In the Media

"MIT airline safety expert Arnold Barnett did a study on aviation safety and found that the chance of dying on a scheduled flight, from propeller planes to jetliners, in the United States is 1 in 14 million."

"Maybe it’s no surprise that, of all institutions, MIT would take clear, concrete steps to bring more women onto campus."

"A long time ago, in a university not far away, this MIT physicist hatched a plan for a bold experiment in space. Now, $1.5 billion and nearly two decades later, it’s finally time for one last adventure: Unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe."

"In search of the elusive answer, Held teamed up with MIT colleague Pawan Sinha, who founded an organization in 2003 to help blind children in India. Called Project Prakash, after the Sanskrit word for 'light,' the group collaborates with Indian surgeons who operate to restore sight in children who've been blind from cataracts or other curable causes."

"Five children in India have helped to answer a question posed in 1688 by Irish philosopher William Molyneux: can a blind person who then gains their vision recognise by sight an object they previously knew only by touch?"

"Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Alone Together,” says that as technology becomes ever more pervasive, our relationship to it becomes more intimate, granting it the power to influence decisions, moods and emotions."

"We have to think about the process by which something, an idea, develops scientific consensus and a second process by which is developed a social and political consensus."

The research was designed to "explore the physical boundaries of liquidity" by devising a new way to buy and sell stocks, in turnaround times that were considered impossible due to light-propagation delays, Wissner-Gross told CNBC.com.

“The great thing about college radio is, you never quite know what you’re going to get," Oedipus says. “You can experiment on college radio, you can try different things, you can be raw. And there’s something very human about that.”

"The first spoken 'I love you' is a relationship milestone. Josh Ackerman, a psychologist who teaches at MIT, set out to study these early declarations of devotion."

"Lead author of the paper, Monte Winslow, of the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, said understanding the role of the gene may help scientists develop new drugs."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has alliances with half a dozen schools, recently teamed up with Sabanci School of Management in Turkey."

"The pieces struck me a “quick hit” commentary on our increasing dependence on technology and social media — something which periodically causes us societal anxiety, addressed recently by MIT technologist Sherry Turkle in her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."

"Charles W. Forsberg, the executive director of M.I.T.’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, notes that if you simply put a teacup of water in a microwave oven, some of the water molecules will come apart. But there are reasons, he and others say, that Fukushima is particularly vulnerable."

The MIT Dome dressed up as R2D2 from Star Wars. A mock moon lander on top of the dome. Even better, an MIT police car on top of the dome.