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Alice Gast named vice president for research and associate provost at MIT

June 29, 2001

Chinese, American doctors meet at MIT for medical exchange

June 26, 2001

Medical examiner rules Julia Carpenter's death at MIT was a suicide

June 25, 2001

MIT, Indian government establishing Media Laboratory Asia joint project

June 24, 2001

Jennifer Harris Trosper during her senior year at MIT

1989 volleyball captain is first MIT student-athlete to enter Academic All-America Hall of Fame

June 24, 2001

The monkeys in the MIT study learned two abstract concepts: If the "same" rule was cued, monkeys released a joystick if the images were the same; and if the "different" rule was cued, they released the joystick if the pictures were different. Monkeys could apply these rules to pictures they had never seen before. Many more brain cells in the prefrontal cortex were devoted to the rules -- same or d...

MIT researchers home in on how the brain handles abstract thought

Monkeys in study taught to recognize "same" and "different" images

June 20, 2001

Mellon, Hewlett Foundations grant $11M to launch free MIT course materials on web

June 18, 2001

In brief

June 13, 2001

Hu decides who gets his four extra tickets

June 13, 2001

MIT sells $250M in bonds for construction

June 13, 2001

Artificial enzyme able to synthesize RNA in Whitehead lab

June 13, 2001

Errata

June 13, 2001

Beaming at the doctoral hooding ceremony are Valeria Koukoutsi-Mazarakis (left) and Juliet Koss, who received PhDs in the history and theory of architecture.

Doctoral hood recipients share joy

June 13, 2001

Symposium for Meyer set

June 13, 2001

At age 100, Yardley Chittick (SB 1922) was the oldest alumnus to attend an MIT reunion this year.

Oldest alumnus at reunion (Class of 1922) does double duty

June 13, 2001

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Alice Gast named vice president for research and associate provost at MIT

Chinese, American doctors meet at MIT for medical exchange

Medical examiner rules Julia Carpenter's death at MIT was a suicide

MIT, Indian government establishing Media Laboratory Asia joint project

1989 volleyball captain is first MIT student-athlete to enter Academic All-America Hall of Fame

MIT researchers home in on how the brain handles abstract thought

Mellon, Hewlett Foundations grant $11M to launch free MIT course materials on web

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Hu decides who gets his four extra tickets

MIT sells $250M in bonds for construction

Artificial enzyme able to synthesize RNA in Whitehead lab

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Doctoral hood recipients share joy

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