Wired
"By combining biomedical diagnostics with mobile phones, he hopes to draw maps that chart the spread of epidemics in real time."
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"Miles C. Barr has been awarded the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for devising a process that advances solar technology."
USA Today
"Drivers don't need to be texting or talking on cellphones to be distracted enough to possibly get in trouble on the road, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are finding."
The Economist
"Their answer, just published in Environmental Science and Technology, is that if wind turbines and electrical vehicles are going to fulfill the role that environmental planners have assigned them in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, current technologies would require an increase in the supply of neodymium and dysprosium of more than 700% and 2,600% respectively during the next 25 years." - Research by MIT's Randolph Kirchain, Elisa Alonso and Frank Field is discussed.
The New York Times
"Don't basketball players deserve to be compensated from the funds their games generate?"
Financial Times
"Mens et Manus – mind and hand is the motto for MIT Sloan School of Management and something that is taken particularly seriously at the schools’ Global Entrepreneurship Lab."
WBUR
"Every day, with the flick of a switch, millions of Americans tap into the electricity grid. It's a web of power stations, transformers and transmission lines that span the continent, distributing electricity like veins and arteries distribute blood."
TIME
"Is the wiring pattern of your brain what makes you uniquely 'you'?"
Popular Science
"A new kind of fiber technology can emit light variably in different directions, creating the potential for woven 3-D displays that can send two slightly different images to a viewer's right and left eyes, creating a three-dimensional effect."
TIME
"It happens all the time: You buy an item at one price, and then see others buy the same item a little later on for a much cheaper price. This is standard practice nowadays, but it still gets customers angry."
The New York Times
"If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.)"
Financial Times
"Rafael Reif, MIT's provost, explains that 'MITx will be tied to an MIT-wide research initiative into online learning. That initiative will investigate ways in which students - whether on MIT's campus or part of a virtual community beyond it - learn best.'"
CBS News
"By now, most people have heard about the Kony 2012 video that’s gotten over 50 million hits on the internet."
The Guardian
"But the present reality is of astounding difference: the same people can live in abject poverty in one country, yet be prosperous once they move to another."
The Boston Globe
"This quake, tsunami, and meltdown — a triple catastrophe with no precedent — is simply called '3/11.' A year on, 3/11 and its consequences are at the center of a Japanese national debate on the future direction of the country, one that focuses on change, community, leadership, and vulnerability." -MIT's Richard Samuels