Carl Kaysen, MIT professor emeritus and national security expert, dies at age 89
As an adviser under President Kennedy, he helped negotiate a key nuclear test ban treaty.
Democracy put to the test
MIT field experiment asks: What happens when people gain the ability to govern themselves?
3 Questions: David Mindell on Obama’s NASA proposal
MIT space researcher predicts that if adopted, Obama’s proposed budget and policy will lead to more joint human-robotic space exploration
MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced
Covering an astonishing range of topics, 43 international faculty research projects received almost $700K in funding from the MISTI Global Seed Funds competition.
Burchard Scholars for 2010 announced
34 MIT undergraduates selected who excel in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
Can a game save the world?
New game will teach students collaboration skills--and might help fix climate change in the process
MIT bus service to open live arrival data
Would mean students could craft applications and hardware based on real-time information
Temporary gains
MIT economist finds temporary jobs may actually reduce workers’ income and employment prospects
Winter Festival Concert and Forum Series lauded
"Hats off to ... [MIT's] Marcus Thompson," says The Boston Globe
GAMBIT Game Lab to build new video games in 48-hour marathon
The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab will play host to Boston's developer community for the 2010 Global Game Jam.
3 Questions: Making unemployment work
With large numbers of Americans out of work, economist Ivan Werning suggests some better ways to make unemployment insurance operate
Poverty's researcher
MacArthur Foundation "genius" Esther Duflo, PhD '99, field-tests aid programs to find out which ones work-and why.