In the Media

"Alison Hill, a graduate student at Harvard and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, said the study is based on the idea that obesity can spread like an infectious disease and people can catch it from their friends."

"Ford, which uses the technology in many models, was curious to see how it helps drivers. It embarked on a nine-month research project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology New England University Transportation Center to find out."

Tea Party Gets Bad News From MIT’s Maier on Constitution Men - Book review on MIT professor Pauline Maier's, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution.

Digits Live Show: Political Ads Bump Consumer Ads - MIT professor Charles Stewart is a guest on The Wall Street Journal's Digits Live show, speaking about MIT and Caltech's Voting Technology Project.

Drones Get Ready to Fly, Unseen, Into Everyday Life - MIT professor and former Navy fighter pilot Missy Cummings is featured in an article on the development of personal drones.

Can the Global Economy Afford to Ramp Up Cargo Security? - MIT professor Yossi Sheffi on The Takeaway, speaking on the topic of international cargo security.

"A group of researchers from MIT and Caltech are working to use technology to make voting better. The Voting Technology Project was founded ten years ago as a response to the problems that occurred in the 2000 presidential election." - Story on work by Charles Stewart, head of the Department of Political Science.

For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web - MIT's OpenCourseWare Consortium is featured in an article on university online courses.

Nobel Economic Recipe: Help States, Add Stimulus - MIT's most recent Nobel Laureate, Peter Diamond, is a guest on All Things Considered.

Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? - Professors Cynthia Breazeal, Marvin Minsky and Sherry Turkle are featured in a segment on robotics.

"While in the thymus, the cancer cells are covered in growth factors that protect them from the effects of chemotherapy drugs. These cancer cells later cause tumor relapse, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) biologists."

2011 America's Best Architecture Schools - MIT named as one of the top 10 graduate programs in architecture.

"With its stitching clearly visible and reference lines drawn in marker pen, the stretchy superhero-blue suit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Man Vehicle Laboratory doesn't look like much. But if it works as planned it could offer orbiting astronauts a replacement for something they are sorely missing: gravity."

"The gland bathes these rogue tumor cells with protective agents, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in the journal Cell. The findings suggest that cancer treatments need to attack this hiding place."

“This is not a pretty picture, and it cannot be wished away.” - MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest on America’s deteriorating competitiveness