R Puzzle: Geek Love

by Rebecca Christianson

The MIT professors descibed here are (first names being clued as such): 

Wexler
Hubbard
Ernst
Noam (Chomsky)
Devlin
Adelson
Yildiz
Eddie (Fahri)
Quinn
Uricchio
Anderson
Lewin
Steve (Pinker)
Nepf
Imperiali
Grimson
Howard
Turkle
The first letters spell WHEN DAY EQUALS NIGHT. The answer is EQUINOX.