings at MIT’s Media Lab in the morning and the Isabella Stewart Gardner...

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