Ron Rubin, Ph.D., has two driving philosophies that underlie his social and business efforts: first, to help those underserved and “left-behind” by local and global governments and economies second to utilize technology to benefit as many people as possible. Dr. Rubin has founded or co-founded several companies and organizations, including the University of the Middle East Project, Rubin Anders Scientific, Boston Manufacturing Group, Therapy Gardens, and SeniorU. When he has time, he adjunct teaches graduate physics and math courses at universities in the Boston area. Formerly full-time on the mathematics faculty at MIT, Dr. Rubin received his PhD in physics from Harvard and his BA with highest honors in physics from Princeton. His work in science and education has been published in leading science journals and covered in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Die Zeit, and El Pais. He is former Massachusetts State Squash Champion, and is now head coach of the Brookline High School Varsity Boys Squash Team, which won its division national championship in 2023.
I have begun a unique relationship with Ron. I had met him decades ago when he was a graduate student in physics at Harvard, when he was a founding member of the University of the Middle East- a truly innovative and unique concept of education that was disturbed by 9/11.
Decades later, I have the privilege of working with one of his wonderful sons, David Rubin, and have begun to create a familiar familial relationship with the Rubins- fun interactions ranging from Shabbat dinner to watching David and Ron compete in the Parent-Child Massachusetts squash state championships. Ron played at Princeton. David now captains the squash team at Dartmouth. It is a nascent, intellectually stimulating conversation that has begun, ranging from middle eastern politics to an invitation to review Ron’s work of fiction, Unification, an epistolary correspondence between Einstein and his long-lost daughter. Ron has intriguingly offered the possibility to co-author a doomed romance embedded in contemporary Israeli and Iranian nuclear history intrigue.
In Convisero fashion, I have asked Ron to potentially collaborate with Amir Grinstein on his 50:50 project given Ron’s entrepreneurial instinct and his prior initiatives.
The more we talk, the more we have found common ground. We both knew, admired, and cared deeply about Henry Rosovsky, and I have asked Ron to help me write his memoriam in the Trebuchet.