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Blocking termites' defense mechanisms

Targeting immune system may offer sustainable pest control method

June 8, 2009

Louis Smullin, former electrical engineering department head, 93

June 8, 2009

Students from Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler's class work on making the full-size authentic replica of a pre-Columbian South American balsa oceangoing raft on the Charles river. Here Leslie Dewan and Feng Wu work.

Ancient trading raft sails anew

Faithful copy of pre-Columbian vessel tested on Charles

May 12, 2009

Eight teams win IDEAS awards

Grants will support efforts in developing nations

May 5, 2009

Engineering first again in U.S. News graduate rankings

April 23, 2009

EECS assistant professors Tomás Palacios, left, and Jing Kong examine oscilloscope traces showing the doubling in frequency of an electromagnetic signal processed through their experimental graphene microchip.

New material could lead to faster chips

Graphene may solve communications speed limit

March 19, 2009

Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

ACM cites 'foundational innovations' in programming language design

March 10, 2009

Q&A with Institute Professor Barbara Liskov

March 10, 2009

Brian Wardle, the Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, shows an advanced composite material held together by "nanostitching," a technique developed at MIT thatÂ could make airplane skins and other products stronger.

'Nanostitching' could lead to much stronger airplane skins, more

Work could make airplane skins, other products 10 times stronger at a nominal additional cost

March 5, 2009

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Taylor Matlock, center, principal research scientist Oleg V. Batishchev, left, and Dan Stiurca, junior in electrical engineering and computer science, right, work on adjusting a prototype of a new plasma rocket.

New rocket aims for cheaper nudges in space

Plasma thruster is small, runs on inexpensive gases

February 24, 2009

MIT researchers have developed a way to fold nano- and microscale polymer sheets into simple 3D structures.

Knowing when to fold

Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices

February 24, 2009

Zack Anderson, senior in elecrical engineering and computer sciences, holds a GenShock prototype up to a Humvee coil spring where it is installed.

More power from bumps in the road

MIT students develop energy-harvesting shock absorbers

February 9, 2009

Phillip (Terry) and Susan Ragon hold a copy of The Boston Globe issue that announced the creation of the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. All the principals -- the Ragons as well as the leaders of MGH, MIT and Harvard -- signed the newspaper.

Alum's $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine

Ragon Institute to tackle quintessential MIT problem

February 4, 2009

Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Director of CCI Thomas W. Malone.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) looks to take advantage of strength in numbers

January 13, 2009

This image shows the cell before hydrogen peroxide is added.

Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

Chemical engineers use carbon nanotubes to monitor chemotherapy, detect toxins at the single-molecule level

December 14, 2008

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