In the Media

"While you may not have mastered the art of tweeting yet, the least you can do is avoid tweeting the wrong thing."

"Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011."

"Nancy Lynch, a long-time Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer science professor, was named Tuesday the Athena Lecturer, an annual award for pioneering female researchers who work in computer science."

"If Adam Smith had a mind meld with Charles Darwin, Andrew Lo might result."

"'Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.' That's the word from MIT engineer Donald Sadoway, whose class is one of the largest in the history of the school and whose online TED chalk talk has logged more than 380,000 views."

"The spectacular high-resolution photos and video that have been beamed down from the International Space Station (ISS) in recent months have become an internet staple."

"Dr. Varanasi’s day job is developing water-repelling compounds that can be painted on to things like aeroplane wings, in order to stop them becoming covered with ice. It is not far from that to stopping hydrate accumulating inside oil pipes."

"Neri Oxman, the director of the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab, designs skins and body armors inspired by human tissue. 'Most patterns in nature—whether scales or spiderwebs—have some kind of logic that can be computationally modeled,' she says."

"'(MIT's Todd) Rider's basically hot-wiring your cells so that as soon as they get infected by a virus, that trips a switch,' says Zimmer."

"By combining massive amounts of diverse data, scientists from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a beautiful high-resolution model of the Earth's ocean currents."

"The Affective Computing Research Group is working on computers that can read facial expressions and track basic states like confusion, liking or disliking. Wearable devices, such as electronic bracelets, can detect stress or excitement by measuring minimal changes in the sweat level."

"'If you want to learn how to read a balance sheet ... or if you want to remind yourself what the four Ps of marketing are, online is a great way to do that. You don't need someone standing in front of a class and saying product, price, place and promotion,' says David Schmittlein, dean at MIT Sloan."

"How much should you worry about the level of federal government debt in 2075?"

“If you believe the government has a role in helping improve the health of our society, then this is a really small amount of money to pay to do it...And in fact there is no cheaper way to do it.” -MIT's Jonathan Gruber

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received $1.5 million to support a new center seeking to integrate the arts into university curriculum and research."