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Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

Sarah Finney receives the Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award announced by associate dept. head Duane S. Boning and handed to her by associate dept. head Srini Devadas.

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards

June 4, 2008

Rock Award winner Kevin Krogman with graduate student presenter Daniel Bonner.

Chemical engineering awards

June 4, 2008

MIT Legatum Center announces inaugural class of Legatum Fellows

Entrepreneurs aim to scale up enterprise solutions in developing markets

May 23, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Transcending technology

May 21, 2008

Martin Fisher has won the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work helping lift African farmers out of poverty through a combination of technological invention and business development.

KickStart co-founder receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

Inventor's irrigation pumps help lift African farmers out of poverty

April 23, 2008

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

April 15, 2008

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Listen to an enhanced--but very low frequency--audio version of the underwater
sound of Hurricane Gert (above, in a colorized infrared image). MIT researcher
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How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

April 9, 2008

The creators of the MIT six-rotor vehicle, above, developed in collaboration with Ascending Technologies GmbH in Germany, won a tie for first place in a competition to develop a micro air vehicle to aid in a hypothetical hostage situation.

Awards & Honors

April 2, 2008

Participants in Baqaa Filming Workshop from 'Envisioning Jerusalem through Media Barrios and Performance Spaces,' which was one of the top prize winners in MIT's Jerusalem 2050 Program.

'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced

March 21, 2008

MIT students Maria Luckyanova and Philip Garcia (at right) operate their prosthetic-fitting device at the Jaipur Foot Organization headquarters in India in January, as JFO specialists work on fitting a prosthetic leg on a patient.

A leg to stand on

March 5, 2008

NYTE's Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes
of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The
size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of
IP traffic flowing between that place and New York City. <a href="http://senseable2.mit.edu/nyte/images/hres/01%20nyte%20-%20globe%20encounters.tif"><strong>Full-size image</strong...

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

February 18, 2008

Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray

February 13, 2008

An MIT student and collaborators have designed the uBox, a 'smart' pillbox that dispenses pills, alerts the patient that it's time to take the medication, records the time the pill was taken and prevents double-dosing.

Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver

February 6, 2008

Robert P. Greene, alum and former administrator, 74

January 28, 2008

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Hope on the horizon: Transcending technology

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How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

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'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced

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The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray

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Robert P. Greene, alum and former administrator, 74

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