WBUR
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Arts Center has a new director."
In the Media
Wired
"MIT designer Adam Kumpf has created a side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. tribute game in a cardboard box."
PBS NewsHour
"They need to unravel this mega-bank. It's too big to manage at this point." -MIT's Simon Johnson
The Wall Street Journal
"The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is here, and it’s accompanied by a swirl of news reports and reflections. Which ones should you read?" A book by MIT's Noam Chomsky made the list.
Bloomberg
"All countries suffered to some extent; all should recover, albeit presumably at varying rates, and reasonable people could disagree about which nation would grow faster and in a more durable manner."
BBC News
"A new manufacturing method for lithium-ion batteries could lead to smaller, lighter batteries that can be charged in just seconds."
Forbes
"A pair of spacecraft rocketed toward the moon Saturday on the first mission dedicated to measuring lunar gravity and determining what's inside Earth's orbiting companion - all the way down to the core."
The New York Times
“The United States today is alone among industrial powers in not having a strategy or even a procedure for thinking through what must be done when it comes to manufacturing.” -MIT's Thomas A. Kochan
Economist
"The latest Gallup Underemployment Index now stands at 19% of the global workforce."
Reuters
"The launch of a pair of robotic probes designed to map the moon's gravity was delayed on Friday due to a technical issue with the satellites' launch vehicle, NASA said."
The Huffington Post
"The design, created with the help of graduate students at MIT, is innovative and distinctive; the project's aim is to 'temporarily transform almost any available urban space into a public reading room and venue for learning.'"
Boston.com
"MIT’s List Center for the Visual Arts has a new director. Paul Ha will replace the retired Jane Farver."
Los Angeles Times
"While the ouster of a number of top Wall Street women cannot necessarily be tied directly to the glass ceiling or sexism per se, the numbers aren't good." -MIT's Deborah Ancona
Forbes
"If you have a pacemaker or an insulin pump, you may not be aware that you’re potentially a walking target for hackers."
The Wall Street Journal
"How much economic oomph would be produced by a big federal government push to refinance mortgages for borrowers who can’t refinance because their incomes are too low or because their mortgages are bigger than the shrunken value of their homes or because the fees are prohibitive?"