In the Media

"So far no country has reached a conclusion on the safety requirements for nuclear plants following the Fukushima accident, according to Mujid S. Kazimi, director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving it in the user's body ... Next, the user touches the other device to which they want to paste the saved content."

“In 2001, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, business professors at MIT, conducted a real life auction for tickets to a Boston Celtics game. Half the participants in the auction were informed that they had to pay with cash; the other half had to pay with a credit card.”

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu ... and several Obama administration officials visited MIT yesterday to meet with business leaders about revamping federal policies to support innovation."

Andrew Lo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, discusses behavioral finance and investment strategy during unpredictable events.

“(MIT professor Brian) Wardle and a team of researchers have developed a way of using heat-sensitive cameras to detect internal damage to composite structures.”

"Researchers, with clever experiments at these museums and elsewhere, are finding that young children have a surprisingly sophisticated intuitive grasp of probabilities, which they use to make inferences."

"Researchers from Harvard and MIT have designed a microfluidic device that uses porous 'forests' of carbon nanotubes to detect individual cancer cells or viruses such as HIV in a blood sample."

"A recent report by MIT found that the school has made substantial advances in eliminating gender bias in the past decade."

"A new device that can detect single cancer cells in blood, potentially telling doctors if cancer has spread, has been developed jointly by professors at Harvard Medical School and MIT."

"Drawing from nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel Nocera thinks he can draw cheap and clean energy from water."

"The Malaysian government has announced a partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to set up a new supply-chain education and research center in Shah Alam outside of Kuala Lumpur."

"Decision day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was set for Pi Day — since pi is equal to 3.1415926, the decisions were announced on 3/14 for the Class of 2015 at 9:26 p.m."

"The largest element of the sound sculpture should be up and working by April 30, when a celebration will be held at the station as part of a campus-wide open house celebrating MIT’s 150th birthday."

“There is a mystery afoot, and scientists at MIT and the Smithsonian are investigating. But they project that before the next full moon, they will need the help of middle-schoolers across the country to understand an impending environmental disaster, secrets that they alone can uncover.”