Associated Press at The Washington Post
"Less than a year after NASA ended its shuttle program, players in America’s space business are casting around for new direction."
In the Media
Boston Herald
"Ladies from 10 college rugby teams scrummed in style yesterday, competing in MIT’s fifth annual Prom Dress Rugby Tournament."
USA Today
"Drivers today are similarly attached to their cellphones and in-car technology. But unlike the drivers of the 1930s, they're conflicted over efforts to regulate them."
The Wall Street Journal
"In the last few years, we have gone from a world that was connected to a world that is now hyperconnected."
Wired
"The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together."
Associated Press at Boston.com
"Residents of an MIT dorm dropped an upright piano from their roof Thursday to celebrate the last day students can drop classes without having them appear on their college transcript."
The Huffington Post
"A simple, unobtrusive sensor ‘could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures’, reports Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) in this week’s issue of Neurology."
The Wall Street Journal
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Amy Finkelstein won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal."
CNN
"If a smartphone or tablet with glass that’s glare-free, repels liquids and is self-cleaning sounds appealing, you might want to start following MIT’s research."
The Washington Post
"The question is which dominates: The desire to keep more of the money you make or the desire to have more money in total?"
The Wall Street Journal
"America’s top young economist will be honored on Friday with the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal." - MIT's Amy Finkelstein is considered a front-runner.
WBUR
“This will be a huge increase in the take home pay for Massachusetts workers if we can get health care costs under control.” - MIT's John Gruber
The New York Times
"The Obama administration is expected to announce a broad plan on Thursday to foster development of the nation’s 'bioeconomy,' including the use of renewable resources and biological manufacturing methods."
Boston Herald
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology students have embraced a new school initiative to produce short videos teaching youngsters in kindergarten to 12th grade basic concepts in science and engineering. And they’ve done it with panache."
The Boston Globe
"The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the state’s largest insurer, hired MIT economist Jonathan Gruber to analyze the savings that would accrue to those who pay health insurance premiums, if the state successfully implements cost controls."