In the Media

NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving 24 high school teams a chance to program satellites on the International Space Station.

"Of the last three recoveries, this one is having slower employment growth after the downturn." - James Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics and head of the NBER, on the end of the recent recession

"It makes a bigger difference how you connect people than who is there in influencing desirable behaviors." - MIT Sloan School of Management professor Damon Centola, discussing his research on social networks and health

"Computer tutors are never going to completely replace human teachers or be 100 percent accurate." - Rosalind Picard, professor of media arts and sciences, on electronic tutors

All of the exciting stuff around here is happening at the universities — most notably across the river at MIT, which continues to amass a gloriously edgy collection of art and architecture. - Column on public art in the Boston metro area

"Don’t lose sight of your goals. Do make time for all of the unpredictable, awesome things that will happen along the way." - Dos and don’ts from Amy Qian, a senior studying mechanical engineering, who was named as one of Glamour magazines top 10 college women for 2010.

"There's a kind of a horse race among scientists around the world to make the highest efficiency cell, but very few people are asking what happens with that cell when you plug it in for a few hours or for a week or for months." - Michael Strano, the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, on his work with self-repairing solar cells.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to use light so people with Type I diabetes can test their blood sugar levels with light, instead of with a needle.

“The spirit of experimentation is in trying new things. Even if it wasn’t perfect for us, there are some positives in those tools. We try to find out what works in something that’s broken.” - Remlee Green, user-experience librarian at MIT, on how MIT Libraries' Beta Graveyard — the final resting place for underused tools and apps.

"If there is an anti-universe, perhaps out there beyond the edge of our universe, our space-based detector may well be able to bring us signs of its existence." - MIT professor Sam Ting on a particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year.

“Things are very much in flux. We will probably need human embryonic stem cells for a while. And then we probably will not need them anymore." - Professor of Biology Rudolf Jaenisch on the implications of the recent stem cell court decision.

A team of students from MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab have just won the American round of the 2010 James Dyson Award for inventing the Copenhagen Wheel.

"The secret to a successful career in science, engineering or math is to find something you both like doing and are good at. Take your time in college to explore and find what suits you." - Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and of physics, on "10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields"

"Kothari, also a professor of management at the Cambridge-based school, is heading up a new partnership between Sloan and the Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad." - Story on MIT Sloan School of Management's collaboration with the Indian School of Business, which will be led by Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari

"I don’t think in the next 30 to 40 years, anybody is [going to be] foolish enough to build an experiment like this, given the trouble we went through." - Samuel C.C. Ting, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics, on the alpha magnetic spectrometer he designed that will fly with the last Space Shuttle next February.