The Guardian
"The open access philosophy is transforming higher education but beyond the technology and policy shifts, what impact will open access have on higher education more widely?"
In the Media
Forbes
"Vaccines certainly have the potential to be cost-effective. They are generally inexpensive, safe, and efficacious, and they have saved millions of lives to date."
Boston.com
"The YWCA Cambridge will honor eight Cambridge women for their work to eliminate racism and empower women next week at the 19th Annual Tribute to Outstanding Women Awards Luncheon."
The Washington Post
"Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and Andrew McAfee, the center’s associate director, had originally planned to title the book The Digital Frontier, a nod to all the opportunities that grow out of new innovations."
Forbes
"Race Against the Machine seems to be another in the near interminable series of books that tell us that machines are soon going to be able to do everything therefore no one at all will have a job."
Scientific American
"Leaves are the ultimate solar panel. If we're going to power more of the world with the sun, we're going to need to imitate plants, one way or another."
The New York Times
"A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The Economist
"Protests in the West have roots beyond bouts of austerity."
Boston Herald
"(MIT's Gerbrand) Ceder is working on a battery that uses magnesium, which should deliver twice the energy per ounce compared to a lithium-ion battery."
The Wall Street Journal
"In a country as wealthy as ours, it is unacceptable that someone who works full time and all year would still earn poverty-level wages." -MIT's Paul Osterman
Bloomberg
"Christina Romer, former head of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and a Bloomberg contributing editor, Arnab Banerji, chief investment officer at Collabrium Capital, Dan Wiener, chief executive officer at Adviser Investments, and Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talk about the European sovereign debt crisis. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's 'Taking Stock.'"
PBS
"Need to Know spoke with Dr. Richard Lester, the head of the nuclear science and engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who favors the use of nuclear power to generate clean energy."
The Wall Street Journal
"President Barack Obama said the 12 people he recognized Friday for achievement in science, technology and innovation should make others feel embarrassed about their old science projects."
The Boston Globe
"Hundreds of students, alumni and staff from six Boston area colleges and universities will wrap up a first-of-its-kind, four-day community service project at a Brighton nonprofit that aids disadvantaged children."
CNN
"In April of last year the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men, injuring 17 others and triggering what is generally recognized as one of the greatest human errors ever made and officially the largest unforeseen marine oil catastrophe since people started drilling for oil."