In the Media

"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."

"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."

"Budding photographers, beware: the beauty of a serene sunset, a peaceful forest or a majestic mountain range is not sufficient to make a vacation snapshot memorable."

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “we scour the country looking for young builders and inventors,” says Kim Vandiver, dean for undergraduate research.

"Going there is the sole way to be sure one understands the culture of the program, which differs from school to school, says Rod Garcia, senior director of admissions at MIT Sloan School of Management."

"Some very visible prices have increased substantially through August, gas prices were up nearly 30 percent and food that you buy at the grocery store is up about 6 percent." -MIT's Jim Poterba

"Chris Kaiser, a cell biologist who heads the department of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, will become director of the basic biosciences institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency has announced."

"In September, the number of underemployed workers rose for the third consecutive month."

"The Broad Institute, a Cambridge-based genetics research center that has rapidly grown into a scientific powerhouse, today celebrated the groundbreaking of a new, 12-floor building in Kendall Square."

"It’s an achievement to have a paper accepted and to present your work at UIST."

"Radar technology that can detect moving objects behind solid walls has been developed by MIT researchers."

"Entrepreneurs, researchers and investors will gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab in Cambridge for three days to discuss the future of manufacturing, cloud computing and other innovations."

"We can trace the history of hacking back to MIT University in the early 1960s and greater access to shared computers."

"Kotaro Kawajiri at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped solar irradiance across the globe in collaboration with colleagues in Japan. They found that some of the highest levels of sunlight can be found in the Himalayas and the Andes: at altitude, less light is lost to the atmosphere."

"To help improve the care these patients receive, a team of pediatricians and computer scientists is developing a new type of social network that turns doctors and patients into research collaborators."