Discovery News
A team of students from MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab have just won the American round of the 2010 James Dyson Award for inventing the Copenhagen Wheel.
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U.S. News and World Report
"The secret to a successful career in science, engineering or math is to find something you both like doing and are good at. Take your time in college to explore and find what suits you." - Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and of physics, on "10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields"
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Kothari, also a professor of management at the Cambridge-based school, is heading up a new partnership between Sloan and the Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad." - Story on MIT Sloan School of Management's collaboration with the Indian School of Business, which will be led by Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari
The Boston Globe
"I don’t think in the next 30 to 40 years, anybody is [going to be] foolish enough to build an experiment like this, given the trouble we went through." - Samuel C.C. Ting, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics, on the alpha magnetic spectrometer he designed that will fly with the last Space Shuttle next February.
Bloomberg
The University of Georgia is the top party school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates study the most and students at Brown University are the happiest, according to a survey by Princeton Review Inc. - Story on Princeton Review's "The Best 373 Colleges," which is available today.
CNN Money
"The benches were deep on both sides." - William Swelbar, research engineer at MIT, on the executive structure after the merger of Continental and United Airlines.
New Scientist
"Superimposing a historic photo on an up-to-date snap of the same scene is a neat way to bring history to life." - Story on collaborative work from MIT and Adobe on software that can help match current photos to ones taken at the same place and angle previously.
The New York Times
NBC News is convening its own summit with education and political leaders in September to talk about ways to improve schools in light of statistics showing the U.S. lagging in student achievement. - MIT President Susan Hockfield will take part in the summit.
The Washington Post
"Most telescopes focus on the hottest and brightest objects in the universe. WISE is especially sensitive to seeing what's cool and dark, what you could call the stealth objects of the universe." - Richard Binzel, professor of planetary sciences, on WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new NASA telescope.
NECN
Video: The Culture of Innovation - Director of MIT's Industrial Performance Center and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Richard Lester discusses work out of MIT.
The New York Times
"The goal is to enable people to become creators, not just consumers, in this mobile world." - Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, on software he helped develop to make it easy for people to write applications for Android smartphones.
The Guardian
What about a spoon that uses tiny sensors to measure the temperature, acidity, salinity and viscosity of a food you're making? - Research out of MIT on the kitchen of the future
The Boston Globe
A pioneer in yeast genetics whose work paved the way for modern molecular biology as well as antibiotic and vaccine development has been honored for his life's work. - Story on Gerald Fink being awarded the $500,000 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.
The Boston Globe
"The objective was to gather some of the founders, CEOs, and senior execs from the most successful Massachusetts companies of the past decade, and have them talk about how they grew from start-up to major player." - Photos and audio from the first-ever Momentum Summit, held at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
The New York Times
"We're not just a brain in a jar, our body is fundamentally tied to our understanding of the world." - Story on haptic research by Joshua M. Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management