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The Boston Globe

"Dozens of local colleges and universities are seeing record numbers of freshman applicants this year, including Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and three campuses of the University of Massachusetts."
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Reuters

"Hockfield, a neuroscientist, was appointed to the top post at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based institute in 2004 and has pushed the school to blend research in engineering and the physical sciences with research in the life sciences."
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WBUR

"Hockfield took the helm of the world-renowned school seven years ago as the first woman — and the first biologist — to hold the position."
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CNN

"It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: A patient visits a doctor's office and, after a brief surgical procedure, walks away with a microchip under her skin that delivers medication in precisely timed and measured doses."
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Financial Times

"A wirelessly controlled implant, which delivers precise drug doses into the patient’s body, has had a successful first clinical trial, bringing the possibility of the 'pharmacy on a chip' that could transform drug delivery closer."
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"Angela Belcher—MacArthur 'genius' award winner and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—originally found inspiration in abalone."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Making the transition from high school to college is challenging enough. But at every university, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there is a special group of students each semester who are making the transition to college for a second time."
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The New York Times

"Inside the brain-and-cognitive-sciences department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are what, to the casual observer, look like dollhouse versions of surgical theaters."
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The New York Times

"But he left that world behind and, with no formal training, entered another: the world of molecular biology, medicine and genomics."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"At MIT, each year we receive about 120 applications for re-admission from students who have withdrawn for various reasons. We re-admit about 65 percent of them...Once re-admitted, these students begin a unique and challenging journey, and MIT has made it a priority to provide them with comprehensive support." - David Randall, Associate Dean in Student Support Services, on "Helping the Re-Admitted Student"
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Mobile devices and tablets are at the center of new debates on interactive textbooks and educational applications–and, thanks to the growing interest, there are many options for development tools."
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Reuters

"China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112 billion in 2005 in lost economic productivity, a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found."
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The New York Times

"'If you are truly concerned about the problems of pollution, waste, energy depletion, land, water, air and biological conservation, poverty, segregation, intolerance, population containment, fear and disillusionment,' the poster began. Then, at the bottom, the remedy: 'Join us.'"
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The Boston Globe

"President Obama, in his last budget proposal before seeking reelection, yesterday pinned dollar figures to his vision for the country, calling for targeted spending increases to shore up the middle class and higher taxes on the richest Americans."
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NPR

"The Sweet Lobby is based in Washington, D.C., but it didn't get its name from the interest groups that try to work their magic on politicians around the nation's capital."
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