Forbes
"MIT researcher and renowned physicist, Dr. Andreas Mershin, figured out a way to make electricity-generating solar cells from green grass."
In the Media
Scientific American
"If companies switched out gasoline-burning vehicles with new electric vehicles for their urban delivery fleets, a new MIT study has found that they could save some serious dineros."
Scientific American
"According to research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, renewable sources of energy such as the sun and wind could become economically competitive with traditional sources of energy via the use of liquid batteries."
Bloomberg
"In any case, is maximum liquidity the right goal? Not necessarily, because a high degree of liquidity in good times can lull investors into a false sense of safety and reduce their incentive to do careful credit analysis." -Simon Johnson
The New York Times
"Under Dr. Hockfield, M.I.T. has diversified its student body — 45 percent of the class of 2015 are women and 24 percent are underrepresented minorities — and seen a convergence of research in life sciences and research in engineering and the physical sciences."
The Boston Globe
“Susan Hockfield is a transformative leader and a great friend.” -Governor Deval Patrick
Bloomberg Businessweek
"A remote-controlled microchip that’s implanted in patients and programmed to release medication on schedule worked in its first trial, validating a new approach that could help improve drug management in chronic diseases."
MSNBC
"What is the normal life span of a voice? Can training or techniques prevent aging of the vocal cords, and can surgery -- or a special gel -- correct it?"
USA Today
"But a study out this week in Nature Climate Change says that due to global warming, these monster storms could make landfall more frequently, causing destructive storm surges every 3 to 20 years instead of once a century."
Financial Times
"Cash, it seems, does strange things to us."
The Wall Street Journal
"The Skolkovo project is a $4 billion scheme to construct a new technology city of 30,000 people outside Moscow that will give rise to, the founders hope, a new generation of innovation in a country that has seen its science and technology prowess slide."
The Guardian
"A packed house at the Institute for Government earlier this week heard Dr Rachel Glennerster, executive director of the MIT Poverty Action Laboratory, explain how they used randomised control trials to discern what worked in poverty reduction and what didn't."
The Boston Globe
"Dozens of local colleges and universities are seeing record numbers of freshman applicants this year, including Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and three campuses of the University of Massachusetts."
Reuters
"Hockfield, a neuroscientist, was appointed to the top post at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based institute in 2004 and has pushed the school to blend research in engineering and the physical sciences with research in the life sciences."
WBUR
"Hockfield took the helm of the world-renowned school seven years ago as the first woman — and the first biologist — to hold the position."