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Harriet Ritvo’s new book, 'The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism'

Not easy being green

MIT historian Harriet Ritvo explains how a battle to save an English lake helped found modern environmentalism — but might worry greens today

December 18, 2009

Infinity symbol on top of a series of messily sketched numerals

Their infinite wisdom

An MIT historian of science uncovers the saga of the Russian scholars whose mysticism helped them redefine the concept of infinity

December 14, 2009

Assistant Professor Smentek wins Distinguished Dissertation Award

December 7, 2009

The Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals lecture: Reflections on the Current H1N1 Flu

October 19, 2009

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric arrangement

September 9, 2009

MIT alumnus Buzz Aldrin PhD '63 descends NASA's Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, just prior to becoming the second human to walk on the moon.

Landing Apollo via Cambridge

Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.

July 17, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

Photo exhibit highlights water wheel history, design

November 19, 2008

Professor Janet Sonenberg, Chairman of Music and Theater Arts

From 'silence' to science

MIT-rooted play to premiere next month in London

October 28, 2008

Louise Mead of the National Center for Science Education, speaks to an MIT audience on the movement against the teaching of evolution.

Lecture examines anti-evolution movement

Run-up to 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth

September 12, 2008

A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

Ford International Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner John Dower delivers the Killian lecture at Kirsch Auditorium on Monday, April 7.

Dower probes 'cultures of war' in Killian award lecture

April 9, 2008

Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture April 7

April 2, 2008

From left, MIT freshman Daniel Sauza, sophomore Stephanie Brown and seniors Ceryen Tan and Joyce Chen (in mask) work with materials science and nuclear engineering professor Linn Hobbs to cover limestone blocks with mortar as they build up their pyramid on the sixth floor of Building 16.

Gathering 'concrete' evidence

MIT class explores controversial pyramid theory with scale model

April 2, 2008

Theodore Lilienthal's photos, examined in a new book by MIT's Gary Van Zante, presented post-war New Orleans businesses as good investment opportunities, bustling yet orderly. Pictured here is the Drummond & Doig Foundry. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('nola-boiler-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Looking back at the Big Easy

April 1, 2008

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