In the Media

“Susan Hockfield is a transformative leader and a great friend.” -Governor Deval Patrick

"A remote-controlled microchip that’s implanted in patients and programmed to release medication on schedule worked in its first trial, validating a new approach that could help improve drug management in chronic diseases."

"What is the normal life span of a voice? Can training or techniques prevent aging of the vocal cords, and can surgery -- or a special gel -- correct it?"

"But a study out this week in Nature Climate Change says that due to global warming, these monster storms could make landfall more frequently, causing destructive storm surges every 3 to 20 years instead of once a century."

"Cash, it seems, does strange things to us."

"The Skolkovo project is a $4 billion scheme to construct a new technology city of 30,000 people outside Moscow that will give rise to, the founders hope, a new generation of innovation in a country that has seen its science and technology prowess slide."

"A packed house at the Institute for Government earlier this week heard Dr Rachel Glennerster, executive director of the MIT Poverty Action Laboratory, explain how they used randomised control trials to discern what worked in poverty reduction and what didn't."

"Dozens of local colleges and universities are seeing record numbers of freshman applicants this year, including Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and three campuses of the University of Massachusetts."

"Hockfield, a neuroscientist, was appointed to the top post at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based institute in 2004 and has pushed the school to blend research in engineering and the physical sciences with research in the life sciences."

"Hockfield took the helm of the world-renowned school seven years ago as the first woman — and the first biologist — to hold the position."

"It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: A patient visits a doctor's office and, after a brief surgical procedure, walks away with a microchip under her skin that delivers medication in precisely timed and measured doses."

"A wirelessly controlled implant, which delivers precise drug doses into the patient’s body, has had a successful first clinical trial, bringing the possibility of the 'pharmacy on a chip' that could transform drug delivery closer."

"Angela Belcher—MacArthur 'genius' award winner and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—originally found inspiration in abalone."

"Making the transition from high school to college is challenging enough. But at every university, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there is a special group of students each semester who are making the transition to college for a second time."

"Inside the brain-and-cognitive-sciences department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are what, to the casual observer, look like dollhouse versions of surgical theaters."