In the Media

"Even my own colleagues thought I was nuts. But the scientific community has done a complete 180 in the past 20 years." - Novartis Professor of Biology Leonard Guarente, on his studies of the metabolic pathways in yeast cells.

"Graduate and postgraduate student immigrants are essential to creating new, well-paid jobs in our economy." - MIT President Susan Hockfield’s op/ed on why the U.S. needs to embrace immigrant scientists.

"Concerns about death panels can be dismissed as rants, but a real key to the health care debate is whether costs can be reduced without jeopardizing the quality of the care." - Joseph J. Doyle Jr., an associate professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in a Boston Globe op/ed.

"People stop applying for jobs, they start to think that it’s all about them and there is something wrong with them. People don’t think as strategically about the market as they should." - Ofer Sharone, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on mistakes made by the unemployed.

"It's a major shift in how we do business and it is one of the beginning signs that we are modernizing the system." - R. John Hansman, AeroAstro professor, on a non-radar air-traffic system

"I've been studying chemical tracers in foraminifera for pretty much my whole career, and there are often unexpected twists and turns." - Ed Boyle, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, on an ancient carbon dioxide/climate change link.

The scientists use a computer model called the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model. This model is unique in that it couples a climate model with a model of human economic activity and associated energy use. - Story on a new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere.

Somehow, the stratosphere above the North Pole was linked to the ionosphere above Massachusetts, some 100 km higher and 4000 km south. - Story on research out of MIT's Haystack Observatory linking processes in the stratosphere and ionosphere.

"We want to be the Silicon Valley for the poor world — here in Cambridge." - Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, on the center's goals.

"You want people who can communicate and who are going to be involved in different parts of campus life. You want them to be positive, but it’s not mandatory." - Dave McOwen, communication manager in the admissions office, on how MIT picks students for its admissions blogs

All you have to do is drool over the beautiful orbs at the annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. - Story on the Glass Lab's annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale.

"Having a very severe recession is going to cause a lot of people who would have stayed in the labor force to apply for disability." - David Autor, professor in the Department of Economics, on job losses in today's economy.

"Taking someone who’s uninsured and giving them insurance unambiguously improves their health, but taking someone who’s well-insured and making them really well-insured doesn’t make them any healthier." - Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, on the impact of health care reform

"There was no financial gain for me. It was more of joining for a higher calling." - MIT junior and Staff Sergeant Alejandro Lopez on participation in an ROTC program.

"They tilt toward the readability, sort of graphic artist influence, versus the engineer." - Nigel Wilson, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transit Research Program, on the MBTA's subway maps.