In the Media

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu ... and several Obama administration officials visited MIT yesterday to meet with business leaders about revamping federal policies to support innovation."

Andrew Lo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, discusses behavioral finance and investment strategy during unpredictable events.

“(MIT professor Brian) Wardle and a team of researchers have developed a way of using heat-sensitive cameras to detect internal damage to composite structures.”

"Researchers, with clever experiments at these museums and elsewhere, are finding that young children have a surprisingly sophisticated intuitive grasp of probabilities, which they use to make inferences."

"Researchers from Harvard and MIT have designed a microfluidic device that uses porous 'forests' of carbon nanotubes to detect individual cancer cells or viruses such as HIV in a blood sample."

"A recent report by MIT found that the school has made substantial advances in eliminating gender bias in the past decade."

"A new device that can detect single cancer cells in blood, potentially telling doctors if cancer has spread, has been developed jointly by professors at Harvard Medical School and MIT."

"Drawing from nature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel Nocera thinks he can draw cheap and clean energy from water."

"The Malaysian government has announced a partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to set up a new supply-chain education and research center in Shah Alam outside of Kuala Lumpur."

"Decision day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was set for Pi Day — since pi is equal to 3.1415926, the decisions were announced on 3/14 for the Class of 2015 at 9:26 p.m."

"The largest element of the sound sculpture should be up and working by April 30, when a celebration will be held at the station as part of a campus-wide open house celebrating MIT’s 150th birthday."

“There is a mystery afoot, and scientists at MIT and the Smithsonian are investigating. But they project that before the next full moon, they will need the help of middle-schoolers across the country to understand an impending environmental disaster, secrets that they alone can uncover.”

"Scientists at MIT are working on devices, including web cams and special wristbands, that help measure emotions in people."

"A 2003 study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the future of nuclear energy ... concluded that while nuclear power was facing “stagnation and decline,” it should remain an important way to provide carbon-free energy at relatively low cost."

"Ryan Chin, a research specialist in the Smart Cities group of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told New Scientist at the MIT Energy Conference last week that in the last four years, 'We've developed almost all of the core elements [for the car], including the folding mechanism, the wheel motors, and the control system for the vehicle.'"