In the Media

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Frank Levy and his co-author Kyoung-Hee Yu of the Australian School of Business argue that the fear that radiological work would be offshored to Bangalore was mostly media hype." - Story: "India Is Benign for Radiologists, Economists Argue"

"On Thursday, MIT graduate students from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning will be hosting their second and final community meeting on the future of Needham Street, according to a release."

Silly Science Honored With Ig Nobel Prizes - MIT professor Eric Adams is a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, honored as one of the recipients of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize awards.

"Such automation is precisely what Mehmet Fatih Yanik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have in mind. They have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms." - Report about research on mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals.

Arnold Barnett - Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? - MIT professor Arnold Barnett speaks about the controversy surrounding new security measures.

"He is one of three Harvard seniors — Zachary Frankel and Daniel E. Lage are the other two — who won a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Jennifer Lai."

"Previous studies have suggested that the Advanced Combat Helmet, currently employed by the majority of US ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, actually focuses blast wave energy, causing more harm than good. To find out, Raul Radovitzky of [MIT's] Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and his colleagues simulated a human skull in detail on a computer."

"In the new study, researchers led by Raúl Radovitzky of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies created an elaborate computer model of a human head that included layers of fat and skin, the skull, and different kinds of brain tissue."

Superhero style spacesuits - MIT has created a "superhero-style" spacesuit that's used to help fight bone loss in space.

MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video - Roberto Rigobon, an economics professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about the outlook for inflation and the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing.

"Lottery studies provide 'the best evidence you can get on charter schools short of running a clinical trial' because students are randomly assigned, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Joshua Angrist, co-author of the Boston study."

25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Alisa Braithwaite - MIT professor Alisa Braithwaite is listed as one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010.

"A Cambridge researcher who also teaches at MIT received the National Medal of Science yesterday from President Obama, the highest honor given to scientists, engineers, and inventors by the U.S. government." - Story on Whitehead Institute member Susan Lindquist's award.

"Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands."

"Today researchers are buzzing about Bear and his radical new theory that offers a real glimmer of hope that some forms of autism may be treatable with drugs." - 'Decoding Autism,' a profile piece on MIT professor Mark Bear, exploring his research with autism.