In the Media

"The World Bank will choose its next president in one week, and for the first time ever, it's got a competition on its hands."

"All three schools had 30-year ROI well above $1 million, a claim only 11 schools could make."

"MIT researchers now have created such tiny particles that could someday make cancer-killing proteins on demand."

"The BBC's Katty Kay speaks to MIT Professor Simon Johnson about his new book White House Burning and the way forward for the US economy."

"That was at the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival, in 2007; this year’s- the sixth- begins April 20. And if the science festival can be said to have an animating spirit, Dr. Durant- whose day job is director of the M.I.T. Museum- would be a good candidate."

"U.S. President Barack Obama is set to meet with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Washington on Monday amid optimism for closer ties with South America's rising economic power."

"At the most formative time of their careers, they sized each other up during the firm’s weekly brainstorming sessions, absorbing the same profoundly analytical view of the world."

"The project, called MITx, was heralded as a major step toward using technology to refigure the economics of higher education."

"The third and arguably the most radical approach to broad-spectrum antivirals was conceived years ago by biological engineer Todd Rider (of MIT's Lincoln Lab)."

"Memory is one of the enduring mysteries of neuroscience. How does the brain form a memory, store it, and then retrieve it later on?"

"The brainiacs behind a futuristic approach to combating cancer with targeted microscopic drones say their potentially life-saving devices could only have been born in the high-tech medical hub that is Boston."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the best Internet buzz , according to the Global Language Monitor."

“We’ve jumped off the cliff, but we haven’t landed yet. And it’s hard to stop ourselves in mid-air.” -MIT's John Reilly

"We’ve seen a number of examples of organizations using Big Data to solve really big problems, and the returns on those investments could be just as important."

"A lot of this will change in 2014, when the Affordable Care Act’s insurance expansion starts."