In the Media

"During this year’s 10-day Cambridge Science Festival, the MIT Museum will host a free daily lunchtime series called 'Culinary Chemistry.'”

"What makes green opposition to its own cause so uncommon is that such interests already have their share of critics who argue that without generous subsidies, their fuels would not be economically viable."

"In 2004, when state and federal universities began implementing affirmative action policies, Brazil closed one chapter of its history and began another." -MIT's Melissa Nobles

"Is the Supreme Court going to end Obamacare? Why is health-care reform so unpopular? And how does Obamacare affect most Americans? MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, an architect of both Mitt Romney’s and Obama’s bills, breaks down what’s at stake as the justices debate one of the most important cases before the court in decades."

"The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to approve two nominees to the Federal Reserve Board on Thursday, although there was opposition from two Republican senators. The nominations of Jeremy Stein (an MIT alum) and Jerome Powell will now go to the full Senate, although the timing of the vote is not clear."

"Its premise, which Sperling embraces, is that in most new technologies, innovation happens most quickly and effectively when the inventors work close to the builders." - MIT and the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) initiative are referenced in this piece about manufacturing.

"At the crux of Tuesday’s debate was whether Congress has the power to require nearly all individuals to have insurance starting in 2014, and whether it has the right to assess a financial penalty for those who refuse."

"In a paper written last year for the Center for American Progress, a research and advocacy group, he (MIT's Jonathan Gruber) said the mandate could be replaced by a requirement that people 'auto-enroll' in health insurance but with the ability to opt out if they wanted to."

"Then came the call in 2008 from President-elect Obama’s transition team, the one that officially turned this stay-at-home economics professor (MIT's Jonathan Gruber) into Mr. Mandate."

"If we take institutional economics seriously, and I think we should, then one has to wrestle with the utility of 'countervailing institutions'."

"The first volume of a 'book of cancer knowledge' has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs."

"As he argued in a piece that appeared Monday in The Times’s Opinion Pages, Eran Ben-Joseph, a professor of landscape architecture and planning at M.I.T., claims that the world’s parking lots are deeply flawed."

"What has been the story of global poverty over the past decade? What role has aid played? What should replace the millennium development goals after 2015?"

"The basic contours of Mitt Romney’s approach to Social Security reform are coming into focus, and the results aren’t pretty."

"Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the majority of solar research was going into improving the performance of cells, and bringing down their cost. Instead, they wanted to find out if the arrangement of the cells could improve their input."