In the Media

"Graphene has been hailed as a 'miracle material' which could revolutionize materials science because of its unique properties."

"Kristin Forbes has experience at the top of two professions: academia and policy."

"However, this training doesn't address the lack of workers trained in the specific skills needed for today's advanced and higher tech manufacturing."

"One of the keenest areas of solar power research these days is into how nature turns the sun’s rays into energy for growth."

"Researchers at MIT have discovered that graphene can turn light into electricity, but not the way you’d think."

"Stand up too quickly and you might see stars. Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people to see."

"The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena."

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cognitive and Brain Science Department, researchers hoping to restore sight have focused not on repairing the eyes that have ceased to function or the wiring that has frayed; instead, they have proposed to supply the electrical messages that the brain interprets as an 'image' directly to the brain's visual cortex."

"Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts formed the venture to boost academic research in protein structure, fluid flows, the dynamics of the earth's atmosphere, human social interaction, the evolution of the galaxy and other issues."

“For so many years we were relying on educating students on alcohol. We know now that education doesn’t translate to behavior change...The prevention is about creating a culture that supports low-risk, student safety and student success.” -MIT's Judith McGuire

"Anyone wanting to get a better idea of the scale of the changes taking place in the world of consumer electronics should take a look at Foxconn’s giant factory complex in Shenzhen, in southern China."

"Last month, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center unveiled the Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame in Cambridge’s Kendall Square and Jobs was among the first group enshrined."

"As last year, the top 200 is dominated by American institutions, with 75 making the list. Other high scorers include the Netherlands, Germany and Canada."

"Elliot Cohen, MBA graduate student at MIT’s Sloane School of Management, said that he thinks of Steve Jobs on a daily basis."

"(MIT alum) Adam Riess has won the 2011 Nobel prize in physics for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, along with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter."