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Family Resource Center study on teens offers research, guidelines

March 13, 2001

Lawrence Summers as a senior at MIT, 1975.

Economist Lawrence Summers, MIT '75, named Harvard president

March 12, 2001

This diagram illustrates a synapse in the central nervous system. Neurotransmitter molecules are released from presynaptic terminals along the axon of nerve Cell A, travel through the synaptic cleft and reach the postsynaptic terminal on Cell B's dendrite. If the transmitter released reaches a peak concentration quickly (within 1 millisecond) as in a mature release, receptors can detect the messag...

Neurons release neurotransmitters slowly at times, research shows

March 9, 2001

This diagram illustrates a synapse in the central nervous system. Neurotransmitter molecules are released from presynaptic terminals along the axon of nerve Cell A, travel through the synaptic cleft and reach the postsynaptic terminal on Cell B's dendrite. If the transmitter released reaches a peak concentration quickly (within 1 millisecond) as in a mature release, receptors can detect the messag...

Neurotransmitters released slowly at times, work shows

March 8, 2001

Average MIT financial aid grant up by 19% to $19,000 for next year

March 8, 2001

This snowman, one of several snow figures to appear in the wake of this week's tardy nor'easter, seems to be asking what all the fuss was about.

Snow crews labor for 56 straight hours

March 8, 2001

The 2001 MacVicar Faculty Fellows gathered for a special luncheon with members of the Corporation. Left to right: Dean for Undergraduate Education Robert P. Redwine; MacVicar Fellows David A. Mindell, Janet Sonenberg and Heidi Nepf; President Charles M. Vest; MacVicar Fellows Anne M. Mayes and Mary Boyce; Provost Robert A. Brown; and MacVicar Fellow J. Kim Vandiver.

Six are named as MacVicar Fellows

March 8, 2001

HST hosts symposium

March 8, 2001

Activist decries move to right

March 8, 2001

Innovations showcased to venture capitalists

March 8, 2001

IFC sponsors event for faculty and FSILGs

March 8, 2001

Dome damage

March 8, 2001

Muh Award recipient Gus Solomons demonstrates some dance moves.

Alumnus choreographer Solomons leads students in dance

March 8, 2001

Speaker analyzes the early going for Bush

March 8, 2001

Physicist's Approaching Chaos on view in Compton Gallery

March 8, 2001